NEW YORK (AP — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage
actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat
wearing waitress on the CBS – TV sitcom "Alice," has died.
Her representative, Bill Veloric, said Lavin died in Los
Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently
discovered lung cancer.
Photo shows Linda Lavin (as waitress Alice Hyatt) and Vic Tayback (as Mel Sharples, owner of the diner) from "Alice."
The film The Graduate opened at two theaters in New York:
the Coronet on Third Avenue and the Lincoln Art Theater
on Broadway.
The film, based on a 1963 novel by Charles Webb, had a
simple premise: As its screenwriter explained it, “this kid
graduates college, has an affair with his parents’ best friend
and then falls in love with the friend’s daughter.”
Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman starred in the film that
received seven nominations at the 40th Academy Awards,
including for Best Picture and Best Director, the latter being
the film’s sole win.
The movie is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most
influential films of all time.
(From Wikipedia)
On November 29, 1981, the actress Natalie Wood, who starred in
such movies as Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story,
drowned in a boating accident near California’s Catalina Island.
Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role
at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
Wood’s film credits also include West Side Story (1961), winner
of 10 Oscars, in which she played the lead role of Maria.
On November 26, 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama
starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in
New York City; it went on to become one of the most beloved
Hollywood movies in history.
Although Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars
and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production
expected it to stand out among the many pictures produced
by Hollywood yearly.
