Kyle Stanley rallies to win Phoenix Open

Kyle Stanley, facing, hugs his caddie Brett Waldman after putting out on the 18th hole during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stanley came from behind to win the tournament, scoring a final round 65, for a tournament total of 15-under par.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kyle Stanley, facing, hugs his caddie Brett Waldman after putting out on the 18th hole during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stanley came from behind to win the tournament, scoring a final round 65, for a tournament total of 15-under par.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Spencer Levin reacts after missing a chip at the 4th hole during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Kyle Stanley chips out of the desert and onto the 17th green during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stanley came from behind to win the tournament, scoring a final round 65, for a tournament total of 15-under par.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kyle Stanley, left, gets a high-five from his caddie Brett Waldman after Stanley made a nice chip shot from out of the desert and onto the 17th green during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stanley came from behind to win the tournament, scoring a final round 65, for a tournament total of 15-under par.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kyle Stanley waves to the cheering crowd after Stanley finished at the 18th hole the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Stanley came from behind to win the tournament, scoring a final round 65, for a tournament total of 15-under par.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? For the second straight week, a PGA Tour event ended with Kyle Stanley in tears. This time, they were tears of joy.

Taking advantage of Spencer Levin's final-round meltdown, Stanley rebounded from a devastating loss at Torrey Pines to win the Phoenix Open on Sunday, overcoming an eight-stroke deficit in a comeback as unlikely as his collapse a week ago.

"You go from a very low point to a high point," Stanley said. "I'm not sure I expected to maybe recover this quickly. ... I think the biggest challenge was seeing if I could put last week behind me. I think I did."

Stanley closed with a bogey-free 6-under 65, holing a 4-foot par putt on the par-4 18th to finish at 15-under 269 ? a stroke ahead of playing partner Ben Crane and two ahead of Levin.

Levin, six strokes ahead entering the round and seven in front after one hole, shot a 75.

"It just wasn't my day, obviously," Levin said. "But I gave it away, simple as that. You have a six-shot lead and lose, you gave it away. My hat's off to Kyle. He played a great round. He went and got it. But if you've got a six-shot lead and don't win, then I think it's on the player with the lead, for sure."

When asked about Levin, Stanley echoed what Torrey Pines winner Brandt Snedeker said about Stanley a week ago.

"I really feel for him, experiencing that," Stanley said. "You don't want to wish that upon anybody. He's a very good player, way too good of a player to not bounce back or recover."

At Torrey Pines, Stanley led by seven shots early in the final round, and still had a four-shot lead as he stood on the tee at the par-5 18th. But his third shot had too much spin and didn't get high enough on the green, spinning down the slope and into the water. He three-putted from 45 feet, then lost to Snedeker on the second playoff hole when his 5-foot par putt caught the right edge of the cup.

"I'm never going to forget that," Stanley said. "But I think it makes this one a lot sweeter, just being able to bounce back. I'm kind of at a loss for words. I'm very grateful for the support I've gotten. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable turnaround."

The 24-year-old former Clemson player from Gig Harbor, Wash., earned $1,098,000 for his first PGA Tour title.

One of the tour's longest hitters at only 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds, Stanley birdied the par-5 13th and par-4 14th to take a one-stroke lead at 15 under. On No. 13, he powered a 376-yard drive through the desert area to set up the tying two-putt birdie.

"Got a really good break there. Not quite sure how that ball ended up where it did," Stanley said. "We only hit 9-iron in there."

On 14, he hit a 325-yard drive down the middle and holed a 12-footer to take lead.

"Kind of a chip wedge in there," he said.

Levin, winless on the PGA Tour, birdied the 14th to regain a share of the lead, but followed with a double-bogey 7 on the par-5 15th.

"I wasn't doing trying to do anything different," Levin said "It had to be my mind. You get weird thoughts creeping in here and there. At least, I do. I think it was more my mind than my swing. Just kind of just wanting it a little too much."

