ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress whose exotic glamour
and sex appeal sparked a string of hit films of the '30s and '40s, was found
dead in her home Wednesday(Jan 19). She was 86.  She was billed as the world's 
most beautiful woman. Her pale skin, almond eyes and dark hair gave her an exotic
look, and her films included "Tortilla Flat," in which she played a part-Mexican
woman; "White Cargo," playing the slave woman Tondelayo; and "Lady of the Tropics." 

     Another side of her was described in the 1992 book "Feminine Ingenuity."
Drawing upon knowledge about military products that she picked up while married
to Mandl, Lamarr came up with the idea of a radio signaling device that would
reduce the danger of detection or jamming. She and a friend, composer George
Antheil, developed the idea further and received a patent in 1942. 
The method was not used in the war, but since the '80s, high-tech versions of
the concept, called "spread spectrum," have been used in some cordless
phones, military radios and wireless computer links. 

     Lamarr is a "huge part of the history of this industry," Proxim Inc. Chief
Executive David C. King told The Wall Street Journal in 1997. His company
introduced a circuit board with spread spectrum in 1989 and later put out
hundreds of products using the technology. 
     

     Don Budge, who swept all four major tennis tournaments in 1938 to become
the sport's first "Grand Slam" winner, died Wednesday(1/26) of cardiac arrest.
He was 84.  He died at Mercy Hospital in Scranton, Pa., hospital spokeswoman 
Mary Leone said.

     Budge received the James E. Sullivan Trophy as the nation's outstanding
amateur athlete in 1937 and was The Associated Press athlete of the year in 1938. 
After his 1938 Grand Slam, Budge turned pro and dominated in an era when
professionals were not allowed to play tournaments, including the major
championships  Budge was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1964, 
and selected one of Tennis Magazine's 20 greatest players of the 20th century.  
     

     MCALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) -- Carl Albert, who rose from the 
poverty of Oklahoma's coal country to become speaker of the House
of Representatives and twice found himself next in line to the 
presidency, has died. He was 91. Albert, who had been in frail 
health for years, died Friday night at McAlester Regional Health Center. 

     Albert spent 30 years representing Oklahoma's 3rd District. He became
Democratic majority leader in 1962 and speaker in 1971. He retired in 1976. 
The 5-foot-41/2 Albert became known as the "Little Giant from Little Dixie,"
a reference to the Democratic stronghold in southeastern Oklahoma that he 
served. "From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to
Congress," he said during a 1985 Associated Press interview. 
     

     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Jim Varney, the rubbernecked comic who portrayed
his rube character "Ernest" from hundreds of television commercials to a
series of movies, died Thursday. He was 50.  Varney died of lung cancer at
his home in White House, Tenn., about 20 miles north of Nashville, said his
attorney Hoot Gibson.

     Varney became a cult figure in the 1980s in a series of regional
commercials, portraying Ernest P. Worrell, a know-it-all good ol' boy whose
best-known phrase was "Know-what-I-mean?" and who addressed a character
known as "Vern." In the commercials, he got his fingers slammed in a house 
window, fell off a ladder and got electrically shocked fooling with a broken
TV set. He plugged a variety of sponsors, including dairy products, car 
dealerships, pizza and radio stations.

     His movie credits included "Ernest Goes to Camp"; "Ernest Rides Again";
"Ernest Saves Christmas"; "Ernest Goes to Jail"; "Ernest Scared
Stupid"; "Ernest Goes to School"; "100 Proof," an independent film;
"The Beverly Hillbillies" (as Jed Clampett); and "Treehouse Hostage."
Varney also was the voice of Slinky Dog in "Toy Story" and Toy Story II."
     

     IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Tom Landry, the Dallas Cowboys coach
who led America's Team to five Super Bowls and was famous for 
pacing the sidelines for three decades wearing a stone face, 
business suit and felt hat, died Saturday. He was 75.  Landry
had been undergoing treatment since May for acute myelogenous
leukemia.

