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badasschick said:
No, that would be *27*.
Morrison, Hendrix, Cobain...27 seems to be the tragic number.
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Country singer Gary Stewart
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Country Singer Gary Stewart Found Dead
Musician Recently Lost Wife
POSTED: 12:49 p.m. EST December 17, 2003
Country singer Gary Stewart has died in Fort Pierce, Fla., at the age of 58.
His body was found in his home Tuesday.
Police say Stewart died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife of 43 years died last month -- and he was last seen by relatives on Sunday.
Stewart was a native of Letcher County, Ken., who gained some popularity in the 1970's with his guitar-driven Texas honky-tonk style.
His last album, "Live at Billy Bob's Texas," was released this year.
Some of his hits include "Drinkin' Thing," "Out of Hand" and "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles.)"
Stewart had also worked with Southern rock greats Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band.
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Country Singer Gary Stewart Found Dead
Musician Recently Lost Wife
POSTED: 12:49 p.m. EST December 17, 2003
Country singer Gary Stewart has died in Fort Pierce, Fla., at the age of 58.
His body was found in his home Tuesday.
Police say Stewart died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife of 43 years died last month -- and he was last seen by relatives on Sunday.
Stewart was a native of Letcher County, Ken., who gained some popularity in the 1970's with his guitar-driven Texas honky-tonk style.
His last album, "Live at Billy Bob's Texas," was released this year.
Some of his hits include "Drinkin' Thing," "Out of Hand" and "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles.)"
Stewart had also worked with Southern rock greats Dickey Betts and Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band.
Hope Lange
(Variety) Emmy-winning actress Hope Lange died Friday in Santa Monica of complications of acute colitis. She was 70.
Lange earned an Oscar nom for 1957's "Peyton Place" and two Emmys as Carolyn Muir on "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
Born in Redding Ridge, Conn., the daughter of a musician and an actress mother made her Broadway debut at 12.
After stints waitressing in her mother's Greenwich Village restaurant and walking Eleanor Roosevelt's dog, she modeled before returning to acting.
She appeared in several early live TV drama programs, including "Playhouse 90" and "Kraft Television Theatre. "
Film producer Buddy Adler spotted her in Kraft's "Snap Finger Creek" in 1956 and brought her to Hollywood to play waitress Emma in the film adaptation of "Bus Stop." Co-star Marilyn Monroe reportedly asked to have the pretty blond Lange's hair dyed brown so latter would not upstage her.
In her next role, as Selena Cross in "Peyton Place," she played a teenage girl who is raped by her stepfather and later accused of murdering him; perf netted her the supporting actress Oscar nom.
Lange went on to star with Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando in "The Young Lions" and with Joan Crawford in "The Best of Everything."
On TV, she was best known for the 1960s series "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." She also appeared on "The New Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Love Boat," "Fantasy Island" and "Murder, She Wrote."
She continued to appear in movies, playing Charles Bronson's wife in "Death Wish" in 1974 and Laura Dern's mother in "Blue Velvet." Among her last appearances were "Clear and Present Danger," "Just Cause" and "Before He Wakes."
After marrying and divorcing her "Bus Stop" co-star Don Murray, she was married to director Alan J. Pakula. She is survived by her third husband, theatrical producer Charles Hollerith; a son, actor Christopher Murray; daughter Patricia Murray; two grandchildren; a brother; and two sisters.
Donations may be made to the Actors Fund of America. A memorial service is planned for early 2004.
(Variety) Emmy-winning actress Hope Lange died Friday in Santa Monica of complications of acute colitis. She was 70.
Lange earned an Oscar nom for 1957's "Peyton Place" and two Emmys as Carolyn Muir on "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
Born in Redding Ridge, Conn., the daughter of a musician and an actress mother made her Broadway debut at 12.
After stints waitressing in her mother's Greenwich Village restaurant and walking Eleanor Roosevelt's dog, she modeled before returning to acting.
She appeared in several early live TV drama programs, including "Playhouse 90" and "Kraft Television Theatre. "
Film producer Buddy Adler spotted her in Kraft's "Snap Finger Creek" in 1956 and brought her to Hollywood to play waitress Emma in the film adaptation of "Bus Stop." Co-star Marilyn Monroe reportedly asked to have the pretty blond Lange's hair dyed brown so latter would not upstage her.
In her next role, as Selena Cross in "Peyton Place," she played a teenage girl who is raped by her stepfather and later accused of murdering him; perf netted her the supporting actress Oscar nom.
Lange went on to star with Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando in "The Young Lions" and with Joan Crawford in "The Best of Everything."
On TV, she was best known for the 1960s series "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." She also appeared on "The New Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Love Boat," "Fantasy Island" and "Murder, She Wrote."
She continued to appear in movies, playing Charles Bronson's wife in "Death Wish" in 1974 and Laura Dern's mother in "Blue Velvet." Among her last appearances were "Clear and Present Danger," "Just Cause" and "Before He Wakes."
After marrying and divorcing her "Bus Stop" co-star Don Murray, she was married to director Alan J. Pakula. She is survived by her third husband, theatrical producer Charles Hollerith; a son, actor Christopher Murray; daughter Patricia Murray; two grandchildren; a brother; and two sisters.
Donations may be made to the Actors Fund of America. A memorial service is planned for early 2004.
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Sir Alan Bates (last year's Tony winner)
December 29, 2003 -- LONDON - British actor Alan Bates has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, his agent said yesterday.
Bates, 69, died in a London hospital Saturday with his son, Ben, and brother, Martin, at his side.
"He has passed away," his agent, Rosalind Chatto, confirmed. "He had a long battle with cancer."
