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AP - Hope Lange, who starred opposite Hollywood's top actors over a decades-long career and earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in the film "Peyton Place," has died, her husband said Sunday. Lange died Friday at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica after suffering an infection caused by an intestinal inflammation known as ischemic colitis, said her husband, Charles Hollerith.

Lange split her time between homes in Los Angeles' Westwood section and New York City, said Hollerith, a former theatrical producer and vice president of the Actors' Fund of America. Lange starred in dozens of films and television shows and captured two Emmy awards in andboth for lead actress in a comedy series for her role in "The Ghost and Mrs. Her big-screen credits included "The Best of Everything" in with Joan Crawford, "The Young Lions" in with Marlon Brando and "Peyton Place" with Lana Turner.

More recently, she was in 's "Blue Velvet" and 's "Clear and Present Danger. Actor Don Murray, who was married to Lange for several years in the s, said Lange combined good looks and acting prowess. Murray said her looks even intimidated Marilyn Monroe, who wanted Lange's naturally blonde hair dyed light brown in their film "Bus Stop. Lange is survived by her husband, a son, actor Christopher Murray, a daughter, Patricia Murray, and two grandchildren. As a Hollywood star, she won an Oscar nomination for a role that broke racial taboos of the day — a black girl passing for white.

Crain died of a heart attack at her Santa Barbara home, according to her son, Paul Brinkman Jr. She appeared in 64 films and many television shows during her long career, playing opposite such stars as Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas and William Holden. Lena Horne and other black actresses sought the role, but Fox boss Darryl F.

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Zanuck decided on a white star with box-office appeal. She recalled that her fan letters rose to 6, a week, and only 1 percent were critical. With her lovely features, slender figure and demure manner, Crain became a leading star in the wartime and postwar years.

At 20th Century-Fox studio, her fan mail was second only to that of pin-up queen Betty Grable. Crain was born in Barstow, Calif. She began winning leads in school plays at 14 and beauty contests at As Camera Girl of in Long Beach, she attracted the attention of 20th Century-Fox and was given a routine studio contract. That was soon discarded for better terms as her career rapidly ascended.

InCrain married Paul Brinkman, an actor who later became a successful businessman. The couple had seven children. By the s, her Hollywood career had dimmed. She made three films in Europe and then retired. She and Brinkman spent their time at two working ranches. In her 70s she still received regular bundles of mail from fans who had seen her films on TV or video. She is survived by her sons, Paul Jr.

Hemmings, who also forged a successful career behind the camera directing for cinema and TV, died of a heart attack Wednesday while filming a movie role in Romania, said agent Liz Nelson. Paramedics on the film set of "Samantha's Child" were unable to revive him, Nelson said. He opted for a number of years to work on his own projects, directing and producing. After his voice changed, Hemmings studied painting at the Epsom School of Art where he staged his first exhibition at He returned to singing in his early 20s with nightclub appearances before moving onto the stage and gradually into films.

His early British movie roles usually saw him cast as misunderstood youths and belligerent "Teddy Boys," leading to his role in Michelangelo Antonioni news 's "Blow Up. His boyish good looks were also put to use in science-fiction romp "Barbarella" and the film version of the stage musical "Camelot. With 's "Running Scared," Hemmings began a new career as a director several movie and TV productions in England, Australia and Canada.

The two careers ran in parallel for several years with his directing credits including the movie "Just a Gigolo," but by the s his TV directing took precedence with shows such as "Magnum PI," "Airwolf," "The A-Team" and "Quantum Leap.

I was just directing The A-Team," he once remarked. Hemmings returned to acting in with the role of Cassius in the Oscar-winning "Gladiator. Hemmings, who was divorced twice, is survived by his third wife, Lucy Williams, and their two sons; and by a daughter from his first marriage and a son from the second. The cause was complications of a stroke he had in June, and he was also H.

Ray was a natural fit when he was cast as Leroy in the film, which won Academy Awards for best song and original score. Like his character in the film, Mr. Ray had never had professional dance training but had a raw talent that dazzled choreographers. The actors who performed in the movie and in the television series "Fame" portrayed students at New York's High School of the Performing Arts, which Mr.

Ray attended for a year before being kicked out. His journey into the spotlight began at Julia Richmond High School. He performed in a dance class there and later auditioned for Louis Falco, the choreographer for the film "Fame. Ray also played Leroy in the NBC television series "Fame," which made its debut in It was canceled by NBC because of poor ratings but was later picked up by MGM Television, which distributed it in syndication from to Born on May 24,in Harlem, Mr.

Ray lived on on West rd Street. After he gained stardom for his roles in "Fame," Mr. Ray left school to pursue his career. In he toured Britain, to perform with other "Fame" cast members in 10 concerts. His other film credits include "Out of Sync"which was directed by his "Fame" co-star Debbie Allen, and "Eddie"which starred Whoopi Goldberg. According to Selma Rubin, who managed Mr. Ray for 24 years, his last video project is a one-hour BBC "Fame" reunion documentary, "Fame Remember My Name," which was taped in Los Angeles in April but has not yet been shown.

The Next Chapter" and two seasons on Steven Spielberg's "SeaQuest DSV," has died. The county coroner's office is investigating the Nov. Ed Winter of the coroner's Investigations Bureau said Thursday. The coroner performed an autopsy but the cause of death will not be announced until the results of blood and toxicology tests are returned. The investigation could take as long as four to six weeks. Police said a friend of Brandis called from the actor's apartment just before midnight on Nov.

Paramedics transported Brandis to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but he died the next day, police Detective Gene Parshall said.

Brandis started his career in commercials and on television, landing a recurring role on the soap "One Life to Live" at age six. After moving with his family to Los Angeles at age nine, he made guest appearances on such shows as "L.

Law," "Who's the Boss? Other film credits included the Rodney Dangerfield comedy "Ladybugs," and the martial arts comedy "Sidekicks" with Chuck Norris, and a small part in the film "Hart's War," starring Bruce Willis. Brandis also starred as crew member Lucas Wolenczek in the underwater sci-fi series "SeaQuest DSV," a role that garnered him a Young Artists Award in and helped turn him into a teen idol.

More on Jonathan Brandis - LOS ANGELES Reuters - The death two weeks ago of actor Jonathan Brandis, who starred as a teenage techno-prodigy on NBC's undersea drama "SeaQuest DSV" in the s, has been ruled a suicide, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said on Tuesday. Brandis, 27, the star of an ABC drama pilot, " Gramercy Park," that the network passed on this year, hanged himself by a nylon rope in a hallway of his apartment complex on Nov.

He was found unconscious by friends late that night and rushed to a hospital, where he died the following afternoon, Campbell said. Campbell said no suicide note was found, and investigators were "not aware of any history or issue" that would suggest a reason for suicide. Yet, the medical examiner found no reason to suspect foul play, he added. Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Brandis began his career at age 5 acting in TV commercials and landed small parts in several TV shows and movies before his first starring role in the film "The NeverEnding Story II: But his big break came as the teenage whiz kid Lucas Wolenczak aboard the fictional Deep Submergence Vehicle in Steven Spielberg news 's futuristic sci-fi drama "SeaQuest DSV," which aired for two seasons on NBC starting in September Lucas, whose best pal was the talking dolphin Ensign Darwin, became somewhat of a heartthrob to young viewers.

Other big-screen credits include last year's military drama "Hart's War," starring Bruce Willis newsthe Rodney Dangerfield news comedy "Ladybugs," and a bit part in the Michael Douglas news thriller "Fatal Attraction.

Kamen died in a hospital in London, where he had lived with his wife and two daughters, his brother Leonard said during a telephone interview from New York. The native New Yorker and Juilliard School of Music Graduate was one of Hollywood's most successful composers who worked on music for the "Lethal Weapon" series and scored "Die Hard" among many other films. He was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis inbut did not go public about the disease until late September.

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that causes various disabilities. In the late s, he helped found the New York Rock 'n' Roll Ensemble, a critically acclaimed group that fused classical with pop and recorded five albums before dissolving.

In the s, Kamen scored ballets, served as musical director for David Bowie news 's "Diamond Dogs" tour and began writing scores for film. Although he began in Hollywood working on offbeat films like "Polyester" and "Brazil," he turned more mainstream in the s, working on the "Lethal Weapon" series, "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," "Mr. Holland's Opus" and "X-Men," plus the HBO series "Band of Brothers. InKamen earned his first Academy Award nomination for " Everything I Do I Do It for You," the Bryan Adams news pop hit from the movie, "Robin Hood: Co-written with Adams and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the song received two Grammys news - web sites.

The three united in for "All for Love. Kuter, 78, a character actor and director best remembered for his long-running role as farmer Newt Kiley on the intertwined CBS sitcoms "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction," died of pulmonary complications Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank.

Kuter played farmer Newt throughout the entire run of "Petticoat Junction" from to and, after Eddie Albert's and Eva Gabor's "Green Acres" began inbecame one of the most frequent visitors between the two Hooterville-based shows.

Born to show business, Kuter was the son of pioneer motion picture art director Leo "K" Kuter and wrote a biography about him, "Picture Perfect World. He studied at Pomona College and UCLA, and graduated from what is now Carnegie Mellon University.

During his year career, Kuter directed more than 50 plays and appeared in about stage productions, 50 films and TV shows. He voiced Hershey's Kisses commercials for the last 14 years. She had suffered a stroke two weeks ago, according to her longtime friend, Dick Sheehan. Singleton was also known to later generations as the voice of Jane Jetson in the cartoon movies and TV shows about the futuristic family.

But she was most identified with her role as the wife of the bumbling Dagwood Bumstead in the movies based on the popular comic strip created by ChicYoung. The family life of the Bumsteads and their children, Alexander Baby Dumpling and Cookie, along with their dog Daisy, centered around humorous and numerous misunderstandings and mishaps concerning everything from Blondie's efforts to get Dagwood's job back he was always getting fired, it seemed to Blondie's efforts to start a bakery business.

Bumstead, Singleton was constantly on call to her husband's high-pitched and plaintive cry of "Blon-deeeeeee! But by the time Blondie came to television for the first time inSingleton was almost 50 years old, and the role was given to the younger Pamela Britton.

Born Dorothy McNulty on Sept. She began her career at age 7 singing songs at movie houses and performed in vaudeville. She also was a talented gymnast whose coach thought she should try out for the Olympics, but by then she had already earned money professionally and was not considered an amateur.

