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uddenly Susan' actor found dead in motel
Strickland appeared cheerful and spoke of his fu
ture during an interview just a few weeks before his
death.
“I’m just trying to do a bunch of different things,”
he told AP Network News. “I’d love to direct an
episode next year of ’Suddenly Susan.’ I think that’s
the best part about the entertainment business. I’d
even like to try to get into a garage band.”
“I’d like to be 30, 38, 39 and doing something re
ally great and sort of have this look back and say, ’He’s
worked consistently,”’ he said. “There’s something
nice about that.”
NBC spokesperson Rebecca Marks said the com
pany was “deeply saddened by the news of David
Strickland’s death and our condolences and support
go out to his family and friends.”
Strickland was born in Glen Cove, N.Y., and moved
to Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles while he was in
high school.
He worked on a number of student films and ap
peared in episodes of the television shows
“Roseanne” and “Dave’s World.” He also had recur
ring roles on “Sister, Sister” and “Mad About You.”
Oscars place #1 in
Nielsen Media ratings
(AP) - Prime-time ratings compiled
by Nielsen Media Research for March
15-21 have been released. Top 10 list
ings include the week’s ranking, with
the rating for the week and season-to-
date rankings in parentheses.
An “X” in parentheses denotes a
one-time-only presentation. The rat
ing is the percentage of the nation’s
estimated 99.4 million TV homes.
Each ratings point represents 994,000
Households.
1. (X) “Academy Awards,” ABC,
28.6, 28.4 million homes.
2. (X) “Oscar Preview Show,”
ABC, 18.1, 17.9 million homes.
3. (2) “Friends,” NBC, 16.6, 16.5
million homes.
4. (3) “Frasier,” NBC, 14.4, 14.3
million homes.
5. (X) “Frasier,” NBC, 14.0, 13.9
million homes.
6. (6) “Jesse,” NBC, 13.9,13.8 mil
lion homes.
7. “Barbara Walters Special,” ABC,
12.7, 12.6 million homes.
8. “Everybody Loves Raymond,”
CBS, 12.4,12.3 million homes.
9. (1) “ER,” NBC, 12.1, 12.0 mil
lion homes.
10. “NCAA Basketball Champi
onship: Post Game,” CBS, 11.6, 11.5
million homes.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — David Strick
land, who played the music critic on
the NBC sitcom “Suddenly Susan”
and had a role in the new movie
Forces of Nature, was found dead in
a motel room, an apparent suicide.
A worker at the Oasis Motel found
Strickland’s body hanging from a
bed sheet strung from a ceiling beam
Monday, motel owner Peter Napoli
said. A chair was next to the body.
Police were investigating the death as a suicide, po
ll spokesperson Steve Meriwether said. Strickland
^rasiidentified by his publicist, Marisa McGrath.
S. i ickiand, 29, played the comically insecure writer
.odd on NBC’s “Suddenly Susan,” which stars Brooke
hields as a magazine writer. He had been on the show
)r the last three seasons.
^■trickland also appears in Forces of Nature, starring
andra Bullock and Ben Affleck, playing the ex-
oylriend of Affleck’s fiancee. The movie opened last
and was No. 1 at the box office over the week-
nd.
\mplaints filed against Methodist ministers
mrticipatingin lesbian marriage ceremonies
Fado did not return a call for
comment Tliesday.
The conflict over same-sex
weddings has been simmering
for years within the United
Methodist Church, which with
8.5 million members is the na
tion’s second-biggest Protestant
denomination after the Southern
Baptists.
Fado led the wedding-like cel
ebration for Jeanne Barnett, 68,
and Ellie Charlton, 63. The
women have long been active in
Fado’s church, St. Marks United
Methodist, and have been a cou
ple for more than 15 years.
More than 1,000 members of
the clergy, gays and others at
tended the ceremony, which was
held at the Sacramento Commu
nity Center and included folk
songs, dancing and poetry.
While Fado presided, the oth
er ministers lined up on risers on
the stage to chant the blessing
that Fado proclaimed could land
them all in trouble with church
officials: “O God, our maker, we
gladly proclaim to the world that
Jeanne and Ellie are loving part
ners together for life.”
JACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
'hi Methodist bishop for North-
m Zalifornia filed a complaint
'uasday against 69 ministers
/he) participated in a lesbian
hJly union ceremony” in mass
efiance of a church ban on
anke-sex marriages.
[Whe complaint is the first step
award a possible church trial for
he Rev. Don Fado, who presided
t the Jan. 15 celebration, and the
ither ministers. If convicted, they
ould be removed from the clergy.
Mishop Melvin Talbert, head of
he 375-church California-Nevada
Jnited Methodist Conference, said
ie brought the complaint with
sorrow and regret.”
' Talbert said the church’s ban
in ceremonies recognizing gay re-
itionships is an “act of injustice.”
lut he said church law required
im to act on a complaint brought
Iwo pastors.
“I will uphold law, but I will not
silenced. I will continue speak-
Jout against the law and will
ntinue working to change the
sition of our church to be more
keeping with the teachings and
inpassion of Jesus,” he said.
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