Bates had a triumphant season on Broadway last year in "Fortune's Fool," winning a Tony Award for Best Actor.
He had previously won a Tony in 1972 for the play "Butley."
In 2001, he was featured in director Robert Altman's period drama "Gosford Park."
He also had a part in the as-yet-unreleased TV miniseries "Spartacus."
Bates came to fame as one of a new breed of gritty actors as Britain threw off its postwar shackles - the "Angry Young Man" era - and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year after a career spanning six decades.
His big break came with John Osborne's landmark play "Look Back in Anger," in 1956. Bates then went on to play classical leads on the stage in "Hamlet," "Richard III" and "Antony and Cleopatra."
On the big screen, he starred in films such as "Zorba the Greek," "Far From The Madding Crowd" and "Women in Love," in which he famously grappled naked with Oliver Reed.
He received only one Academy Award nomination, for the 1967 movie "The Fixer," losing out on the Oscar to Cliff Robertson in "Charly."
Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson, who starred with Bates in "Women in Love," said he was unafraid to take risks as an actor.
"The longer he lived, the better an actor he became," said Jackson, now a politician.
" 'Look Back in Anger' totally transformed British theater," she said. "But as he matured as an individual, his acting became broader and deeper."
Born in Allestree, Derby, in 1934, Bates won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and began his stage career in the Midlands.
His personal life was marked by tragedy. His son Tristan died in 1990 at the age of 19, after an asthma attack, and his wife, actress Victoria Ford, died two years later.
December 29, 2003 -- LONDON - British actor Alan Bates has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, his agent said yesterday.
Bates, 69, died in a London hospital Saturday with his son, Ben, and brother, Martin, at his side.
"He has passed away," his agent, Rosalind Chatto, confirmed. "He had a long battle with cancer."
Bates had a triumphant season on Broadway last year in "Fortune's Fool," winning a Tony Award for Best Actor.
He had previously won a Tony in 1972 for the play "Butley."
In 2001, he was featured in director Robert Altman's period drama "Gosford Park."
He also had a part in the as-yet-unreleased TV miniseries "Spartacus."
Bates came to fame as one of a new breed of gritty actors as Britain threw off its postwar shackles - the "Angry Young Man" era - and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year after a career spanning six decades.
His big break came with John Osborne's landmark play "Look Back in Anger," in 1956. Bates then went on to play classical leads on the stage in "Hamlet," "Richard III" and "Antony and Cleopatra."
On the big screen, he starred in films such as "Zorba the Greek," "Far From The Madding Crowd" and "Women in Love," in which he famously grappled naked with Oliver Reed.
He received only one Academy Award nomination, for the 1967 movie "The Fixer," losing out on the Oscar to Cliff Robertson in "Charly."
Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson, who starred with Bates in "Women in Love," said he was unafraid to take risks as an actor.
"The longer he lived, the better an actor he became," said Jackson, now a politician.
" 'Look Back in Anger' totally transformed British theater," she said. "But as he matured as an individual, his acting became broader and deeper."
Born in Allestree, Derby, in 1934, Bates won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and began his stage career in the Midlands.
His personal life was marked by tragedy. His son Tristan died in 1990 at the age of 19, after an asthma attack, and his wife, actress Victoria Ford, died two years later.
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Gerald Gutierrez
Acclaimed Director of Broadway Plays, Is Dead
30 Dec 2003
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Tony Award-winning director Gerald Gutierrez, who helmed Lincoln Center Theater productions of Dinner at Eight, The Most Happy Fella, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Heiress, A Delicate Balance and more, has died, a spokesperson for Lincoln Center Theater confirmed Dec. 30.
He died in his sleep of respitory failure as a result of the flu. They exact date of death is not known. He lived in Brooklyn, where he was born. He was 53.
Mr. Gutierrez, an eccentric and effusive man, was an easily recognizable figure in the New York theatre community, primarily due to Phyllis, a Yorkshire terrier he carried everywhere he went, and whom he stroked as his name was called at the 1995 Tony Award ceremony. He told the New York Times, of his behavior on that program, "I'm smart enough to know it was deflective behavior. If you look at the dog, you're not looking at the scars."
The scars came from surgery for cancer of the tongue, which he underwent in 1992 and included the removal of lymph nodes on both sides of his neck. After that operation, he often wore turtleneck sweaters.
Acclaimed Director of Broadway Plays, Is Dead
30 Dec 2003
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Tony Award-winning director Gerald Gutierrez, who helmed Lincoln Center Theater productions of Dinner at Eight, The Most Happy Fella, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Heiress, A Delicate Balance and more, has died, a spokesperson for Lincoln Center Theater confirmed Dec. 30.
He died in his sleep of respitory failure as a result of the flu. They exact date of death is not known. He lived in Brooklyn, where he was born. He was 53.
Mr. Gutierrez, an eccentric and effusive man, was an easily recognizable figure in the New York theatre community, primarily due to Phyllis, a Yorkshire terrier he carried everywhere he went, and whom he stroked as his name was called at the 1995 Tony Award ceremony. He told the New York Times, of his behavior on that program, "I'm smart enough to know it was deflective behavior. If you look at the dog, you're not looking at the scars."
The scars came from surgery for cancer of the tongue, which he underwent in 1992 and included the removal of lymph nodes on both sides of his neck. After that operation, he often wore turtleneck sweaters.
Earl Hindman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Earl Hindman, best known for his role as the never-seen next-door neighbor who imparts advice as he peers over Tim Allen (news)'s backyard fence in the hit television series "Home Improvement," has died, his wife said on Tuesday. He was 61.
