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BORN. To Jane Pauley, 33, bright-eyed, bushy-maned co-host of NBC's Today Show; and her husband Garry Trudeau, 35, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist whose musical adaptation of his Doonesbury comic strip is currently on Broadway; their first children, twins, a boy and a girl; in New York City...
DIED. William Demarest, 91, vaudevillian and screen actor best known as the cantankerous, sweet-hearted, sourpussed Uncle Charley from 1965 to 1972 on TV's My Three Sons; apparently of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He developed his sputtering, comic tough-guy persona in more than 100 films, notably including half a dozen Preston Sturges comedies...
...Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth. The conclusion of the Nathan Zuckerman trilogy finds Roth's comic writer-hero disillusioned with fiction and headed for medical school and more trouble...
DIED. Charlie Brown, 57, art instructor, longtime friend of Cartoonist Charles Schulz, and real-life model for the luckless, roundheaded hero of the Peanuts comic strip; of cancer; in Minneapolis...
...many respects, the book represents a maturation of Roth's artistic vision. The self-deprecating Jewish humor provides a comic yet despairing perspective and enables Roth to hammer home his points more powerfully. Yet the extremity of this critical introspective and the vindictive nature of such criticism can make both Zuckerman and Roth seem like the very Jewish martyrs they revel in ridiculing. After all, Zuckerman's backaches are only just so interesting...