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...resident reported that between 6:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. on Aug. 11, unknown parties entered his apartment, stealing Palm Pilot, a digital camera, a digital camcorder, a laptop computer and two bracelets. There was no sign of forced entry...
DIED. JOHN SCHLESINGER, 77, Oscar-winning British director with an acidulous touch; after weeks of deteriorating health; in Palm Springs, Calif. Schlesinger (above) helped define swinging London in all its flash and falseness in Darling, which made Julie Christie a star. His U.S. film debut, the 1969 Midnight Cowboy, was the only X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar and the first of the gay director's several films dealing with homosexuality. His visual style often strained unduly to make editorial points, but he knew the fears that eat at smart people. This made him the right...
...life and work, Franklin demonstrated a humane approach to individuals and ideas. Behind the facade of the powerful and worldly elder statesman lurked a streak of little-boy mischievousness, which accounted in part for Franklin's appeal to the ladies. CAROLINE HAKIM Palm Springs, Calif...
...Died. John Schlesinger, 77, Oscar-winning British director famous for edgy dramas examining human frailty; in Palm Springs, California. Schlesinger is best known for his gritty 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman as an ailing con man and Jon Voight as the naive cowboy of the title who becomes a gigolo to survive in New York City. Schlesinger's 1976 thriller Marathon Man, about a college student on the run from a former Nazi, also featured Hoffman. He said of the director: "Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, 'We will never see the likes of him again...
...many a joke by my Harvard compatriots (usually revolving around my “odd” vocabulary), more often than not the Midwest itself is simply ignored altogether by my college friends. No matter how many times I—like every good Michigander—use the palm of my hand as a rough map, I have a friend who still lumps the various states together as “Wiscons-esota...