On 15, Levin's drive bounced off the cart path on the right and ended up against a cactus in the desert area. He took an awkward stance near the cactus and got the ball back into the second cut just off the fairway with a hockey-style slap with his driver. He emerged with jumping cholla stuck in his shirt and pants, then hit his third shot in the water short and right of the green.

"I pushed it a little bit, but I guess I didn't hit enough club," Levin said. "I thought 4-iron would go over the green and 5-iron didn't carry."

Stanley parred the final three holes, hitting a difficult recovery shot to 20 feet from an awkward angle under cactus to the right of the green on the short par-4 17th.

"It's not a shot you really ever practice," Stanley said. "I had pitching wedge out, Brett (Waldman, his caddie) gave me the sand wedge. Just shut the face and tried to play a little bit of a hook, and it came off perfect."

Playing two groups ahead of Levin, Stanley birdied five of the first 11 holes to get to 13 under, and within three strokes of the faltering leader.

Levin birdied No. 3 to reach 18 under, but bogeyed Nos. 4 and 6 and dropped two more strokes on 11 and 12 to let Stanley into the mix. Stanley, though, wasn't fully aware where he stood.

"I didn't pay much attention to the leaderboards until maybe four or five holes left," Stanley said. "Once I made a couple birdies there on the back nine, I figured I was maybe getting close. But I didn't really think about it too much today.

"I made the mistake of thinking about it probably all of the final round last week. So, this week, I just kind of tried to just let it happen."

DIVOTS: Crane shot a 66. ... Phil Mickelson tied for 26th at 6 under after a 73. "I just couldn't quite get it going," the former Arizona State star said. ... The crowd was announced at 58,447, bringing the seven-day total to 518,262. A tournament-record 173,210 watched play Saturday.

Associated Press

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NGO worker cases sent to Egypt court in funding row (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? The cases of 40 foreign and Egyptian activists, including 19 Americans subject to travel bans over their work for pro-democracy and other groups, have been referred to court, judicial sources said Sunday, deepening a row with the United States.

Washington, which provides $1.3 billion in military aid annually to Egypt, has strongly criticized the crackdown on the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which has taken place under the army-backed government. An unspecified number of U.S. citizens involved have sheltered in the U.S. embassy.

The latest step in the judicial process will further strain ties with the United States, which counted Egypt under ousted President Hosni Mubarak as a vital regional ally and lynchpin in its Middle East policy.

"We are deeply concerned by these reports and are seeking clarification from the Egyptian government," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

Egyptian officials say the crackdown is part of an investigation into foreign funding of NGOs. For the authorities, it is a matter of law; the non-governmental organizations broke it by receiving foreign funding without government approval.

Activists say the ruling military may be using the issue to whip up nationalist sentiment and distract attention from criticism the army is facing from protesters over its handling of the transition to civilian rule.

"The cases of 40 foreign and Egyptian suspects have been transferred to the Cairo criminal court related to foreign funding," a judicial source told Reuters. State news agency MENA also carried the report.

Even before the move to refer the NGO cases to court, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had warned that relations could be harmed if Egypt did not resolve the issue.

"We are very clear that there are problems that arise from this situation that can impact all the rest of our relationship with Egypt. We do not want that," Clinton told reporters in Munich where she met Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr on the sidelines of an international security conference.

Several U.S. citizens and others involved in the probe have been barred from leaving Egypt. They include Sam LaHood, the country director of the International Republican Institute (IRI) who is the son of the U.S. transportation secretary.

"The continued assault on American, German and Egyptian civil society is not a 'legitimate judicial process,' the IRI said in a statement. "It is a politically motivated effort to squash Egypt's growing civil society, orchestrated through the courts, in part by Mubarak-era hold overs."

U.S. officials said soon after the row erupted in late December that they had received assurances from the Egyptian leadership that the issue would be resolved. That followed talks with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi who heads the military council and others. Instead, the row has deepened.

