Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 198, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1986 — Page 4

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People in the news Quiet end for film tough guy NEW YORK (AP) James Cagney, who rose from one of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods to become one of Hollywood’s most famous tough guys during his 50-year acting career, was “the classic American success story,” President Reagan said following his friend’s death. Cagney, who won an Oscar for his 1942 portrayal of song-and-dance man George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” died Sunday at age 86. He suffered from diabetes and had been in declining health. His wife of 64 years, Billie, and his manager, Marge Zimmerman, were at his side when he died at his Dutchess County farm north of New York City, where he had been taken only last week after being released from a hospital. “We were getting him ready for breakfast and he just closed his eyes and went to sleep,” Mrs. Zimmerman said. “It’s Easter and it’s a good time if he had to gc.” “Death isn’t even the right word to use, especially on Easter,” Frank Sinatra said from his Palm Springs home. “Jim merely changed addresses from this life into the next.” Cagney retired in 1961 after appearing in 64 films, including “The Public Enemy,” in 1931 and “The Roaring Twenties,” in 1939. He returned to the screen in 1981 as the police commissioner in “Ragtime.” In addition to the Academy Award, Cagney won a citation from the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in 1980 for career achievement and the Medal of Freedom, the government’s highest civilian award, in 1984. “Jimmy Cagney was the classic American success story, lifting himself by determination and hard work out of poverty to national acclaim,” Reagan said in a statement from his California ranch. “I believe the entire nation loved Jimmy Cagney and I think he must have loved us, too, because he always gave us his very best.... Goodbye, dear friend.” Cagney drew praise for a wide series of roles mobsters in such films as “The Public Enemy,” “Angels with Dirty f* aces and “White Heat; ” the neurotic ship captain in Mister Roberts;” Lon Chaney in “Man of a Thousand Faces; ” Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy;” and Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, the second of five children, moving to Manhattan’s tough Yorkville section upon the death of his alcoholic father. In addition to his wife, Cagney is survived by his daughter, Cathleen. Funeral arrangements were pending. • SAN DIEGO (AP) Vaudeville star Harry Ritz, who spread laughter for 35 years as leader of the zany Ritz Brothers comedy team, died Saturday. He was 78. He was the last surviving Ritz brqther. Jimmy Ritz died in 1985 and the oldest, Al, died in 1965. A fourth brother, George, who was in the clothing business, also is deceased. Although the three Ritz Brothers were never as famous as their rivals, the Marx Brothers, they brought their own brand of crazy insanity to films and nightclubs and were popular for more than three decades.

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NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Gary Hart, following in the footsteps of House Speaker Tip O’Neill, is to make a cameo appearance on the television show “Cheers.” Hart, a Democrat from Colorado and former presidential contender, will play himself in the telvision barroom in May, he told Time magazine. “It helps my reputation. It’ll probably ruin the show’s,” Hart told the magazine. WASHINGTON (AP)-Two months after cartoonist Berke Breathed broke his back in a flying accident, his comic strip, “Bloom County,” is returning to the daily comic pages of newspapers across the nation, including the Ban-ner-Graphic. Breathed says in an article in today’s Washington Post that he’s feeling fine and has gotten lots of get-well wishes from “people I regularly ridicule” in the strip. “I’ve got three pounds of steel rods in my back, which makes airport metal detectors go bananas. Sometimes I’ll wear an “I love Khadafy” button,” Breathed told his "interviewer,” the Bloom County cartoon character Opus. The 28-year-old cartoonist also announced that he plans to get married in May to a “wonderful large-footed photographer named Jody,” adding: “Maria Shriver proposed last year, but always one to buck a trend, I turned her down.” The Sunday “Bloom County” strip is to return on April 20, Breathed said. Most papers that carry the strip have been rerunning old ones. • THIS WEEK’S CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: Sunday’s birthday boys were actor Warren Beatty, 49, singer Eric Clapton, 41, TV personality Peter Marshall, 56, and actor John Astin, 56. On Monday, it’s No. 51 for both actor Richard Chamberlain and musician Herb Alpert, No. 41 for comic Gabe Kaplan and No. 59 for actor William Daniels. Actress Ali McGraw, 47, and actress Debbie Reynolds and actor Gordon Jump, both 54 share Tuesday’s cake and candles. On Wednesday, it’s No. 78 for actor Buddy Ebsen, No. 38 for singer Emmylou Harris and No. 72 for actor Alec Guinness. Marlon Brando and Doris Day, opposite ends of the acting sprectrum, are 62 on Thursday, while singer Wayne Newton, 44, and comic Eddie Murphy, 25, also celebrate. Friday’s happy-birthday crowd includes Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), 54, dance instructor Arthur Murray, 91, and actress Marilu Henner, 34.

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