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By Jack Queen (Reuters) - A New York jury on Monday ordered Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis to pay $2.5 million in civil punitive . ....
M Pat Carroll, Emmy-winner for "Caesar s Hour" and the voice Ursula in "The Little Mermaid," has died at 95. Her daughter Kerry Karsian, a casting agent, said Carroll died Saturday at her home in Cape Cod, Mass. Her other daughter Tara Karsian wrote on Instagram that they want everyone to "honor her by having a raucous laugh at absolutely anything." Carroll was born in 1927 in Shreveport. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 5 years old. Her first film role came in 1948 in "Hometown Girl" but she found her stride in television. She won an Emmy for her work on the sketch comedy series "Caesar s Hour" in 1956. She was Bunny Halper on "The Danny Thomas Show" from 1961 through 1964. Carroll played one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 television production of "Rodgers and Hammerstein s Cinderella" with Lesley Ann Warren. Carroll also won a Grammy in 1980 for the recording of her one woman show "Gertrude ....
The Crash director was reportedly no longer charged with sexual assault after a court in Lecce, Italy, found no basis to continue investigating the case. ....