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Article: Dudley Moore's gift.(The Providence Journal)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- April 2, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ For Dudley Moore to die on the same day as Milton Berle and Billy Wilder was not just sad tidings _ he was only 66 _ but third billing as well. Nor, for that matter, did the obituary writers get it right. The story on Dudley Moore was that, at 5 foot 2, he was an unlikely leading man in Hollywood, played the piano, had made some popular movies in the early 1980s, but was never able to repeat the commercial success of ``10'' or ``Arthur.'' End of story.
Well, not quite. Dudley Moore was, first and always, a musician. He had been an organ scholar at Oxford, was Britain's premier jazz pianist in the late 1950s, and throughout his life composed, ...