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January 15, 2002

•  'Beautiful Girls' Director Ted Demme Dead at 38

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ted Demme, director of last year's cocaine drama ``Blow'' and "Beautiful Girls" and nephew of Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, suffered an apparent heart attack while playing basketball and died at age 38, officials said on Monday.

  Demme collapsed while taking part in a celebrity basketball game Sunday at the private Crossroads School in Santa Monica and was rushed by paramedics to the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center in full cardiac arrest shortly after 5 p.m. PST, hospital spokesman Ted Braun said.

  Efforts to revive Demme failed and he was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later, Braun said. Los Angeles County Coroner's Office spokesman Scott Carrier said an autopsy was necessary to reveal what killed Demme.