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Actor JOHN LITHGOW

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John Lithgow is a two-time former Oscar nominee.
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John Lithgow recently earned an Emmy nomination.
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The show originally aired on 4/28/88.
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Carl Sagan died at the age of 62.
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Carl Sagan suffered from bone marrow disease for two years.
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Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
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Carl Sagan's PBS show Cosmos became the most-watched limited series in 1980.
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2: Actor JOHN LITHGOW. He's known for his role as Dick Solomon on NBC's comedy series show, "Third Rock From the Sun." LITHGOW is a two-time former Oscar nominee and has recently earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the show. LITHGOW has appeared in a number of movies, including, "The World According to Garp," "Terms of Endearment," Memphis Belle," "Footloose," "Raising Cain," "The Manhattan Project," "Cliffhanger," and "The Pelican Brief." LITHGOW graduated from Harvard and won a Fulbright Scholarship which he used to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has performed in a number of Broadway shows, including "The Changing Room," "The Front Page, " and "M. Butterfly." LITHGOW currently lives in Los Angeles. This originally aired 4/28/88.Int. 3: Astronomer and Pulitzer Prize winner CARL SAGAN died today at the age of 62. A spokesman for the Cancer Research Center says Sagan died from pneumonia after suffering from bone marrow disease for two years. Sagan won the Pulitzer in 1978 for his book "Dragons of Eden" and was the author of several other best-selling books on space and the universe including: "Intelligent Life in the Universe," "Mars and the Mind of Man," "Other Worlds." He was a professor at Cornell University, the Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies, and a pioneer in the field of exobiology, the branch of biology investigating the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In 1980, his PBS show "Cosmos" became the most-watched limited series in the history of American public television.

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