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Harriet Halpern Beck Dies: Veteran Entertainment Attorney Was 80

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Harriet Halpern Beck, an entertainment attorney who specialized in children’s programming during her long career, died Friday, Nov.

26 after a long ilnness.As the VP of business affairs at Ruby Spears Productions in the 1980s, she played a pivotal role in shaping the Saturday morning children’s television universe, helping to build the company into one of the main suppliers of network animated content, including Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mr.

T, Rambo, Punky Brewster, Dragon’s Lair and Rubik, the Amazing Cube. Beck began her career in show business in 1975 as a legal secretary for producer Dino DeLaurentis.

She enrolled in law school at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, attending at night while working and raising her son as a

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