     Landry, who coached the Cowboys for their first 29 years,
won two Super Bowls with star quarterback Roger Staubach. His 
270 victories are more than any NFL coach except Don Shula and
George Halas.  Landry considered those innovations his greatest
contribution to the game.  His legacy continued through the coaches
he produced, including Atlanta's Dan Reeves and former New Orleans
coach Mike Ditka, who both went to the Super Bowl.  

     In Landry's first season, 1960, the expansion Cowboys went 
0-11-1. He didn't have a winning season until his seventh. But 
that began a streak of 20 consecutive winning seasons, 13 division
titles and five Super Bowl appearances.     
     

     SANTA ROSA, California (CNN) -- "Peanuts" fans and fellow cartoonists
are mourning the death of Charles Schulz, the beloved artist who gave us 
Charlie Brown,Lucy, Linus and Snoopy and made phrases like "good grief" and
"security blanket" famous. Schulz created characters with all-too-human 
foibles-- ostensibly children -- with whom people all over the world could
identify. The most widely syndicated comic strip artist in history died 
Saturday evening in his sleep at his home in Santa Rosa, California. 
He was 77. 

     "Peanuts" debuted on October 2, 1950. The travails of Charlie Brown, 
the "little round-headed kid," and his pals eventually ran in more than 
2,600 newspapers,reaching millions of readers in 75 countries. "Why do 
musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems?" he once said. 
"They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't.
That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." 
     

     HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Judy Jarvis, who battled lung cancer for 18 months 
while continuing as host of her nationally syndicated radio talk show, died 
Tuesday(Mar 8). She was 54.  "The Judy Jarvis Show" airs three hours a day on 
more than 50 stations nationwide. Her son Jason served as executive producer 
and co-host.  Judy Jarvis had been a nationally syndicated radio host since 1993.
She formerly was a reporter for Time Magazine and The Boston Globe.

     A frequent contributor to Op-Ed pages of newspapers throughout the country,
Jarvis also appeared as a pundit on CNN, NBC and C-SPAN.  Jarvis, the self-described
"feisty, independent-minded broad," had been ill since October 1998, when was 
diagnosed with a particularly virulent strain of lung cancer that quickly spread
through her body, forcing the amputation of her left leg last March. 
     

     STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Bobb McKittrick, a gritty offensive line
coach for the San Francisco 49ers who worked with five Super Bowl-winning
teams, died Wednesday of cancer. He was 64.  A native of Baker, Ore., 
McKittrick started his coaching career in 1961 as an assistant with his 
alma mater, Oregon State. He also coached for UCLA and the Los Angeles 
Rams before returning to Oregon State for graduate work in 1973.

     He returned to the NFL as an assistant with the San Diego
Chargers the next year and joined Bill Walsh's staff with the 49ers
in 1979. McKittrick was scheduled for a liver transplant last April, 
but it was canceled when doctors determined the cancer had spread. He
responded by returning to work, prowling the sidelines at training
camp in a golf cart.  The 49ers honored McKittrick with a special 
halftime tribute during a home game against the Tennessee Titans 
last season. 
     

     TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Versatile TV funnyman Durward Kirby,
who for years played second banana on "The Garry Moore Show" 
and for a time was co-host of "Candid Camera," has died at age 88.
Starting out in radio in the Midwest, the tall (6-foot-4), blond
Kirby teamed up with Moore off and on for 30 years, serving
as announcer and performer on Moore's early, live "The Garry
Moore Show" on CBS-TV in 1950-51 and the highly successful 
variety show of the same name that ran from 1958-64 and 1966-67.

     Kirby was co-host of "Candid Camera" from 1961-66. The
show created by Allen Funt, which secretly filmed unsuspecting
citizens in amusing situations, had at one point been a segment
of "The Garry Moore Show." Kirby occasionally took part in
the pranks.  Kirby could be sketch actor, singer, dancer and 
with ease switch from slapstick to suave sales pitches for a 
sponsor's product. He became so well-known to TV viewers that
the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons had a plotline about the search
for "Kirward Derby," which could make its wearer the smartest
man in the world.

