DIVORCING. MONTEL WILLIAMS, 43, TV host and multiple sclerosis sufferer, and GRACE WILLIAMS, 36, actress, his wife of seven years. They have two children.
NATURALIZED. ANTHONY HOPKINS, 62, Oscar-winning British actor; as a U.S. citizen; in Los Angeles. Sir Anthony the Yank (LECTER THE DEFECTOR, cried one British headline) will be a dual national.
DIED. LARRY LINVILLE, 60, TV’s Major Frank Burns, the military stickler captivated by Nurse Hot Lips in the 1970s comic hit M*A*S*H; of pneumonia complications; in New York City.
DIED. JAMES VORENBERG, 72, former Harvard Law School dean and a key deputy to Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, whose organizational efforts helped the office survive President Nixon’s ouster of Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre; of cardiac arrest; in Boston.
DIED. ROBERT KOMER, 78, President Johnson’s aggressive chief of “pacification,” the controversial propaganda program aimed at the Vietnamese during the war; in Arlington, Va. A once fiery hawk, he came to view the war as “a strategic disaster.”
DIED. ALBERT TURNER, 64, civil rights leader at the vanguard of a 1965 voting-rights march from Selma; after his heart stopped before a surgery; in Selma, Ala.
DIED. WILLIAM STOKOE JR., 80, Gallaudet University professor whose work led to recognition of American Sign Language as a true language and a fitting teaching tool for the deaf; in Chevy Chase, Md.
DIED. ANDRE DEUTSCH, 82, influential Hungarian-born British publisher who rose from being a bird scarer in Shropshire to publishing Norman Mailer’s best-selling The Naked and the Dead; in London.
DIED. GIORGIO BASSANI, 84, acclaimed Italian author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962), a haunting, semiautobiographical novel of an aristocratic Jewish family’s illusory attempts to take refuge from the Fascists in a walled villa; in Rome.
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