Hindman died of lung cancer at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut early on Monday, said his wife, the Rev. Molly McGreevy, a priest at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford.
A character actor, Hindman launched his 30-year career on stage before appearing in numerous films, television series and specials. He played Detective Bob Reid on the ABC soap opera "Ryan's Hope" for over a decade
Among his best known films were "Three Men and a Baby" in 1987, "Greased Lightning" in 1977 and "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" in 1974.
McGreevy said "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3," filmed in an abandoned subway station in New York, was one of Hindman's favorite roles. He played Mr. Brown, a stuttering criminal and one of a band that hijacks a subway train.
Hindman also had guest appearances on hit television series like "Law & Order," "L.A. Law," and "Spenser: For Hire."
Born in Arizona, Hindman studied theater at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His first acting roles were in regional theater and on and off Broadway.
McGreevy said Hindman enjoyed co-starring with Tim Allen as Wilson from next door in "Home Improvement" and the fact that he could be appearing in such a popular hit show while still not being recognized when he went out to buy a newspaper.
"He loved Tim Allen. They got along like two peas in a pod ... It was just a wonderful role for him. He was a very private person. He would say, 'Well, I don't have to worry about how I look because you can't see my face anyway,"' McGreevy said.
Hindman is survived by McGreevy, his mother, a sister and brother.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Earl Hindman, best known for his role as the never-seen next-door neighbor who imparts advice as he peers over Tim Allen (news)'s backyard fence in the hit television series "Home Improvement," has died, his wife said on Tuesday. He was 61.
Hindman died of lung cancer at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut early on Monday, said his wife, the Rev. Molly McGreevy, a priest at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford.
A character actor, Hindman launched his 30-year career on stage before appearing in numerous films, television series and specials. He played Detective Bob Reid on the ABC soap opera "Ryan's Hope" for over a decade
Among his best known films were "Three Men and a Baby" in 1987, "Greased Lightning" in 1977 and "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" in 1974.
McGreevy said "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3," filmed in an abandoned subway station in New York, was one of Hindman's favorite roles. He played Mr. Brown, a stuttering criminal and one of a band that hijacks a subway train.
Hindman also had guest appearances on hit television series like "Law & Order," "L.A. Law," and "Spenser: For Hire."
Born in Arizona, Hindman studied theater at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His first acting roles were in regional theater and on and off Broadway.
McGreevy said Hindman enjoyed co-starring with Tim Allen as Wilson from next door in "Home Improvement" and the fact that he could be appearing in such a popular hit show while still not being recognized when he went out to buy a newspaper.
"He loved Tim Allen. They got along like two peas in a pod ... It was just a wonderful role for him. He was a very private person. He would say, 'Well, I don't have to worry about how I look because you can't see my face anyway,"' McGreevy said.
Hindman is survived by McGreevy, his mother, a sister and brother.
Former relief pitcher Tug McGraw dead at 59
By ROB MAADDI, AP Sports Writer
January 5, 2004
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Tug McGraw, the zany relief pitcher who coined the phrase ``You Gotta Believe'' with the New York Mets and later closed out the Philadelphia Phillies' only World Series championship, died Monday. He was 59.
McGraw died of brain cancer at the home of his son, country music star Tim McGraw, outside of Nashville, team spokesman Larry Shenk said. He had been battling the disease since March when he underwent surgery for a malignant tumor.
McGraw participated in the closing ceremonies for Veterans Stadium, which will be demolished next month. During the program, he re-enacted his final pitch of the 1980 World Series, striking out Kansas City's Willie Wilson for the title.
McGraw's illness came as a shock last spring. He was at Phillies' training camp in Clearwater, Fla., as a special instructor, looking fine and acting as funny as ever, but was suddenly hospitalized on March 12.
``We lost a part of Mets history tonight,'' Mets owner Fred Wilpon said. ``Tug was a battler on and off the field. I know he fought the disease with every ounce of energy he had. We'll all miss him dearly.''
A left-hander who threw a screwball, McGraw was a bit of screwball himself -- a fan favorite in New York, Philadelphia and throughout the majors.
Once asked whether he preferred to play on a grass field or an artificial surface, he said, ``I don't know. I never smoked any AstroTurf.''
McGraw was known for charging off the mound, slapping his right hand on his thigh and tapping his chest after a close call.
``Patting his hand on his heart after a guy hits a home run foul, who would do that in the heat of the battle?'' said Phillies manager Larry Bowa, who played with McGraw on the 1980 championship team. ``But it showed he had no fear. He was loose. That's how he played the game.''
McGraw's playful personality often overshadowed his talent. He was an outstanding big-game pitcher, helping not only the Phillies but the Mets win World Series titles during his 19-year career.
In 26 postseason games, he had a 2.23 ERA and was 3-3 with eight saves.
By ROB MAADDI, AP Sports Writer
January 5, 2004
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Tug McGraw, the zany relief pitcher who coined the phrase ``You Gotta Believe'' with the New York Mets and later closed out the Philadelphia Phillies' only World Series championship, died Monday. He was 59.
McGraw died of brain cancer at the home of his son, country music star Tim McGraw, outside of Nashville, team spokesman Larry Shenk said. He had been battling the disease since March when he underwent surgery for a malignant tumor.
McGraw participated in the closing ceremonies for Veterans Stadium, which will be demolished next month. During the program, he re-enacted his final pitch of the 1980 World Series, striking out Kansas City's Willie Wilson for the title.
McGraw's illness came as a shock last spring. He was at Phillies' training camp in Clearwater, Fla., as a special instructor, looking fine and acting as funny as ever, but was suddenly hospitalized on March 12.
