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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 28, 1992
Jose Ferrer dies at age 80
Actor won 1950 Oscar for role as Cyrano de Bergerac
The Associated Press
MIAIAM — Jose Ferrer, who won an Oscar in 1950 as lovelorn, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac and was nominated for his portrayal of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, has died at age 80.
Ferrer, who died of undisclosed causes Sunday at Doctors' Hospital in suburban Coral Gables, was known for his rich, aristocratic baritone and his use of disguises to play villains as well as comic figures.
He made his reputation as a classical actor with a 1946 Broadway triumph in "Cyrano de Bergerac," wearing an enormous false nose for the role of the homely romantic. He won an Oscar for best actor on the screen.
Later he was nominated for an Oscar after strapping his legs back to play the gnomish Toulouse-Lautrec in the 1952 film "Moulin Rouge."
"Jose was not a pretty face. He was not a handsome matinee idol, not a Clark Gable or Charles Boyer," said Alan Greer, a board member at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, where Ferrer was artistic director. "He was an actor. And he could play so many different parts because of that."
Ferrer won two Tony Awards for acting — in "Cyrano de Bergerac" in 1947 and "The Shrike" in 1952 — and a third for his direction of "The Fourposter," "Stalag 17" and "The Shrike," all in the 1951-52 Broadway season.
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Ferrer earned a bachelor's degree at Princeton University. He made his Broadway debut in 1935.
His big break came with the comic title role in
"Charley's Aunt" in 1940. In 1943 he appeared as the sinister Iago opposite Paul Robeson's Othello, with his thenwife Uta Hagen as Desdemona.
Ferrer received an Oscar nomination for his film debut, as the Dauphin opposite Ingrid Bergman in the 1948 film "Joan of Arc." Among his other film roles was that of the embittered defense attorney Lt. Barney Greenwald in the "Caine Mute" in 1954.
his other films included "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "Ship of Fools" "Dune" and "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy."
On television, Ferrer starred in two productions of "Cyrano de Bergerac." More recently, he played a rich, aristocratic father on "Newhart."
Ferrer settled in Miami in 1982 to serve as artistic adviser to the Coconut Grove Playhouse, where he won praise for his role as a doddering Shakespearean actor in a 1982 production of "The Dresser."
Ferrer last appeared on stage in a 1990 musical version of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" in England. He was preparing to star with Judd Hirsch in Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" or Broadway when he became ill last month.
He was married four times, to, Hagen, the singer Rosemary Clooney. Phyllis Hill and Stella Magee.
In addition to Magee, his survivors include three sons, including TV actor Miguel Ferrer of "Twin Peaks"; three daughters; and eight grandchildren.
No public funeral or memorial service has been planned.
ATLANTA — Soviet military leaders who staged a coup last August ensured their own failure by appearing obviously nervous during a televised news conference, the Russian foreign ministry's representative said Monday.
Soviet coup attempt foiled by TV conference, official says
The ill-fated news conference was "one of the interesting lessons of the coup and one of the mistakes the plotter made," Vitaly Churkin told contributors to Cable News Network's WorldReport.
"I think politicians now realize that, when you want to take power by force, when you do a coup, you do not do a press conference," he said. "But if you
do a press conference, you must do it in an intimidating way because taking power by force is supposed to be intimidating."
Churkin's office at what was then the Soviet foreign ministry organized the news conference during the abortive coup against then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Churkin commended the Soviet cameraman who focused on the trembling hands of coup leaders and the television editors who made sure the shot stayed in the story.
Churkin, who was on vacation at the time, defended the office's involvement, saying his employees made sure the plotters didn't control the media.
The coup led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union at year's end and its replacement by a Commonwealth of Independent States containing most of the former Soviet republics.
Churkin spoke to about 150 broadcast journalists who are contributors to the CNN World Report, a daily roundup of international news features.
Churkin was in the United States to arrange a trip planned later this week by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
University of California students protest fee increases
The Associated Press
when the state Legislature reconvenes. The auditorium doors were open and students could come and go.
No injuries were reported.
Five students were arrested on charges ranging from battery against
"We're standing up for ourselves," said student Ryan Bezzera, 22. "I suspect the regents came here because they thought it was a quiet campus. I think nothing like this has ever happened here."
DAVIS, Calif. — About 300 students at the University of California, Davis, occupied an auditorium after the UC regents approved at least a 24 percent increase in student fees. Five students were arrested.
a police officer to iniciting a riot, police
they were booked and released on bail
They remained in Freeborn Hall late Friday afternoon. Protest leaders said they would remain until Tuesday,
Regents met in the auditorium, but had left by the time students occupied
The protest began about 30 minutes after the regents boosted the annual fee by $550, meaning resident undergraduate students will now pay $2,824.
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