Word: begelman
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DIED. DAVID BEGELMAN, 73, film producer; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Though Begelman was president of Columbia Pictures during a flush period in the '70s (his tenure produced hits like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Shampoo), he risked it all by becoming a check forger. Yet such was Hollywood's awe of his golden touch that Begelman's career barely suffered when his larceny was revealed. His most recent venture, Gladden Entertainment, went bankrupt last year, and Begelman was reported to be deeply depressed by the failure--a transgression, after all, that...