     Born in Covington, Ky., Kirby was at Purdue University,
studying to be an aeronautical engineer, when he walked past
the campus radio station one day and was waylaid to pinch-hit
as an announcer.  He worked in radio in Indianapolis, Cincinnati
and Chicago and served in World War II before beginning his 
television career in New York shortly after the war.
"He had a charmed life," Kirby said. "He accomplished many things." 
     

     LONDON (Reuters) - Ian Dury, the gravel voiced rock singer 
who mixed punk attitude with funk sounds and a thick streak of 
humour in songs like "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick", has died 
of cancer at the age of 57.  Partially paralysed by polio as a 
child, Dury became an unlikely star at 35 when his debut album 
"New Boots and Panties" propelled him and The Blockheads to 
critical acclaim and a year-long stay in the British charts.

     His wry Cockney wit and wink of the eye came through loud 
and clear in songs like "Clever Trevor" and "Sex and Drugs and 
Rock and Roll", his lampoon of the music industry.  Dury's 
attitude made him a seminal influence from the ska sounds of
Madness to the pop- punk of Blur.
     

     Born in 1946, author and explorer Terence McKenna has spent the last
twenty-five years in the study of the ontological foundations of
shamanism and the ethno-pharmacology of spiritual transformation.
McKenna, the founder of Novelty Theory, graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley with a distributed major in
Ecology, Resource Conservation and Shamanism. After graduation he
traveled extensively in the Asian and New World Tropics, becoming
specialized in the shamanism and ethno-medicine of the Amazon
Basin. With his brother Dennis, he is the author of The Invisible
Landscape and Psilocybin: The Magic Mushroom Growers' Guide. A study
of the impact of psychotropic plants on human culture and evolution Food
of the Gods has recently been published by Bantam, and a book of
essays and conversations, The Archaic Revival quickly followed from
Harper San Francisco. Most recently a group of discursive chats,
Trialogues at the Edge of the West, with mathematician Ralph Abraham and
British biologist Rupert Sheldrake, has been published in
English, German, French and Spanish editions. His latest book is, True
Hallucinations, a narrative of spiritual adventure in the jungles of the
Colombian Amazon. He recently appeared on a number of CDs and live
performances with musical groups such as The Shamen and
Zuvuya in England and Space/Time in San Francisco. Other titles and CD
releases are also being planned. McKenna is the father of two
children, a girl fourteen and a boy seventeen. Currently he lives in
Hawaii, where he divides his time between writing and lecturing. His
most recent interests include web site building and multimedia modeling
of historical processes using Novelty Theory, a branch of fractal
dynamics invented by McKenna. 

     TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Former Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba,  
once known as president for life and credited with founding modern-day 
Tunisia, died today(April 6). He was 96.  Bourguiba, deposed in a 1987 
bloodless palace coup, had been hospitalized March 5 in critical condition
at the military hospital in Tunis. On March 13, he returned to his hometown
of Monastir, 110 miles south of Tunis. 

     For more than 30 years, Bourguiba overshadowed the political life of
his nation. But since November 1987, after being toppled by then-Prime Minister
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, he has lived in the shadows in Monastir, an all 
but forgotten man, frail and solitary.  As a flamboyant provincial lawyer,
he founded the Neo-Destour nationalist movement in the 1930s, dedicated to
ending French colonial rule. He spent more than 11 years in French prisons on 
sedition charges before finally achieving his objective -- total independence --
in 1956.  Despite his anti-colonialist record and his authoritarian rule,  
he was one of the most consistently pro-western leaders in Africa and the 
Arab world, and deliberately turned Tunisia into the most westernized Muslim
nation. 
     

     LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Claire Trevor, the sultry-voiced actress who  
appeared in more than 60 films and won an Academy Award for her 1948 
performance as a boozy, broken-down torch singer in "Key Largo," died
Saturday.  Trevor earned Oscar nominations for "Dead End," a 1937  
melodrama in which she played a good girl who grows up to be a prostitute,
and for "The High and the Mighty," a 1954  airplane-in-trouble epic. 
She was also in John Ford's 1939 classic "Stagecoach," playing  
a frontier prostitute redeemed by a gallant John Wayne. 

