The producer brought us everything from "Barbarella" to "Serpico."
Hitchens, who lost his battle with esophageal cancer on Thursday, wrote brilliantly to the end
The hair-metal singer had huge hits with "Cherry Pie" and "Heaven"
The pioneering TV writer wrote about her experiences in a 2005 memoir "Laughing with Lucy"
Award-winning filmmaker and "Vanity Fair" contributor dies while covering a rebel uprising in Misrata
The gifted wordsmith was also a military veteran