Dennis Stock, a photographer whose iconic images of James Dean helped seal the actor's legacy after his death in 1955, died Monday in Saratoga, Fla., the Magnum photo agency announced today. He was 81.

Stock shot Dean during the filming of "Rebel Without a Cause" and in the actor's hometown of Fairmount, Ind. But his best known photo was of Dean walking in the rain in Times Square.

Stock also documented the hippie lifestyle in the 1960s as well as jazz figures in New Orleans and elsewhere.  

A selection of his photos can be seen at the Magnum website here. Have any favorites? Let us know. Later today we'll have a photo gallery posted at www.latimes.com/obits, along with a full obituary.

-- Claire Noland

Photo: James Dean in New York City, 1955. Credit: Dennis Stock / Magnum

Donald Goerke, the Campbell Soup Co. executive who was behind the enduring brands SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup, has died. He was 83.

A Campbell spokesman confirmed that Goerke (GUHR’-kee) died of heart failure Sunday at his home in Delran in southern New Jersey.

Goerke was marketing research director of Campbell’s Franco-American line in the early 1960s when his group started dreaming up pasta in shapes that would appeal to kids. He chose the o’s. They were marketed with the unforgettable line, "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."

Later, he helped introduce Chunky Soup, a hearty, ready-to-serve soup that stood out from the company’s traditional line of condensed soups.

The Waukesha, Wis., native worked for Camden-based Campbell for 35 years, retiring in 1990.

-- Associated Press

Bill Mulligan was a good basketball coach. But he was a great quote.

Mulligan, who died Tuesday at age 79, enlivened any gym he walked into. Going through a large stack of old stories from The Times and other Orange County papers during his coaching career, the one-liners jump off the page.

UC Irvine, where he coached for 11 seasons, once lost a televised game and Mulligan found a silver lining: "This was a good game to be on TV. Now every kid in Orange County and L.A. will say, 'I want to go to Irvine. They really need players.'"

Here's how he explained the transfer of Scott Brooks, now an NBA coach, from Texas Christian to UCI: "He'd still be at TCU except he hated the state of Texas. He liked the program. He just hated the state."

And Mulligan's view of high school classmate Bob Newhart: "In four years I never heard him say one funny thing."

And on and on and on.

I first saw him at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, which under his guidance became a dominant community college program. The Gauchos not only won, but they were fun to watch unless you like low-scoring, defensive battles. It didn't hurt to have Kevin Magee, a terrific player who followed Mulligan to Irvine.

And Mulligan turned Irvine from a sleepy program into a real show.

Tex Winter, who before he invented the triangle offense used by Phil Jackson with the Bulls and Lakers, was Cal State Long Beach coach when The Times' Mike Littwin asked him in 1981 about Mulligan's style.

"He runs as good a fast break as anyone in the country but it's a little unique. Most teams who run work for the 15-foot jump shot or the layup. His teams hold up and shoot from 25."

So what's wrong with that? Mulligan and his teams were never boring.

-- Keith Thursby

Photo: Bill Mulligan on the bench at Saddleback College in 1979. Credit: Los Angeles Times

Miep Gies, without whom the world would never have known about the poignant diary of the young Anne Frank or of the Frank family's failed attempt to hide from the Nazis, has died. She was 100.

Gies' death was confirmed today by officials at the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

The scattered papers Gies scooped up from the floor after Anne and her family were taken from their hiding place in Amsterdam to concentration camps in Germany were later compiled by Anne's father into one of the most widely read nonfiction books of all time.

According to the Anne Frank Center USA in New York City, "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" has been translated into more than 67 languages with more than 31 million copies sold since its publication in 1947. For millions of young people, Anne's story is their initial—and in many cases, only—exposure to what happened during the Holocaust.

We'll have a more complete obituary soon at latimes.com

--Times staff reports

Eric Rohmer, the French filmmaker internationally known for movies tracing the intricacies of romantic relationships, has died. He was 89 years old.

Les Films du Losange, a company that produced his movies, says Rohmer died in Paris today. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Rohmer's best-known films included "My Night at Maud's" and "Claire's Knee."

He had worked until recently, with his latest film, "Les amours d'Astree et de Celadon," ("Romance of Astree and Celadon"), appearing in 2007.

In 2001, he was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his body of work.

We will have a more complete obituary later today at latimes.com/news/obituaries.

