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Ms. Smith appeared onstage with the cast of “A Chorus Line” in 1983, when she was honored for her work with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City.
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Liz Smith
Died on November 12, 2017 at age 94
The longtime queen of New York’s tabloid gossip columns, Ms. Smith chronicled triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful for more than three decades.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.