What started as a string of cartoon short movies later grew into a pop culture empire built upon five smiling yellow icons.

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Blaue said he, too, believed that to be the case. "The court is convinced that those gestures and those comments were directed toward Mr. Burns and not to the court," he said.

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He was 72. Burns died of cancer at his Pacific Palisades home on Wednesday, according to his wife, Janice. Born in Evanston, Ill., he was adopted when he was 3 months old.