     Trevor was critical of the new Hollywood, saying it had "lost  
an enormous amount of quality."
     

     NEW YORK (AP) -- Larry Linville, best known for his portrayal of the
power-hungry and neurotic Maj. Frank Burns on the CBS television show
"M*A*S*H," died Monday(April 10) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
He was 60. Linville suffered from cancer and had a lung removed in 1998 
after a malignant tumor was discovered. 
     

     CHEVY CHASE, Md. (AP) -- William C. Stokoe Jr., a linguistics
professor whose work brought worldwide acceptance to sign language
for deaf students, died April 4. He was 80. Stokoe, who taught at 
Gallaudet University in Washington, is credited with winning recognition
of American Sign Language as a genuine language, overcoming the contentions
of linguists that it was little more than a rudimentary imitation of the
spoken word.  

     Five years after he arrived at Gallaudet, Stokoe published the
groundbreaking "Sign Language Structure." Four years later, he was 
the co-author of "A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic 
Principles."  The books helped prove that sign language met the definition of
a language. Stokoe's beliefs gradually drew wide acceptance and persuaded 
schools for the deaf to re-evaluate their approaches.  His work won him a 
hero's status among many deaf students.   
     

     NEW YORK (AP) -- During 16 years at the helm of the nation's 
most prominent Catholic pulpit, Cardinal John O'Connor inspired a flock
of millions by preaching compassion, helping the poor and fighting
a brave public battle against the brain tumor that would kill him.
He also placed himself at the center of some of the country's most 
heated debates, angering many with his staunch support of the
Roman Catholic church's positions on abortion and homosexuality
even as he charmed many critics with his warm wit.  O'Connor died 
Wednesday, eight months after surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumor. 
He was 80
     

     NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) -- Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the rakishly
handsome actor, producer, author and businessman who was a
real-life war hero and friend of royalty, died Sunday(May 7th).
He was 90.  A spokesman for Manhattan's Frank E. Campbell funeral
home confirmed Fairbanks' death. He did not disclose the cause of
death. The son of the swashbuckling superstar of silent films,
Fairbanks made his own mark in some 75 movies, including
"Catherine the Great," "The Prisoner of Zenda," "Gunga Din,"
"Little Caesar," "Sinbad the Sailor" and "State Secret."
"I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that
would be a second-rate carbon copy," he once said. "I was
determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did
make it easier to get into an office to see someone."
     His stepmother was America's sweetheart, Mary Pickford. His
first wife was Joan Crawford. He said he had affairs with Marlene
Dietrich and Gertrude Lawrence. "I've led an enormously lucky life,"
he reflected in 1989.  "I've done what I wanted to do. I worked hard 
and played hard, and it was all tremendously rewarding. I just wish 
it could go on and on and on." 
     

     LONDON (AP) -- Sir John Gielgud, the last of a trio of
actor-knights who dominated the 20th-century British stage, has
died, his family said. He was 96.  Gielgud died Sunday(May 21)
at his home near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, west of London,
his family said. No other details were immediately available.
     The silken-voiced actor, whose Hamlet was regarded as the finest
of the age, shone on television in "Brideshead Revisited" and
reached his broadest public as the quintessential English butler
opposite Dudley Moore in "Arthur."
     "I have been extraordinarily lucky," Gielgud told The
Associated Press in a 1991 interview. "I've had sort of three
goes, which is rare, very fortunate for an actor, and in every kind
of work."
     

     LONDON, May 22 - British romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, 
who wrote 723 books, making her one of the world's most prolific writers,
died in her sleep Sunday morning.  She was 98. Cartland's writings sold an 
estimated 1 billion copies worldwide in 36 languages. The Guinness Book 
of Records lists her as the world's top-selling author.
     For several years she said she was writing a new book every two weeks. 
Among her books were Saved by an Angel, Love Light of Apollo and Dancing 
on a Rainbow.  Cartland churned out romantic tales in which brides 
were virgins, grooms were rich and sex only started once the book ended.
Happy endings were a must for the "Queen of Romance," who believed 
vehemently in life after death and her rose-tinted formula was beloved 
the world over.
     

     PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Actor Francis Lederer, who starred in the 
1929 German drama "Pandora's Box" and brought continental charm to "Midnight"
and other Hollywood films in the '30s, has died. He was 100.  Lederer died 
Thursday at his Palm Springs home, his wife, Marion, said.  "He had a very 
magical life. Until just the last several weeks, he was in very good shape,"
she said. 
     Darkly handsome, the Prague-born actor appeared in a variety of films, 
often playing suave Europeans, in the 1930s and '40s. He appeared with Ida 
Lupino in "One Rainy Afternoon," 1935; with Lynn Bari in "Bridge of San Luis
Rey," 1944; with Paulette Goddard in Jean Renoir's "The Diary of a Chambermaid,"
1946; with Edward G. Robinson in "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," 1939; and with 
Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche in "Midnight," a 1939 comedy cowritten by 
Billy Wilder. "Francis Lederer is aptly cast as the love-pirate," the show  
biz bible Variety wrote in its review of "Midnight." 
     

     LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Barbara Silverman, a horsewoman who battled 
ovarian cancer while training to make the Olympic equestrian team, died 
Wednesday. She was 42.  She abandoned her Olympic effort in March when 
it became clear she could no longer compete.  Silverman was a ranked rider
in dressage, in which the rider puts the horse through a series of precise,
elegant moves. 

     MONTREAL (AP) -- Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, one of the greatest
scorers in National Hockey League history, died Saturday.  He was 78. 
The former Montreal Canadiens star, who slipped into a deep coma  
overnight, died of abdominal cancer, family friend Jean Roy said. 
Richard, No. 62 on The Associated Press list of the top 100 athletes 
of the 20th century, was the cornerstone of the Canadiens' dynasty 
that won five straight Stanley Cups and eight in his 18 seasons in 
the NHL. 
     Nicknamed the Rocket for his explosive speed and shot, Richard  
finished his career with a then-record 544 goals. He was the first 
player to score 500 goals and the first to score 50 goals in a 
season when he did it in 50 games in 1944-45. His six overtime 
goals remains a playoff record.  Richard was a compelling figure on
the ice. He was ambidextrous, a right wing who shot left-handed. 
He often switched from backhand to forehand as he swooped in on goalies.
In the days before curved blades and slap shots, the Rocket possessed a 
hard, accurate shot and he was one of hockey's most dangerous scorers.
     

     HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Former Gov. Robert P. Casey, the
strong-willed Scranton Irishman who spoke passionately against abortion
and overcame 20 years of dashed hopes to become governor, died Tuesday.
He was 68.  A conservative Democrat, Casey relentlessly berated his party
and its 1992 presidential candidate, Bill Clinton, for abandoning its
traditional constituencies with what Casey called an abortion-on-demand
philosophy.  "My party, the Democratic Party, should be the protector and
claims to be the protector of the powerless," he said. "It's time to get 
back to what this country is all about, protecting all of the powerless.
And that includes unborn children." 

    He made headlines in 1992 when he was denied a chance to speak at the
Democratic National Convention. And in March 1995, he formed an exploratory
committee to challenge Clinton for the 1996 nomination, only to drop the effort a
month later, saying he was not sure he could sustain "the extraordinary energy
level required by a national campaign."
     

     BEIRUT (AP) -- Hafez Assad, the autocratic Syrian president who  
never realized his dream of a united Arab front and a humiliated Israel, 
died today. He was 69, and had been ailing for some time.  The country 
Assad led was isolated and economically troubled.  But Syria's autocratic
president for three decades never hinted he saw himself as a man defeated. 
     

    Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) -- Robert Trent Jones, whose challenging 
golf course designs annually play a role in crowning champions at the 
sport's major events, has died. He was 93.  Called the "father of modern 
golf course architecture," Jones designed or rebuilt more than 400 golf 
courses in 43 states and 34 countries during a career that spanned seven
decades. More than three dozen of his designs have played host to national
or international championships.  Among Jones' best-known creations are 
Spyglass Hill in Pebble Beach, Calif.; Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio; 
Hazeltine National in Chaska, Minn.; and Valderrama in Sotogrande, Spain.  
Jones helped found the American Society of Golf Course Architects in 1947
and won its first Donald Ross Award for outstanding contributions to the industry. 
     

     NEW YORK (CNN) -- Actress Nancy Marchand died Sunday night at her home
in Connecticut, a day short of her 72nd birthday, said HBO. Marchand played
Livia, the bitter and conniving mother of Tony Soprano in the HBO series
about a fictional, dysfunctional mob family called The Sopranos, which was
to resume shooting for the fall series shortly. Livia's famous thing to
say about her husband was, "He was a saint." During the 1970s, Marchand
played Mrs. Margaret Pynchon, the autocratic newspaper publisher on TV's
Lou Grant, for which she won four Emmys. Marchand also won two Obies and a
Golden Globe. In 1953, she played opposite Rod Steiger in Marty, Paddy
Chayevsky's TV drama about a shy and lonely butcher living in the Bronx.
She appeared in Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of Sabrina, Billy Wilder's
1954 comedy, starring Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond. Marchand was born in
Buffalo, N.Y. and received a bachelor of fine arts from the Carnegie
Institute of Technology. She had been battling emphysema and cancer for
two years, HBO said.  
     

     SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Walter Matthau, the foghorn-voiced 
movie villain who became a master of crotchety comedy with his 
Oscar-winning "The Fortune Cookie," followed by "The Odd Couple"
and "Grumpy Old Men," died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 79. 

     Often cast as a would-be con man foiled by life's travails, 
Matthau bellowed complaints against his tormentors and moved his 
lean, 6-foot-3 frame in surprising ways.  "Walter walks like a 
child's windup toy," Lemmon once said.  Matthau's performance as 
Lemmon's shyster brother-in-law in "The Fortune Cookie," directed 
by Billy Wilder, won him the Academy Award as best supporting actor
of 1966. He was twice nominated for best actor: as the cantankerous
oldster in "Kotch," 1971 (directed by Lemmon); and as the feuding 
vaudeville partner of George Burns in "The Sunshine Boys," 1975. 
     

     SEATTLE (AP) -- Bernie Whitebear, a longtime advocate for Indian
recognition who led a foundation working on behalf of Seattle-area
tribes, died Sunday after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 62.  
Whitebear first gained notoriety when he helped lead the "invasion" of 
Fort Lawton in northwest Seattle in 1970.  He and others pushed through
the gates at the 1,110-acre Fort Lawton property and declared they were 
reclaiming it after plans were announced to list the fort as surplus and
turn it over to Seattle for a city park.  The occupation lasted for three
months and drew national media attention and a visit from Jane Fonda.
Congress eventually ordered the city to negotiate with the Indians, and 
Whitebear's group, the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, was 
offered a 99-year lease on a 20-acre parcel of the land. Today, the 
Daybreak Star Art Center stands in the city's Discovery Park.
     

     BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) -- Fred Hooper, who won the 1945 Kentucky  
Derby with the first thoroughbred he ever purchased and helped 
develop Florida's breeding industry, died Friday. He was 102. 
Hooper won the 1945 Kentucky Derby and Wood Memorial Stakes with  
the horse, Hoop Jr.  Hooper, a construction company owner born in 
Cleveland, Ga., became an influential breeder and a pioneer in the Florida 
thoroughbred industry, housing some of Florida's leading sires 
including Crozier, Tri Jet and Copelan. More than 100 horses that 
were bred at Hooper Farms have won stakes races.  Cooper was awarded 
with Eclipse Awards for outstanding breeder in 1975 and 1982 and won 
an Eclipse Award of Merit in 1991.
     

