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In the newsCompiled from Times wires© St. Petersburg Times published October 11, 2002 Actor dies in fireActor Teresa Graves, who appeared regularly on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and went on to star in her own television series, Get Christy Love!, died early Thursday after a fire swept through the back of her home in the Hyde Park district of Los Angeles, fire officials said. Ms. Graves, 54, was found unconscious in a bedroom where the fire apparently broke out. Doctors at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood were unable to revive her. Fire investigators said the blaze, which broke out about 12:30 a.m., was apparently caused by a faulty space heater in the bedroom, which had been added by enclosing a porch on the house. A smoke detector in the front of the house apparently went off but failed to awaken the actor, officials said. Hollywood publications indicate that she abandoned her acting career in 1983 to concentrate on her involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses. Officials say she leaves her mother, who had lived with her but was hospitalized recently after a stroke. FX to air '24' rerunsFX network will be running encore telecasts of second season episodes of 24 this fall. The shows will air on Fox's sister cable channel on Mondays at 11 p.m. and Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the weeks after their network premiere. FX will air all 24 episodes of the second season, which debuts on Fox on Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. FX ran encore telecasts of 24 last season and aired a special Labor Day marathon in September, airing all 24 episodes of the first season, which reached 19.5-million viewers. Season two of 24 will make its FX debut Nov. 4 at 11 p.m. A night of bad cinemaSean Connery wearing a bad hair extension and Speedo with cross-your-heart straps is one of the guilty pleasures of Zardoz, a 1974 science fiction howler slated for a one-night-only engagement at Tampa Theatre on Thursday at 7 p.m. The screening will be hosted by Chris Holland and Scott Hamilton, co-founders of Stomp Tokyo (www.stomptokyo.com), an Internet site dedicated to some of the worst films of all time. Holland and Hamilton will discuss the dubious merits of John Boorman's film and their new book Reel Shame: Bad Movies and the Hollywood Stars Who Made Them, a collection of reviews including movies even worse than Zardoz. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students with proper ID, and are available at Tampa Theatre's box office. Call (813) 274-8286 for information. Dave Matthews Band to begin tour at St. Pete Times ForumThe Dave Matthews Band will kick off a nine-city arena tour Dec. 10 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. Tickets ($49.50) go on sale at noon Oct. 26 at the box office, (813) 301-2500, and Ticketmaster, (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100.- From staff and wire reports.
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