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• Art Buchwald (1925-2007) - Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote some English dialogue for Jacques Tati's Play Time and co-wrote Stanley Donen's Surprise Package. He also sold a treatment to Paramount that was the uncredited basis for Coming to America, and he successfully sued the studio for a share of the film's profits. He appears in the documentaries Around the World of Mike Todd and Year of the Woman and in Robert Altman's mini-series Tanner '88. He passed away January 18.
• Ron Carey (1935-2007) - Actor who appears in Mel Brooks' The History of the World: Part I, High Anxiety and Silent Movie. He also appears in Fatso, The Out of Towners and Johnny Dangerously. He died of a stroke January 16, in Los Angeles. (NY Times)
• Jack Coffey (c.1931-2006) - Former boom operator who became an important union leader in Hollywood during the '70s and '80s. He died of prostate cancer December 13, in Sherman Oaks, California. (Variety)
• Harvey Cohen (1951-2007) - Composer who scored the theatrically distributed short Santa vs. the Snowman 3D, the direct-to-video Beauty and the Beast sequel Belle's Magical World and the feature Ghost Town. He also arranged music for Bicentennial Man and orchestrated the music for Mission: Impossible III, King Kong (2005), The Patriot and Hudson Hawk. He also has an Emmy for his work scoring for television. He died of a heart attack January 14. (AP)
• Darlene Conley (1934-2006) - Actress who appears in The Birds, Lady Sings the Blues, Tough Guys and Valley of the Dolls. She died of stomach cancer January 14, in Los Angeles. (NY Times)

You think you're feeling tired and overworked? Jon Stewart is so busy right now between running The Daily Show and prepping for his first turn as the host of the Oscars, he's putting his deoderant in his two-week old daughter's crib so she can have his smell near her in his absence. Okay, that's a joke - maybe. But what's not a joke is that the pressure is on Stewart to really turn it on at the Oscars, in front of a live audience packed with Hollywood bigwigs and a home audience of about 40 million of his closest friends, er, fans. An Associated Press article notes that by becoming the host of the Oscars, Stewart joins an elite list including Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope and Johnny Carson; Chris Rock, last year's host, wasn't mentioned on the "elite" list. So who else is in the ranks of the elite - those fortunate enough to have hosted Hollywood's Spectacular Salute to Solipsism? Cinematical shares with you some of the more interesting and notable Hosts of Oscar Past.

[Special thanks to E! Online's 75 Days of Oscar, Oscarworld.net,  and Wikipedia ]