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Oscar-winning actor Coburn
remembered as ‘hippest of hii
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
James Coburn’s intense smile
could switch from cheerful to
menacing with the slightest nar
rowing of his eyes.
That enabled the gravel
voiced actor, who died of a heart
attack Monday at age 74, to play
a wide array of characters,
from the gruff mountaineer in
the kiddie comedy Snow' Dogs
to his Oscar-winning perform
ance as a violent, alcoholic
father in Affliction.
Cobum’s breakthrough per-
fonnances came in 1960s action
flicks such as The Magnificent
Seven, Hell is For Heroes and
The Great Escape.
He then changed direction
and found what was for decades
his greatest fame: portraying
tongue-in-cheek secret agent
Derek Flint in the late 1960s
James Bond spoofs Our Man
Flint and hi Like Flint.
But while they remain cult
favorites, the Flint movies did
n’t afford him the status and
respect enjoyed by other con
temporary “tough guy” actors
such as Lee Marvin and Steve
McQueen.
His role as Glen
Whitehouse, the violent drunk
in Affliction that Nolte’s small
town cop feared becoming,
brought him his only Oscar. It
was a role he savored after
years spent recovering from the
near-crippling arthritis that
impeded his career.
“He enjoyed every day of it
and never complained and
always acted like he was the
luckiest guy in the world.” said
Paul Schrader, the screenwriter
and director of Affliction.
“Some of them you do for
money, some of them you do for
love,” Cobum said of the film.
“This is a love child.”
Coburn had recently com
pleted two films. The Man From
Elysian Fields with Andy
Garcia, and American Gun. in
which his character travels the
country in search of his daugh
ter’s killer.
Garcia described Cobum as
“the personification of class, the
hippest of the hip.”
“With an extraordinary level
of artistry and a trend-setting
flare, I will always look at our
time together as a great privi
lege,” Garcia said.
“He was of that ’50s genera
tion,” Schrader said. “He had
that part hipster, part cool-cat
aura about him. He was one of
those kind of men who were
formed by the Playboy/ Rat
Pack kind of style.”
Cobum was bom in Laurel,
Neb., on Aug. 31, 1928. and
grew up in Southern California.
He made his stage debut oppo
site Vincent Price in a La Jolla
Playhouse production of Billy
Budd. He appeared regularly
throughout the 1950s in such
James Coburn’s lasting legacy
James Coburn died Monday after suffering a heart attacka -
home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A versa;"
actor known for playing gritty, ; c -
characters won an Academy^
for his supporting role irTAffcr
He was 74.
Selected filmography
1960 “The Magnificent Seven’
1963 “The Great Escape’
1965 "Major Dundee”
1966 ‘Our Man Flint"
1967 The President’s Analyst'
1973 “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'
1979 “GoldengirT
1990 “Young Guns II"
1994 “Maverick”
1996 “The Nutty Professor"
1998 “Affliction"
2001 “Monsters, Inc."
2002 “The Man from Elysian Fields'
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TV Westerns as Wagon Train.
The Rifleman and Wanted: Dead
or Alive.
His role as knife-throwing
Britt in the epic Western The
Magnificent Seven was his first
big breakthrough. Other
notable works included The
President’s Analyst (1967).
Goldengirl (1979). and the Sam
Peckinpah films Major Dundee
(1965) and Pat Garrett and
Billy the Kid (1973).
He worked steadily through
the ’90s, appearing in such
wide-ranging fare as Young
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said Hillard Elkins, then
longtime friend and tea
manager.
Plans for a memorial set
remained incomplete Toe -
Man under NASA scrutiny may have jumpel
HOUSTON (AP) — A man w'ho appar
ently jumped from a single-engine plane at
9,000 feet was the target of a federal inves
tigation involving the theft of NASA tech
nology, authorities said.
Russell Edward Filler, a 47-year-old
engineer for a NASA contractor, became a
suspect when federal authorities traced a
NASA laptop computer to his home. The
computer disappeared Oct. 25.
He was contacted by federal authorities
Thursday.
On Sunday, Filler went to Hooks
Airport because he needed more hours to
renew his pilot's license.
Filler turned the controls of the single
engine Cessna 152 over to his flight
instructor, then asked him to turn the plane
sharply so he could get a better look at the
ground. Waller County Sheriff Randy
There was tio accidental
exit from the aircraft.
— Lt. John Kremmer
Waller County Sheriff's Department
Smith said.
Smith said Filler then opened the cock
pit door and unfastened his seat belt as the
plane flew over a rural area about 45 miles
northwest of Houston. The instructor
looked away for a moment, and when he
looked back he saw Filler's feet going out
the door. Filler’s body has not been found.
Filler told authorities last week that he
bought the computer for $500 through an
ad posted in a grocery store, said Harris
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Meteors draw enthusiastic audience Texas set to exec*
convicted cop
Tuesday night
HUNTSVILLE, Texas
j murder
AP — Amateur and profes
sional stargazers alike were
treated to a spectacular light
show early Tuesday as meteors
blazed Technicolor trails
across the night sky.
Most of Europe and many
parts of North America were
obscured by clouds, but it was
clear enough at Raleigh, N.C.,
that Debbie Moose and her hus
band, Rob Vatz, saw 20 to 25
meteors in the 45 minutes or so
that they stood outside in the
freezing cold.
“Some were little pinpoints,
but some were really bright, like
flaming golf balls,” Moose said.
The celestial display was the
annual appearance of the Leonid
meteor shower, caused when the
Earth passes through a trail of
comet debris. But this year's
show came from two unusually
dense trails on one night.
It will be nearly a century
before the Leonids, usually one
of the year’s biggest displays,
produce such a big swann of
shooting stars again.
“They were bursting like six
Even though I
know what’s causing
it, it’s like a little hit
of magic.
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— Debbie Moose
meteor shower observer
at a time in different colors,” said
Linda Mora, one of about 40 peo
ple who fortified themselves
against the cold with sleeping
bags and blankets at Paradise,
Texas. “I was so excited I didn’t
feel any cold.”
The temperature was only 18
degrees at Flagstaff, Ariz., when
Phil Massey, an astronomer at the
Lowell Observatory, went out to
watch in the clear mountain air.
“I thought it was spectacu
lar,” he said. “All professional
astronomers are really tourists
when it comes to meteor show
ers.”
The annual shower occurs
when the Earth passes through
the trail of dust left by comet
Tempel-Tuttle, which swings
around the sun once every 33
years. The dust grains, traveling
at 158,000 mph, glow and vapor
ize as friction heats them up in
the upper atmosphere, producing
streaks of light.
The Earth intersects those
debris trails each year in mid-
November, but this year it
crossed two unusually dense
trails, laid down in 1767 and
1866. That produced two peaks
of meteors during the night, one
over Europe and one over North
America.
“Even though I know what’s
causing it, it’s like a little bit of
magic,” Moose said in Raleigh.
The Earth is not expected to
strike another stream of equal
density from the Tempel-Tuttle
comet until 2098 or 213 1.
The Leonids are named for
the constellation Leo that marks
the direction from which the
meteors appear to an ive.
County sheriff's Capt. Robert Van Pel
Van Pelt said Filler turned onthtrL
puter anti saw that it had somenonsfl®
live NASA software on it, but
computer. Filler admitted he L' [
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