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By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
November 16, 2009
LOS ANGELES " Paul Wendkos, who directed more than 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died. He was 84.
Family spokeswoman C. Christie Craig said Wendkos died Thursday of a lung infection that followed a....