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Alan King Succumbs to Cancer

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Published May 9, 2004 at 10:00 PM MDT

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We remember actor, producer, author and comedian Alan King, who died Sunday. He was 76. King died in Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Medical Center of lung cancer. He was known for his wry observations on suburbia and life at large.