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DIED. Hans Conried, 64, versatile character actor who buried his own personality in more than 100 screen roles, but whose frequent guest appearances on the old Jack Paar TV show brought his gently mocking offstage self to the attention of millions; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Conried was celebrated for his skillful use of accents: a villainous Nazi in early films, a zany Bulgarian sculptor in the Broadway musical Can-Can, a sheepish professor on radio's My Friend Irma. "Give me a laugh onstage," said Conried, "and I am like a tiger who has tasted blood...
Robert J. Burbank, assistant manager for new construction and overseer of the stadium reconstruction, refused to comment last night...
...Brits are baffled. Burbank? Governor Jerry Brown? Medflies? Orson Welles on a windy day? Cronkite? Rather? And what is that marmoset doing on Johnny Carson's head...
...work for Lear." This does not mean that he is auditioning for the Royal Shakespeare Company, however, only that he is becoming president of Norman Lear's TV production company in California. This will put him an ocean away from Sweet Fanny, but within hailing distance of Burbank, allowing him to watch the Tonight show five times a week...
Video central is no longer New The York City, or Studio City, or even beautiful downtown Burbank. It is a place called Melonville, and it is not on the map. It exists only as the fictive setting for NBC's SCTV (for Second City Television), a show that originated in Canada and is the fastest, smartest 90 minutes on any TV channel, anywhere...