By the time she was a teenager, she was getting chorus girl and other small roles on Broadway, including doing a number with Jack Benny in a revue called "The Great Temptations. Back on Broadway, she also sang two numbers with Haley-"Button Up Your Overcoat" and "I Could Give Up Anything But You"-in "Follow Thru.

She chose her first name because she had always saved pennies; Singleton was the name of her first husband, to whom she was married briefly. In the latter, Singleton, playing saucy nightclub singer Polly Byrnes, delivers this line: By the time she was 30, she landed the role of Blondie. This remarkable run of movies began with "Blondie" and included "Blondie on a Budget"in which budding actress Rita Hayworth had a role; "Blondie for Victory""Blondie Hits the Jackpot" and the final film in the series, "Beware of Blondie" Only ina war year, was no "Blondie" movie released.

None were shorter than 64 minutes or longer than Besides Hayworth, many actors who later became well known appeared with Singleton and Lake in supporting roles, including Robert Sterling, Bruce Bennett, William Frawley, Jimmy Durante, ZaSu Pitts, Lloyd Bridges, Glenn Ford, Hans Conreid and Anita Louise.

The regular characters besides the Bumsteads were Dagwood's boss, JC Dithers, played by Jonathan Hale; the beleaguered mailman, Mr. Crumb, played by Irving Bacon later mailmen were Eddie Acuff and Dick Wessel ; and Daisy the dog, played by a series of cute canines. The Bumstead children were played by Larry Simms and Marjorie Kent also known as Marjorie Ann Mutchie. Robert Sparks, who became Singleton's second husband and to whom she was married for 22 years until his death inproduced some of the Blondie movies.

In his movie guide, critic Leonard Maltin said the first Blondies "were the best - fresh and original, with many clever touches belying the fact that they were low-budget films. After the Blondie franchise died out, Singleton went on the road with a nightclub act but became mostly inactive in Hollywood.

She appeared in the film "The Best Man" in and, briefly inshe replaced her old friend Ruby Keeler in "No No Nanette" on Broadway.

As children, Singleton and Keeler had gone to professional children's school together in New York, where their classmates were Milton Berle and Gene Raymond.

Almost 20 years later, Singleton was the voice of Jane Jetson in the movie about the futuristic family. She also did Jetson projects on TV, including three movies and the series, as well as a few guest appearances on other television programs. After "Blondie," Singleton became active in labor unions, particularly the American Guild of Variety Artists, to which she was elected president in Inshe was a leader in the strike to get better working conditions for Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes.

At the age of 88, Singleton said of her career, "I loved everything I did, big or small, it didn't matter as long as it was fun and was pleasing to people. The former member of Seventies disco funk band Chic, Thompson had worked with everyone from David Bowie to Madonna to Diana Ross. Born in New York on November 15,Thompson came to prominence on the late-Seventies disco scene, thanks to his funky, rock influenced big-beat style.

After sitting in with LaBelle, Thompson met Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, with whom he formed Chic in The band's debut featured the hit "Dance Dance Dance Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah ," but they became disco legends with 's C'est Chic, which contained the number one classic "Le Freak," as well as the rollerboogie anthem "Good Times.

He just cherished those brilliant moments to sparkle. Chic disbanded inand Thompson became an in-demand session musician, working with Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross, David Bowie and Madonna.

Inhe joined Duran Duran members Andy and John Taylor and the late Robert Palmer in the supergroup Power Station, whose hit singles "Some Like It Hot" and the T. Rex cover "Get It On Bang a Gong " were driven by Thompson's propulsive drumming.

A longtime rock fan, Thompson got the gig of a lifetime in when he was asked to sit in with the remaining members of Led Zeppelin when they played at the Live Aid benefit concert at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium. Thompson then joined the Zeppelin trio for some secret recording sessions in Rumors of a reunion were quashed, however, when Thompson was involved in a serious car accident later that year.

He remained a prolific session drummer throughout the late Eighties, working with Robert Palmer, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart and Jody Watley, though he was less active in the Nineties.

Carney, who lived in Westbrook, Connecticut, died on Sunday after a long illness, according to a statement issued by the local Swan Funeral Homes Inc.

Carney had a long career in vaudeville, radio, television, Broadway and Hollywood, but is best remembered as Ed Norton, an "underground sanitation expert" who appeared clad in a trademark T-shirt, vest and pork-pie hat on "The Honeymooners," a classic of early live television that has enjoyed huge popularity in syndication.

Carney's cry of "Hey, Ralphie boy! His good-natured quirkiness and physical agility made him the perfect complement to Gleason's easily frustrated, easily angered Ralph Kramden. Broadcast live, the show had remarkable mishaps. When Gleason once missed a cue to enter during a live broadcast, Carney looked inside the set refrigerator, pulled out an orange and for almost a full minute peeled it with humorous aplomb. The moment was remembered as a classic comedy ad-lib.

Carney won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of an aging loner who travels cross country with his cat in the film "Harry and Tonto. Carney was born Nov. He took a job as a jazz pianist after high school but ended up on stage impersonating such statesmen as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

He moved on to freelancing on radio serials, mysteries and dramas in the s. Carney enlisted in the army and received a leg wound in France that gave him a slight limp.

InCarney met Gleason while appearing on the popular variety show "Cavalcade of Stars. Privately, Carney was a shy man who fought a long battle with depression and alcoholism.

I tend to be more of an introvert, I think, and I think my extrovert qualities come out in my work. I'm an actor that's done an awful lot of comedy. Kupcinet, who had continued his entertainment and personality-oriented column despite a series of illnesses in recent years, was taken to a hospital on Sunday suffering from breathing difficulties.

He began "Kup's Column" in for the Chicago Times and continued writing it uninterrupted after the paper combined with the Chicago Sun in The Sun-Times said his column was at one point syndicated in more than newspapers around the world, from Europe to South America.

Kupcinet's abbreviated professional football career was ended by injury after just two games and he turned to sportswriting, spicing his stories with personal items about athletes that an editor suggested he expand. He also became the Chicago Bears' longtime radio broadcaster and hosted one of the early television talk shows, "At Random," beginning in It later became "Kup's Show" and featured local celebrities, writers and activists.

Karyn, one of his two children, was an aspiring year-old actress who was murdered in Los Angeles ina crime that remains unsolved. Ritter, the mother of the late actor John Ritter, died of natural causes Nov.

She had a stroke in Ritter's death came less than two months after that of John, who died as a result of an aortic dissection Sept. The daughter of a doctor in Prescott, Ariz. She grew up in Prescott but spent her last year of high school at Hollywood High. After attending USC, she studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the Pasadena Playhouse.

As Dorothy Fay, she played opposite Buck Jones in "Law of the Texan"the first of three westerns with Jones, including the serial "White Eagle. From toshe appeared in about a dozen B-movie westerns made primarily at Monogram and Columbia studios. She also was a featured player in the action serial "The Green Archer," starring Victor Jory, and had bit parts in "The Philadelphia Story" and "Lady Be Good.

Boyd Magers, editor and publisher of Western Clippings, a film publication on westerns, said Dorothy Ritter was "a little more forceful" than other leading ladies in B westerns.

Magers said Ritter "was well thought of at the time. Part of that was her personality. The blued-eyed and brown-haired — later blond — actress was vivacious and an extrovert. Dorothy Ritter made the first of four westerns with Tex Ritter, "Song of the Buckaroo," in The couple married in As a married couple in the s, the Ritters were often photographed for fan magazines on their small ranch in what was then rural Van Nuys.

Although Dorothy Ritter went on a USO tour to Southeast Asia during World War II, she gave up her show business career after marrying Tex, who became one of the top 10 Western stars at the box office and a top-selling recording artist who sang the haunting ballad used in "High Noon.

Tom Ritter said his mother did charity work for the United Cerebral Palsy Assn. When he and John were growing up, Ritter said, his parents "were very loving and very supportive in whatever my brother and I wanted to do. The Ritters moved to Nashville in After Tex Ritter died of a heart attack in at the age of 68, Dorothy Ritter became an official greeter at the Grand Ole Opry.

She returned to California in It was John Ritter who contacted the London Daily Telegraph after it mistakenly published an obituary on his mother Aug.

The Daily Telegraph ran an apology five days later for publishing what it called Dorothy Ritter's "premature obituary. In explaining what had happened, Andrew McKie, the paper's obituaries editor, wrote that "a member of staff at her nursing home believed her to have died after arriving in her room to be told that she 'had gone' — as she had, but only to another wing of the hospital and then phoned one of our regular contributors who is a great friend of Mrs.

McKie apologized, writing that "I am genuinely delighted she is still with us — I came to like her a lot while preparing her obituary for the page. A private funeral service is being held today in Prescott. A memorial service at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home is pending. Hatfield's body was discovered in his bed Wednesday evening, 30 minutes before the duo was to perform at Miller Auditorium on the Western Michigan University campus, manager David Cohen said.

The duo, whose year career featured pop standbys like "Unchained Melody," " You're My Soul and Inspiration" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," were in Kalamazoo to kick off a four-day series of performances in Michigan and Ohio. Medley, he said, was "broken up. He's not even coherent. The cause of death was unknown. Hatfield's body was taken to Lansing, where an autopsy was to be performed, Joe Hakim, an executive with the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, told the Kalamazoo Gazette.

The duo's signature single, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," has been cited by numerous sources as the most-programmed song in American radio history. The inclusion of their songs in films such as "Top Gun," "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing" repeatedly re-established the Righteous brand.

Earlier this year, singer Billy Joel news inducted Hatfield and Medley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This was a life-changing idea. It changed my life. Robert Lee Hatfield was born Aug. His family moved to Anaheim, Calif. Hatfield organized singing and instrumental groups in high school while helping his parents with their dry cleaning business. An avid athlete, Hatfield considered a career in professional baseball, but found his true calling in music — a love he pursued while attending Long Beach State University, where he formed a band and performed at bars and proms.

Hatfield teamed up with Medley in as part of a five-piece group called The Paramours. According to the Righteous Brothers Web site, a black Marine called out during one of their performances, "That was righteous, brothers!

They renamed themselves the Righteous Brothers before the release of their first album in The performing rights organization BMI, however, has tallied about 8 million radio plays of the song.

After splitting up inthe duo reunited in and returned to the top of the charts with "Rock and Roll Heaven. Hatfield and Medley in later years routinely went on the road for 60 to 80 shows a year in addition to week stints in Las Vegas, where they had found work as a lounge act during the dawn of their careers in Note from the Underground - Bobby Hatfield was laid to rest at Pacific View Memorial Park, Newport Beach, CA.

