Show I I : I A6— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday October 23 2003 ‘AMoncttedl from In Jack Elam character actor and Western villain dies Husband’s lawyer in controversial ' LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Elam a character actor and favorite Western villain who menaced good-gu- y cowboys with his crazy grin wild eyes and remorseless gunslinging in films such as “Rawhide” and “Wichita" has died a family friend said Tuesday Elam who had been in declining health in recent years died Monday afternoon at his home in Ashland Ore of unspecified illness according to longtime friend A1 Hassan Most biographies list the actor as 86 years old but Hassan said he was actually 84 having lied about his age as a youngster to get work “He was cantankerous in a great way in a funny way" Hassan said “He smoked drank all that stuff He lived one of the best lives I’ve CLEARWATER Fla (AP) — Legal scholars predicted Wednesday that Gov Jeb Bush’s intervention in a bitter case involving a woman would be ruled unconstitutional and the husband’s lawyer angrily brain-damag- ' deathbed” “It was just an absolute trampling of her personal rights and her dignity” George Felos the' attorney for Michael Schiavo said on NBC’s “Today? “We believe that a court sooner or later we hope sooner will find this law to be unconstitutional” Legal scholars also decried the move as an extraordinary end run around the courts “In my view the bill is plainly unconstitutional” said Uni- ‘ versity of Florida law professor Joseph Little Terri Schiavo 39 lias been in a what doctors call a “persistent vegetative state” since 1990 when her heart stopped because of a chemical imbal- - THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Get Relief From: ' ' Suit filed against designer Wal-Ma- rt Sony over game linked to shootings KNOXVILLE Tenn (AP) — A $246 million lawsuit was filed against the designer marketer and a retailer ofthe video game series “Grand Theft Auto” by the families of two people shot by teenagers apparently inspired by the game V The suit claims marketer Sony Computer Entertainment “ Interactive Software and America Inc designers Take-Tw- o Wal-Ma- rt are liable for $46 million in Rockstar Games and compensatory damages arid $200 million in punitive damages Avon Hamel 45 a registered nurse was killed and Kimberly Bede 19 of Moneta Va was seriously wounded when their bullets as they passed cars were hit June 25 by Mountains Great the Smoky through Stepbrothers William Buckner 16 and Joshua Buckner 14 of Newport were sentenced in August to an indefinite term in state custody after pleading guilty in juvenile court to reckless homicide endangerment and assault ' ed complained the woman was “abducted from her acdirto ' & - ie right-to-d- Elam worked as a Hollywood accountant in the 1940s and had bit parts usually uncredited in the films “Trailin' West” (1949) So long hombra: Jack “Quicksand” (1950) and “OneWay Bam died Monday at his street" (1950) home in Ashland Ore of helped arrange financing for m the Robert Preston film “The Sun- longtime friend downers” n exchange for a larger Ai hassan role as the husband of actress Cathy Downs Then came a tough-gu- y part in 1951’s “Rawhide" starring Tyrone Power which helped make him a star Elam born in Miami Ariz didn't always play the mean old hombre — He also found himself cast as dirty old men and harmless drunks' sometimes with a humorous bent in comedies like “Support Your Local Sheriff” and “The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County” The actor’s own cockeye was the result of a childhood fight in Phoenix The way he told it a fellow Boy Scout stabbed him in the left eye with a pencil during a scrape at a troop meeting He remained blind in that eye which wandered lazily around its ! 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