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BIRTHS
Actor James Caan, 58, and wife, Linda, 42, welcomed their
second son, eight-pound Jacob Nicholas, Sept. 24, in Los Angeles.
Their son James Arthur is 2.
MISSING
Ten reels of footage from the Warren Beatty-Diane
Keaton-Goldie Hawn comedy Town and Country, from a delivery van,
Sept. 19, in New York City. When they weren't found, the
production was forced to reshoot the scenes. New Line Cinema is
still offering a $5,000 reward.
LAWSUITS
Producer Peter Stuart, 38, filed a breach-of-contract
suit against supermodel-cum-TV personality Cindy Crawford, 32,
Sept. 18, 1998, in New York City. In court papers, Stuart alleges that
Crawford failed to honor their joint-venture agreement when she
developed, without him, the ABC special Sex With Cindy Crawford,
which aired Sept. 22. Stuart is seeking unspecified damages. A
spokesperson for Crawford declined to comment.
RECOVERING
Jim Carrey, 36, from a neck injury, suffered during
an altercation with pro wrestler Jerry Lawler, Sept. 22, in L.A.
Carrey and Lawler were between takes on the set of Man in the
Moon, a biopic of late comedian Andy Kaufman, when the actor
spit on the wrestler. ''It was Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman who
spit on Lawler,'' insists Carrey's spokesperson. Lawler is the
same wrestler who inflicted a similar injury on the real Kaufman
in 1982.... Country crooner Johnny Cash, 66, from pneumonia.
''He's in satisfactory condition,'' says a spokeswoman at
Nashville's Baptist Hospital, where the singer is currently
undergoing treatment.
DEATHS
Jazz singer Betty Carter, 69, of pancreatic cancer, Sept.
26, in Brooklyn....Sesame Street writer
and composer Jeffrey Moss, 56, of colon cancer, Sept. 24, in New
York City. A Princeton grad, Moss cofounded the ground-breaking
children's show with Muppet master Jim Henson in 1969. He
created such characters as Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.
Among other honors, Moss won 14 Emmys.... Actress Mary Frann,
55, of heart failure, Sept. 23, in L.A. Frann is best remembered
for playing Bob Newhart's wife in the CBS sitcom Newhart, which
ran from 1982-90.... Writer Sam Locke, 81, Sept. 18, in San
Diego. Locke began his career in radio and went on to write for
movies, theater, and TV, including ABC's McHale's Navy (1962-66)
and CBS' All in the Family (1971-83).
