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"The guy puts his hand on his wife's leg. 'We're married now,' she tells him. Why don't you go a little farther?' So, he goes to Fort Lauderdale." This was in a restaurant in Toronto in 1999, where we were having lunch before Lou was scheduled to dedicate his star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

Lou Jacobi, the mustachioed, scene-stealing Canadian-born actor and comedian who made a film and stage career playing comic ethnic characters but was lauded for serious dramatic roles as well, died Friday at his home in Manhattan.

" Oct. 23, 2009, critically acclaimed actor of comic and ethic characters, has passed away at his home in Manhattan according to social worker, Leonie Nowitz, who oversaw his care.

Toronto-born actor and comedian Lou Jacobi has died. The mustachioed scene-stealing Jacobi made a career of playing comic ethnic characters on stage, screen and television, but was lauded for his dramatic roles as well.

NEW YORK - Longtime character actor Lou Jacobi has died at the age of 95. The Canadian-born Jacobi died Friday at his home in Manhattan.

Shelley Winters was a film actress, noted for her roles in "The Diary of Anne Frank," and "A Place in the Sun." She won two Oscars for "The Diarly of Anne Frank," and "A Patch of Blue." She is probably most known for her role in "The Poseidon Adventure," the 1972 action/disaster flick.

Diane Baker's professional acting career began by her performing a scene from the 1955 James Dean movie "East of Eden." "I did the scene for three studios," says the vivacious 71-year-old. "That's all I ever did.

He is the award-winning writer famed for tough-guy dramas like Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow.

Writer and editor Ron Rollins has covered entertainment and the Dayton arts scene for more than a decade.

Disney is planning a new movie based on "The Diary of Anne Frank ," and has signed on Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet to write and direct the film.

Anne Frank's account of hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, published posthumously in English as "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl," has moved millions of readers across the decades.

Anne Frank's account of hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, published posthumously in English as "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl," has moved millions of readers across the decades.

Anne Frank's account of hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, published posthumously in English as "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl," has moved millions of readers across the decades.

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Tony van Renterghem of Carlsborg, a Dutch cavalryman who protected Jews and Allied service members during World War II while documenting the Nazi occupation of his native Amsterdam, has died of age-related causes.

Director George Stevens has sometimes been unfairly dismissed as a maker of "prestige" mainstream movies .

ONE measure of the enormity of the crimes committed by Hitler 's Germany can be found in how long it took American popular culture to conceptualize them.

Following the Nazi invasion of Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the confines of an attic.

Rated PG-13 WHO: Tyler Perry, Derek Luke, Keshia Knight-Pulliam, Viola Davis, Sofia Vergara THE SCOOP: The feisty grandma is arrested after a high-speed chase on a California freeway and, thanks to he anger-management issues, winds up in the hoosegow.

The twin sister of actress Pier Angeli, Marisa Pavan was generally cast in gentle roles during her brief career as a leading lady of 1950s films.