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...DIED. CHOSUKE IKARIYA, 72, Japanese actor, comedian and prime-time-TV icon; in Tokyo. In the 1970s, Japan's overworked masses tuned into Ikariya's five-man comedy ensemble, the Drifters, with nearly religious devotion. Every Saturday night, as much as half the population watched Hachiji Dayo! Zenin Shugo! (It's Eight O'Clock! Everyone Gather 'Round!). In a country that took itself very seriously, Ikariya's show had few sacred cows, routinely poking fun at everyone from bumbling businessmen to preening celebs. Ikariya played the consummate straight man: stolid, good-natured, never too proud to enjoy a good chuckle...
...past years, the committee has recognized some of the premier artistic figures of the day—among them writer John Updike ’54, actor Jack Lemon ’47 and musicians Bonnie Raitt ’72 and Pete Seeger...
DIED. SPALDING GRAY, 62, confessional storyteller and movie actor; in New York City, where his body was found floating in the East River two months after his disappearance. Gray acted in New York experimental theater and created a series of stage monologues on such topics as the Vietnam War (Swimming to Cambodia, in 1984) and his own writing (Monster in a Box, 1992). He had a history of depression, made worse by a 2001 car accident that fractured his skull and crushed...
DIED. PAUL WINFIELD, 62, actor who brought an imposing demeanor and human-size emotions to roles ranging from Diahann Carroll's boyfriend in the 1960s TV sitcom Julia to Martin Luther King Jr. in the '78 mini-series King; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Raised in L.A.'s Watts section, he turned down a scholarship to Yale to pursue stage acting on the West Coast, where Sidney Poitier gave him his first film break in 1969's The Lost Man. He won an Oscar nomination for his role as a sharecropper father in the '72 film Sounder...
...Conn. As a lark, after the University of Chicago, she took a bit part in movies and graduated to co-starring roles in such films as An American Tragedy, Little Women and I Walked with a Zombie. Equally impressive by Hollywood standards, she sustained a 57-year marriage to actor Joel McCrea...