Comedian Phyllis Diller, known for her
self-deprecating humor, died "peacefully in her sleep" at her Los
Angeles home Monday morning, her manager told CNN. Diller was 95.
"Her son, Perry, found her with a smile on her face," Milt Suchin said.
Julia Child, who turned the art of French cooking into prime-time television entertainment and brought cassoulet to a
casserole culture in the two volumes of her monumental "Mastering the
Art of French Cooking," Mrs. Child was not the first dedicated cook to turn cooking into a
spectator sport - James Beard preceded her on television in 1945, Dione
Lucas in 1948 - but she brought a fresh, breezy approach to daunting
material, expressed in her up-the-scales signature signoff, "Bon
appétit!"