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Entertainment & Sports

May 30, 2001

Tangled, Temporal, Legal Legacy Ends for Begelman

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, the ghost of David Begelman is smiling. Meanwhile, his accountant here on earth has reason for a rueful chuckle or two. Begelman, the troubled movie mogul who committed suicide in 1995, is grinning in the Great Beyond because his tangled temporal legal legacy is finally over - with some surprising and perhaps gratifying results.

        By Garry Abrams

        LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, the ghost of David Begelman is smiling.
        Meanwhile, his accountant here on earth has reason for a rueful chuckle or two.
        Begelman, the troubled movie mogul who committed suicide in 1995, is grinning in the Great Beyond ...

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