FOREIGN FUNDING

Civil society groups say the ruling military council ordered the raids to harass activists who were at the forefront of the anti-Mubarak revolt and have been pressing for the army to swiftly hand power to civilians.

The NGO activists include 19 Americans alongside others who are Serbian, Norwegian, Lebanese as well as Egyptian, according to a statement issued by judges overseeing the probe and seen by Reuters. One judge involved said the list included LaHood.

The charge listed in the statement was "running organizations without getting the required licences." One of the judges running the probe said that investigations were continuing with Egyptians in other similar cases.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr told Clinton during his meeting with her that all groups, regardless of country of origin, had to abide by Egypt's laws on registering, the ministry's spokesman Amr Rushdy said in a statement.

NGOs say that the authorities have failed to respond to past requests to register and insist they have worked in full view of and in contact with the Egyptian authorities for years.

The National Democratic Institute, one of the U.S.-funded groups whose staff are facing travel bans, said it began work in 2005 and sought to register the same year but after responding to some official queries after that no progress was made.

However, the group says it has operated openly since then, engaging with officials regularly.

President Barack Obama's administration is finalizing its budget for the 2013 fiscal year, which will be presented on February 13 and is expected to include continued assistance for Egypt's military, albeit subject to new conditions imposed by U.S. lawmakers.

Those include evidence that Egyptian military authorities are committed to holding free and fair elections and protecting freedom of expression, association, and religion.

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Outpatient Physical Therapy Jobs

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o Transport patients to and from treatment areas, using wheelchairs or providing standing support
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o Could schedule appointments, order provides and answer phones
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Those curious about choosing outpatient physical therapy jobs can work as therapists, therapy assistants or therapy aides.

A master?s degree from an accredited program is needed to become a therapist. An associate degree or certificate program from an accredited physical therapist assistant program is necessary if you are trying for therapy assistant jobs. Physical therapy aides need a high school diploma and learn skills on the job. Besides the essential qualifications, state licensure is needed from the actual states you would like to practice in. Qualified physical therapists who specialise in orthopedics, sports medicine, pediatrics, paralysis and amputations will work in an exceedingly selection of outpatient units. Typically, therapists supply short-term or long-term physical therapy services, relying on the patients? needs.
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Blog interview no.269 with writer Jean Harrington ? Morgen Bailey's ...

Welcome to the two hundred and sixty-ninth of my blog interviews with novelists, poets, short story authors, biographers, agents, publishers and more. Today?s is with murder mystery and historical author Jean Harrington. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. If you like what you read, please do go and investigate further.

Morgen: Hello Jean. I?ll jump straight in and ask you what you have had published to date, and can you remember where you saw your first book on the shelves?

Jean: I?ve had two historical novels published, both set in 17th century Ireland: The Barefoot Queen and In the Lion?s Mouth, and a recent release, a murder mystery, Designed for Death.?? I did have the pleasure of seeing the historicals at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, here in Naples, Florida.? A related thrill was seeing The Barefoot Queen sitting on my local library?s shelf.? Imagine me, there with famous authors.? The thrill is still new!? My current release, Designed for Death, has been published in e-book and audio format, so I won?t see it on a shelf, so to speak.? But other thrills await as the e-book market implodes.

Morgen: As an eBook-only author I can only imagine how exciting it is to see your actual books out, especially if you waited until someone picked them up although I do sit and clap every time I get a ?review notification? or ?purchase notification? email. How much of the marketing do you do?

Jean:? For the historicals, I?ve done a good deal of public speaking and book signings here in Florida and also in Chicago.? For my new Murders by Design Mystery Series, I?m endeavoring to strengthen my social networking persona with blogs such as your own.?? And with personal on-site marketing.? This, I?m finding, is more difficult than writing the book.? Other authors have told me the same.? I guess the reason maybe we?re imaginers not marketers.

