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...they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that's fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did." Robert Duvall, U.S. actor, in a TV interview, on why he didn't resume his role as Tom Hagen in The Godfather...
DIED. ALAN BATES, 69, bluff, beguiling English actor; in London. A modest giant bestriding nearly a half-century of excellence, the Derbyshire lad co-starred at age 22 in the original London stage production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing but the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films, he often chaperoned showier...
...DIED. EARL HINDMAN, 61, actor best known for his intentionally obscured role as Wilson, a neighbor who offered backyard counsel to handyman Tim Taylor in the sitcom Home Improvement but whose face was forever hidden behind a fence; in Stamford, Connecticut...
Increasingly, the events that most deeply, if briefly, unite that floating mainstream are deaths: Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn. The intensity of response to the passing of John Ritter, a likable actor from a campy '70s sitcom, seemed to surprise even his fans. In a culture with few common cultural referents, the past is what we share the most. (Perhaps for the same reason, 2003's Broadway shows with broad mass appeal tended to be revivals like Long Day's Journey into Night and Wonderful Town--and the music business heaved up a slew of standards albums.) When...
...want a lot of money." WOODY ALLEN, actor-director, stating the terms under which he would be willing to write his memoirs...