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JOHN LITHGOW The 3rd Rock from the Sun actor's Seussian rhymes made best sellers of The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber. In I'm a Manatee a little boy dreams of a life of "gigan-atee" manatee proportions...
DIED. SHEB WOOLEY, 82, actor and comedic singer-songwriter whose 1958 novelty hit, The Purple People Eater, about an alienlike creature, tapped into America's fascination with outer space and sold 3 million copies; of leukemia; in Nashville, Tenn. His string of wry country songs included the theme for TV's Hee Haw, but he had an equally successful career as a TV and movie actor--notably playing outlaw Ben Miller, who menaces Gary Cooper in High Noon, and a trail scout in the 1959-66 TV series Rawhide, which helped launch Clint Eastwood's career...
...from New York, so eventually I want to go back to New York. Theres probably a big difference between what I imagine myself doing and what Ill actually end up doing, but Id like to be an actor or a director or something in the world of theater. Either that, or Ill move to Australia...
...polls offering much good news for Team Schwarzenegger. Two statewide polls last week showed the actor lagging behind Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, the leading Democrat in the race to replace Governor Gray Davis, should he be ousted. And Davis seems positively resurgent. The polls also show conservative state senator Tom McClintock gaining, which is not exactly an inducement for Schwarzenegger's chief Republican rival to bow out and allow the party to unify behind the movie star. McClintock tells TIME there is "no scenario" in which he would get out and that if Schwarzenegger's campaign "spent a fraction...
DIED. JOHN RITTER, 54, Emmy Award-winning actor who energized the racy (for the 1970s) hit ABC sitcom Three's Company as the goofy, bumbling Jack Tripper, a straight bachelor living platonically with two women; of a coronary-artery tear; in Burbank, Calif., after collapsing on the set of his latest hit show, 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The son of country-and-western singer and film star Tex Ritter, he worked frequently on TV (his other series included Hooperman and Hearts Afire) and had roles in the 1996 film Sling Blade and on Broadway...