One Heart, Vulnerable, Down Six

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No Sharif in Town

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Bridge to Nowhere

Omar Sharif, best remembered for his inability to differentiate real and fake dog poop, has died of a heart attack at the age of 83. Among his more prominent roles were Sherif Ali, who had one of the coolest entrances in movie history in Lawrence of Arabia, scoring an Oscar nomination in his Western film debut, and the title role in Dr. Zhivago, a film only slightly shorter and less painful than a Russian winter. He had to act as though he liked Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and went way against type as ill-fated Agent Cedric in Top Secret!, the unheralded Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker follow-up to Airplane! One of the top contract bridge players in the world, he would force films to schedule around major tournaments so he could play, and his long-running column on bridge, usually taking up space on the funny pages with the crossword puzzle, was many kid’s first exposure to the two-time Golden Globe winner.