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   gggg gggg to Richard Carnahan   
   Re: RIP: Billy Wilder   
   02 Sep 22 22:24:36   
   
   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 2:17:31 PM UTC-8, Richard Carnahan wrote:   
   > c The Associated Press   
   > LOS ANGELES (March 28) - Filmmaker Billy Wilder, the Austrian-born cynic   
   whose   
   > gifts for writing and directing led to such classics as ''Sunset Boulevard,''   
   > ''Some Like it Hot'' and ''Double Indemnity,'' has died. He was 95.   
   > Wilder died Wednesday night at his home, said George Schlatter, a producer   
   and   
   > longtime friend. Schlatter said Wilder's health had been failing in recent   
   > months.   
   > Schlatter said he believed his friend of 40 years had been suffering from a   
   > bout with pneumonia.   
   > As co-writer, director and producer of the 1960 film ''The Apartment,''   
   Wilder   
   > collected three Oscars, the only person to do so for one film. Among his   
   other   
   > classics: ''Sunset Boulevard,'' ''Double Indemnity,'' ''Stalag 17,'' ''The   
   Lost   
   > Weekend,'' ''The Seven Year Itch,''...   
      
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   "Never-Before-Seen Footage Of Marilyn Monroe During Filming Of 'Seven Year   
   Itch'"   
      
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