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George Kennedy, the veteran actor who built his early career playing heavies and won an Academy Award in 1968 for his supporting role as the tough Southern prison-camp convict who grew to hero-worship Paul Newman’s defiant title character in “Cool Hand Luke,” died Sunday in Boise, Idaho, of natural causes, said his grandson Cory Schenkel. |
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FILE - A Tuesday, March 31, 2015 file photo of Cardinal George Pell attending a press conference at the Vatican Radio headquarters, in Rome. One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify in public starting Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, about clerical sex abuse, an unusual.... |
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George Kennedy, the veteran actor who built his early career playing heavies and won an Academy Award in 1968 for his supporting role as the tough Southern prison-camp convict who grew to hero-worship Paul Newman’s defiant title character in “Cool Hand Luke,” died Sunday in Boise, Idaho, of natural causes, said his grandson Cory Schenkel. |
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FILE - A Tuesday, March 31, 2015 file photo of Cardinal George Pell attending a press conference at the Vatican Radio headquarters, in Rome. One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify in public starting Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, about clerical sex abuse, an unusual.... |
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Associated Press/file/1968. Mr. Kennedy posed with his Oscar after winning best supporting actor for “Cool Hand Luke.” WASHINGTON George Kennedy, the burly character actor who won an Academy Award as a chain-gang leader in ‘‘Cool Hand Luke,’’ threatened Audrey Hepburn as a hook-armed villain in.... |
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The cause was a heart ailment, said Steve Rhodes, chief deputy coroner of Canyon County, Idaho. In a career spanning more than 175 films and television credits, Mr. Kennedy was among the most dependable and versatile performers in Hollywood. Whether malevolent, earnest or serving as comic relief, he.... |
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He had supporting parts in two Clint Eastwood dramas, as a foul-tempered crook in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (1974) and as a mountain climber in the spy thriller “The Eiger Sanction” (1975). He coasted through a series of action and disaster films such as “Earthquake” (1974) and the four “Airport” movies based on Arthur Hailey’s bestselling novel. |
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One of Pope Francis' top advisers has told reporters he has the pope's backing as he prepared to testify for a second day at an Australian inquiry into child abuse FILE - A Tuesday, March 31, 2015 file photo of Cardinal George Pell attending a press conference at the Vatican Radio headquarters, in Rome. |
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CANBERRA, Australia One of ' top advisers has told reporters he has the pope's backing as he prepared to testify for a second day at an Australian inquiry into child abuse. Australian Cardinal met with the pope on Monday hours after he gave evidence via videolink from Rome to the Royal Commission in Sydney on Tuesday Australian time. |
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BOSTON - Victims of clergy sexual abuse are reveling in the Oscar won by "Spotlight" — the story of The Boston Globe's investigation into the scandal — but say they don't hold out much hope that the elevated status from the film's Best Picture award will prompt changes at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic church. |
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FILE - A Tuesday, March 31, 2015 file photo of Cardinal George Pell attending a press conference at the Vatican Radio headquarters, in Rome. One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify in public starting Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, about clerical sex abuse, an unusual.... |
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