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DIED. Jack Webb, 62, actor and alter ego of steely, deadpan Sergeant Joe Friday ("Just the facts, ma'am") on Dragnet; of heart disease; in West Hollywood, Calif. A self-styled "demon at work" who directed and produced most of the episodes both on radio (1949-56) and during two TV runs (1951-59, 1967-70), Webb continued to produce movies (The D.I.) and TV series (Adam-12, Emergency...
...after her husband's arrest, LeAnn Lewis surrendered to authorities in Chicago. She was held on $5 million bond after U.S. Attorney Dan Webb alleged that she helped her husband send a mid-October death threat to President Reagan. The letter, allegedly in James Lewis' handwriting, criticized Reagan's tax policies and threatened an attack on the White House with radio-controlled model airplanes somehow designed to confuse Secret Service radio communications. Said a federal investigator: "You could tell it was written by someone whose thoughts were muddled." Like the original extortion note, the letter was stamped...
Even the star-studded cast of voices and the original music and lyrics of Jimmy Webb can't maintain a patchy plot. Hearing Mis Farrow as the Unicorn. Alan Arkin as Schmedrick, and Jeff Bridges as Prince Lir if anything detracts further from the movie's fluidity; their professional voices are too trained and rhythmic to be convincingly dubbed onto cartoons...
Mississippi's Second District is nestled in the state's rich Delta region, an area famous for cotton and the blues. If Democratic State Representative Robert G. Clark triumphs over Republican Webb Franklin in November, the Delta may add a third item to its list of distinctions: Mississippi's first black Congressman since...
...Coward, like all great writers of comedy, was not just a funny man. He was a supreme realist, who saw the humor, or the absurdity, in most human situations. When his good friend Clifton Webb mourns over the death of his mother, Coward is, for instance, properly sympathetic. To his journal, however, he expresses his impatience: "Poor Clifton is still, after two months, wailing and sob bing over Maybelle's death. As she was well over 90, gaga, and had driven him mad for years, this seems excessive and overindulgent. He arrives here on Monday...