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DIED. Cyril Ritchard, 79, Australian-born actor, singer and director best known for his portrayal of Captain Hook in Peter Pan; of a heart attack; in Chicago, where he had been appearing in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim. A courtly, mellifluous-voiced bon vivant, Ritchard began in 1917 as a chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
...economics and politics." But four other Nobel prizewinners were among the 450 scientists, social scientists and theologians -many of a conservative stripe-who went to San Francisco for a three-day conference on "science and absolute values" sponsored by Moon's Unification Church. After an effusive introduction by Australian-born Neurophysiologist and Nobelman Sir John Eccles, Moon urged his guests, in barely understandable English, to express their beliefs fully. Housing, feeding and entertaining the academics plus their spouses for the brainy bash was costing about half a million dollars, but Moon was unperturbed. He viewed...
...Australian-born Burchett embarked on his career early in 1939 when he responded angrily to an article in an Australian paper that praised the Nazis. In a long letter he described what he had seen in a visit to Nazi-governed Germany. Since then he has covered the globe, concentrating on leftwing movements and struggles for national liberation. Most of his work has dealt with Asia, particularly Indochina, but he has also written about struggles in Africa and Portugal. By remaining a freelancer, he has escaped the pitfalls that most journalists run into: he contributes regularly to The Guardian...
That young lady caught with her pants down is Australian-born Actress Belinda Bauer in the movie made from Richard Condon's Winter Kills. When a wealthy heir (Jeff Bridges) takes her out to lunch, the stuffy maitre d' tries to kick her out for wearing a pantsuit. Belinda blithely drops her trousers and sits down anyway. "It was a wonderful moment," recalls the sometime model, "but then I'm an exhibitionist." She is also a perfectionist: for her first film role-Belinda, 26, plays a reporter for a national newsmagazine-she spent days observing journalists...
Died. Bruce Hungerford, 54, Australian-born concert pianist and Egyptologist; in an auto accident; just after giving a slide lecture on Egypt at Rockefeller University in New York City. When he was pianist in residence at the Bayreuth Festival master classes, Hungerford recorded all the piano music of Richard Wagner. More recently he was acclaimed for his powerful, deeply sensitive interpretations of Beethoven, both in concert and on records...