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  • Karl Malden dies at 97

    ...and Gen. Omar Bradley in "Patton." His varied performances established Malden, former Times film critic Charles Champlin once wrote, "as an Everyman, but one whose range moved easily up and down the levels of society and the IQ scale......

  • 'Jaws' Star Roy Scheider Dies at 75

    ...presence, and it wasn't his; we seemed to be looking right through him to Fosse." And then-Times critic Charles Champlin wrote that Scheider "is a wonderment, a dancing dynamo whose portrayal of this life-splurging, death-obsessed......

  • Novelist, Screenwriter Sidney Sheldon dies

    ...after time." After Sheldon's 1987 novel "Windmills of the Gods" debuted at No. 1 on bestseller lists, Charles Champlin, then The Times' arts editor, wrote that Sheldon had found "a statistically wider audience each time, evidently......

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