Thanks to Underground Member Kim Eazell of GravesRUs. He was believed to be Roddy, who suffered from colon and breast cancer, died at Century City Hospital, according to his longtime agent, Don Pitts. He had been hospitalized for two months. Roddy had been ill for more than two years but continued to work as much as possible and for as long as he could, said Bob Barker, host of "The Price is Right. Note from the Underground - Rod Roddy was laid to rest at an unknown location in Texas.

Thanks to Underground member, Lisa Burks, for that information. Berry died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles of apparent natural causes, police Officer Jason Lee said.

The county coroner was investigating the exact nature of the death, but friends said Berry had been in ill health due to a recent stroke. He wore his red beret and suspenders in real life, and it was unclear whether he originally brought his own style to the character of Rerun or whether he was forever mimicking the character that made him famous. Rerun was a s version of latter-day goofball TV characters like Steve Urkel from "Family Matters": Among the more famous episodes was one in which Rerun joined a bizarre cult and another in which he got busted for making bootlegged tapes of a Doobie Brothers concert.

The name Rerun, according to Berry, referred to the character's brainlessness: In the summer, he had to rerun all the classes he failed during the school year. Berry's success on the show was clouded by his heavy use of marijuana and cocaine. It was the Hollywood lifestyle then. Everybody was doing it. By the time "What's Happening! With no acting jobs heading his way, Berry tried to live off his fame by charging to appear at shopping malls. Even later in life, he was still cashing in: Berry's love life was another complication.

He married a dancer while in his 20s, and the two divorced, remarried and divorced again. Berry repeated that performance with his second wife, whom he married and divorced twice most recently in He also married and divorced two other women. Rerun brought Berry another brief moment of success inwhen "What's Happening! ByBerry says, he abandoned drugs and started to speak at churches, schools and other groups, finally working as a minister in Madison, Ala.

He was still dabbling in show business. Berry recently appeared on the TV shows "Star Dates" on the E! Entertainment Network, MTV's "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle" with Snoop Dogg and in a cameo role in the David Spade news comedy film "Dickie Roberts: Shoemaker died in his sleep at his suburban home near Santa Anita racetrack, according to longtime friend and trainer Paddy Gallagher. Gallagher, an assistant during Shoemaker's training career, said doctors told him Shoemaker died of natural causes.

It was the second major death in horse racing this year. Johnny Longden, who won the Triple Crown aboard Count Fleet in and was the only jockey to ride and train a Kentucky Derby winner, died in February at Shoemaker broke Longden's record of 6, career victories in and held it until Laffit Pincay Jr. Only 4-foot, the athlete known simply as "The Shoe" throughout his career rode for 41 years, most of them in Southern California, considered to be the most competitive circuit in America.

Shoemaker broke his neck when he veered off the highway in his Ford Bronco in suburban Los Angeles, tumbled down an embankment and rolled. He had been drinking after playing golf and police said his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit. He sued Ford and won a multimillion-dollar settlement. He continued training horses for another six years despite being in a wheelchair. He operated the chair by turning his head and breathing into a tube. He was a quiet guy, he kept a lot of things to himself.

Pincay, who was forced to retire after breaking his neck in March, called Shoemaker last week and told him about a trip Pincay had taken to New York to help find a cure for paralysis. Inat age 54, he became the oldest jockey to win a Kentucky Derby when he guided Ferdinand along a small opening on the rail in a ride considered one of the greatest ever. That win came 21 years after his previous Derby win, aboard Lucky Debonair in He won America's most famous race four times, including in with Tomy Lee and with Swaps.

Dueling toward the finish line at Churchill Downs were Gallant Man, ridden by Shoemaker, and Iron Liege, ridden by Bill Hartack. At the sixteenth pole, Shoemaker stood up, mistaking it for the finish line. He sat back down immediately but Gallant Man lost by a nose.

He received a day suspension from the stewards for the rule violation. The night before, Gallant Man's owner, Ralph Lowe, told Shoemaker he had a dream about a jockey on one of his horses misjudging the finish line. Shoemaker insisted it wouldn't happen to him. Besides four Derby victories, Shoemaker won two Preakness Stakes, five Belmont Stakes and rode Ferdinand to a victory over Alysheba in the Breeders' Cup Classic to capture Horse of the Year honors.

His last race was Feb. A crowd of 64, showed up at Santa Anita to see him and his mount, Patchy Groundfog, finish fourth in a nationally televised race. All told, Shoemaker rode in a record 40, races. Shoemaker's riding style of sitting almost still on a horse was emulated by generations of jockeys.

His former wife, Cindy, said watching him ride was "like listening to a pretty song or reading poetry. He was so small he was kept as an infant in a shoebox near a fire to stay warm. He boxed and wrestled in high school but decided to become a jockey because of his size.

He won his first race April 20,at Golden Gate Fields near San Francisco; his final victory came nearly 41 years later, on Jan. Shoemaker loved to ride — at any time. Inhe was returning to his hotel from a party at 4: He did, wearing a tuxedo, then 12 hours later rode Lucky Debonair to his third Derby victory.

After retirement, Shoemaker was emphatic when asked if he missed riding. It's time to do something else. He is survived by his former wife and only child, year-old Amanda. Funeral arrangements were pending. A spokeswoman for KDOC, an independent over-the-air station that broadcasts to Los Angeles and Orange counties, said George died on Sunday of pneumonia at a local hospital. He had been ill with cancer, she said. George, the father of actress Rebecca De Mornay newscalled his style of broadcasting "combat TV" and was known for berating and belittling people who did not agree with his conservative views.

KDOC is working on a tribute show for George scheduled to air this Saturday, the spokeswoman said, adding that no decision has been made about airing reruns of the show beyond that.

Note from the Underground - Wally George was buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, Ca. Thanks to Underground member Kim Eazell of GravesRUs. She appeared on Broadway in "Fiddler on The Roof," "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" and was in the Manhattan Theater Club's "What's Wrong with This Picture?

Stanley had film roles in this year's "Down With Love" and was the gravelly voice of Wilhelmina Packard in the animated film "Atlantis: Simpson saga, has died. Kardashian died Tuesday night at his Encino home eight weeks after being diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, said his ex-wife, Kris Jenner, who is married to Olympic champion Bruce Jenner.

Simpson, a former football star the University of Southern California and in the National Football League, camped out at Kardashian's house in the days after Simpson's ex-wife and her friend were stabbed to death in The infamous televised chase involving Simpson in a white Ford Bronco that transfixed the country began after he fled Kardashian's home.

Kardashian was surrounded by his family, including his four children, when he died, said Kris Jenner, the mother of his children. Kardashian, a member of Simpson's defense team, said in a interview on ABC's "" that he questioned Simpson's innocence.

The blood evidence is the biggest thorn in my side; that causes me the greatest problems. Kardashian, who knew Simpson for 25 years, also described him in the interview as a spoiled athlete and confirmed earlier reports that Simpson badly failed a lie detector test shortly after the slayings.

Kardashian is survived by his wife and daughters, Kourtney, 24, Kimberly, 22, Khloe, 19, and a son, Robert, Kazan was at his home in Manhattan when he died, lawyer Floria Lasky said. She did not give a cause of death. Five of the plays he staged won Pulitzer Prizes for their authors: Other stage credits included ''Camino Real,'' ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' and ''Tea and Sympathy. In Hollywood, he won Oscars for directing ''Gentleman's Agreement'' and ''On the Waterfront. He turned to writing in his 50s and produced six novels - including several best sellers - and an autobiography.

The first two novels, ''America, America'' and ''The Arrangement,'' he also made into movies. To some, Kazan diminished his stature when he went before the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy era and named people he said had been members of the Communist Party with him in the mids. But he insisted years later that he bore no guilt as a result of what some saw as a betrayal. In earlyleaders of the motion picture academy announced they would give Kazan a special Academy Award for his life's work.

The decision reopened wounds and touched off a painful controversy. On awards night, some in the audience withheld applause, though others gave him a warm reception. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro presented the award.

I really like to hear that and I want to thank the Academy for its courage, generosity,'' Kazan said. He started out as a stage actor but his ambition was to direct, which he began doing in the mids. The breakthrough came when he staged Thornton Wilder's ''The Skin of Our Teeth'' in and won a New York Drama Critics Award.

He first teamed with Arthur Miller to direct ''All My Sons'' and went on to do ''Death of a Salesman,'' which one critic termed ''as exciting and devastating a theatrical blast as the nerves of modern playgoers can stand.

His Broadway collaboration with Tennessee Williams began with ''Streetcar'' in and later included ''Camino Real,'' when the betting in binary options on a Hot Tin Roof'' and ''Sweet Bird of Youth. Kazan, Lee Strasberg and other Group Theatre alumni founded the Actors Studio inwhich became a sort of spiritual home for theater people.

Actors liked Kazan's approach to directing. Once he casts you, he makes you confident. Kazan left Broadway and the Actors Studio in to co-direct, with Robert Whitehead, the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. He resigned after two disastrous seasons, saying he was ''not an administrator by taste. His friendship with Miller was never the same after his congressional testimony. Kazan talked with Miller before he testified, and Miller later wrote in his journal about a side of his friend that he had not seen before: Kazan told the committee that he had joined a unit of the Communist Party made up of members of the Group Theatre in the summer of and left 18 months later, disillusioned at ''being told what to think and say and do.

Playwright Clifford Odets, actress Phoebe Brand and Paula Miller, Strasberg's actress-wife, were among the eight he identified as communists. He defended his naming names on the ground that all were already known to the committee; others have said that at least half were not. Some critics saw in as a subtext of ''On the Waterfront'' a justification for Kazan's decision to cooperate with congressional Red hunters. The movie's hero, portrayed by Marlon Brando, breaks the code of silence on the docks and courageously fingers a corrupt, murderous union boss in televised hearings.

In his autobiography, an page tome titled ''Elia Kazan - A Life,'' Kazan wrote candidly of the many affairs he had over the years, including one with Marilyn Monroe. But I must add this: My 'womanizing' saved my life. It kept the juices pumping and saved me from drying up, turning to dust and blowing away. Kazan once said he turned to writing because ''I wanted to say exactly what I felt.

I like to say what I feel about things directly and no matter whose play you direct or how sympathetic you are to the playwright, what you finally are trying to do is interpret his view of life. When I speak for myself I get a tremendous sense of liberation. Born Elia Kazanjoglous on Sept.

