Margaret Whitton Dies: `Major League' Actress & Producer-Director Was 67   
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   Patrick Hipes   
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   Margaret Whitton, the actress, director and producer who is probably best know   
   for playing the money-grubbing owner of the Cleveland Indians in two Major   
   League movies, has died after a battle with cancer. She was 67.   
       
   Her film credits include The Secret Of My Success, 9 1/2 Weeks and Mel   
   Gibson's Man Without A Face. She began her career on the stage, with credits   
   there including The Public Theater's production of Dirty Tricks, starring   
   Judith Ivey as Martha Mitchell. She made her directorial debut with 2011's A   
   Bird On The Air, a Robert Towne adaptation of Joe Coomer's novel.   
       
   Whitton most recently was a partner with Steven Tabakin in Tashtego Films, a   
   New York-based film, TV and new media production company. She was an associate   
   producer of the documentary Been Rich All My Life and co-exec producer of   
   Casting By, a 2012 docu on casting directors.   
       
   In the Major League movies she played Rachel Phelps the Vegas da   
   cer-turned-baseball owner who inherited the team from her late husband tried   
   to make themawful enough to relocate them towarmer Miami. The 1989 original   
   movie starred Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Corbin Bernsen,   
   Dennis Haysbert and Rene Russo and is considered one of the best baseball   
   movies of all time. There was a 1994 sequel.   
       
   Whitton's bio on the Tashtego websitesays she wrote about baseball for   
   publications including the New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Newsday   
   and The National.   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
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