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By Times staff writer Actor in critical condition after being struck by carActor Frances Bay, who has played grandmothers and other elderly women in scores of movies and TV shows, remained in critical condition Saturday after surgery to amputate part of her right leg, a hospital spokeswoman said. The 83-year-old actor, who portrayed Adam Sandler's grandmother in Happy Gilmore, was struck by a car Thursday in Glendale, Calif. Bay broke both legs and suffered a head injury, multiple abrasions and a possible broken arm, said Adelaida De La Cerda, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Surgeons amputated her right leg below the knee, De La Cerda said. Police said the 17-year-old driver was traveling about 30 mph when he hit Bay as she was crossing the street. The driver braked but was unable to stop in time, police said. No charges had been filed Saturday. Bay has appeared in dozens of TV shows, including a memorable recurring role on Seinfeld as the elderly lady mugged by Jerry Seinfeld in a fight over a loaf of rye bread. She also has appeared in more than 50 movies, including The Wedding Planner, Inspector Gadget and Big Top Pee-wee. Cartoon museum gets grief over 'Peanuts' stripsIt's Charlie Brown vs. Beetle Bailey in a legal battle for as many as 44 original Peanuts comic strips. The trust that controls Charles Schulz's strip has sued Mort Walker, creator of the strip Beetle Bailey, and his International Museum of Cartoon Art to regain strips that Schulz lent Walker in 1978. The complaint alleges the strips were to be returned to Schulz when the museum no longer needed them. The Charles M. Schulz Trust also claims Walker and the museum broke an agreement by selling four original strips, an allegation the museum denies. Walker founded the museum in Connecticut in 1974. It moved to New York and then to Boca Raton, where it closed in July of this year. The plaintiffs contend the museum no longer needs Schulz's strips because it closed, and are concerned the museum will sell the strips to pay its debts. Schulz trustee Ed Anderson said the trust wants to display the strips at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., where Schulz lived. But Ken Seeger, an attorney for Walker and the museum, said his client needs the strips because he's planning to reopen the museum. Snoop gets his own showMTV has let the Dogg out, giving the rapper-actor his own variety show. The pilot for the half-hour program, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, is scheduled to air 10:30 p.m. Monday. Snoop Dogg will mix sketch comedy, music and man-on-the-street bits. The 31-year-old, born Calvin Broadus, was recently picked to reprise the role of Huggy Bear (made famous by Antonio Fargas) in a big-screen Starsky & Hutch.
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