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DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, stage and screen star; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. A chameleon-like character actor who could be as meek as he could be malevolent, he was 40 when he won international notice as the repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest...
DIED. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, 74, author of dark and psychological thrillers that attracted a cult following; in Locarno, Switzerland. Born in Texas and educated in New York City, she went to Europe to lead a reclusive life after the success in 1950 of her first novel, Strangers on the Train, which...
Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now. Almost a generation older than Picasso, his counterpart, he was born in 1869, the year the Suez Canal opened and Gustave Flaubert published L'Education Sentimentale. Everything that looked modern in Matisse's environment is now ancient, from the...
So he escaped to Paris in 1948 and lived in France for most of the next 40 years. There he wrote more than 20 books, including seven novels, four plays and five collections that contain some lastingly important essays. He defined and demonstrated in a new way what it meant...
MARRIED. Gilda Radner, 38, high-strung, quirky comedian who skittered from Saturday Night Live to films, most recently The Woman in Red; and her co-star in that film, Gene Wilder, 49, frizzy-haired actor, writer and director who specializes in playing jumpy, self-deprecating shlemiels; she for the second...