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Murray grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill., the fifth of nine children. Three of his brothers are actors, and a sister Nancy, a Dominican nun, tours the world in a one-woman show as St. Catherine of Sienna. "Bill had to learn how to get attention just to survive," says Murray's older brother, veteran character actor Brian Doyle-Murray. (Doyle-Murray took their grandmother's maiden name because there was already a Brian Murray in Actors' Equity.) "Obviously, he survived...
After graduation, Murray briefly studied pre-med at Regis College in Denver before running out of money, drifting back to Chicago and landing at the improvisational comedy troupe Second City, where his gifts for performance and his nascent moral code merged into the beginnings of the person he is today. "He had a very special talent," recalls Josephine Forsberg, Murray's first improv teacher. "He could project the good part of himself, the part that is optimistic and charming, onto an audience. His darker side he'd show in private, but never onstage. But what I really loved about Billy...
...creating a narrower definition of what is violent or sexual. "The violence [banned] would be human-on-human violence and realistic depiction," says Blagojevich. "It's a definition comparable to obscenity statutes that routinely get upheld by courts," he says. Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago law school who specializes in constitutional law, says the Blagojevich bill focusing on sexual content has the best chance of succeeding because it would fall under the category of obscenity for minors, which is a widely accepted concept. In contrast, the measure to regulate violent games "is hopeless because there...
Opponents of video-game laws argue that it is the job of parents, not government, to regulate which games kids can purchase. But some parents say they could use more guidance in determining which games are appropriate for their children. Ruben Burgos, 44, of Chicago, who has a 6year-old son, supports Blagojevich's plan. "Parents need help with control of video games in the same way they needed help with control over cigarettes. Kids can still get cigarettes, but the laws do help," Burgos says...
...vaudevillian father and a radio-singer mother, Orbach played the narrator El Gallo in the original cast of the sweetly allegorical (and enormously long-running) off-Broadway musical fable The Fantasticks. Although he went on to star in several hits on Broadway (Promises, Promises; 42nd Street; Chicago) and at the box office (Dirty Dancing; Prince of the City), the Tony Award winner found a comfortable home as the replacement for Paul Sorvino in the third season of Law & Order. The evening after his death, Broadway dimmed its marquees at curtain time in his honor...