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LOS ANGELES -- Police said Gregory Peck's star has been stolen from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Authorities said they don't know when it happened. Police said they learned of the stolen star from Johnny Grant, who serves as Hollywood's honorary mayor and oversees the sidewalk salute to celebrity. Grant said Peck's star apparently disappeared sometime between Nov. 17 and Nov. 22. The late acting legend's star is the fourth one to be stolen since the Walk of Fame started in 1960. Years ago, stars honoring James Stewart and Kirk Douglas disappeared after they were removed during a construction project...

POLICY AGAINST CUBA IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY An exclusive interview with Harry Belafonte By Sandra Levinson Cubanow.- What kind of commitment does it take to still be here, supporting Cuba, after all these years? I don't see it as a supreme effort, it's a way of life: if you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind, I don't know if you have any other choice than to be there for as long as it takes. But, what I...

ENTRANCES AND EXITS: GREGORY PECK I think of Gregory Peck as walking on and walking off, with a little speech-giving in between. In Other People’s Money (1991), he plays the head of New England Wire & Cable, an old-fashioned family firm being stalked by a corporate asset-stripper in the blunt form of Danny De Vito. Peck is there to represent, as he often did, decency and dignity and rock-ribbed nobility, and he gives us one of Hollywood’s last great Frank Capra moments, standing up at the stockholders’ meeting and defending his company’s solid all-American values. It’s a great speech and...

More than 2,000 mourners said goodbye to legendary actor Gregory Peck in a public memorial service Monday in Los Angeles. Peck, who was 87, died in his sleep Thursday. He was laid to rest during a private service in the crypt-mausoleum beneath the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Among the mourners at the service were Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Harry Belafonte, Anjelica Huston, Tony Danza and Michael York; as well as Peck's family, including his wife, Veronique, his sons, Stephen, Anthony and Carey, and his daughter, Cecilia Peck-Voll. Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson, a black...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood will bid farewell to Oscar-winning screen legend Gregory Peck at a giant memorial service on Monday following a small private burial in Los Angeles, his publicist told AFP. Peck died at home in his sleep Thursday at the age of 87. The public mass in the city's huge new cathedral will be led by the head of the largest US Catholic diocese, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, and the eulogy was to be given by Peck's "To Kill A Mockingbird" co-star, Brock Peters. Peck was considered a consummate movie star, known for playing heroes on the screen...

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<p>LOS ANGELES  — Gregory Peck (search), the lanky, handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award-winner, To Kill a Mockingbird (search), has died, a spokesman said Thursday. He was 87.</p> <p>Peck died overnight, Monroe Friedman told The Associated Press.</p>