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...male comedy side, some justice was done: Bernie Mac picked up first-year recognition, though his self-titled show should have been recognized over the spinning-its-wheels "Will & Grace" and the living dinosaur "Everybody Loves Raymond." But this year's There Is a God Award goes to the overdue nomination of Bryan Cranston, the funniest physical comic in sitcomland who redefined the bumbling dad for the sensitive-male era on "Malcolm in the Middle...
...Decide it would be easier to win Nobel Peace Prize than Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. I go to Baghdad, negotiate arms-inspection deal with Saddam, Gulfstream out of Iraqi air space before he reads the fine print and realizes he's screwed. Mike's back, big time...
DIED. ROD STEIGER, 77, who won an Academy Award in 1967 for his portrayal of a bigoted Southern sheriff in the movie In the Heat of the Night; in Los Angeles. Over a 57-year career in film and TV, Steiger played a variety of memorable characters, including Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in On the Waterfront and historical figures such as Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s...
...film White Christmas. She nearly lost her career to drugs and alcohol in the wake of a disastrous marriage to Oscar-winning actor JosE Ferrer, but her voice won critics over again when she made a comeback in the early 1970s. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Grammys...
...lagged Japanese tourists stumbling around Dodger Stadium, Pac Bell Park and Safeco Field. The influx into Seattle has been so pronounced that the team has posted signs in Japanese around the ballpark. "I'd like to say to Seattle baseball people and the mayor of Seattle, 'Please give an award to me,'" Inow says. "Seattle was known in Japan before, but it was not so popular. Now look: Seattle is Ichiro's town, and Japanese people are coming. I need a special bonus...