I asked Mr. Lewis how he felt then, four and half decades after being bludgeoned by state troopers. He replied with one word: “Grateful.”

In 2014 Morricone premiered his first-ever Mass in the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuits’ main church in Rome.

Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Smith's nephew, confirmed her death. She died Wednesday at her home in Manhattan, her daughter Kym told The New York Times. 

A tweet from the Dolphins May 4 said Shula "passed away peacefully at his home." No cause of death was given.

John Prine, who died on Tuesday, April 7, was one of country-folk music's greatest lyricists.

Brooding, interior and utterly focused, Mr. von Sydow is a stirring presence on screen, with a weathered face apt to illustrate inner spiritual turmoil.