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LOS ANGELES - Tony Award -winning actress Linda Lavin who played the title role in the TV sitcom ' Alice ' has died in Los Angeles, according to media reports. She was 87.Lavin died Sunday of complications from lung cancer, her representative Bill Veloric, told the Associated Press in an email.
The TV show's title was shortened to 'Alice,' starring Lavin as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son who worked at a roadside diner outside of Phoenix. It ran from 1976 to 1985. Lavin sang the show's theme song, 'There's a New Girl in Town.''Alice' also starred Polly Holliday and Vic Tayback, who worked at Mel's Diner.Lavin won a Tony Award for best actress in a play for Neil Simon's 'Broadway Bound' in 1987.
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