The family came to New York when Kazan was 4 and he grew up in a Greek neighborhood in Harlem and later suburban New Rochelle. He went to Williams College, where he picked up the nickname Gadget - ''I guess because I was small, compact and eccentric,'' he once said.

Shortened to Gadge, it was a name that stuck - and one that he came to loathe. During his senior year he saw Sergei Eisenstein's film ''Potemkin'' and focused on the performing arts. After graduating with high honors, he attended the Yale University Drama School, then joined the Group Theatre in New York in Kazan, a short, stocky intense man, preferred casual dress and was direct in social dealings.

Kazan married three times. With first wife Molly Day Thatcher he had four children, Judy, Chris, Nick and Katharine. After her death he married Barbara Loden and they had two sons, Leo and Marco. She died of cancer in ; in he married Frances Rudge. O'Connor, who had been in declining health in recent years, died of heart failure at a retirement home in Calabasas, his daughter, Alicia O'Connor, told The Associated Press.

In a brief statement, the family said that among O'Connor's last words was the following quip: O'Connor won an Emmy, but never an Oscar.

He was best known for films he made in the s - a series of highly successful "Francis the Talking Mule" comedies and movie musicals that put his song and dance talents to good use.

Songs in movie musicals are often touching or exciting, but O'Connor performed a rare feat with a number that were laugh-out-loud funny. The best, 's "Singin' in the Rain," also starred Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds and took a satirical look at Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures. As he sings "Make 'Em Laugh," O'Connor dances with a prop dummy and performs all manner of amusing acrobatics.

I did a pratfall and we wrote that down. Every time I did something that got a laugh, we wrote it down to keep in the number. The American Film Institute's list of the top American movies ever made ranked "Singin' in the Rain" at No.

Always entertaining, always talking, always laughing," said Tim Fowlar his musical director for 30 years. Among O'Connor's other '50s musicals were "Call Me Madam," "Anything Goes" and "There's No Business Like Show Business. He said it was a fluke that he landed in so many musicals, noting he started out as a "straight" actor. He also said his song-and-dance image came with a downside.

The "Francis" comedies, which featured a bumbling O'Connor and a talking mule, began in A few half trading days nyse later, the man who directed them created the "Mr.

O'Connor quit the "Francis" series insaying, "When you've made six pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail than you do. O'Connor also had some success in television. He won an Emmy for "The Colgate Comedy Hour" in and appeared in "The Donald O'Connor Texaco Show" from to Born in Chicago to circus performers who went into vaudeville, O'Connor joined his family's act when he was an infant. He made his film debut at age 11 in a dancing scene with two of his brothers in "Melody for Two.

As a contract actor for Paramount, he played adolescent roles in several films, including Huckleberry Finn in "Tom Sawyer - Detective" He was Bing Crosby's kid brother in "Sing You Sinners"which he later ranked among his favorite roles. When he grew too big for child roles, he briefly returned to vaudeville, but was soon back in Hollywood playing high-energy juvenile leads opposite such actresses as Gloria Jean and Susanna Foster.

In recent years, he continued working when he found a project he liked, such as appearing in an episode of "Tales From the Crypt. But stock market advising said he had little desire to leave home for long stretches.

He and his wife had moved to Arizona after their California home was damaged in the Northridge earthquake. But doing one would mean being out in cold, cold New York for a year, a year and a half," he said. Get it done and come back home. Palmer was on a two-day break in Paris following a television recording session in Britain, his manager Mick Carter said from the French capital. In the s, Palmer became a superstar with singles which also included "Simply Irresistible" - accompanied by slick videos featuring the smartly dressed Palmer with a back-up band of attractive women, all in black outfits and glossy makeup.

A side project, Power Station, formed in with John Taylor and Andy Taylor of '80s supergroup Duran Duran, scored three U. Top 10 hits, including "Communication" and "Get it On. The son of a British naval officer, Palmer was a member of several British rock how to get unlimited caps in fallout 3 xbox 360 before he hit the big time as a solo artist.

He had lived in Switzerland for the past 16 years. Known for his GQ sense of style, Palmer was named best dressed male artist by Rolling Stone in The "Addicted to Love" video, with its miniskirted models strumming guitars as Palmer sang, became one of MTV's most-played clips, and sparked protests from some feminists. It's just happened to become an iconic look," Palmer once said of the video. He had his first hit album and single, "Sneakin' Sally through the Alley," in In his 20s, Palmer worked with a number of small-time bands including Dada, Vinegar Joe, and the Alan Bown Band, occasionally appearing in opening acts for big draw including The Who and Jimi Hendrix.

And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it. Plimpton died Thursday night at his Manhattan apartment, his longtime friend, restauranteur Elaine Kaufman, said Friday. He was full of energy," said Kaufman, who said she had known Plimpton for 40 years. Praised as a "central figure in American letters" when inducted in to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Plimpton also enjoyed a lifetime of making literature out of nonliterary pursuits.

He boxed with Archie Moore, pitched to Willie Mays and performed as a trapeze artist for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus. He acted in numerous films, including "Reds" and "Good Will Hunting. But writers appreciated Plimpton for The Paris Review, the quarterly he helped found nearly in and ran for decades with eager passion. The magazine's high reputation rested on two traditions: The Paris Review remained more respected than read. The subscription base was rarely higher than a few thousand and the bank account seemed to descend at will.

Donations from various wealthy friends kept it going. Plimpton proved all too effective at praising others at the expense of himself. Untilwhen he turned 75, his highest honor was being named New York City fireworks commissioner, a position that didn't officially exist. But within a month of the academy induction, the French made him a Chevalier, the Legion of Honor's highest rank.

The Guild, an arts organization based on Long Island, gave him a lifetime achievement award. A native of New York, Plimpton held the parallel identities of insider and outsider. He was born into society - diplomat's son - and spoke in an upper-class accent worthy of a Harvard man. But the public knew him better as an amiable underdog, stumbling amid the feet of the giants of sports and other professions.

Much of his career served as a send-up of Hemingway's famous credo: Starting in the s, when he began his vocation as a "participatory" journalist, he practiced the singular art of narrating panic.

In a culture where millions fantasized about being movie stars or sports heroes, the lanky, wavy-haired Plimpton dared to enter the arena himself, with results both comic and instructive.

In "Paper Lion," he documented his time training with one day trading yesterday lyrics meaning Detroit Lions in Allowed briefly to play quarterback, he remembered the crowd cheering as he left the field after a series of mishaps. Some of it was, perhaps, in appreciation of the lunacy of my participation and for the fortitude it took to do it," he wrote, "but most of it, even if subconscious, I decided was in relief that I had done as badly as I had.

He would get slaughtered. The outsider did not belong, and there was comfort in that being proved. His other books included "Bogey Man," "Out of My League" and "Shadow Box. Sidd Finch, a baseball pitcher of unprecedented gifts mph fastball and unlikely background reared in the mountains of Tibet portrayed so vividly by Plimpton in a Sports Illustrated article that many believed he existed. He seemed to know everyone: He had deep connections to the political world, dating back to childhood, when Adlai Stevenson - the two-time presidential nominee - was a family friend and Jacqueline Kennedy a debutante he would see at dances.

Robert Kennedy was a classmate at Harvard. Plimpton maintained a light touch in his work, but he knew tragedy firsthand. He served as a volunteer for Robert Kennedy's presidential run and was walking in front of him as the candidate was assassinated in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel.

Plimpton turned his head away as he spoke, his clear voice turned foggy. He sailed with John Kennedy, played tennis with former President Bush and rode on Air Force One with President Clinton. He witnessed a baffling encounter between Richard Nixon and Jcp stock aftermarket Stengel, when the president wanted to talk baseball and the former baseball manager wanted to discuss banking.

Sports was the common bond between Plimpton and politicians. He knew the current President Bush from his days as owner of the Texas Rangers and chatted with him shortly after Election Daywhen the outcome was still in doubt.

Plimpton was married twice: He had four children. Jump suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, said his cousin, Katherine Jump Wagner. The illness causes scarring of the air sacs of the lungs, leading to heart or respiratory failure. Wagner, of Arcanum, Ohio, said she learned of her cousin's death from her father, also named Gordon Jump.

Her cousin was under hospice care at his home southeast of Los Angeles, she said. Jump played Arthur Carlson in "WKRP in Cincinnati," which aired on CBS from and featured Gary Sandy, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Howard Hesseman and Richard Sanders as the ragtag station's crew. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Jump began his career working at radio and TV stations in the Midwest.

He worked behind the microphone and the camera, including jobs as a producer for Kansas and Ohio stations. Jump portrayed the Maytag repairman "Ol' Lonely," a well-recognized advertising symbol, from until he retired from the role in July and another actor took over. Jump came to appreciate the attention he got for the ad campaign and the steady work it provided, Wagner said.

But his heart was elsewhere professionally. He was a marvelous actor," she said, recalling a visit to Florida to watch him perform in "Norman, Is That You? Jump began his Hollywood career after moving to Los Angeles inappearing on series including "Daniel Boone," "Get Smart" and "The Partridge Family.

His dramatic roles included a part in the TV movie "Ruby and Oswald," about the assassination of President Kennedy, and "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Jump is survived by his wife, four daughters and a son, Maytag said in a statement. He also had a brother, Wagner said. Note from the Underground - Gordon Jump was laid to rest at El Toro Memorial Park, El Toro, CA. Thanks to Underground member Kim Eazell for GravesRUs.

Cash had been released from the hospital Wednesday after a two-week stay for treatment of an unspecified stomach ailment. The illness caused him to miss last month's MTV Music awards, where he had been nominated in seven categories.

Cash had battled a disease of the nervous system, autonomic neuropathy, and pneumonia in recent years.

Dozens of hit records like ''Folsom Prison Blues,'' ''I Walk the Line,'' and ''Sunday Morning Coming Down'' defined Cash's persona: Cash's option money earnest money lined face fit well with his unsteady voice, which was limited in range but used to great effect to sing about prisoners, heartaches, and tales of everyday life.

He wrote much of his own material, and was among the first to record the songs of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson. Cash said in his autobiography ''Cash'' that he tried to speak for ''voices that were ignored or even suppressed in the entertainment media, not to mention the political and educational establishments. Cash's career spanned generations, with each finding something of value in his simple records, many of which used his trademark rockabilly rhythm.

Cash was a peer of Elvis Presley when rock 'n' roll was born in Memphis in the s, and he scored hits like ''Cry! He had a longtime friendship and recorded with Dylan, who has cited Cash as a major influence. He won 11 Grammys - most recently inwhen ''Give My Love To Rose'' earned him honors as best male country vocal performance - and numerous Country Music Association awards.

