By Tom Selleck, against The Globe, a supermarket tabloid; in Los Angeles, July 3. The actor, who starred in the TV series “Magnum, P.I.,” charges his name had no business appearing in a story headlined ‘GAY’ STARS STOP TRAFFIC. Selleck, who is asking for $20 million, says he is “singularly heterosexual.”
Sports announcer Howard Cosell, 73; after chest surgery, July 1. The cancer treatment follows removal of a malignant tumor June 10.
54; of pancreatic and liver cancer, in Malibu, Calif., July 1. The actor, director and writer came to personify the ideal in all-American boyhood and fatherhood, despite his own sad childhood. For 14 years he played Little Joe on “Bonanza” and for eight more was the perfect frontier father on “Little House on the Prairie.”
55; Of kidney and lung cancer, in Los Angeles, Calif. July 2. Her l962 Oscar nomination for her role as an alcoholic in “Days of Wine and Roses” ensured Remick’s international acclaim and led to a wide range of appearances, most notably in “Baby the Rain Must Fall,” “Sometimes a Great Notion” and “The Europeans.”
87; of natural causes, in Minneapolis, Minn., July 4. Wanglie, who had been comatose for 14 months, died three days after her husband, Oliver, won a landmark case against her doctors. They argued that Wanglie should be taken off life-support systems because she had no hope of recovery, but the court ruled that decisions of life and death should be left to competent family members.
