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Oscar-Winning Director Jonathan Demme Dead at 73

R.I.P.

Won Best Director Oscar for “The Silence of the Lambs.”

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Acclaimed director Jonathan Demme died Wednesday morning in New York after suffering from esophageal cancer. He was 73. In a career that spanned more than four decades, Demme directed The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won an Academy Award in 1992, as well as dramas like Something Wild,...

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