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DIED. Chief Dan George, 82, Canadian Indian noted for his portrayal of the sage Old Lodge Skins in the 1970 movie Little Big Man; in Vancouver, Canada. A former stevedore who served for twelve years as chief of the Tse-lal-watt tribe in his native British Columbia, George began an acting career at age 61 in the Canadian television series Cariboo Country, and strongly maintained that Indians should portray themselves in movies and TV. "A white man just does not know how to be an Indian," he argued. "A white man cannot understand what it is that goes...
...City as merely unravelling the ramifications of a police officer turning on his brethren, it fascinates absolutely, even over a corpulent three hours. Ciello is an informer, a curiously ambiguous role throughout American history, and director Sidney Lumet has accepted and used brilliantly that ambiguity, refusing to portray Ciello as either hero or villain. Americans have never been entirely comfortable with the informer, but informers have periodically (though often only temporarily) emerged as heroes. The name-namers of the McCarthy period offer the most striking example of evaporating national acclaim, while the Watergate tattlers have generally enhanced their reputations. Ciello...
...Marty, The Hospital and Network); of cancer; in Manhattan. First successful in TV, he wrote Marty as a humorous love story, was startled when viewers cried. He had three Broadway hits (Middle of the Night, The Tenth Man and Gideon). The essence of his writing, he said, was to portray "characters caught in the decline of their society...
...some reason over the customary 5,000 applicants for the job in a talent hunt. He can pout and look earnest; one could almost indulge his presence in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. But he is, at best, a puppy lover, not someone who can portray a lad nurturing his passion for two years in an insane asylum and emerging to find and reclaim his love in the face of all opposition...
DIED. Isaac Soyer, 79, Russian-born painter and the youngest of three artist brothers (the others: Raphael and Moses), who shunned abstraction to portray New York street scenes and working-class people in a style of lyrical realism; in New York City...