He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in His second wife, June Carter Cash, and daughter Roseanne Cash also were successful singers. June Carter Cash, who co-wrote Cash's hit ''Ring of Fire'' and partnered with her husband in hits such as ''Jackson,'' died in May. The late s and '70s were Cash's peak commercial years, and he was host of his own ABC variety show from In later years, he was part of the Highwayman supergroup with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kristofferson.

In the s, he found a new artistic life recording with rap and hard rock producer Rick Rubin on the label American Recordings. And he was back on the charts with the album ''American IV: The Man Comes Around. Most recently, Cash was recognized for his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song ''Hurt'' with seven nominations at last month's MTV Video Music Awards.

He had hoped to attend the event but couldn't because of his hospital stay. The video won for best cinematography. He also wrote books including two autobiographies, and acted in films and television shows. In his hit ''Man in Black,'' Cash said his black clothing symbolized the downtrodden people in the world. Cash had been ''The Man in Black'' since he joined the Grand Ole Opry at age I did and I've worn black clothes ever since. Cash was born Feb. When he was 12, his year-old brother and hero, Jack, died after an accident while sawing oak trees into fence posts.

The stock market gainer had a lasting impact on Cash, and he later pointed to it as a possible reason his music was frequently melancholy. He worked as a custodian and enlisted in the Air Force, learning guitar while stationed in Germany, before launching his music career after his discharge.

Cash launched his career in Memphis, performing on radio station KWEM. He auditioned with Sun Records, ultimately recording the single ''Hey Porter,'' which became a hit. Cash recorded theme albums celebrating the railroads and the Old West, and decrying the mistreatment of American Indians. Two of his most popular albums were recorded live at prisons. Along the way he notched 14 No. Because of Cash's frequent performances in prisons and his rowdy lifestyle early in his career, many people wrongly thought he had served prison time.

He never did, though he battled addictions to pills on and off throughout his life. I never thought about fame until it started happening to me,'' he said in That's why I turned to pills.

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He credited June Carter Cash, whom he married inwith helping him stay off drugs, though he had several relapses over the years and was treated at the Betty Ford Center in California in June Carter Cash was the daughter of country music great Mother Maybelle Carter, and the mother of singer Carlene Carter, whose father was country singer Carl Smith.

Together, June Carter and Cash had one child, John Carter Cash. He is a musician and producer. Singer Rosanne Cash is Johnny Cash's daughter from his first marriage, to Vivian Liberto. Their other three children were Kathleen, Cindy and Tara.

They divorced in In MarchCash made headlines when his California-based record company, American Recordings, took out an advertisement in the music trade magazine Billboard. The full-page ad celebrated Cash's Grammy award for best country album for ''Unchained. Jennings, a close friend, once said of Cash: He's one of the greatest people in the world.

Cash once credited his mother, Carrie Rivers Cash, with encouraging him to pursue a singing career. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday. Cash lived in Hendersonville, Tenn. He also had a home in Jamaica. For Dating My Teenage Daughter,'' the hit show that became the electronic stock market worksheet for students big television comeback, said Susan Wilcox, his assistant of 22 years.

The cause of his death was a tear in the aorta, the result of an unrecognized flaw in his heart, said his publicist, Lisa Kasteler.

He died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center shortly after 10 p. The show was scheduled to begin its second season Sept. At the Burbank hospital where he died, Ritter was accompanied by producers and co-workers, his wife, Amy Yasbeck, and year-old son Jason, Wilcox said. He is survived by three other children. Everybody loved working with him. Whatever set he was working on, he made it a very fun place.

ABC released a statement saying: Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and children at this very difficult time. Ritter was the youngest son of Western film star and country musician Tex Ritter and actress Dorothy Fay. He graduated from Hollywood High School and earned a degree in drama from the University of Southern California.

But so was Jerry Lewis. And Ritter worried about falling into a typecasting trap after the show ended. We didn't do retakes. If there was a microphone forex profit keeper trading system in the shot, so be it,'' he said.

Ritter was married from to to Nancy Morgan, the mother of his three oldest children, Jason, Carly and Tyler. He married actress Yasbeck inthe mother of Stella. Hovis was perhaps best known for his role as "Sgt. Carter" in the long-running and now syndicated television series "Hogan's Heroes. At the time of his death, Hovis was a lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University-San Marcos.

He had been employed at the university since and taught acting and characterization. A memorial service will be at 2 p. Saturday in the main theater of the Theatre Center at Texas State University-San Marcos.

His manager says Zevon died yesterday at his Los Angeles-area home. Note from the Underground: Warren Zevon's ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to Underground Member Lisa Burks for the information.

Brooks endeared himself to western-movie fans of the 's and 50's as Lucky Jenkins, the sidekick to the hero in the Hopalong Cassidy movies and as Cpl. Randy Boone, one of the officers who take in an orphaned boy and his dog in the television series "Rin Tin Tin. But it was as Charles Hamilton, Melanie Wilkes's doomed brother in "Gone With the Wind," ex dividend date stock price goes down he achieved screen immortality.

Brooks once said he despised his part as Scarlett's mild-mannered, nerdy first husband. She marries Hamilton for spite, and he then goes off to war, dying not on the battlefield but of disease — as so many Civil War soldiers did, but movie heroes never did.

Still the role was exactly as written in Margaret Mitchell's novel. In the proposal scene, Mitchell wrote: In her queer detachment she only thought that he looked like a calf. After the film's release, he had relatively small parts in other movies, then a regular role as Lucky in the Hopalong Cassidy series of westerns in the mid- to late 's.

Among the films, which starred William Boyd as Hopalong, were "Hoppy's Holiday," "The Dead Don't Dream" and "Borrowed Trouble. Brooks used to boast that he was the first actor to give Monroe an on-screen kiss. Television brought new opportunities, again often in westerns. Besides being a regular on "Rin Tin Tin," Mr. Brooks had guest roles in 50's western series including "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," "The Lone Ranger" and "Maverick," and in other series like "Perry Mason.

After he left show business, he ran an ambulance service that became the largest private ambulance provider in Los Angeles County. He sold the company in and retired to the Santa Ynez Valley where he bred champion Andalusian horses. While he did not much like the Hamilton part, Mr.

Brooks did not shun the 50th anniversary "Gone With the Wind" cast reunion in Atlanta. He tearfully read a letter that Olivia de Havilland had sent to the gathering from her home in Paris.

De Havilland had played Melanie Hamilton Wilkes, the sister of Mr. In the letter Ms. Brooks "my fond eternal greetings to the sole representative of the Hamilton clan. At one time, Mr. Brooks was married to the comedian Stan Laurel's daughter, Lois. He is survived by his wife, Hermaine; two children; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Bronson died Saturday of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife at his bedside, publicist Lori Jonas said.

He had been in the hospital for weeks, Jonas said. Like Clint Mini mini forex account reviews, whose spaghetti westerns won him stardom, Bronson had to make European films to prove his worth as a star.

He left a featured-role career in Hollywood to play leads in films made in France, Italy and Spain. His blunt manner, powerful build and air of danger made him the most popular actor maverick moneymakers affiliates those countries. At age 50, he returned to Hollywood a star. In a interview, he theorized on why the journey had taken him so long: Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image.

He was born Charles Bunchinsky on Nov. He was the 11th of 15 children of a coal miner and his wife, both Lithuanian immigrants. Like other toughs in Scooptown, he raised some hell and landed in jail for assault and robbery.

He might have stayed in the mines for the rest of his life except for World War II. Drafted inhe served with the Air Force in the Pacific, reportedly as a tail gunner on a B Having seen the outside world, he vowed not to return to how much does a bartender make in toronto squalor of Scooptown. He was attracted to acting not, he claimed, because of any artistic urge; he was impressed by the money movie stars could earn.

He joined the Philadelphia Play and Players Troupe, painting scenery and acting a few minor roles. At the Pasadena Playhouse school, Bronson improved his diction, supporting himself by selling Christmas cards and toys on street corners.

In he changed his last name, fearing reaction in the McCarthy era to Russian-sounding names. It made Bronson a European favorite. Among his starring films: He vows to rid the city of such vermin, and his executions brought cheers from crime-weary audiences.

The controversy accelerated when Bernard Goetz shot youths he thought were threatening him in a New York subway. Bronson could be as taciturn in interviews as he appeared on the screen. His first marriage was to Harriet Tendler, whom he met when both were fledgling actors in Philadelphia.

They had two children before divorcing. In Bronson fell in love with the lovely blonde British actress Jill Ireland, who happened to be married to British actor David McCallum. Bronson reportedly told McCallum bluntly: The McCallums were divorced inand Bronson and Ireland married the following year. She co-starred in several of his films. The Bronsons lived in a grand Bel Air mansion with seven children: They also spent time in a colonial farmhouse on acres in West Windsor, Vt.

Ireland lost a breast to cancer in He died of an overdose inand she died of cancer a year later. Bronson is survived by his wife, Kim, six children and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be private. Hines died Saturday in Los Angeles, publicist Allen Eichorn said Sunday. Hines first became internationally known as part of a jazz tap duo with his brother, Maurice. His whole heart and soul went into everything he did.

Gregory Oliver Hines was born on Feb. He has said his mother urged him and his older brother toward tap dancing because she wanted them to have a way out of the ghetto. When he was a toddler, he said, his brother was already taking tap lessons and would come home and teach him steps.

They began performing together when Gregory Hines was 5, and they performed at the Apollo for two weeks when he was 6.

Paired with his brother Maurice, he was a professional child star. In his teens, joined by their father, Maurice Sr. Invited to work on a farm in upstate New York, he quickly learned a lesson. I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night crude oil options expiration calendar can sleep late!

Hines had a falling out with his older brother in the late s because the younger was becoming influenced by counterculture and wanted to perform to rock music and write his songs. Inthe family act disbanded and Hines moved to Venice Beach, Calif. I was finding myself. Hines is survived by his fiancee, Negrita Jayde; his daughter, Daria; his son, Zach; his stepdaughter, Jessica Koslow; and his grandson, Lucian, Eichhorn said.

Hines had been married twice. He is also survived by his brother and father. A private funeral will be held in Los Angeles this week. Hope died late Sunday of pneumonia at his home in Toluca Lake, with his family at his bedside, longtime publicist Ward Grant said Monday. The nation's most-honored comedian, Hope was a star in every category open to him - vaudeville, radio, television and film, most notably a string of ''Road'' movies with longtime friend Bing Crosby. For decades, he took his show on the road to best investment options for 529 around the world, boosting the morale of servicemen from World War II to the Gulf War.