``We lost a part of Mets history tonight,'' Mets owner Fred Wilpon said. ``Tug was a battler on and off the field. I know he fought the disease with every ounce of energy he had. We'll all miss him dearly.''
A left-hander who threw a screwball, McGraw was a bit of screwball himself -- a fan favorite in New York, Philadelphia and throughout the majors.
Once asked whether he preferred to play on a grass field or an artificial surface, he said, ``I don't know. I never smoked any AstroTurf.''
McGraw was known for charging off the mound, slapping his right hand on his thigh and tapping his chest after a close call.
``Patting his hand on his heart after a guy hits a home run foul, who would do that in the heat of the battle?'' said Phillies manager Larry Bowa, who played with McGraw on the 1980 championship team. ``But it showed he had no fear. He was loose. That's how he played the game.''
McGraw's playful personality often overshadowed his talent. He was an outstanding big-game pitcher, helping not only the Phillies but the Mets win World Series titles during his 19-year career.
In 26 postseason games, he had a 2.23 ERA and was 3-3 with eight saves.
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Tug has left many of his fans with so many wonderful memories!
Being able to see him as part of the Miracle Mets in 1969, and seeing so many Met games in the '70s, Tug always had a smile and a wave, and played the game full throttle (picturing him leaving the mound, tapping his glove against his leg).
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I was born in the 70's, and we lived closeby Shea Stadium, so "You Gotta Believe!" was constantly heard in my house!
Bad enough the Mets can't hold on to any champions today; now we're losing our past heroes, too. *sigh* Fare thee well, Tug.
Bad enough the Mets can't hold on to any champions today; now we're losing our past heroes, too. *sigh* Fare thee well, Tug.
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Singer-Songwriter Randy VanWarmer Dies
Musician Recorded Top 10 Hit In '70s
POSTED: 12:39 p.m. EST January 14, 2004
A successful Nashville, Tenn., songwriter who recorded a big pop hit in the late 1970's has died.
Randy VanWarmer died Monday night in Seattle, where he was being treated for leukemia. He was 48.
VanWarmer's song "Just When I Needed You Most" reached No. 4 on Billboard's pop chart in 1979.
He wrote "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)," a No. 1 hit by the country group Alabama in 1992 and "I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes," a No. 1 hit by the Oak Ridge Boys in 1984.
A close friend said VanWarmer had an "angelic" voice.
He recently recorded a duet with country singer Razzy Bailey, "Sandcastles," due to be released this spring.
Musician Recorded Top 10 Hit In '70s
POSTED: 12:39 p.m. EST January 14, 2004
A successful Nashville, Tenn., songwriter who recorded a big pop hit in the late 1970's has died.
Randy VanWarmer died Monday night in Seattle, where he was being treated for leukemia. He was 48.
VanWarmer's song "Just When I Needed You Most" reached No. 4 on Billboard's pop chart in 1979.
He wrote "I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)," a No. 1 hit by the country group Alabama in 1992 and "I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes," a No. 1 hit by the Oak Ridge Boys in 1984.
A close friend said VanWarmer had an "angelic" voice.
He recently recorded a duet with country singer Razzy Bailey, "Sandcastles," due to be released this spring.
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Uta Hagen
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The legendary theatre actress Uta Hagen, who was one of the American acting giants of the 20th century, died Jan. 14 at her Manhattan home, the New York Times reports. She was 84.
Hagen was regarded as one of the fiercest and most commanding female presences ever to grace the American stage. Whenever and wherever great talents convened, there she was. She began her career playing Ophelia to Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. Soon after, she made her New York debut as Nina in The Seagull opposite the Lunts. In Paul Robeson's famous production of Othello, she played Desdemona. And, she replaced Jessica Tandy as Blanche, acting opposite Marlon Brando in the original A Streetcar Named Desire.
She won a Tony Award for portraying the title role in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl; and seized another Tony for creating the vicious and hilarious Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the role with which she is perhaps most identified. In 1999, the actress was presented with a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. She also had an imposing reputation as a theorist ("Respect for Acting") and acting teacher.
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Uta Hagen spent most of her career on the stage. This was partly due to her being blacklisted in the 1950s, but also a choice. She loved long runs and had little patience for actors who sought the ease, glory and money of Hollywood. "If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor," she declared in one interview. "You're in the wrong profession."
She guided many an actor's career at HB Studios, the acting school she founded on Bank Street in Greenwich Village with her husband Herbert Berghof (Berghof died in 1990). Hundreds of performers have passed through its doors, and it remains of the most respected acting academies in New York City.
While teaching there, she was given the script to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her performances at that time had been sporadic, but she leaped at the chance of playing the tormenting and tormented Martha, who supplies the three-act drama with a steady flow of booze, manipulation and vitriol. She was hesitant about working with director Alan Schneider, who had a reputation for antagonizing actors, but Schneider never bothered her. "Uta would have chewed off his head and spat it out," noted Albee.
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Hagen was married to actor José Ferrer from 1938 to 1948. They performed together in Key Largo, Vickie and Othello, in which he played Iago. The union produced her only child, Leticia Ferrer (known as Letty), who survives her. She married Herbert Berghof in 1957.
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Ever committed to the theatre, she continued to teach at HB Studios until a few months before she died.
"I've always said I wanted to die onstage," she told Playbill while performing in Collected Stories. "Then when I was in Mrs. Klein I had bad, bad bronchitis, and took too much medication, and blanked out. Couldn't hear, couldn't see, couldn't breathe. I went to [director] Billy Carden and said: 'I've changed my mind. I don't want to die onstage.' Billy said: 'Wait for the curtain call.' "
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The legendary theatre actress Uta Hagen, who was one of the American acting giants of the 20th century, died Jan. 14 at her Manhattan home, the New York Times reports. She was 84.