Morgen: Absolutely. I have a friend (married to an American, living in Washington) who?s a brilliant saleswoman and I?ve always said I?m hopeless. I?m of the ?oh, you don?t want it? Oh, OK then? camp. It?s finding the thin line between very little (me) and touting (some who shall remain nameless but they know who they are ). Do you have an agent?? Do you think they?re vital to an author?s success?

Jean: Although I have worked with an agent in the past, at the moment I don?t have one.? While an agent isn?t vital to a writing career, having one does make it easier to get editors / publishers to read your work.? I?ve been fortunate that Carina Press, the digital arm of Harlequin Publishing, accepted my novels on the basis of my own query.

Morgen: Oh wow, well done. I understand Harlequin are huge Are your books available as eBooks?? If so what was your experience of that process?? Do you have any plan to write any eBook-only stories?? And do you read eBooks?

Jean: Aha!? Yes, indeed to all of these questions.? And I have found it?s easy going green.? Here in the States, digital books capture a larger portion of the market each year.??? Perhaps the secret is that electronic publishing offers instant gratification.? No matter where you find yourself?in a car, in a plane, on a beach, virtually any book of any kind is only a click away.

Morgen: Exactly. Even before I bought my Kindle (two weeks ago!) I thought paper books for home and electronic for away. Paper books will never go away, there?ll just be less of them ? perhaps quality vs quantity. Did you have any say in the title of your books?? How important do you think they are?

Jean: I?m happy to say I?ve named all of my published books.? And yes, the title, because it is a sales tool, is very important and should hint at the book?s content.? One amusing story?I was asked to suggest names for my murder mystery series which features an interior designer as the amateur sleuth.? I suggested The Rooms To Die for Murder Mysteries.? That, however, was turned down in favor of The Murders by Design Mystery Series.? More dignified for sure!

Morgen: Do any of your books have dedications?? If so, to whom and why?

Jean: They all do.?? The first historical I dedicated to my late Irish mother-in-law whose voice is the one I tried to capture in the telling of that tale.?? The other books are dedicated to family and friends.?? Dedications are very special and each person chosen is selected with care.? I love the opportunity to be able to do so.

Morgen: Who designed your book covers?

Jean: I don?t know specifically.? The art departments of the publishers.? Each time, at first glimpse of them, my heart pounded.? Would they capture the spirit of the novel?? I?m pleased to say each one does.

Morgen: It?s so important for the author to like it. I?ve heard of some author (with mainstream publishers) who haven?t liked the covers, and they?re best-placed to know, but have had no say in it. Have you had any rejections?? If so, how do you deal with them?

Jean: Mountains of rejections!? Enough to paper a loo.? How to deal with them?? Ignore the impersonal ones.? Learn from the ones that mention a particular weakness or reason for rejecting that manuscript.

Morgen: Good plan. What are you working on at the moment?

Jean: The third in my Murders by Design Mystery Series.? I?ve tentatively titled it Killer Kitchens.? We?ll see if that name is retained.

Morgen: I like it. Do you write every day?? What?s the most you?ve written in a day?

Jean: Every single day.? For one to two hours of new material.? Then several hours of revision and editing.? I don?t count pages per day, so I can?t give a count.? But the old adage holds true:? Write one page a day and at the end of a year you have a book.

Morgen: You will. 300 words a day is a 100,000 word novel ? astounding but true. Do you write short stories, Jean?? If so, apart from the word count, what do you see at the differences between them and novels?

Jean: I have written short stories but prefer the novel form.? Short stories might well be termed the ?poetry? of fiction in that they distill a single experience into its essence.? They present a slice of life not the whole world.? Maybe today people want to escape into another universe and leave their daily troubles behind.? The novel with its breath allows for that in a way no other literary form does.

Morgen: What point of view do you find most to your liking: first person or third person?

Jean: The late Leslie Waller (Dog Day Afternoon, Strange Encounters of the Third Kind) once said to me that first person is the most dynamic.? There?s a lot of truth in that statement.? But to be dynamic, that character, Waller said, must be charming.? And he isn?t the smartest person in the book.? Leave that up to another character and then your protagonist will remain sympathetic.? In addition, if your protag can exhibit self-deprecating humor, so much the better.? This will keep him super likeable.