God bless his soul. A private burial was planned, followed by a memorial service and tribute Aug. She said her father died surrounded by family members, and ''I can't tell you how beautiful and serene and peaceful it was.

I said, 'Pardon me. He poked fun gently, without malice, and made himself the butt of many jokes. His golf scores and physical attributes, including his celebrated ski-jump nose, were frequent subjects:. Of course, that's all behind me now.

When Hope went into one of his monologues, it was almost as though the world was conditioned to respond. No matter that the joke was old or flat; he was Bob Hope and he got laughs. Hope earned a fortune, gave lavishly to charity and was showered with awards, so many that he had to rent a warehouse to store them.

Through he said he was afraid of flying, Hope traveled countless miles to entertain servicemen in field hospitals, jungles and aircraft carriers from France to Berlin to Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. His Christmas tours became tradition. He headlined in so many war zones that he had a standard joke for the times he was interrupted by gunfire: So often was Hope away entertaining, and so little did he see his wife, Dolores, and their four adopted children, that he once remarked, ''When I get home these days, my kids think I've been booked on a personal appearance tour.

Hope had a reputation as an ad-libber, but he kept a stable of writers and had filing cabinets full of jokes. He never let a good joke die - if it got a laugh in Vietnam, it would get a laugh in Saudi Arabia. It was never nerve-racking. He was always so completely prepared by his tremendous organization that he had put together. On his th birthday, he was too frail to take part in public celebrations, but was said to be alert and happy - and overwhelmed by the outpouring of affection.

The fabled intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street was renamed Bob Hope Square, and President Bush established the Bob Hope American Patriot Award. He was born Leslie Towns Hope on May 29,in Eltham, England, the fifth of seven sons of a British stonemason and a Welsh singer of light opera.

The Hopes emigrated to the United States when he was 4 and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. They found themselves in the backwash of the study of binary options trading signals software. The boy helped out by selling newspapers and working in a shoe store, a drug store and a meat market.

He also worked as a caddy and developed a lifelong fondness for golf. A highly competitive golfer, he later shot in the 70s and sponsored the Bob Hope Golf Classic, one of the nation's biggest tournaments. He boxed for a time under the name Packy East - ''I was on more canvases than Picasso'' - and also tried a semester in college before devoting himself to show business. He quickly veered from song and dance to comedy patter, and his monologue routine was born.

Byhe had reached vaudeville's pinnacle - The Palace - and in the '30s he played leading parts in such Broadway musicals as ''Roberta,'' ''Ziegfeld Follies'' and ''Red, Hot and Blue,'' with Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante. During ''Roberta,'' he met nightclub singer Dolores Reade and invited her to the show.

They married in After a few guest radio spots, Hope began working regularly on a radio program. Inhe created his own show, and that led him to Hollywood.

Paramount signed him for ''The Big Broadcast of ,'' in which he introduced the song that became his trademark: Soon he was teaming with Crosby in the seven ''Road'' pictures - ''Road to Bali,'' ''Road to Morocco,'' ''Road to Zanzibar'' and so on - playing best friends who lie, cheat and make fun of each other in comedic competition for glory and Dorothy Lamour.

In between, there were such pictures as ''Cat and the Canary,'' ''The Paleface,'' ''Louisiana Purchase,'' ''My Favorite Blonde,'' ''That Certain Feeling,'' ''I'll Take Sweden'' and ''Boy, Did I get a Wrong Number. Inhe entered television, and his successes continued. Even 40 years later, he could be counted on to pull in respectable ratings. He also appeared more than 20 times at the Academy Awards, first on radio and than on television, as presenter, cohost or host between and He tried to enlist, but was told he could be of more use as an entertainer.

He played his first camp show at California's March Field on May 6,seven months before Pearl Harbor. His traditional Christmas tours began inwhen he went to Berlin to entertain GIs involved in the airlift. Powell, president and CEO of the United Service Organizations. His televised Vietnam Christmas show was watched by an estimated 65 million people, the largest audience of his career. But his initially hawkish views on Vietnam opened a gap between the comedian and young Americans opposed to the war, who sometimes heckled him.

Later, Hope said he was ''just praying they get an honorable peace so our guys don't have to fight. I've seen too many wars. Inhe traveled to the Persian Gulf to entertain troops preparing for war with Iraq. Because Saudi Arabia bars female entertainers, he had to leave Marie Osmond and the Pointer Sisters behind in Bahrain.

Hope never had a regular straight man, but he worked often with crooner Crosby, first in radio, where they developed a routine of insulting each other merrily. Crosby helped make Hope's nose famous as a ''droop snoot'' and a ''ski run. Hope's awards included scores of honorary degrees; special Oscars for humanitarianism and service to the film industry; the George Peabody Award; the National Conference of Christians and Jews Award; and the Medal of Freedom from President Johnson.

He received honorary knighthood from Britain in He was the author or co-author of 10 books, including his autobiography, ''Don't Shoot, It's Only Me. In the mid-'90s, Hope played charity dates around the nation, but he seemed to slow his schedule. What was billed as his last NBC special, ''Laughing with the Presidents,'' focusing on his long friendships with many occupants of the White House, appeared in late His more than year association with the network was said to be a record.

In recent years, his hearing eroded, although he refused to wear a hearing aid. He suffered recurring eye problems, once remarking: I'm a walking hemorrhage. Until increasing frailty slowed him down, Hope repeatedly pledged never to quit entertaining. More on Bob Hope: From NBC4 in Los Angeles Bob Hope Buried At San Fernando Mission Cemetery Blocked To Traffic. LOS ANGELES -- Bob Hope was buried Wednesday at San Fernando Mission Cemetery after a private funeral Mass in North Hollywood.

Los Angeles police Sgt. Tony Carranza reported the Mass was at 6: About people attended. There was a procession of about 25 cars to the burial site. The British-born filmmaker had a debilitating stroke in Decemberand his condition had deteriorated significantly in recent weeks.

He was taken off life support Thursday and died Friday morning at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, hospital spokeswoman Eva Saltonstall said. The stocky, baldheaded filmmaker - who was gay - said in I'm terribly concerned about people and the limitation of freedom.

It's important to get people to care a little for someone else. That's why I'm more interested in the failures of this world than the successes. But the tale of outcasts trying to survive in a merciless metropolis was embraced by critics and Hollywood.

The director received another Oscar nomination for the film. The characters in Schlesinger's films often struggled with their place in the world, and he depicted them as lonely, disenchanted and sometimes forgotten. Schlesinger himself felt an estrangement from his own success. I wouldn't have known 'Midnight Cowboy' would have done so well,'' Schlesinger said in Schlesinger was nominated for best director.

The director lived in Palm Springs. He was survived by his companion of 30 years, photographer Michael Childers, and his brother Roger Schlesinger and sister Hilary Schlesinger, both of London. A public memorial was being planned for Los Angeles and London in late September, and a private religious service was to be held with family next week in London, according to Schlesinger spokesman Jeff Sanderson.

Ebsen, who was placed in intensive care last month suffering from an undisclosed illness, died on Sunday morning at the Torrance Memorial Medical Center, the spokeswoman said. A statement from Ebsen's family said his wife, Dorothy, his children and grandchildren were by his side. Beginning his career on the vaudeville circuit in the s as a dancer paired with his sister, Vilma, the tall, gangly Ebsen appeared in one of the last editions of the "Ziegfeld Follies," performed on Broadway and starred in a number of MGM musicals.

He danced in "Captain January" with Shirley Temple, received his first on-screen kiss from Barbara Stanwyck, played Audrey Hepburn's husband in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and co-starred with Gregory Peck in the Cold War thriller "Night People.

Ebsen's film career was just as notable for one of the most famous roles a Hollywood actor ever lost -- the part of the Tin Man in the classic "The Wizard of Oz.

But Ebsen became forever linked to a generation of television viewers for his role as patriarch of the zany Clampett clan on the hit fish-out-of-water sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," which debuted on CBS in For nine seasons, Ebsen starred as the affable mountaineer who loaded up his truck and moved his whole family, "critters" and all, to the posh, sunny environs of Southern California after he accidentally struck oil and an instant fortune.

The show was derided by many critics for what they regarded as its low-brow humor. But Ebsen and his co-stars -- Irene Ryan as Granny, Donna Douglas as Elly May and Max Baer Jr. Drawing as many as 60 million viewers a week, "The Beverly Hillbillies" endured as one of the longest-running series on CBS and became a hit in 35 countries.

Trading in his tattered coat and hat at the end of that series, Ebsen donned a suit and tie, kept his homespun persona and found TV success again on the s CBS drama "Barnaby Jones," playing the title role of the wily private detective.

He later reprised his Barnaby Jones role for a cameo in the big-screen remake of "The Beverly Hillbillies. Ebsen returned to series television in when he joined the ABC detective drama "Matt Houston" as the title character's uncle Roy, who comes out of retirement to help his nephew. Ebsen made his TV series debut in the s for ABC's "Disneyland: The Adventures of Davy Crockett," playing Fess Parker's sidekick, George Russel, a role he recreated for two Davy Crockett motion pictures.

In the late '50s, he played veteran Indian fighter Hunk Marriner on NBC's short-lived frontier adventure series "Northwest Passage.

Born Christian Rudolph Ebsen Jr. But after two years of premed studies, the Ebsen family fell on hard times and Buddy ventured to New York City as a hoofer with his sister, Vilma. The duo danced together in the stage show "Whoopee" and made their film debut in in "Broadway Melody of " with Eleanor Powell.

In later life, he developed an oil-painting hobby into a thriving business, selling his self-portraits and folksy recreations of rural life on his Web site. His autobiography, "The Other Side of Oz," was published inand inat the age of 93, he became a novelist, publishing a romance titled "Kelly's Quest" that became a best-seller.

So I just moved on to other things. White, who had suffered kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 9: White had been undergoing dialysis treatment and had been hospitalized since last September. His work epitomized seductive disco music, also known as "make out" music.

The heavyset musician enjoyed three decades of fame for songs like "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" and "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me. White's canyon-deep, butter-smooth vocals and throbbing musical tempos emphasized his songs' sexually charged verbal foreplay.

His song "Love Serenade" began with the purring, first-person lyrics: He said he had a lifelong love for music. During his early teenage years, he began singing in a Baptist church choir and was quickly promoted to director.

