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...DIED. JACK WILD, 53, former child actor who starred as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film Oliver!; of mouth cancer; in London. Wild's impish charms won him an Oscar nomination for his part in the Dickens adaptation and earned him a starring role in the surreal U.S. kids' TV show H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969. But adult acting roles dried up as he struggled with alcoholism in later years. After giving up drinking in the 1980s, Wild appeared in a series of bit parts, including a supporting role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...
Mary Luce is an average-looking woman and a cancer survivor. Volunteering as a telephone operator for a suicide-prevention line, she is thrust into the world of vampires after a chance encounter with a scrawny mute runaway named John Matthew...
That said, I was somewhat intrigued by the prospect of J.R. Ward’s “Lover Eternal,” another addition to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. “Lover Eternal” chronicles the passionate affair between the vampire Rhage and the cancer-stricken human Mary Luce—it’s “Love Story” with fangs...
...When students can satisfy the requirements by taking ‘The Scandinavian Cinema’ or ‘Biology of Cancer,’ one inevitably wonders whether the program still reflects any clear sense of intellectual priorities,” Bok wrote...
DIED. BRUCE HART, 68, original lyricist for PBS's Sesame Street who co-wrote the sweetly optimistic theme song to the Emmy Award--winning children's show ("Can you tell me how to get/ How to get to Sesame Street?"); of lung cancer; in New York City...