Third person, of course, offers even wider scope to the writer.? What one loses in intimacy with the first person point of view is gained by being able to enter many minds and express multiple viewpoints.? So both first and third points of view have different strengths.

Morgen: It?s so important to like the characters? for a reader especially. In one of my recent reads I really struggled to like the main character. I much preferred a minor one and felt that was a shame, as it gave me an excuse to put it down and move on to something else. What do you like to read?? Do you have any favourite author?

Jean: Several.? For sheer sassiness and wit, Nelson DeMille is tops.? And P.D. James also comes to mind.? Her voice is so cool, so distinguished, and, may I say? so English.

Morgen: Absolutely, you can.

Jean: She?s a master of nuance, so important to writing a mystery.? I can only worship her as I use my American voice in the person of Deva Dunne, the amateur sleuth of Designed for Death.? Deva utilizes her interior designer?s eye for detail to discover the identity of the killer?only to discover the killer has designs on her.? What fun!

Morgen: It sounds like it. Is there a word, phrase or quote you like?

Jean: One my husband used during conversation the other day. ??All great writers have an Iago.?

Morgen: Thank you, Jean. Lovely to meet you.

Jean Harrington?is the author of two historical romances and the recent e-Book and audio release, Designed for Death.? The novel is?the first in her Murders by Design Mystery Series featuring an interior designer as the?amateur sleuth.? A former teacher of college English, Jean?talks less these days and writes far, far more.??Currently she lives in Naples, Florida with husband John and?is enjoying?being awash in fictional dead bodies. You can find out more about Jean?s writing at her website: www.jeanharrington.com. She?d also love it if you liked her on Facebook.

If you are reading this and you write, in whatever genre, and are thinking ?ooh, I?d like to do this? then you can? just email me and I?ll send you the questions. You complete them, I tweak them where appropriate (if necessary to reflect the blog ?clean and light? rating) and then they get posted. When that?s done, I email you with the link so you can share it with your corner of the literary world. And if you have a writing-related blog / podcast and would like to interview me? let me know. You can sign up to receive these blog posts daily or weekly so you don?t miss anything? and follow me on Twitter?where each new posting is automatically announced. You can also read / download my eBooks and free eShorts at Smashwords.

Unfortunately, as I post an interview a day (amongst other things) I can?t review books but if you have a short story or self-contained novel extract / short chapter (ideally up to 1000 words) that you?d like critiqued and don?t mind me reading it / talking about and critiquing it (I send you the transcription afterwards so you can use the comments or ignore them) on my ?Bailey?s Writing Tips? podcast,?then do email me. They are weekly episodes, usually released Monday mornings UK time, interweaving the recordings between the red pen sessions with the hints & tips episodes. I am now also looking for flash fiction (<1000 words) for Flash Fiction Fridays.

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Public Speaking ? How to Introduce a Speaker

Most people will have an opportunity in their careers to introduce a speaker ? and hopefully be introduced themselves! The introducer?s job is to make the speaker sound interesting and fascinating, someone the audience just can?t wait to hear.?When an introducer can make the speaker look good, that in turn will make the introducer look good.

Here are some guidelines for preparing and delivering an introduction:

1. Resist winging it or relying on memory.?

Get information from your speaker ahead of time ? either from a bio or through an informal interview.?Then draft your remarks ? in bullet points ? and talk from them.

2. Incorporate these three elements:

* The speaker?s name.?Make sure your know how to pronounce it correctly.

*The speaker?s credentials.?Avoid reading his life history ? select only the information that?s relevant to the audience and the occasion.?

* The speaker?s topic and its importance to the audience.?A good introducer will let the audience know how this speaker?s information can be helpful to them.

