Milestones

By Tam Martinides Gray, Dara Horn, Belinda Luscombe, Jodie Morse and Alain L. Sanders

BORN. To winsome Oscar-winning actor DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, 41, and REBECCA MILLER, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller; a boy; in New York City.

DEPARTING. GEORGE CLOONEY, 37, sexy pediatrician Doug Ross on NBC's ER, for CBS after next season; to develop a new series and TV films in conjunction with Warner Bros. TV. No word on whether he will star in the projects.

AILING. SHARI LEWIS, 64, the pixie-like puppeteer who gave life to Lamb Chop; with uterine cancer. The 12-time Emmy winner says she will continue production of her latest show, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, during treatment.

DIED. REG SMYTHE, 80, industrious British cartoonist who sketched the ne'er-do-well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries.

DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment of an active imagination that also manifested itself when the author dispensed false biographical details about himself. The reclusive Castaneda steadfastly refused to be photographed: for a TIME cover article in 1973, he consented only to tightly cropped close-ups of his hands and eyes.