     LONDON, England (AP) -- Actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose roles in 
a 66-year career ranged from Hamlet to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" 
died Saturday night, a spokesman for the King Edward VII Hospital in 
Midhurst, southern England said Monday. He was 86.  The hospital did 
not report the cause of death.  From post-war comedies through "The 
Bridge on the River Kwai," and "Star Wars," Guinness played a vast 
variety of characters with subtlety and intelligence. 
     

     LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Loretta Young, the elegant beauty whose
acting career extended from silent movies to television and included an 
Academy Award for best actress in "The Farmer's Daughter," died Saturday 
of ovarian cancer. She was 87.  Both on and off the screen, Miss Young 
presented the image of serene uprightness. In 88 movies dating from 1927
to 1953, she invariably played the strong-willed heroine with firm principles.

     LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Richard Mulligan, who won Emmys for his
portrayals of dads in the sitcoms "Soap" and "Empty Nest," has died at
age 67.  Mulligan died at his home Tuesday after a long battle with
cancer, publicist Julian Myers said in a statement.  A native of New York,
Mulligan began his nearly 40-year career in show business as an aspiring
writer. He fell into acting when was drafted into playing a role at a
rehearsal while trying to sell a play.  From 1977 to 1981, Mulligan played
lovable working-class screwball Burt Campbell -- stepfather to Billy Crystal's
character --  on the quirky television series "Soap." He won an Emmy for the
role in 1980.

     Better dead than red.  Gus is now both.

     The droll, prolific comic composed more than 4,000 songs and wrote 
40 books. He also starred as the King of Swing in the 1956 movie 
The Benny Goodman Story and appeared in Broadway shows, on soap operas,
wrote newspaper columns, commented on wrestling broadcasts, made 40 record
albums, wrote plays and a television series that featured guest appearances
by Sigmund Freud, Clarence Darrow and Aristotle.  Allen's most enduring 
achievement came with the introduction of The Tonight Show in 1953. 
The show began as Tonight on the New York NBC station WNBT, then moved
to the network in September of 1954. 

     BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Jimmie Davis, the "singing governor" who drew
on his popularity as a maker of hits such as "You Are My Sunshine" to twice
win election to the state's top office, died Sunday at age 101, his former 
press secretary said.

     "He died at 4:40 a.m., peacefully in his sleep in his home at Baton
Rouge," Ed Reed said.  Davis parlayed smooth talking and sweet singing
into a political career, serving as governor from 1944-48 and 1960-64.

     He estimated that he wrote more than 400 songs, including 
"It Makes No Difference Now" and "Sweethearts or Strangers," and recorded
at least 52 albums. "You Are My Sunshine," his first smash hit in the
late '30s, became a standard.   

     L. Sprague de Camp, one of the last surviving science fiction
writers from the "golden age of science fiction," has died just
shy of his 93rd birthday.  He wrote Lest Darkness Falls and a 
number of Conan books.    

     COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CNN) -- Denmark's Queen Mother Ingrid has died
at the age of 90, the royal palace announced on Tuesday. The Queen Mother
was a popular figure in her adopted home country. When she celebrated her
90th birthday earlier this year newspapers were full of praise for the 
grand old lady.  Ingrid, a daughter of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, 
married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark in 1935. Her husband became 
King Frederik IX in 1947. He died in 1972.  Denmark's royal family is 
the oldest monarchy in Europe, dating back to 950 AD. 

     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pianist Victor Borge, who died in his sleep on
Saturday at his Greenwich, Connecticut home, was known as the unmelancholy
Dane of international show business. He would have turned 92 on Jan. 3.
Borge made a career of falling off piano stools, missing the keys with his
hands and getting tangled up in the sheet music.

     Borge's mischievous sense of humor was manifest from an early age. Asked
as a child to play for his parent's friends he would announce "a piece by the
85-year-old Mozart" and improvise something himself.  On radio and television,
Borge developed the comedy techniques of the bungling pianist that won him
worldwide fame. 

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