Frank Lupo, Writer-Producer Known for The A-Team, Wiseguy, Dies at 66
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Lupo died Feb. 18 at his home in Florida, according to his sister, Linda Joy Sullivan.
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Lupo’s work in TV took off in the late 1970s when he wrote for such series as “Battlestar Galactica,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “B.J. and the Bear” and “The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo.”
Lupo worked on the Universal Television lot in the same era as Cannell, the prolific showrunner behind “The Rockford Files” and “Baretta.” Lupo wrote several episodes of Cannell’s ABC dramedy “The Greatest American Hero.”
The TV writer-producer also worked on Walker, Texas Ranger, Riptide, Raven and more.
Frank Lupo, who partnered with Stephen J. Cannell to create such popular 1980s action shows as
The A-Team,
Wiseguy, has died. He was 66.
Lupo died Feb. 18 of cardiac arrest in a hospital in The Villages, Florida, a community outside Ocala, his niece, Gina Dickerson, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
Walker, Texas Ranger.
Born in Brooklyn on Jan. 22, 1955, Lupo graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School and attended The New School in Manhattan as an English major.
He came to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and at age 20 was hired by Universal Television, where he met Cannell. After writing episodes of such shows as ABC s
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Horoscope and birthdays for Feb. 14, 2021
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Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021
ARIES (March 21 to April 19): This is another wonderful day for enjoying the company of friends and members of groups. Someone might encourage you to entertain an ambitious goal.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20): You make a fabulous impression on anyone in a position of authority today parents, bosses, teachers and the police. They see you as competent, capable and even affluent (whether or not you are).
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20): You’re keen about big travel plans! However, many of you are just as keen about other plans related to publishing, the law, medicine or something to do with further education.
February 13, 2021
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Today is Sunday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2021. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, more than five years earlier.
On this date:
In 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
In 1876, inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)