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...heartthrob; of pneumonia, stemming from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease; in Plainfield, N.J. A talented classical and jazz pianist, Moore was best known for his roles in the 1979 movie 10 (which he nabbed after meeting director Blake Edwards in a therapy group) and the 1981 film Arthur, in which he played a sweet, wealthy drunk. Spurred to perform by a sense of inferiority stemming in part from a clubfoot, the working-class Moore said, "If I'd been able to hit someone in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic...
...Arthur Andersen just get its call from the governor? Former CEO Joseph Berardino resigned last month convinced that the Justice Department's decision to indict the firm had been its death warrant; former Fed chief Paul Volcker, appointed earlier this year to oversee a restructuring effort, thought so as well. And the I-word has sparked a stampede of clients and overseas partners...
...still scraping together enough cash to fund its daily operations, much less its legal liabilities, the immediate challenge isn't testing the Volcker paradigm - it's hanging around long enough to even have a chance to try. For all the relief the governor's voice must have given Arthur Andersen Thursday, the phone could still have rung too late...
...vaudeville to become TV's first star with his 1948 debut in Texaco Star Theater; in Los Angeles. DIED. DUDLEY MOORE, 66, British comic actor, musician and star of stage and screen best known for the 1960s act Beyond the Fringe, as well as the films 10 and Arthur; in Plainfield, New Jersey. A talented classical and jazz pianist, the diminutive Moore once said, "If I'd been able to hit someone in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic." DIED. DOROTHY DELAY, 84, renowned violinist and instructor of some of the finest players to have emerged...
...music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). Under Barat's direction, Selfridges even won the Royal Warrant for Food, an honor that allows the store to deliver groceries daily to Buckingham Palace. The recently renovated Liberty store on Regent Street now features a high-end restaurant called Arthur...