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COLLEEN DEWHURST, who died of cancer Aug. 22, was remembered by her colleagues, family and New York's mayor yesterday as a remarkable actress, a tenacious battler for theater causes and a friend whose infectious laughter brightened the lives of everyone around her.
A capacity audience at the Martin Beck Theater on West 45th Street heard a tribute whose keynote was struck by Mayor David N. Dinkins: "All of us are so much the richer for her long and magnificent presence among us."
The playwright Edward Albee passed along "a bit of gossip": a movement to rename a Broadway theater, perhaps the Ambassador, for Dewhurst. The Ambassador would be ideal, he said, because it is opposite the Eugene O'Neill, named for the...