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...DIED. Mako, 72, actor who, as co-founder of East West Players?the first Asian-American drama troupe?was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, California. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he went to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of the Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...
...posted on the Smoking Gun website (gee, wonder who leaked that?), the CEO of Morgan Creek Productions said she was "a spoiled child" and "ongoing heavy partying is the real reason for your so called 'exhaustion.'" He threatened to seek damages from Lohan, 20, who plays an unruly teen in the drama opposite Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman. Lohan's publicists, perhaps genuinely exhausted, did not return calls...
...shark off the North Shore of Kauai, Hawaii, in 2003, she lost an arm--but not her drive. Now 16 and still home-schooled, Hamilton has blossomed as an entrepreneur, building a miniempire of merchandise, including a perfume called Stoked and an eponymous line of accessories sold at teen favorite Claire's. She is also working on a young-adult fiction series and three advice books. "It's been really exciting," she says. "I'm happy I'll be able to tell my story and inspire other girls...
CONFESSED. Robert Charles Browne, 53, who had already been convicted of the 1991 slaying of a Colorado teen, to killing 48 other people over a 25-year period, which if true would make him one of the most prolific murderers in U.S. history; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Browne used a variety of methods to subdue and kill--ant killer then screwdriver, ether then ice pick. He met most victims by chance--the first in 1970 while in South Korea with the U.S. Army, the others in nine states. He confessed after years of what authorities called "cryptic and poetic" letter...
DIED. Mako, 72, Oscar-nominated actor who, as co-founder of East West Players--the first Asian-American drama troupe--was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, Calif. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he came to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...