RECOVERING

Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, 44, told London police he'd suffered head injuries in a robbery during a 4 a.m. stroll April 17, but later admitted he'd ''fallen for the oldest con in the book'' and had tripped over his dog while pursuing a young man who'd conned him out of his cell phone. No arrest has been made.

AILING

American Bandstand's Dick Clark, 74, told Larry King on April 16 that he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1994.

DEATHS

Micheline Charest, 51, cofounder of Canada's Emmy-award-winning children's-TV production company Cinar Corp (Arthur, inset), of complications from plastic surgery, April 14, in Montreal.... Film and Broadway actor David Clarke (Adam's Rib), 95, of natural causes, April 18, in Arlington, Va.... Will Fowler, 81, an author (The Second Handshake) and veteran L.A. newsman, thought to be the first reporter on the scene of 1947's Black Dahlia murder, of cancer, April 13, in Burbank.... Documentarian John Goodell, 94, an Oscar nominee for 1973's Always a New Beginning, April 4, in St. Paul.... Carl Samuelson, 77, owner of Stagedoor Manor -- the Loch Sheldrake, N.Y., theater camp that inspired the 2003 movie Camp and was attended by such future actors as Zach Braff, Mandy Moore, and Natalie Portmanafter a brief illness, April 20, in Delray Beach, Fla.... Scriptwriter John Vlahos (The Defenders), 86, of natural causes, April 8, in Westport, Conn.

Originally posted Apr 30, 2004 Published in issue #762-763 Apr 30, 2004 Order article reprints
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