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...musicals like Captain January, with Shirley Temple. He was originally cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz before his allergy to the metallic makeup forced him to give up the role to Jack Haley. From 1962 to 1971 he played Jed Clampett, the nouveau riche patriarch of a trans-planted mountain clan, in the popular sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. He followed that up with yet another long-running TV role, as folksy private eye Barnaby Jones, on CBS from...
...DIED. PATRIARCH RAPHAEL I BIDAWID, 81, spiritual leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics; in Beirut. Bidawid lobbied for years to end the United Nations' sanctions levied against Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and last year unsuccessfully urged a peaceful solution to Washington's standoff with Saddam Hussein...
...lend a whiff of aristocracy to his enterprise, Singer relies on the orotund majesty of British thesping. Stewart and McKellen give heft to their respective patriarch and pariah. They make each debate on the shaky future of mankind sound as if it were taking place in the House of Lords--even if they are both forced to sport the goofiest headgear in fantasy-film history...
...fate of the musuem’s artifacts will have great implications for the cultural heritage of “your average mid-western American,” Winter says. She points out that Iraq was home to the ancient city of Ur, the birthplace of the the Biblical patriarch Abraham...
...contrast to Muntaha, Zaki is visibly uncomfortable discussing politics, and prefers to quote scripture rather than Saddam. But if the family were required to put up resistance to an invading force, he will have the first right to the AK-47. Not only is he the patriarch, he's also a war veteran: as a medic during the Gulf War, Zaki saw active duty in Kuwait. "I know how to use a gun very well," he says, without a trace of bravado. "You won't find an Iraqi man of my age who hasn't experienced...