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DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, animated, gravelly-voiced actress known for her down-to-earth performances on stage, screen and television; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Widely known as Mary's savvy Aunt Flo on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Heckart got her break in Picnic on Broadway in 1953 and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the overbearing mother in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free. In 2000 she returned to the stage with an acclaimed performance as a woman dying of Alzheimer's in The Waverly Gallery...
...Minister of Argentina who mended relations with Britain after the 1982 Falkland Islands war; in Buenos Aires. Serving from 1991-99, Di Tella possessed a diplomatic savvy that culminated in the 1998 visit to England by Carlos Menem, the first by an Argentinian President after the war. DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, recipient of an Oscar, two Emmys and a special lifetime achievement Tony; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Best known for her eccentric character roles, Heckart first won recognition on Broadway in 1953 for her portrayal of middle-aged Rosemary Sydney in the love story Picnic. DIED. ALFRED "FREDDY" HENRY HEINEKEN...
...Youth) depicts the sad mental decline of his grandmother, just as she is about to be evicted from her Greenwich Village art gallery. The play is slight and doesn't rise above its autobiographical confines, but there are some astute observations of the family's conflicted reactions. And Eileen Heckart gives a brave, touching performance as a woman whose conversation first wobbles, then drifts and finally careers full speed on a long, lonely track to nowhere...
...CEMETERY CLUB. This Broadway comedy about three Jewish widows who meet every month to visit their husbands' graves is sentimental and sometimes dumb, but also sweet, funny and superbly played by Eileen Heckart as a would-be vamp and Elizabeth Franz as a proper lady seeking a new life...
...narrative -- full of time shifts, inner thoughts revealed, imaginary moments, even a flash-forward in which the now dead grandmother describes her search for "life after eternity." This complex material stays clear, thanks to adept direction by Lynne Meadow and remarkable performances by Jennie Moreau as the girl, Eileen Heckart as her tart-tongued grandmother and especially Joanna Gleason as the woman in between, the focal point of family guilt. Eleemosynary, which has ripened in regional productions, is Blessing's finest work, an enriching tale of sin, regret and forgiveness...