THE US: Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood's most memorable music, including scores for The Magnificent Seven and Thoroughly Modern Millie, has died at age 82, his publicist said yesterday.
Bernstein, whose work spanned some 200 films and TV shows over six decades, succumbed to a lengthy, undisclosed illness on Wednesday at his home in Ojai, California, about 130 km northwest of Los Angeles, according to spokeswoman Ms Cathy Mouton.
A native New Yorker who frequently collaborated with such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, John Landis and Ivan Reitman, Bernstein earned 14 Academy Award nominations in all, winning for the 1967 film Thoroughly Modern Millie. His first Oscar nomination was for the 1955 Frank Sinatra film The Man with the Golden Arm. Other memorable projects included 1956's The Ten Commandments, 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird and 1960's The Magnificent Seven. - (Reuters)