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DIED. ROD STEIGER, 77, cuttingly intelligent actor who put the menace in the Method; from kidney failure; in Los Angeles. After Navy service he joined an Actors Studio class that included Marlon Brando (whose corruptive brother he would play in On the Waterfront) and helped to free stage and film performance from the kingdom of nice. But Steiger was no mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker...
DIED. ROD STEIGER, 77, who won an Academy Award in 1967 for his portrayal of a bigoted Southern sheriff in the movie In the Heat of the Night; in Los Angeles. Over a 57-year career in film and TV, Steiger played a variety of memorable characters, including Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in On the Waterfront and historical figures such as Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s...
...waiter) plays host to four colleagues for a private dinner chat about work, other actors and the pitfalls of fame (e.g., the ugly fan who says, "Everybody tells me I look just like you!"). The guest list mingles affable cutups like Kevin Pollak with volatile screen lions like Rod Steiger, who seems ready to pop somebody. It's self-involved and amusing--and often both at once...
None of that will bring Pearl back. "His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny's kidnappers claimed to believe in," said Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger. Friends and colleagues noted that Pearl was the kind of journalist who spent his career exploring and explaining the gaps and grievances among people and cultures. And for all that he had seen, he had not become hardened himself. "The terrorists who say they killed my husband may have taken his life," said Mariane on Friday, "but they did not take his spirit...
...media story, of course, the Pearl saga had the added hook - much like the anthrax letter to Tom Brokaw - of being about one of our own. Pearl's boss, Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, pleaded with the group to at least restore Pearl to the role that led him to the Village restaurant the night of Jan. 22 - "View Danny as a messenger," Steiger wrote - and that is what shakes journalists most about the story. Hotspot reporters know the risks, but they're also used to thinking that what they do for a living, namely, tell their stories...