Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents, the Tony-winning playwright of Broadway's West Side Story and Gypsy, has died. He was 93.
Laurents died Thursday in New York of complications from pneumonia, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Sydney Pollack film director sometime actor and an elder statesman of Hollywood has died of cancer at age 73 The Directors Guild of America issued a statement calling Pollack the quintessential actors director Throughout his career Pollack was known for huge hits such as Tootsie and Out of Africa as well as less-lauded films like 1993s Havana Most recently Pollack appeared on-screen in Made of Honor as Patrick Dempseys father and Michael Clayton which he also producedPollacks Clayton costar George Clooney expressed his condolences in a statement to the AP Sydney made the world a little better movies a little better and even dinner a little better he said A tip of the hat to a class act Hell be missed terriblyPollacks films were known as star-laden affairs having included over the years everyone from Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford The Way We Were to Meryl Streep in Out of Africa which won seven Academy Awards out of 11 nominati
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Bill Paxton, Big Love
What's a fella to do when he has Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and (that's right, and) Ginnifer Goodwin for wives (other than invest in Hallmark stock, that is)? Big-screen star Bill Paxton talks with TV Guide about getting some real action as a Viagra-popping polygamist in HBO's new dramedy Big Love (Sundays at 10 pm/ET).
TV Guide: You're a big-screen actor with a solid career who's never done a TV series. Why make the exception for Big Love? Bill Paxton: What I saw right away was that this was a brilliant way to take an alternative lifestyle as far out there as polygamy and use it as a prism to examine contemporary society and mores.
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