InWhite told Ebony magazine that his voice changed overnight from the squeaky tones of a preadolescent to the rumbling bass that made him famous. My mother was staring at me, and I was staring at her. The next thing I new, her straight face broke into a beautiful smile. Tears came down her face and she said, 'My son's a man now. He was jailed at age 16 for stealing tires, a punishment he credited with helping him straighten out his life and dedicate his efforts to music.

Inspired by the Elvis Presley song "It's Now or Never," White joined the Upfronts soul group as bass singer and cut six singles. For several years, he stayed away from performing and focused on work behind the scenes as a songwriter and producer. He married a childhood sweetheart, identified only as Mary in his autobiography, and fathered four children with her before they separated in and later divorced.

White discovered the female trio Love Unlimited — which included his future second wife, Glodean James — and produced their million-selling single "Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love. He is credited by some for helping launch the disco phenomenon with his orchestral "Love's Theme" inwhich he conducted with his group, The Love Unlimited Orchestra. Inhis album "Can't Get Enough" climbed to the top of the pop charts on the strength of the signature hits "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything.

That year he also married James. In his autobiography, "Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love," Barry White said music likely spared him a similar fate. He enjoyed a larger resurgence with album "The Icon Is Love," and his ballad "Practice What You Preach" became his first No. Toward the end of the s, his songs were regularly featured on the Fox comedy series "Ally McBeal news - Y!

TV " and he made an appearance on the show as himself. His single "Staying Power," off a album of the same name, won White two Grammys and proved he hadn't tamed his libidinous lyrics. White's survivors include eight children, grandchildren, and his companion Catherine Denton. According to People Magazine, Barry White was cremated and scattered off the coast of Santa Monica. Hackett died at his Southern California beach house either late Sunday or early Monday, Sandy Hackett told The Associated Press Monday night.

His body was found Monday. He was a terrific father. He was my best friend. But Hackett declined, believing he could develop his own comedy style. Playing for small money on the Borscht Circuit for New York City vacationers in the Catskill Mountains, he learned to get laughs with his complaints about being short, fat and Jewish.

His career grew with appearances on the variety TV shows of Jack Paar, Arthur Godfrey and others. Soon he was earning top money in Las Vegas, Florida and Las Vegas. That was a necessity to offset the taunts about his roly-poly shape.

After graduating from New Utrecht High School, where he played on the football team, Hacker spent three years in the military during World War II, then reinvented himself as Buddy Hackett, standup comedian.

Realizing only he could write for Buddy Hackett, he moved on to Los Angeles and scored at a small showcase club. He began making big money across the country, and audiences called for his most noted routine, the Chinese waiter.

Hackett was married to the former Sherry Dubois, whom he met at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills. They had three children: Hepburn died Sunday at 2: Hepburn, who had been in declining health in recent years, died of old age and was surrounded by family, McFadden said.

The lights will dim on Broadway at 8 p. Tuesday in her honor, said Patricia Armetta-Haubner, a spokeswoman for the League of American Theaters and Producers. During her year career, she earned 12 Oscar nominations, which stood as a record until Meryl Streep surpassed her nomination total in She won the Academy Award for "Morning Glory," ; "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," ; "A Lion in Winter," ; and "On Golden Pond," But, she said, "Life's what's important.

Birth and pain and joy — and then death. Acting's just waiting for the custard pie. Hepburn, the product of a wealthy, freethinking New England family, was forthright in her opinions and unconventional in her conduct. She dressed for comfort, usually in slacks and sweater, with her red hair caught up in a topknot.

She married only once, briefly, and her name was linked to Howard Hughes and other famous men, but the great love of her life was Spencer Tracy. They made nine films together and remained close companions until Tracy's death in The voice Tallulah Bankhead once likened to "nickels dropping in a slot machine" became one of Hollywood's most-imitated. Hepburn's third movie, "Morning Glory," brought her first Oscar. A string of parts followed — Jo in "Little Women," the ill-fated queen in "Mary of Scotland," the rich would-be actress in "Stage Door," the madcap socialite of "Bringing Up Baby," the shy rich girl in "Holiday.

Undaunted, Hepburn acquired the rights to a comedy about a spoiled heiress, and, after it was rewritten for her, took it to the New York stage.

She returned to Hollywood for the film version, which featured James Stewart and Cary Grant. Once again she was a top star, with a contract at MGM for "Woman of the Year," "Keeper of the Flame," "Sea of Grass," "Dragon Seed," "Without Love," "State of the Union," "Pat and Mike" and "Adam's Rib.

Her first film with Tracy was "Woman of the Year," in Legend has it that when they met she commented, "I'm afraid I'm a little big for you, Mr. One critic compared them to "the high-strung thoroughbred and the steady workhorse. Tracy never divorced his wife, who outlived him by 15 years; Hepburn, though she led a PBS tribute to Tracy inrarely mentioned their private relationship.

I've never regretted it. And I think I represent a woman. I needle him, and I irritate him, and I try to get around him, and if he put a big paw out and put it on my head, he could squash me. And I think that is the romantic ideal picture of the male and female in this country. After leaving MGM inHepburn divided her time between the stage — she appeared in Shaw's "The Millionairess" and Shakespeare's "As You Like It" — and film.

She coolly braved a jungle for "The African Queen" and did her own balloon flying in the low-budget "Olly Olly Oxen Free. She co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor news and Montgomery Clift news in "Suddenly Last Summer," with Jason Robards news Jr.

She coaxed the ailing Tracy back onto the set for their roles as wealthy, liberal parents faced with the interracial marriage of their daughter in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Though an early appearance in "The Lake" promoted Dorothy Parker's famously scathing remark that Hepburn "ran the gamut of emotions from A to B," she worked as tirelessly on stage as in movies. She starred in the musical "Coco" in When she broke an ankle during "A Matter of Gravity" inshe went on in a wheelchair.

Fans flocked to see her on Broadway in "West Side Waltz," inand when the show moved on to Boston, Hepburn displayed her outspokenness by ordering out a spectator who disturbed her by taking pictures. Hepburn nearly lost a foot in a car accident in late and spent almost three weeks in a hospital. But by the end of the year she was back before the cameras, co-starring with Nick Nolte news in "Grace Quigley," a comedy about a woman teaming with a hit man to help old people who want to die.

For many years, she divided her time between New York and Connecticut. Even well into her 70s, she was restless with energy, arising at dawn and going to bed at 7 p. Or, How I Went To Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind" made her a best-selling author at She followed it up with "Me: Stories of My Life" in InWarren Beatty news persuaded a reluctant Hepburn to fly out to Los Angeles and play his aunt in the romantic comedy "Love Affair.

Among the honors coming her way in later years: Ina survey of screen legends by the American Film Institute news - web sites ranked her No. She was born in Hartford, Conn.

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Hepburn, a noted urologist and pioneer in social hygiene, and Katharine Houghton Hepburn, who worked for birth control and getting the vote for women. Young Kate was educated by tutors and at private schools, entering Bryn Mawr in After graduating, she joined a stock company in Baltimore. She made her New York debut in "These Days" inthe same year she married Philadelphia socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith.

She divorced him in and later remarked, "I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical to love, honor and obey. If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. But she also lauded "Luddy" for opening doors in New York for a raw young actress. She berated herself as behaving like "a pig" toward him.

I don't know what I would have done if I'd had to come to New York and get a job as a waiter or something like that. She had various health problems in later years, including hip replacement surgery and tremors similar to Parkinson's disease news - web sites. In a interview, she told The Associated Press: I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven. In fact, I'm getting rather sweet back at them. Anything definite is irritating — and stimulating.

I think they're beginning to think I'm not going to be around much longer. And what do you know — they'll miss me, like an old monument. Like the Flatiron Building.

McFadden said that according to Hepburn's wishes, there will be no memorial service and burial will be private at a later date. Hepburn is survived by a sister, Margaret Hepburn Perry; a brother, Dr. Robert Hepburn; and 13 nieces and nephews. Katherine Hepburn was cremated and buried in the family plot at Ceder Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Conneticutt. AP - Hume Cronyn, the versatile stage and screen actor who charmed audiences with his portrayals of irascible old men and frequently paired up with his wife, Jessica Tandy, has died of cancer.

Cronyn died of prostate cancer Sunday at his home in Fairfield, Conn. He and Tandy were married for nearly 52 years at the time of her death from ovarian cancer in September The couple were honored at the Tony Awards with the first-ever Special Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cronyn went on to take other film parts, both major and minor, appearing in numerous movies over the next 50 years, including: To Dance With the White Dog. He won two other Emmys as well. Cronyn, who often found himself playing curmudgeons, joked about his crusty image in a interview with the New York Post.

I just don't want to play the grouch,'' he said. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment,'' Cronyn said in Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

That's my greatest weakness,'' he said in a interview. Cronyn was born in London, Ontario, one of five children of Hume Blake, a prominent Canadian financier and political figure.

He studied law for two years at McGill University in Montreal, but gave up a legal career for the theater. At McGill, Cronyn was an amateur boxer; he was nominated for the Canadian Olympic boxing team in Cronyn spent a summer studying under Max Reinhardt, a famous Austrian drama teacher and theatrical producer. From to '34, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

He also is survived by a son, Christopher Cronyn of Missoula, Mont. With his wife of 48 years, Veronique, at his side, Peck died about 4 a. He represents integrity, compassion and honesty.

His star shone brightly for a long time, and now it will continue to shine in heaven,'' said Kirk Douglas. Finch earned Peck his final Hollywood honor, placing No. Spokesman Friedman said Peck had not been suffering from any particular ailments. Friedman said Peck's wife told him she held his hand as the actor slipped off to sleep and died. Off-screen as well as on, Peck conveyed a quiet dignity. He had one amicable divorce, and scandal never touched him.

He taught me chess between scenes. Peck's lanky, gaunt-cheeked good looks, measured speech and courtly demeanor quickly established him as star material in the s. Three more nominations soon followed: Roles became scarce late in his career. It was an honor to have worked with him,'' DeVito said. Among Peck's final roles were playful revisitations of his past films. Mitchum, the vengeful ex-con who terrorized Peck and his family in the original, played a sympathetic policeman in the new version, while Peck played the ex-con's vile lawyer in the remake.

