David Cuthbert, who wrote about entertainment for decades and never lost his enthusiasm for all kinds of show business, died Thursday at Passages Hospice in New Orleans. He was 79.
He died of Lewy body dementia, a progressive degenerative brain disorder, said his daughter, Liza Rebecca Cuthbert Copping.
Show business was David Cuthbert’s life. During his 43 years at The Times-Picayune, he profiled a host of entertainment legends, including Lana Turner, Carol Channing and Marlene Dietrich, and he edited the weekly TV Focus magazine…