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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) chairman John Calley announced an executive shuffle Oct. 25: SPE president and COO Mel Harris is now second in command, assisted by new copresident Ken Lemberger; Columbia Pictures chairman Amy Pascal will report to Harris, sharing decision-making with two other execs. The shift, which establishes a new power structure before Calley's expected November 2001 retirement, prompted a swirl of press suggesting Pascal, one of Hollywood's few top female execs, had been demoted, since she previously reported directly to Calley. The studio denies the allegation.

DEATHS
Actor Anthony Dwain Lee, 39, Oct. 28 of multiple gunshot wounds, at a Halloween party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lee, who appeared in 1997's Liar Liar and on TV shows like ER, allegedly pointed a toy gun at Officer Tarriel Hopper, 27, who had been sent to the costume party when a neighbor called the police about the noise. Hopper fired several rounds from his gun and wounded Lee; paramedics later pronounced the actor dead at the scene. A witness, filmmaker Robert Hull, who was standing a few feet from Lee when he was shot, calls the police's behavior ''ludicrous.'' An LAPD spokesman says: ''It appeared to be a firearm to the officer, and he feared for his life. He thought it was a real gun.'' The LAPD and the DA's office are investigating the shooting.... Actress Muriel Evans, 90, reportedly of colon cancer Oct. 26 in Woodland Hills, Calif. She appeared in more than 40 films during the '30s and '40s but was best known for her roles in Westerns like King of the Pecos with John Wayne and the William Boyd Hopalong Cassidy movies.

Originally posted Nov 10, 2000 Published in issue #568 Nov 10, 2000 Order article reprints

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