Garry Marshall of ‘Pretty Woman’ fame dies at 81
decision not to take up the EU presidency was conveyed during a phone conversation between May and Tusk. May noted until Britain left the EU, it remained a full member of th bloc.
“In this context, the Prime Minister suggested that the UK should relinquish the rotating presidency of the Council, currently scheduled for the second half of 2017, noting we would be prioritising the negotiations to leave the EU,” the spokesperson said. May, often called the “British Merkel”, is expected to convey to Merkel in Berlin that Britain needs more time to decide when to trigger Article 50, beginning the process to leave the EU. LOSANGELES: Hollywood writer-director Garry Marshall, whose deft touch with comedy and romance led to a string of TV hits that included Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley and the box-office hits Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and Princess Diaries , died late on Tuesday in a hospital in Burbank (California). He was 81.
Marshall died of complications from pneumonia after having a stroke, his publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement.
Marshall, the older brother of director-actress Penny Marshall, is best known for hits like Pretty Woman (1990) and The Princess Diaries. Mother’s Day, which released this April, was his last film that also reunited him with Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts. Marshall and his wife, Barbara, had three children, Lori, Kathleen and Scott. His funeral services will be private, but a memorial is being planned for his birthday on November 13
Apart from writing and directing films, Marshall also had on-screen presence where he used his New York accent and gruff delivery in colorful supporting roles that included a practical-minded casino boss unswayed by Albert Brooks’ disastrous luck in Lost in America and a crass network executive in Soapdish. “In the neighborhood where we grew up in, the Bronx, you only had a few choices,” Marshall said in a 1980s interview. “You were either an athlete or a gangster, or you were funny.”
Marshall, brother of actressdirector Penny Marshall, earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and worked at the New York Daily News. But he found he was better at writing punchlines.
Penny Marshall told The New York Times in 2001 that her brother “has a life. He’s not into the show business glitterati. If he has a hot movie, that’s great. But if he has something that doesn’t do great, he’s not around those people who... will make you feel terrible.”