Hagen was regarded as one of the fiercest and most commanding female presences ever to grace the American stage. Whenever and wherever great talents convened, there she was. She began her career playing Ophelia to Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. Soon after, she made her New York debut as Nina in The Seagull opposite the Lunts. In Paul Robeson's famous production of Othello, she played Desdemona. And, she replaced Jessica Tandy as Blanche, acting opposite Marlon Brando in the original A Streetcar Named Desire.
She won a Tony Award for portraying the title role in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl; and seized another Tony for creating the vicious and hilarious Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the role with which she is perhaps most identified. In 1999, the actress was presented with a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. She also had an imposing reputation as a theorist ("Respect for Acting") and acting teacher.
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Uta Hagen spent most of her career on the stage. This was partly due to her being blacklisted in the 1950s, but also a choice. She loved long runs and had little patience for actors who sought the ease, glory and money of Hollywood. "If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor," she declared in one interview. "You're in the wrong profession."
She guided many an actor's career at HB Studios, the acting school she founded on Bank Street in Greenwich Village with her husband Herbert Berghof (Berghof died in 1990). Hundreds of performers have passed through its doors, and it remains of the most respected acting academies in New York City.
While teaching there, she was given the script to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her performances at that time had been sporadic, but she leaped at the chance of playing the tormenting and tormented Martha, who supplies the three-act drama with a steady flow of booze, manipulation and vitriol. She was hesitant about working with director Alan Schneider, who had a reputation for antagonizing actors, but Schneider never bothered her. "Uta would have chewed off his head and spat it out," noted Albee.
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Hagen was married to actor José Ferrer from 1938 to 1948. They performed together in Key Largo, Vickie and Othello, in which he played Iago. The union produced her only child, Leticia Ferrer (known as Letty), who survives her. She married Herbert Berghof in 1957.
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Ever committed to the theatre, she continued to teach at HB Studios until a few months before she died.
"I've always said I wanted to die onstage," she told Playbill while performing in Collected Stories. "Then when I was in Mrs. Klein I had bad, bad bronchitis, and took too much medication, and blanked out. Couldn't hear, couldn't see, couldn't breathe. I went to [director] Billy Carden and said: 'I've changed my mind. I don't want to die onstage.' Billy said: 'Wait for the curtain call.' "
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I was wondering when I'd see her here since I found out…
Ah Uta. You will be missed.
Ah Uta. You will be missed. 
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KindaKinky said:
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Ron O'Neal
Obie-Winning Actor and "Superfly" Star, Dead at 66
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Ron O'Neal, the actor who briefly became an international star in the film "Superfly" after producers saw his performance in the play No Place to Be Somebody, died of cancer in Los Angeles on Jan. 14, the New York Times reported. He was 66.
The Utica, New York, native got his big break when he was cast in Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play No Place to Be Somebody, which began at Off-Broadway's Public Theater and later went to Broadway in 1969. Mr. O'Neal won an Obie Award, Clarence Derwent Award and a Theatre World Award for his work.
The producers of "Superfly," a blaxploitation film, saw him in that production. Impressed, they cast him as the movie's lead character, a cool cocaine dealer named Youngblood Priest.
"Superfly" became an unexpected smash, one of the defining films of the short-lived Blaxploitation genre. Unfortunately, it was also the best known movie of Mr. O'Neal's career, which included many a forgettable, low-budget production.
He returned to Broadway in 1975, replacing Cleavon Little in Murray Schisgal's All Over Town, which was directed by Dustin Hoffman.
He is survived by his wife.
Obie-Winning Actor and "Superfly" Star, Dead at 66
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Ron O'Neal, the actor who briefly became an international star in the film "Superfly" after producers saw his performance in the play No Place to Be Somebody, died of cancer in Los Angeles on Jan. 14, the New York Times reported. He was 66.
The Utica, New York, native got his big break when he was cast in Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play No Place to Be Somebody, which began at Off-Broadway's Public Theater and later went to Broadway in 1969. Mr. O'Neal won an Obie Award, Clarence Derwent Award and a Theatre World Award for his work.
The producers of "Superfly," a blaxploitation film, saw him in that production. Impressed, they cast him as the movie's lead character, a cool cocaine dealer named Youngblood Priest.
"Superfly" became an unexpected smash, one of the defining films of the short-lived Blaxploitation genre. Unfortunately, it was also the best known movie of Mr. O'Neal's career, which included many a forgettable, low-budget production.
He returned to Broadway in 1975, replacing Cleavon Little in Murray Schisgal's All Over Town, which was directed by Dustin Hoffman.
He is survived by his wife.
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Legendary film producer Ray Stark dies at 88
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Ray Stark, a publicist and actors' agent who became a Hollywood power broker and producer of such movies as Funny Girl, The Way We Were and The Sunshine Boys, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 88.
Stark died at his home, longtime friend Warren Cowan said.
Stark was considered the last of the great independent producers, following the pattern of Samuel Goldwyn and David O. Selznick. Like them, he made films that were often based on bestselling books or hit plays, rich in production value and cast with major stars.
But unlike Goldwyn and Selznick, who thrived on publicity, Stark preferred to remain out of the limelight.
...
The son-in-law of Fanny Brice, Stark had long desired to dramatize the life of the great Broadway singer and comedienne. He put together a stage musical, Funny Girl. To play Fanny he chose Streisand, then establishing herself as a dynamic singer with Broadway and television appearances.
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Stark films also won Academy Awards for George Burns (The Sunshine Boys), Richard Dreyfus (The Goodbye Girl) and Maggie Smith (California Suite).