-- Associated Press

Photo: Director Eric Rohmer holds the Golden Lion career achievement award he received in 2001.
Credit: Claudio Honorati / Associated Press

A memorial service for longtime USC professor Herb Farmer will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Norris Theater on campus. A reception will follow.

Farmer, whose USC career included filming football games from the roof of the Coliseum press box and overseeing the school's film archives, died Nov. 22 at 89.

A fund has been set up to support the USC archives. Contributions can be sent to the Bea and Herbert E. Farmer Endowed Fund, School of Cinematic Arts, University Park, SCA 465, Los Angeles, 90089-2211.

--Keith Thursby

Photo: Herb Farmer preparing to film a USC football game in 1942. Credit: USC School of Cinematic Arts

Mary Daly, the radical feminist theologian and philosopher who died Jan. 3 at 81, was known for her wordplay, which expressed her belief in language as an essential weapon of subversion.

She delighted in subversion as an unapologetic lesbian separatist at Jesuit-run Boston College, where she held a faculty position for 33 years until her exclusion of men from her classes forced her retirement.

Considered a founding mother of modern feminism, she took common pejoratives, such as "hag," and applied new meanings. So she proudly called herself a "Positively Revolting Hag," which in her feminist universe denoted "a stunning, beauteous Crone; one who inspires positive revulsion from phallic institutions."

Another favorite of hers was "academentia," which she defined as the "normal state of persons in academia, marked by varying and progressive degrees; irreversible deterioration of faculties of intellectuals."

She listed these words and many others in "Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language" (1987),  a bawdy and often blasphemous feminist dictionary "conjured" with Jane Caputi. According to Emily Erwin Culpepper, a University of Redlands religion and women's studies professor who knew the philosopher for nearly 40 years, Daly spent her last conscious hours listening to a friend read from the book.

You can find Daly's obituary here.

-- Elaine Woo

Photo: Mary Daly in 1999. Credit: Associated Press

David Gerber, an award-winning TV producer and executive who died Jan. 2 at 86, was a rapid-talking Brooklyn native known for speaking with what a former colleague calls "a tortured English" and for periodically mixing up names.

"There are legendary stories of things he thought he was saying and people took literally, and actually he was saying something entirely different," said Jeff Sagansky, former head of CBS Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment who was a development executive for Gerber early in his career three decades ago. "It happened to me on numerous occasions."

One time, Gerber told Sagansky to pitch a show about rookie cops to Sam Spiegel, the legendary producer of "Lawrence of Arabia" and other films.

After a week, Sagansky finally tracked down Spiegel by phone on a boat in the Mediterranean.

Reporting back to Gerber, Sagansky said that Spiegel, to put it nicely, was not interested in doing a TV show about rookie cops.

"Why are you talking to Sam Spiegel?" Gerber asked. "I mean the guy at CBS."

"You mean Scott Siegler?" Sagansky asked.

Observed Sagansky: "The big thing everybody had in common is when we got to the point where we could understand what he was saying fully and translated for other people, you felt you had arrived."

-- Dennis McLellan

Photo: David Gerber in 1978. Credit: Associated Press

Rich Norris, editor of the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle, said one of his favorite puzzles by regular contributor Dan Naddor  — who died Dec. 28 at 53  — was titled “Star Search.” Naddor had combined a crossword with a word search by asking for the titles of movies with Oscar-winning stars then hiding the winning actors’ names word-search style in the grid. It ran, appropriately enough, last year on the day of the Academy Awards ceremony.

“Despite the limitations that the word-search answers place on the constructor, the overall fill is remarkably smooth,” pronounced Diary of a Crossword Fiend.

"Star Search" makes a return appearance here. Print it out, pick up a pencil -- and let us know what you think.

David Gerber, an award-winning television producer and a top executive whose career included roles as executive producer of the 1970s series "Police Story" and "Police Woman" and the 2006 TV movie "Flight 93," has died. He was 86.

Gerber died of heart failure Saturday at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, with his wife, actress Laraine Stephens, at his side, said publicist Dale Olson.

In a more than 50-year career in which he headed his own production companies and studio television divisions, Gerber won Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody awards.

Early in his career as an independent producer in the late 1960s and early '70s, he was executive producer of the situation comedies "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "Nanny and the Professor."

But Gerber was best known in the industry for dealing with serious, often controversial subjects as one of television’s pioneers of social realism.

He shared an Emmy for outstanding drama series as an executive producer of "Police Story," the anthology series created by ex-cop Joseph Wambaugh that ran on NBC from 1973 to 1977.