DEATHS Jack Wild, 53, who got an Oscar nod for his role as the Artful Dodger in 1968's Oliver!, of cancer, March 1, in London.... Ali Farka Touré, 67, a famous African musician and a Grammy winner for his albums Talking Timbuktu and In the Heart of the Moon, of bone cancer, March 7, in Mali, Africa.
LEGACY Oft credited with popularizing the blaxploitation movement, Shaft director Gordon Parks, 93, died on March 7 of cancer in NYC. A former piano player at a Minnesota brothel, Parks — also an author and a civil rights crusader — was the first black photographer to shoot for Life and Vogue, and, with 1969's The Learning Tree, became the first black American to direct a major-studio film.
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