As a producer, Stark kept up long-term relationships with directors, writers and stars, some of whom he had represented as an agent. He made 10 films with Neil Simon, eight with Herbert Ross, five with Jackie Gleason, four with Streisand, four with John Huston and three with Sydney Pollack.
In 1980, Stark received the Motion Picture Academy's highest prize for a producer: the Irving G. Thalberg Award for consistent high quality of production.
...
In 1957, Stark and Eliot Hyman formed Seven Arts Productions, which supplied television and feature movies. While there, Stark produced The World of Suzie Wong (William Holden), Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (Richard Burton, Ava Gardner) and Reflections in a Golden Eye (Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor).
Stark left Seven Arts in 1966 to form Rastar Productions. His first film: Funny Girl.
Other Rastar films include: Fat City, Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, Chapter Two, The Electric Horseman, Annie, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Nothing in Common, Smokey and the Bandit, Peggy Sue Got Married, Biloxi Blues, Steel Magnolias and Revenge.
In 1993, he ventured into television, making the docudrama Barbarians at the Gates for HBO.
Stark was long married to Frances Brice. They had two children, including a son who died of a drug overdose. Stark owned a horse farm where he raised thoroughbreds for his racing stable, and he and his wife accumulated one of the most impressive art collection in the film community.
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Ray Stark, a publicist and actors' agent who became a Hollywood power broker and producer of such movies as Funny Girl, The Way We Were and The Sunshine Boys, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 88.
Stark died at his home, longtime friend Warren Cowan said.
Stark was considered the last of the great independent producers, following the pattern of Samuel Goldwyn and David O. Selznick. Like them, he made films that were often based on bestselling books or hit plays, rich in production value and cast with major stars.
But unlike Goldwyn and Selznick, who thrived on publicity, Stark preferred to remain out of the limelight.
...
The son-in-law of Fanny Brice, Stark had long desired to dramatize the life of the great Broadway singer and comedienne. He put together a stage musical, Funny Girl. To play Fanny he chose Streisand, then establishing herself as a dynamic singer with Broadway and television appearances.
...
Stark films also won Academy Awards for George Burns (The Sunshine Boys), Richard Dreyfus (The Goodbye Girl) and Maggie Smith (California Suite).
As a producer, Stark kept up long-term relationships with directors, writers and stars, some of whom he had represented as an agent. He made 10 films with Neil Simon, eight with Herbert Ross, five with Jackie Gleason, four with Streisand, four with John Huston and three with Sydney Pollack.
In 1980, Stark received the Motion Picture Academy's highest prize for a producer: the Irving G. Thalberg Award for consistent high quality of production.
...
In 1957, Stark and Eliot Hyman formed Seven Arts Productions, which supplied television and feature movies. While there, Stark produced The World of Suzie Wong (William Holden), Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (Richard Burton, Ava Gardner) and Reflections in a Golden Eye (Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor).
Stark left Seven Arts in 1966 to form Rastar Productions. His first film: Funny Girl.
Other Rastar films include: Fat City, Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, Chapter Two, The Electric Horseman, Annie, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Nothing in Common, Smokey and the Bandit, Peggy Sue Got Married, Biloxi Blues, Steel Magnolias and Revenge.
In 1993, he ventured into television, making the docudrama Barbarians at the Gates for HBO.
Stark was long married to Frances Brice. They had two children, including a son who died of a drug overdose. Stark owned a horse farm where he raised thoroughbreds for his racing stable, and he and his wife accumulated one of the most impressive art collection in the film community.
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Superfly is dead?
I guess he can talk to Freddie and Curtis Mayfield now in the great beyond.
BTW, I was just informed that I should have spelled this "cemetery" . Is this true?
I guess he can talk to Freddie and Curtis Mayfield now in the great beyond.
BTW, I was just informed that I should have spelled this "cemetery" . Is this true?
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Jerry Nachman, MSNBC Editor In Chief, Dies At 57
POSTED: 2:10 p.m. EST January 20, 2004
NEW YORK -- Jerry Nachman, the brash, Emmy award-winning journalist who spent decades in local television news and also edited the New York Post, has died of cancer. He was 57.
Nachman died overnight at his home in Hoboken, N.J., said MSNBC, the network where Nachman had been editor in chief and vice president since 2002. He had cancer for a year; he told the viewers of his show, "Nachman," in January 2003 that he'd been diagnosed with a malignancy in his gall bladder.
Nachman's "passion for news was contagious," said Erik Sorenson, MSNBC president and general manager. Sorenson fondly recalled Jerry's many wonderful stories about his colorful years in the news business.
Nachman spent years as both the news director for WNBC-TV and the vice president of WCBS-TV, both in New York; the general manager of the WRC radio and television stations in Washington.
He was editor in chief of the New York Post from 1989 to 1992.
Nachman also worked in late 2001 as a staff writer for the NBC television series "UC: Undercover," was a staff writer and executive producer at "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," and co-wrote a short film for the American Film Institute that won an Academy Award in the student competition in 1999.
Nachman's final assignment for MSNBC was reporting on the Michael Jackson case in California.
NBC News President Neal Shapiro says Nachman will be remembered for "integrity, tenacity and a refreshing splash of humor".
Nachman won a Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association and an Emmy Award and twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
His survivors include a brother and a niece. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
Rechecked the spelling (I hadn't noticed anything wrong). It's "cemetery".
POSTED: 2:10 p.m. EST January 20, 2004
NEW YORK -- Jerry Nachman, the brash, Emmy award-winning journalist who spent decades in local television news and also edited the New York Post, has died of cancer. He was 57.
