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Art Buchwald
Age: 81 (passed away Jan. 17th, 2007)
Height: 5' 8"
Birth Place: Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Born: Oct. 20th, 1925
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TRIVIA:
- Wrote "Too Soon to Say Goodbye" after deciding to stop kidney dialysis and moving into a hospice, expecting to die within weeks. After the visits of many big-name visitors and friends, he put his experiences into the book, released in November 2006.
- Successfully sued Paramount Pictures, claiming a two-page treatment he sold the studio in 1983 ("King for a Day") was the basis for 'Eddie Murphy (I)' (qv)'s hit film _Coming to America (1988)_ (qv), and to which Buchwald was owed net profit participation. Despite "Coming to America" earning over $100 million, Paramount claimed it had lost money on the film, and owed Buchwald nothing. He won the case and was awarded $900,000, but Paramount later appealed, and the matter was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. The lawsuit became renowned in the film industry as a blatant example of Hollywood's "creative accounting" practices, and an example of why "net profits" are essentially meaningless.
- The New York Times wrote that Buchwald's deathbed had become the "hottest salon" in Washington.
- Served in the US Marine Corps during World War II from 1942-1945 with the Fourth Marine Air Wing.
- After Buchwald's right leg was amputated in February 2006 as the result of diabetes, he made the decision to accept the inevitability of his declining health over the prospect of dialysis for the rest of his life. As his kidneys started to fail, he entered a hospice in Washington. It was supposed to be a short stay - perhaps two or three weeks - his doctors said. But as word of his condition emerged, Buchwald began playing host to scores of politicians and celebrities that he had known over his decades as a writer. Visitors included members of the Kennedy family, former CBS newsman 'Walter Cronkite' (qv), singer 'Carly Simon' (qv), former Washington Post Editor 'Benjamin C. Bradlee' (qv), former Defense Secretary 'Donald Rumsfeld' (qv) and television host 'Phil Donahue' (qv).
- Won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982.
- Born at 10:0am-EST
- Longtime friend of 'Kyra Phillips' (qv), since she interviewed him for her USC school paper in February, 1989.
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