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DIED. BROCK PETERS, 78, stage and screen actor best known for his moving portrayal of Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of rape and defended by Gregory Peck, in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Born George Fisher in Harlem, N.Y., the gifted bass singer toured cabaret clubs before making his film debut in 1954 as a vicious sergeant in Otto Preminger's landmark all-black production of Carmen Jones. Determined to shed his villainous image, he played a gay trumpet player in the film The L-Shaped Room and won a Tony...
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...latest development to come down London--based AstraZeneca's pipeline is David Brennan, 51, who will take over as CEO from Scotsman Sir Tom McKillop. The American's marketing skills in his previous slot helped turn potions like antiulcer Nexium into blockbusters in North America. Astra's surprisingly strong second quarter quieted some grumbling among shareholders about failed new products and other pipeline issues. Upcoming drugs to treat diabetes and cancer could help Brennan meet analysts' optimistic projections. --L.T.C...
...scene at the July premiere of the new movie The Great Raid had the giddy, cultivated intrigue of a Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes photo op--or as close as you can come in Washington. A full hour after the scheduled start, the couple that everyone was waiting for finally touched down on the red carpet. They posed together with practiced ease, a pair so appealing and yet so unlikely that you had to wonder what had brought them together: chemistry or ambition? "Ladies and gentlemen," Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein proclaimed as they swept into the packed theater, "I'd like...
...picture in Denver and its eastern suburb of Aurora on Sept. 30, 1994, the day the flag was lowered for the last time at Lowry Air Force Base, was typical of what many communities see when their military facilities close. "We had a thousand empty buildings," recalls Tom Markham, executive director of the Lowry Redevelopment Authority. "We had abandoned runways. We had utilities that were old and in the wrong place." The pain of losing 7,500 civilian jobs at Lowry, where the Air Force had a technical training center, was compounded five years later by the closing of nearby...