Nachman died overnight at his home in Hoboken, N.J., said MSNBC, the network where Nachman had been editor in chief and vice president since 2002. He had cancer for a year; he told the viewers of his show, "Nachman," in January 2003 that he'd been diagnosed with a malignancy in his gall bladder.
Nachman's "passion for news was contagious," said Erik Sorenson, MSNBC president and general manager. Sorenson fondly recalled Jerry's many wonderful stories about his colorful years in the news business.
Nachman spent years as both the news director for WNBC-TV and the vice president of WCBS-TV, both in New York; the general manager of the WRC radio and television stations in Washington.
He was editor in chief of the New York Post from 1989 to 1992.
Nachman also worked in late 2001 as a staff writer for the NBC television series "UC: Undercover," was a staff writer and executive producer at "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," and co-wrote a short film for the American Film Institute that won an Academy Award in the student competition in 1999.
Nachman's final assignment for MSNBC was reporting on the Michael Jackson case in California.
NBC News President Neal Shapiro says Nachman will be remembered for "integrity, tenacity and a refreshing splash of humor".
Nachman won a Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association and an Emmy Award and twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
His survivors include a brother and a niece. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
Rechecked the spelling (I hadn't noticed anything wrong). It's "cemetery".
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Veteran Actor Noble Willingham Dies
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'Walker' Star Also Appeared In Several Films
UPDATED: 1:18 p.m. EST January 21, 2004
Noble Willingham, a veteran actor who appeared in such films as "Paper Moon," "Chinatown" and the "City Slickers" movies, has died.
He was 72.
Willingham died of natural causes at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., Saturday, according to his manager.
The Mineola, Texas, native also starred with Chuck Norris in the television drama "Walker, Texas Ranger" form 1993 through 1999, playing C.D. Parker, a gruff saloon owner.
He left the series for politics, but returned to acting after his failed Congressional campaign, filming "Blind Horizon" with Val Kilmer in 2002.
Willingham's professional acting career started in 1971, when he was one of the local Texans hired for the Jeff Bridges-Cybill Shepherd film "The Last Picture Show."
His other film credits included "Norma Rae," "Brubaker," "La Bamba," "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Up Close and Personal."
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'Walker' Star Also Appeared In Several Films
UPDATED: 1:18 p.m. EST January 21, 2004
Noble Willingham, a veteran actor who appeared in such films as "Paper Moon," "Chinatown" and the "City Slickers" movies, has died.
He was 72.
Willingham died of natural causes at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., Saturday, according to his manager.
The Mineola, Texas, native also starred with Chuck Norris in the television drama "Walker, Texas Ranger" form 1993 through 1999, playing C.D. Parker, a gruff saloon owner.
He left the series for politics, but returned to acting after his failed Congressional campaign, filming "Blind Horizon" with Val Kilmer in 2002.
Willingham's professional acting career started in 1971, when he was one of the local Texans hired for the Jeff Bridges-Cybill Shepherd film "The Last Picture Show."
His other film credits included "Norma Rae," "Brubaker," "La Bamba," "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Up Close and Personal."
Dancer Ann Miller Dies of Cancer at 81
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Ann Miller, the raven-haired, long-legged actress and dancer whose machine-gun taps won her stardom during the golden age of movie musicals, died Thursday of lung cancer. She was 81.
Miller died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Esme Chandlee, her longtime friend and former publicist.
A onetime childhood dance prodigy, she reached the peak of her film career at MGM in the late 1940s and early '50s with "On the Town," "Easter Parade" and "Kiss Me Kate."
She remained a dazzling tapper in her 60s and earned millions on Broadway and touring with Mickey Rooney in "Sugar Babies," a razzmatazz tribute to the era of burlesque.
"At MGM, I always played the second feminine lead; I was never the star in films," she once recalled. "I was the brassy, good-hearted showgirl. I never really had my big moment on the screen.
"`Sugar Babies' gave me the stardom that my soul kind of yearned for."
Rooney said Thursday that Miller "was a great talent. She is a great talent. I'll never think of her as being gone."
"She told me the last time I spoke to her she wasn't feeling too well, and I said, 'Keep your head up, kid.' I'm just very sad."
Miller's legs, pretty face and fast tapping (she claimed the record of 500 taps a minute) earned her jobs in vaudeville and night clubs when she first came to Hollywood. She adopted the stage name of Anne Miller. Her early film career included working as a child extra in films and as a chorus girl in a minor musical, "The Devil on Horseback."
An appearance at the popular Bal Tabarin in San Francisco won a contract at RKO studio, where her name was shortened to Ann.
Her first film at RKO, "New Faces of 1937," featured her dancing. She next played an acting hopeful in "Stage Door," with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball and Eve Arden.
Most of her RKO films were low-budget musicals and comedies. A contract at Columbia Pictures started impressively with the role of the would-be ballerina in Frank Capra's Oscar-winning "You Can't Take It with You."
Then she was cast in a series of wartime B musicals with titles like "True to the Army," "Priorities on Parade" and "Hey Rookie."
When Cyd Charisse broke a leg before starting "Easter Parade" at MGM with Fred Astaire, Miller replaced her. That led to an MGM contract and her most enduring work.
She was teamed with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in "On the Town," Red Skelton in "Watch the Birdie," and Bob Fosse in "Kiss Me Kate."
Other MGM films included: "Texas Carnival," "Lovely to Look At," "Small Town Girl," "Deep in My Heart," "Hit the Deck" and "The Opposite Sex."
The popularity of musicals declined in the 1950s, and her film career ended in 1956. Miller remained active in television and the theater, dancing and belting songs on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly" and "Mame."
