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William Blinn, the man who penned the screenplays for “Brian’s Song,” “Roots” and Prince’s “Purple Rain,” died Saturday. He was 83. Blinn died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in ...

LOS ANGELES -- Get out the tissues and prepare to weep all over again. "Brian's Song," a story about the friendship between black and white teammates on the Chicago Bears football team, is being ...

Al Silverman, a magazine editor and publishing executive who collaborated with Chicago Bears halfback Gale Sayers on an autobiography that was adapted into “Brian’s Song,” the popular 1971 television ...

James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hot-headed Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic weeper ...