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DANA BROCCOLI, 82, a novelist, theatrical producer and president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She became president of the company that produces the Bond films and co-owns them with MGM, after the death of her husband, movie producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, in 1996. She also was the creative force behind turning Chitty Chitty Bang Bang into a musical. It opened in London's West End in 2002 and is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2005.
MARLIN MADDOUX, 70, the founder of USA Radio Network, which has more than 1,300 affiliated stations across the nation, died Thursday in Dallas of complications from heart bypass surgery. He also founded the Point of View radio talk show, which is carried on 360 affiliates.
CECILY ADAMS, 39, an actor, casting director and the daughter of Get Smart television star Don Adams, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of lung cancer, her agent said. She appeared in the 1990s syndicated series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, playing the mother of Ferengi bar owner Quark. She had guest roles in TV shows Just Shoot Me, Murphy Brown and Party of Five.
ALBERT AXELROD, 83, a champion fencer, died Feb. 24 in a New York City hospital. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1960 and was a member of five straight Olympic fencing teams in the foil, the lightest of competition swords. He was the best in the United States in 1955, 1958, 1960 and 1970.
FREDERICK BOOKER NOE II, 74, a former master distiller of Jim Beam and the sixth generation of the Beam family to make bourbon, died Feb. 24 in Bardstown, Ky. A grandson of the distiller Jim Beam, Mr. Booker Noe worked at Jim Beam distilleries in Boston, Ky., and nearby Clermont for almost half a century.
PEDRO BLOCH, 89, a Brazilian playwright who also was a physician and author of 100 books, died Feb. 23 in Rio de Janeiro, his family said. He became the first Brazilian of his generation with a play on Broadway, the 1952 production of Conscience. He wrote 20 other plays, one of which - The Hands of Eurydice - was translated into a dozen languages and performed in 40 countries.
THOMAS SOFFRON, 96, a clam digger and entrepreneur who created the "clam strips" that brought low-priced fried clams to restaurants nationwide, died Feb. 21 in Boston, the Boston Globe reported. He and three siblings owned the Soffron Brothers Clam Co. in Ipswich, Mass., which once had an exclusive deal to provide clam strips to the Howard Johnson's restaurant chain for its "Tendersweet Fried Clams."
FREDERICK MORGAN, 81, a poet and founding editor of the Hudson Review, a literary journal, died Feb. 20 in New York City. The magazine has published poetry and prose by some of the 20th century's most renowned writers, including Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath.
BISHOP SALVADOR RIVERON CORTINA, 55, auxiliary bishop to the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Havana, Cuba, died Feb. 22 from a stomach tumor, church officials said. He was named auxiliary bishop in 1999 by Pope John Paul II during his visit to the island.
DON CORNELL, 84, a Big Band singer who had a string of hits during the 1950s and early 1960s, including It Isn't Fair, died Feb. 23 in Aventura. He was honored in 1963 as one of the first stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame in 1993.
JERVIS LANGDON JR., 99, a top railroad executive during an era in which the industry was reshaped, died Feb. 16 in Elmira, N.Y. During a four-decade career, he was president of several of the nation's leading railroads, including Penn Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. It was an era that began as a boom time for railroads and ended with many railroads in bankruptcy.