In later years, she astounded audiences in New York, Las Vegas and on the road with her dynamic tapping in "Sugar Babies" when. The show, starring her and Rooney, opened on Broadway in 1979 and toured for years. In 1990, she commented that "Sugar Babies" had made her financially independent.
Before each performance, she practiced for an hour.
"Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show," she remarked in a 1984 interview. "It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work — that means hard — there's no time for play."
She was born Johnnie Lucille Collier in Chireno, Texas, the first name dictated by her father, who had wanted a boy. After her parents divorced, she was called Annie, for reasons she never knew.
Growing up in Houston, Annie suffered from rickets, and dancing lessons helped straighten her legs. Her mother was almost totally deaf and could not find work. By the age of 12, Annie was almost full grown at 5 feet 5, and she danced to support her mother and herself.
While her career in Hollywood prospered, Miller became a regular figure in the town's night life, and she caught the eye of Louis B. Mayer, all-powerful head of MGM. They began dating and could be seen on the dance floors of Ciro's and Mocambo.
"I think one reason Mr. Mayer fancied himself in love with me was that he was lonely," she wrote in her 1972 autobiography, "Miller's High Life." Another reason: "He knew or reasoned that I was as virginal as the day I was born."
She declared that Mayer pleaded for marriage, but her ever-watchful mother would not allow it. She decided to accept the offer of marriage from steel heir Reese Milner.
It was a mistake. After giving birth to a daughter who died three hours later, she divorced Milner. Marriages to oilmen William Moss and Arthur Cameron also ended in divorce.
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Ann Miller, the raven-haired, long-legged actress and dancer whose machine-gun taps won her stardom during the golden age of movie musicals, died Thursday of lung cancer. She was 81.
Miller died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Esme Chandlee, her longtime friend and former publicist.
A onetime childhood dance prodigy, she reached the peak of her film career at MGM in the late 1940s and early '50s with "On the Town," "Easter Parade" and "Kiss Me Kate."
She remained a dazzling tapper in her 60s and earned millions on Broadway and touring with Mickey Rooney in "Sugar Babies," a razzmatazz tribute to the era of burlesque.
"At MGM, I always played the second feminine lead; I was never the star in films," she once recalled. "I was the brassy, good-hearted showgirl. I never really had my big moment on the screen.
"`Sugar Babies' gave me the stardom that my soul kind of yearned for."
Rooney said Thursday that Miller "was a great talent. She is a great talent. I'll never think of her as being gone."
"She told me the last time I spoke to her she wasn't feeling too well, and I said, 'Keep your head up, kid.' I'm just very sad."
Miller's legs, pretty face and fast tapping (she claimed the record of 500 taps a minute) earned her jobs in vaudeville and night clubs when she first came to Hollywood. She adopted the stage name of Anne Miller. Her early film career included working as a child extra in films and as a chorus girl in a minor musical, "The Devil on Horseback."
An appearance at the popular Bal Tabarin in San Francisco won a contract at RKO studio, where her name was shortened to Ann.
Her first film at RKO, "New Faces of 1937," featured her dancing. She next played an acting hopeful in "Stage Door," with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball and Eve Arden.
Most of her RKO films were low-budget musicals and comedies. A contract at Columbia Pictures started impressively with the role of the would-be ballerina in Frank Capra's Oscar-winning "You Can't Take It with You."
Then she was cast in a series of wartime B musicals with titles like "True to the Army," "Priorities on Parade" and "Hey Rookie."
When Cyd Charisse broke a leg before starting "Easter Parade" at MGM with Fred Astaire, Miller replaced her. That led to an MGM contract and her most enduring work.
She was teamed with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in "On the Town," Red Skelton in "Watch the Birdie," and Bob Fosse in "Kiss Me Kate."
Other MGM films included: "Texas Carnival," "Lovely to Look At," "Small Town Girl," "Deep in My Heart," "Hit the Deck" and "The Opposite Sex."
The popularity of musicals declined in the 1950s, and her film career ended in 1956. Miller remained active in television and the theater, dancing and belting songs on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly" and "Mame."
In later years, she astounded audiences in New York, Las Vegas and on the road with her dynamic tapping in "Sugar Babies" when. The show, starring her and Rooney, opened on Broadway in 1979 and toured for years. In 1990, she commented that "Sugar Babies" had made her financially independent.
Before each performance, she practiced for an hour.
"Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show," she remarked in a 1984 interview. "It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work — that means hard — there's no time for play."
She was born Johnnie Lucille Collier in Chireno, Texas, the first name dictated by her father, who had wanted a boy. After her parents divorced, she was called Annie, for reasons she never knew.
Growing up in Houston, Annie suffered from rickets, and dancing lessons helped straighten her legs. Her mother was almost totally deaf and could not find work. By the age of 12, Annie was almost full grown at 5 feet 5, and she danced to support her mother and herself.
While her career in Hollywood prospered, Miller became a regular figure in the town's night life, and she caught the eye of Louis B. Mayer, all-powerful head of MGM. They began dating and could be seen on the dance floors of Ciro's and Mocambo.
"I think one reason Mr. Mayer fancied himself in love with me was that he was lonely," she wrote in her 1972 autobiography, "Miller's High Life." Another reason: "He knew or reasoned that I was as virginal as the day I was born."
She declared that Mayer pleaded for marriage, but her ever-watchful mother would not allow it. She decided to accept the offer of marriage from steel heir Reese Milner.
It was a mistake. After giving birth to a daughter who died three hours later, she divorced Milner. Marriages to oilmen William Moss and Arthur Cameron also ended in divorce.
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