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...scoring with critics in Far from Heaven, an affecting, stylish homage to director Douglas Sirk, whose soapy melodramas like All That Heaven Allows (1955) are respected by film buffs for their baroque sentimentality and cynical undertones. Directed by Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven stars Julianne Moore as a white 1950s housewife who falls for her black gardener (Dennis Haysbert), scandalizing the suburban populace of Hartford, Conn. Quaid is her overachieving husband, who confesses to her that he's gay. The expertly rendered performance (plus his own comeback story) could get Quaid his first Oscar nomination. "I had success back...
Statistics and baseball have been intertwined for Morris ever since he first pored over box scores as a teenager in the 1950s in San Diego. Watching the then-minor league San Diego Padres, Morris says he developed an “early love for quantitative systems and theories” and actually wanted to be a statistician when he was very young. “I thought it would be such fun to figure things out like batting averages as a young teen,” he says, “but I dismissed it [as a career], like being...
DIED. LONNIE DONEGAN, 71, godfather of British pop who burst onto the U.K. music scene in the 1950s with "skiffle," his unique rendition of American folk music; after collapsing midway through a tour; in Peterborough, England. Described by Paul McCartney as "The Man," Donegan swept the charts between 1956 and 1962 with 26 hits such as Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor (on the Bedpost Overnight), and Rock Island Line. Although his glory days ended with the Beatles, Donegan inspired generations of musicians including the Rolling Stones, and later continued performing in comedy and cabaret...
...DIED. LARRY DOBKIN, 83, Emmy-nominated character actor who appeared in more than 65 feature films and whose small-screen credits read like a history of television; in Los Angeles. Dobkin had guest spots on shows ranging from Adventures of Superman and I Love Lucy in the 1950s to The Practice in the 1990s...
...DIED. ANDRE DE TOTH, believed to be 89 or 90, macho, eye-patch-wearing Oscar-nominated director best known for the gory horror flick House of Wax (1953), one of the most memorable 3-D movies of the 1950s; in California. Admired and emulated by young directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino, de Toth once described himself as a "Hungarian-born, one-eyed American cowboy from Texas...