Burt Lancaster

Oscar-winner Burt Lancaster is showing some signs of improvement after a stroke in November left him partially paralyzed, his agent said. "He's doing as well as can be expected. He's responding to the therapy and is in good spirits," Ben Benjamin said Thursday. The 77-year-old actor suffered a stroke Nov. 30 and is under care at an undisclosed hospital near his Los Angeles home. Lancaster starred in more than 70 movies and won an Oscar in 1960 for "Elmer Gantry."

Julian Ullman has sat through thousands of movies. But starting today, he won't have to work so hard at it. Ullman, 75, the chief projectionist at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank and its longest-standing employee, retired Monday. During his 57-year tenure, he unspooled films for show business figures from the Beatles to former studio head Jack Warner. Ullman has been feted by the studio for the past month. Parties and a dinner have been held in his honor.

Actor Burt Lancaster has been released from Los Alamitos Hospital and transferred to an undisclosed location, where he is undergoing extensive physical and speech therapy, hospital officials said. Officials declined to say when the 77-year-old Academy Award winner left the hospital, where he went or what his condition was when he was released. Lancaster's last reported condition was stable.

Actor Burt Lancaster has been released from Los Alamitos Hospital and transfered to an undisclosed location, where he is undergoing extensive physical and speech therapy, hospital officials said Friday. The 77-year-old Academy Award winner left the hospital Thursday, but officials declined to state where he went or what his condition was when he was released. Ben Benjamin, Lancaster's publicist, said the actor's family has requested that no information about his whereabouts be released.

Actor Burt Lancaster remained in stable condition Sunday night at the Los Alamitos Medical Center following a moderate stroke last week that left him with some weakness and speech problems, a nursing supervisor said. The 77-year-old Academy Award winner had been visiting a friend at a Los Alamitos center for Alzheimer's patients on Friday morning when he was felled by the stroke and rushed to the medical center, just a block away.

Doctors treating Burt Lancaster confirmed that the 77-year-old actor, who has been plagued with failing health in recent years, suffered a moderate stroke and was having trouble speaking, a family spokesman said Saturday. Scott M. Ostrow, a longtime friend and financial adviser, said during a press conference at Los Alamitos Medical Center that the Oscar-winning film star and onetime acrobat was in stable condition and that he was in "fine" spirits.

Actor Burt Lancaster, star of more than 60 movies and winner of an Oscar for his portrayal of evangelist "Elmer Gantry," was hospitalized here Friday after he became ill while visiting a friend. Lancaster, 77, was taken to Los Alamitos Medical Center by Orange County paramedics Friday afternoon. The call to paramedics indicated Lancaster had suffered a heart attack, but the initial assessment by paramedics at the scene was that he had suffered a stroke.