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MARRIED. CANDICE BERGEN, 54, star of Murphy Brown and widow of director Louis Malle, and MARSHALL ROSE, 63, real estate magnate; in New York City...
DIED. EMPRESS DOWAGER NAGAKO, 97, widow of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and mother of reigning Emperor Akihito; at Tokyo's royal palace. She married Hirohito in 1924 and became Empress in 1926. Born a princess, Nagako reportedly had cool relations with daughter-in-law Michiko, the current Empress and the first commoner to marry a Japanese Crown Prince...
...favorite stories involves Gregory Kirchner, a former Army medic and now a retired postal worker in Pennsylvania. He had written me asking for help in locating the widow of a friend, Sergeant Glenn Jones, who died in the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Jones' final words were expressions of concern for his wife and the child they were about to have. For more than a half-century, Kirchner had wanted to find Mrs. Jones to share her husband's last words...
...full capacity crowd, which included the widow of Muppet-mastermind Jim Henson, gave an embarrassed-looking Lesser a standing ovation...
Makhmalbaf shared the Jury prize with Sweden's Roy Andersson, whose "Songs from the Second Floor" is a handsomely shot series of tragicomic tableaux and trompes l'oeil. The screenplay award went to Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty," with Renee Zellweger as a young widow propelled by shock into a soap-opera world...