(from the Associated Press, 7/19; via Pam Green.)
Writer-director Garry Marshall, whose deft touch with comedy and romance led to a string of TV hits that included “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” and the box-office successes “Pretty Woman” and “Runaway Bride,” has died. He was 81.
Marshall died Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank of complications from pneumonia after having a stroke, his publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-garry-marshall-dies-20160719-snap-story.html