3. Keep it brief but complimentary.?

An introduction shouldn?t be a speech.?On the other hand, don?t insult the speaker by providing just some cursory remarks: ?Here?s Sandy Banks, an accountant, who will talk to us about the new tax laws.? Give the audience some information that will make them really want to listen to this person.

4. Humanize the speaker.

Say something interesting and personal about her, don?t just recite a laundry list of accomplishments.?Ideally, this is something beyond ?She?s married and has 2.3 kids.??If you know the speaker, you might be able to speak to some personal trait you admire about her or relate an anecdote that?s humorous or characteristic of her positive traits.?If you don?t know her, then make sure you have a conversation with her ahead of time to see if you can learn something interesting about her.

5. Resist clich?s: ?

Without further ado??OR? A speaker who needs no introduction?

? ? ? Instead use: It gives me great pleasure to present? OR? Please join me in welcoming?

6. Don?t steal the speaker?s thunder.

This is not about you. Don?t try to impress the audience with what you know about the topic. This is the speaker?s time to shine. Your job is to simply make him look good, someone the audience can?t wait to listen to.

7. Don?t dessert the stage.

After you?ve made the introduction, stay at the lectern until the speaker reaches your side.?Greet her with a handshake and smile and turn the stage over to her.

And if you?re the one being introduced, a couple of pointers:

1. Give your introducer all the information and only the information you?d like used in your introduction.?Avoid handing over your resume. Stick to what?s relevant. And be sure to provide some kind of interesting, humanizing tidbit.

2. Appear interested and attentive during your introduction: don?t study your fingernails or seem to be engrossed in your notes. Be sure to look happy to be there!

Barbara Busey, president of the training firm Presentation Dynamics, has been a professional speaker, trainer and author since 1990. She does training and speaking on the ?dynamics? of how people ?present? themselves, is the author of the book, ?Stand Out When You Stand Up,? and is the creator of The Compelling Speaker, a unique presentation skills training program that combines advance audio CD instruction with a hands-on, ultra participative workshop. She now offers the Compelling Speaker Certification, a turnkey system ? complete with training content & technique, business strategies, and marketing guidelines ? that positions communicators to make a living training other business professionals to become more compelling speakers. Go to Compelling Speaker Certification to see her video, listen to her audio, and learn when the next Certification training is.

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Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies in NY

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file photo, actor Ben Gazzara attends The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards gala in New York. Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81. Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Manhattan after being in hospice care with cancer. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file photo, actor Ben Gazzara attends The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards gala in New York. Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81. Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Manhattan after being in hospice care with cancer. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

FILE - In this 1968 file photo originally released by United Artists, actor Ben Gazzara portrays Sgt. Angelo in a scene from "The Bridge at Remagen." Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81. Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Manhattan after being in hospice care with cancer. (AP Photo/United Artists, file)

FILE - In this 1965 file photo, actor Ben Gazzara poses with dancers Sandy Garrett, left, and Victoria Scruton while filming an episode of the TV series "Run for Your Life," in Los Angeles. Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81. Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Manhattan after being in hospice care with cancer. (AP Photo, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway and the film "The Big Lebowski," has died at age 81.

Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Gazzara died Friday in Manhattan. Mados, who owned the Wyndham Hotel, where celebrities such as Peter Falk and Martin Sheen stayed, said he died after being placed in hospice care for cancer. She and her husband helped marry Gazzara and his wife, German-born Elke Krivat, at their hotel.

Gazzara was a proponent of method acting, in which the performer attempts to take on the thoughts and emotions of the character he's playing, and it helped him achieve stardom early in his career with two stirring Broadway performances.

In 1955, he originated the role of Brick Pollitt, the disturbed alcoholic son and failed football star in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." He left the show after only seven months to take on an equally challenging role, Johnny Pope, the drug addict in "A Hatful of Rain." It earned him his first of three Tony Award nominations.

In 1965, he moved on to TV stardom in "Run for Your Life," a drama about a workaholic lawyer who, diagnosed with a terminal illness, quits his job and embarks on a globe-trotting attempt to squeeze a lifetime of adventures into the one or two years he has left. He was twice nominated for Emmys during the show's three-year run.

