Milestones

DIED. STAN MARGULIES,80, producer of the groundbreaking TV series Roots; in Los Angeles. After stints as a journalist and film publicist, Margulies started in movies working with Stanley Kubrick on Spartacus, but gained fameand an Emmyfor Roots in 1977, which raised America's consciousness about slavery and black history. He also won Emmys for Roots' 1979 sequel and for 1991's Separate but Equal, a docudrama about the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. For the big screen he produced nine movies,including perennial children's favorite Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

DIED. ARTURO USLAR PIETRI, 94, Venezuelan novelist and politician...