Born Eldred Gregory Peck on April 5,in La Jolla, California, Peck had a disjointed childhood after his parents divorced when he was 6. He was shuffled back and forth between them for two years, lived two more years with his maternal grandmother, then was sent at age 10 to a Roman Catholic military school in Los Angeles. After his first few films, Peck was soon under non-exclusive contracts to four studios; he refused an exclusive pact with MGM despite Louis B. With most male stars absent in the war, the studios desperately needed strong leading men.

Peck was exempt from service because of an old back injury. Peck married his first wife, Greta, in and they had three sons, Jonathan, Stephen and Carey. Jonathan, a TV reporter, committed suicide at age After his divorce inPeck married Veronique Passani, a Paris reporter. They had two children, Anthony and Cecilia, both actors. Gregory Peck was laid to rest at Our Lady of the Angels Catherdral in Los Angeles. Thanks to Underground members Roger Sinclair and Jesuit Jim for the information!

I just got here early. Inhe was paired with Chet Huntley for NBC News' coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. TV's first co-anchor team clicked with viewers, and a few weeks later the pair took over NBC's nightly minute newscast, with Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington. Ironically, Brinkley never cared for the signoff, which was coined by the show's producer.

Brinkley began the second act of his career in by moving to ABC News. He won 10 Emmy awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards and, inthe Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time,'' to be published in November. Born in Wilmington, N. He attended the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, and after Army service he worked in Southern bureaus for the United Press syndicate.

He moved to Washington, D. Instead, he landed a job four blocks away at NBC News and became White House correspondent - NBC's first. It was our first television camera. In those early days, Brinkley was unusual for his courtly manner, wry wit and a clipped style of delivery that suggested a mild case of hiccups.

It was a perfect fit. And the best writer I ever worked with. During the Democratic convention, NBC, up against CBS and its anchor Walter Cronkite, won an astonishing 84 percent of the viewership.

But the fame of Huntley-Brinkley reached far beyond the realm of journalism. Ina consumer-research company found that the twosome was recognized by more adult Americans than John Wayne or the Beatles. And satirist-songwriter Tom Lehrer paid them tribute in his song about World War III: They kept television news moving in the right direction.

But the spell was broken. After a falling out with his bosses, Brinkley gratefully moved on to ABC News, a late bloomer finally making a name for itself thanks in part to Brinkley.

He left amid a rare controversy: Among his four children, Alan is an American Book Award-winning historian and Joel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. A man who shot pool, rode horses and designed more than one of the houses he lived in, Brinkley aptly summed up his career and life in the subtitle of his memoir: But in a interview, he summed up his profession this way: That's all a reporter ever did.

I think it's a very honorable thing to do. Mic Brumby on the long-running CBS series "JAG," was found dead at his North Hollywood home of a suspected drug overdose, authorities said on Monday.

Goddard's girlfriend discovered his body lying on a bed at about noon on Sunday, Los Angeles County coroner's office spokesman Craig Harvey said. A preliminary investigation indicated his death was a possible suicide by an overdose of as-yet unknown "illicit, illegal" drugs, Harvey said. Notes were discovered at Goddard's home, but investigators did not characterize them as suicide notes, he said.

The notes were addressed to a friend. Investigators think Goddard died sometime after 9 p. An autopsy is set for Tuesday.

A former professional boxer, Goddard was "discovered" while competing at a light-heavyweight bout and asked to appear in a series of beer commercials, according to his Web site. He built a career on portraying villains in many of Hollywood's top action movies, including tough-guy Kano in New Line Cinema's "Mortal Kombat. He was best known to U. Goddard had just completed work on "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.

AP - Richard Cusack, an advertising executive turned actor and screenwriter whose children included Hollywood stars John and Joan Cusack, has died at Cusack, who died of pancreatic cancer Monday, abandoned a year successful advertising career in to enter the film industry. There are bigger issues out there,''' said his wife, Nancy Cusack. AP - June Carter Cash, the Grammy-winning scion of one of country music's pioneering families and the wife of country giant Johnny Cash, died Thursday of complications from heart surgery.

She died at a hospital with her husband of 35 years and family members at her bedside, manager Lou Robin said. She had been critically ill after May 7 surgery to replace a heart valve. But they very seldom mention June, somewhat because she got married to Johnny Cash,'' said Ed Benson, executive director of the Country Music Association. In his autobiography, Johnny Cash described how his wife stuck with him through his years of amphetamine abuse.

If she found my pills, she flushed them down the toilet. And find them she did; she searched for them, relentlessly. June Carter was born June 23,in Maces Spring, Va.

Her mother, Maybelle Carter, was in the Carter Family music act with her cousin Sara Carter and Sara's husband, A. Inthey made what are among the first country music recordings.

Starting inthe sisters starred in a radio show on XERA in Del Rio, Texas, that could be heard as far away as Saskatchewan, Canada. The Carters went on to become staples of the Grand Ole Opry country music show in Nashville. In the late s, after her marriage to country singer Carl Smith broke up, June Carter moved to New York to study acting at the behest of director Elia Kazan, who had seen her perform while scouting Tennessee for movie locations. They married in after he proposed to her on stage in London, Ontario.

The album, her first in a quarter-century, followed her career from its beginning through her then year marriage and collaboration with Cash. Johnny and June Carter Cash had a son, John Carter Cash, in She was also the mother of country singer Carlene Carter, whose father was Smith, and singer Rosanne Cash is her stepdaughter.

Funeral services will be private and details will not be released at the request of the Cash family. Stack, 84, was found dead of a heart attack Wednesday evening at his home by his wife, Rosemarie.

The actor was treated for prostate cancer in October.

But his wife said he had been feeling good, and he looked hardy at a weekend 80th birthday party for longtime friend Johnny Grant. Nancy Reagan said she and former President Reagan had known Stack more than 50 years.

Longtime Hollywood publicist Warren Cowan recalled Stack's pleasure when Cowan told him he had seen a publicity photo of the actor in the preserved home of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam house for 25 months before they were captured in World War II.

Stack also could do comedy. In real life, Stack was an athletic man who liked skeet shooting and golf. Relaxed and jovial, with abundant Hollywood anecdotes, he had a knack for being able to talk to anyone, Grant recalled. I don't think I ever heard one harsh word said about Bob Stack. Nor did I ever hear him give one,'' Grant said. Stack was born into a performing arts family in Los Angeles. His great-great-grandfather opened one of the city's first theaters, and his grandparents, uncle and mother were opera singers.

But the young man had a resonant speaking voice and rugged good looks, enough to catch the eye of producer Joe Pasternak when Stack ventured onto the Universal lot at age We'll make a test with Helen Parrish, a little love scene. I got the part,'' Stack recalled.

He played a series of youthful romantic leads before leaving Hollywood to serve with the Navy as an aerial gunnery instructor in World War II. Stack was never nominated for another Oscar. But he told that story with a chuckle - he clearly didn't take himself or life in Hollywood too seriously.

The series, awash in Prohibition Era shoot-'em-ups between gangsters and federal agents, drew harsh criticism about its violence - along with good ratings for ABC. Stack is survived by his wife, whom he married inand their two children, Elizabeth and Charles, both of Los Angeles. Robert Stack was laid to rest at Westwood Memorial Park, in the Room of Prayer, which is locked. Thanks to Underground members Anne, Dana, Gail and Scott Michaels for the information! Arbuckle's film career was halted in the early '20s because of a scandal that included two murder trials before he was acquitted at a third trial on a reduced charge of manslaughter.

Arbuckle had been one of Hollywood's top comics and highest-paid actors until he was charged in with the murder of a young actress, Virginia Rappe. She died of a ruptured bladder four days after collapsing in Arbuckle's bedroom during a party in his San Francisco hotel suite. Although he was acquitted Arbuckle could no longer get acting work. He directed low-budget comedies under the pseudonym William Goodrich and met as he successfully staged a comeback.

They were married in when Warner Bros. Arbuckle made a series of successful film shorts before he died in in New York City, just after the couple celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Rogers died at his Pittsburgh home, said family spokesman David Newell, who played Mr.

McFeely on the show. Rogers had been diagnosed with stomach cancer sometime after the holidays, Newell said. That was his passion, his mission, and he did it from day one. The final new episode, which was taped in Decemberaired in Augustthough PBS affiliates continued to air back episodes.

On each show, he would take his audience on a magical trolley ride into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where his puppet creations would interact with each other and adults. Rogers did much of the puppet work and voices himself. He also studied early childhood development at the University of Pittsburgh and consulted with an expert there over the years. But Rogers could also enjoy taping as if he were a child himself, Negri recalled.

Once, he said, the two of them fell into laughter because of the difficulty they had putting up a tent on the show. Rogers taught children how to share, deal with anger and even why they shouldn't fear the bathtub by assuring them they'll never go down the drain. I consider those people my heroes. Rogers' show won four Emmy Awards, plus one for lifetime achievement.

It's what resides inside. By the season, viewership had dropped to about 2. As other children's programming opted for slick action cartoons, Rogers stayed the same and stuck to his soothing message.

Off the set, Rogers was much like his television persona. He swam daily, read voraciously and listened to Beethoven. He once volunteered at a state prison in Pittsburgh and helped set up a playroom there for children visiting their parents.

One of Rogers' red sweaters hangs in the Smithsonian Institution. Rogers was born in Latrobe, 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. In seven years of unscripted, live television, he developed many of the puppets used in his later show, including King Friday XIII and Curious X the Owl. He was ordained in with a charge to continue his work with children and families through television.

He brought the show back to Pittsburgh inincorporating segments of the CBC show into a new series distributed by the Eastern Educational Network to cities including Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. Rogers' gentle manner was the butt of some comedians. Rogers is survived by his wife, Joanne, a concert pianist; two sons; and two grandsons. The singer-actress collapsed in her Beverly Hills home and was found by one of her year-old adopted sons, according to spokesman Roger Lane.

Carter had suffered from diabetes for years, Lane added, and underwent brain surgeries to remove two aneurysms in July and September of They left her with initial short-term memory damage and problems with her equilibrium. Six months after being released from the hospital, however, she made an appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony and performed the nominated song "Friend Like Me" from the Disney cartoon "Aladdin.

In addition to Carter's Tony win for "Ain't Misbehavin,"' she received an Emmy in for a TV broadcast of the show, which was a revue of Fats Waller songs. Her first series was a supporting role in on the short-lived Claude Akins cop comedy "Lobo. In Februaryan episode of the show was broadcast live -- the first for a situation comedy in nearly 30 years. Carter and her co-stars performed flawlessly, and at the end, she threw up her arms and yelled, "We did it!

After Sweet died in Mayhis character "died" too and the show went through a series of plot and cast changes.