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DIED. DENNIS WEAVER, 81, gangly cowpoke actor best known as the limping sidekick in Gunsmoke and as the titular Manhattan cowboy cop in the 1970s series McCloud; in Ridgway, Colo. The prolific Weaver had leading roles in 40 films, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and the 1971 highway thriller Duel, directed by an up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg. A committed environmentalist, Weaver spent the past 16 years living in an Earthship--a 10,000-sq.-ft. house made of tin cans and tires...
...Emmy Award--winning actor best known as the savvy, tough White House chief of staff turned vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on TV's The West Wing; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The son of blue-collar parents, he got his break as Harrison Ford's cop sidekick in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent. That led to his big TV roles as L.A. Law's streetwise lawyer Tommy Mullaney and West Wing's top aide, who last season left his post after suffering a heart attack...
...cofounder of eBay, who retired at 35 with a reported $2 billion in his pocket. Like most other entrepreneurs who have made their first billion before 35, the boyish-looking Skoll is an intensely driven man. Exhausted employees say he is rarely out of touch and never without his Sidekick, Treo and cell phone. These days Skoll's primary objective is not to make money but rather to spend what he has pursuing such lofty ideals as government accountability and social and economic justice...
...charity tournaments. But between tournaments, Danny somehow manages to lose his gig on a TV show; Gary never really has a job, and handles his unemployment with a kind of eastern “guru-ness” reminiscent of Thomas Haden Church’s well-meaning sidekick character in “Sideways.” Despite its flaws, “Tennis, Anyone?” does have some very clever moments. Maeve Quinlan’s Siobhan Kelly, the celebrity interviewer for The Tennis Channel, provides an avenue for Logue and Fox to poke ribald...
Formerly known for playing sidekick to Jon Stewart as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” to Will Ferrell as Brick Tamland in “Anchorman,” and as minor characters in “Bewitched” and “Bruce Almightly,” Carell has since earned recognition as an individual thanks to the success of “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” and his role as title hero Andy Stitzer...