DEATHS
Producer Allan Carr, 62, of cancer, June 29, in Beverly Hills. Carr's film credits include the 1978 musical Grease. He also won a Best Musical Tony in 1984 for La Cage aux Folles.... Screenwriter Frank Tarloff, 83, of lung cancer, June 25, in Beverly Hills. A survivor of the Hollywood blacklist, Tarloff won a 1964 Oscar for coscripting the Cary Grant farce Father Goose, and wrote for such sitcoms as The Andy Griffith Show.... Protean intellectual Clifton Fadiman, 95, of pancreatic cancer, June 20, in Sanibel Island, Fla. An inveterate wit, Fadiman influenced the nation's erudition through his decades-long editorship of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.... Italian writer-director Mario Soldati, 92, of natural causes, June 19, in Rome. Soldati directed nearly 30 films from 1931 to 1960, including 1953's La Provinciale.... British actor-director Douglas Seale, 85, of undisclosed causes, June 13, in New York. Best known for his turn in Broadway's Noises Off (1983), Seale also voiced the Sultan in 1992's Aladdin.... Novelist J.F. Powers, 81, of natural causes, June 12, in Collegeville, Minn. Powers' stories and books, including the 1963 National Book Award-winning Morte d'Urban, dealt with Catholicism and faith.

Originally posted Jul 09, 1999 Published in issue #493 Jul 09, 1999 Order article reprints
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