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Celebrity Death Watch: Penny Marshall and Galt MacDermot

My husband Richard just called me with this CDW double-header! Both American originals! Penny Marshall stole our hearts as Laverne DeFazio and went on to become an extraordinary film director. And Galt MacDermot isn't a name that I knew, but I certainly know his music - - he wrote the music for *Hair.*

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