Gazzara made his movie debut in 1957 in "The Strange One," Calder Willingham's bitter drama about brutality at a Southern military school. He had previously played the lead role of the psychopathic cadet, Jocko de Paris, on Broadway in Willingham's stage version of the story, "End of Man."

He followed that film with "Anatomy of a Murder," in which he played a man on trial for murdering a tavern keeper who had been accused of raping his wife.

After "Run for Your Life" ended in 1968, Gazzara spent the rest of his career alternating between movies and the stage, although rarely with the critical acclaim he had enjoyed during his early years.

In the 1970s, he teamed with his friend director John Cassavetes for three films, "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" and "Opening Night." In another Cassavetes film, he appeared with Falk, and the two became friends (it was Cassavetes who introduced them to the Wyndham Hotel, according to a 1982 article in New York magazine).

Gena Rowlands appeared with Gazzara in "Opening Night," which also starred Cassavetes. Cassavetes and Rowlands were married; he died in 1989. Falk died last year.

"It breaks my heart to have this era come to an end. Ben meant so much to all of us. To our families. To John. To Peter. To have them gone now is devastating to me," she said in a statement.

She said her prayers and thoughts went out to "all his loyal and wonderful fans throughout the world."

Rita Moreno, who played Gazzara's wife in the 2000 film "Blue Moon," said, "He was a wonderful man, and I so enjoyed working with him. I wish I could have had the pleasure more often."

Other Gazzara films included "The Bridge at Remagen," ''The Young Doctors," ''They All Laughed," ''The Thomas Crown Affair," ''If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium," ''The Spanish Prisoner," ''Stag" and "Road House." He also made several films in Italy.

He appeared on Broadway in revivals of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," ''Awake and Sing!" ''Strange Interlude" and several other plays.

Gazzara began acting in television in 1952 with roles on the series "Danger" and "Kraft Television Theater." Before landing "Run for Your Life," he played a police detective in the series "Arrest and Trial," which lasted two seasons.

Born Biagio Anthony Gazzara in New York on Aug. 28, 1930, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a cold-water flat with a bathtub in the kitchen. His parents were immigrants from Sicily who met and married in New York, and his first language was Italian. Although he was baptized under his birth name, his parents always called him Ben or Benny.

As a child he became fascinated with movies, and after giving his first performance, in a Boys Club play, he knew he had found his life's work.

"I disliked high school," he once said, "and after two years of it I left without telling anyone at home."

Instead he spent his days in movie theaters.

He entered Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop in 1948. Eighteen months later he auditioned for the Actors Studio run by Lee Strasberg and was accepted.

The school was a beehive of activity in those days, turning out such followers of method acting as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Barbara Bel Geddes, Shelley Winters, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Rod Steiger and Julie Harris.

"There's a lot of voodoo about the Actors Studio," Gazzara told The Associated Press in 1966. "In the best sense it was a place for professionals to stay in touch with their craft, where newcomers and professionals mingled, to grow, to try parts they would never get in the professional theater and to even fall on their face."

Gazzara's first two marriages, to actresses Louise Erikson and Janice Rule, ended in divorce.

While filming "Inchon" in Korea in 1981, he met Krivat. They married the following year, and the union endured.

"Elke saved my life," Gazzara said in 1999. "When I met her, I was drinking too much, fooling around too much, killing myself. She put romance and hope back in my life."

He adopted Krivat's daughter, Danja, as his own. She recalled on Friday that he was a "complex soul" and that his role as a father to her and his own daughter was challenging.

"I adored Ben, and so did his daughter," she said. "But we both had difficulty with him ... I think the difficulty lay in his complexity of being an actor and those layers that you have, that you bring with you."

Besides Danja, Gazzara is survived by his wife, daughter Elizabeth and a brother.

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Former Associated Press writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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