Author, playwright, politician Gore Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills due to complications stemming from pneumonia, A.P. reports. His nephew said he had been sick for "quite a while" and had been living alone in the home when he passed away Tuesday.
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Maybe this is the 3-D revival Hollywood should foist on holiday moviegoers: "ABC's traditional Easter-weekend broadcast of The Ten Commandments was the highest-rated program of the night with a 1.6 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.9 million total viewers." That would make 2012 the fifth year out of the last six that Cecil B. DeMille's epic swan song claimed the top ratings spot the night before Easter. Holy Moses, etc... [TV By the Numbers via Big Hollywood]
Those were the days: "So much for the long-standing rumor that Obi-Wan would be played by Kenneth Branagh, or the latest gossip that Charlton Heston would sign on as another Jedi or perhaps even -- good Lord -- the young Yoda." [Moviefone]
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