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Jack Russell, whose success fronting hard rock band Great White was overshadowed by a pyrotechnics display at a nightclub performance that led to one of the deadliest indoor fires in U.S. history, has died. He was 63.

You could say it was a key innovation.

Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft, has died at age 94. A guiding light in independent cinema, starring in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, from the late '50s through the 1980s, she later charmed younger audiences in her son's tear-jerker The Notebook.