Cameron DeVore, 76, an attorney who helped establish the field of media law and was one of the first to argue successfully that advertising was a form of protected speech, died Sunday at his home on Lopez Island, Wash. The cause of death was believed to be a heart attack. DeVore had a particular interest in freedom of commercial speech and was an early champion of it. In 1975, he successfully defended an ad that said that Imperial margarine was "not butter -- it's better than butter," a line that provoked the ire of butter manufacturers in Washington state. DeVore persuaded the court that the margarine company had a right to use the word butter in its advertising.

Gerard Damiano, 80, director of the pioneering pornographic film that lent its name to the Watergate whistleblower known as "Deep Throat," died Saturday at a Fort Myers, Fla., hospital He had suffered a stroke in September. Damiano's "Deep Throat" was a mainstream box-office success and helped launch the modern hardcore adult-entertainment industry. Shot in six days for only $25,000, the 1972 flick became a cultural must-see for many Americans.

Milton Katselas, 75, a prominent acting teacher and director, died of heart failure Friday at a Los Angeles hospital. Included in the list of actors he taught are George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, Kate Hudson, Kim Cattrall, Chris Noth, Tyne Daly, Jenna Elfman, Robert Urich, Patrick Swayze, Tom Selleck and Tony Danza. He was 24 when he started to teach acting in New York after observing a class that failed to impress and a friend convinced him he could do better.

Delmar Watson, 82, a member of a family of child actors who appeared in more than a thousand films in the early 1900s, died Sunday at his Glendale, Calif., home of prostate cancer.

He was born July 1, 1926, and his movie career started six months later. The family home near Mack Sennett Studios in Edendale, Calif., an early movie mecca, was a ready-made casting office, with nine children: six boys and three girls. The studios "knew we had kids of all sizes," Watson told the Los Angeles Times in 1968. "When they wanted a kid, they'd come over and grab one of us. Pretty soon, we were all working steady." He once recalled that he had parts in more than 77 movies by the time he was 7 and appeared in more than 300 films during his youth.

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