God Bless Kate still our darling says sister
RALEIGH AP Kate Smith famed for God Bless America can no longer sing and speaks only sporadically. Her sister Helena Smith Steene reports she is making progress in learning to walk but has a long way to go. Smith, a longtime diabetic with high blood pressure, fell into a four month coma in 1976 and has been ailing since. She remains aware and responds to questions at her Raleigh home.
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Drop out actor Dean Stockwell returns to film work
AP reports Dean Stockwell, once a popular child star, says he quit acting for three years in the early 1980s and spent time in Santa Fe earning a real estate license. Now at 48, he stars in Wim Wenders Paris Texas as Harry Dean Stanton's brother and in Dune as Dr Yueh, after Cannes wins in 1959 and 1961. Stockwell says he’s been fighting his way back since his hiatus.
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Sons of John Wayne Team Up For Dinner Theater
Ethan Wayne and Patrick Wayne, John Wayne’s sons, debut together in Come Blow Your Horn at the Grand Dinner Theater in Anaheim. The brothers, aged 22 and 45, headline the production billed as The Sons of John Wayne Together for the First Time. John Wayne died in 1979 at 72.
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RALPH fans honor Honeymooners icons in Chicago
About 1,000 members of the Royal Association for the Longevity and Preservation of the Honeymooners gathered in Chicago to pay tribute to Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton. The group, formed after a New York station dropped the show, now numbers about 7,000 members in 47 states and five countries. The convention emphasized the show's lasting appeal and Kramden's ties to the common man despite his boorish, scheming nature, balanced by a forgiving wife.
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Brandeis Creative Arts Awards names eight winners
WALTHAM, Mass AP William Shawn editor in chief of The New Yorker and eight other prominent arts figures were named winners in the Brandeis University Creative Arts Awards. Medals for lifetime achievement and citations for distinction share a 2500 prize, funded by the endowment. Shawn will receive the Notable Achievement Award with a 2500 stipend. medals go to Cy Twombly painting James Merrill poetry George Rochberg music and Harry Callahan photography.
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