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- DIED. Tony Richardson, 63, director who helped lead the
- "Angry Young Man" revolution in British drama in the 1950s and
- '60s; of AIDS; in Los Angeles. Richardson won acclaim for his
- staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in London in 1956.
- He directed Laurence Olivier in the film The Entertainer (1960),
- Osborne's stinging portrait of a played-out song-and-dance man.
- Richardson won a 1963 Academy Award for Best Director for his
- uproarious version of Tom Jones, which was replete with
- speeded-up motion, freeze frames and direct-to-camera narration.
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