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...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...
Proving there is at least one stupid human trick he can perform himself, DAVID LETTERMAN shared a rare piece of personal news with the Late Show audience last week: his longtime girlfriend, former Late Show staff member Regina Lasko, 42, is very pregnant. During the show, sidekick bandleader Paul Shaffer suggested that fatherhood might soften the curmudgeonly host, who underwent quadruple-bypass surgery nearly four years ago. Or maybe not. "If you look at it this way," Letterman told the audience, "at 56, by the time the child has trouble in life ... I'll be long gone. By the time...
...TIME.comix: As you say in the introduction to "Fagin," you have your own history with stereotype, most particularly in the character Ebony White, a big-lipped, saucer-eyed African-American comedic sidekick to the Spirit. Although Ebony evolved with greater sensitivity in the latter half of the series' life, do you see "Fagin" as a kind of mea culpa...
...RAND BROOKS, 84, actor best known, to his dismay, for playing Charles Hamilton, the nerdy first husband of Scarlett O'Hara who goes off to war only to die of illness in Gone With the Wind; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Brooks, who also appeared in numerous westerns and played sidekick Lucky Jenkins in the Hopalong Cassidy movies, called his role in Wind "asinine," saying, "I wanted to be more macho...
...took a robot to breathe life into a state dinner. In Prague, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi charmed guests with assistant envoy ASIMO, a Honda humanoid. Asimo paid tribute to Czech writer Karel Capek, who coined the term robot in his 1921 play R.U.R. The mechanical sidekick also danced and made a toast--in Czech--but revealed that he was too young to drink...