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CHILDHOOD HOME HAS BEEN CONDEMNED
DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The childhood home of actor Dick Van Dyke could be torn
down after a central Illinois city condemned the dilapidated building shown here.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that the 89-year-old actor took to Twitter
this week to call attention to the Danville home he and brother Jerry lived in during
high school after relocating from Missouri.
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke will turn 90 in December.
COMEDIAN HAS DIED AT 93
Jack Carter (born Jack Chakrin in New York, New York)
(June 24, 1922 – June 28, 2015)
Carter had a long-running comedy act similar to fellow contemporaries
Milton Berle and Morey Amsterdam. He hosted an early television variety
program called Cavalcade of Stars on the DuMont Network and made
appearances on many television series.
Carter died on Sunday, June 28, at his home in Beverly Hills, California,
of respiratory failure.
COMEDIENNE BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1946
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989)
Radner was an original cast member of the hit NBC sketch
comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an
Emmy Award in 1978. She made her big screen debut in
the 1973 film The Last Detail.
Gilda Radner married comedian Gene Wilder in 1984 and
remained married until her death from ovarian cancer.
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