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CONNECTICUT

Transgender Athlete

Policy Is Investigated

The federal Office for Civil
Rights has launched an investiga-
tion into Connecticut’s policy that
allows transgender high-school
athletes to compete as the gen-
der with which they identify.
The investigation was an-
nounced in a letter Wednesday
from the arm of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Education. It follows a
complaint in June by the families
of three girls, who say they were
discriminated against by having
to compete in track events
against two athletes who were
identified as male at birth and
who they say have male hor-
mone levels and musculature.
The complaint was submitted
on the girls’ behalf by lawyers
for the conservative nonprofit
organization Alliance Defending
Freedom, which contends the
transgender girls have an unfair
physical advantage and that the
state policy violates Title IX, the
federal law designed to ensure
equal opportunities for women
and girls in education.
The Connecticut Association
of Schools-Connecticut Interscho-
lastic Athletic Conference has
said its policy follows a state an-
tidiscrimination law that states
students must be treated in
school by the gender with which
they identify. The organization
said in June it would cooperate
fully with any investigation.
—Associated Press

MANHATTAN

Judge Won’t Dismiss

Case Against Actor

A judge rejected actor Cuba

Gooding Jr.’s request to have his

groping case thrown out.

Judge Phyllis Chu said in a

written ruling this week that con-

flicting accounts of the accusa-

tions against the Oscar-winning

“Jerry Maguire” star should be re-

solved at a trial starting Sept. 3.

An attorney for Mr. Gooding

said Thursday that he still ex-

pects his client to be exonerated.

Mr. Gooding, 51 years old, is

accused of squeezing a 29-year-

old woman’s breast without her

consent at the Magic Hour Roof-

top Bar & Lounge near Times

Square on June 9.

—Associated Press

BRONX ZOO

Snake Goes Missing

A 3½-foot-long mangrove

snake has gone missing, but

there is no threat to visitors,

said officials at the Bronx Zoo.

The mildly venomous man-

grovesnakes aren’tknown to be

dangerous to people, they said.

—Associated Press

FORE!: Jordan Spieth hit off the 14th tee Thursday during the first round of the Northern Trust at

Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City. The tournament runs through Sunday.

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“He was such a colorful fig-

ure, it is hard to know where

to start,” Mr. Bishop said. “He

loved the theater with his

heart and soul.”

Mr. Ullman died of a heart

attack on July 31 in Bay Shore,

N.Y.,attheageof97,after

more than half a century

working with and promoting

some of show business’s best.

The Rev. Joshua Ellis, a

longtime friend and former

Broadway press agent, con-

firmed his death.

Mr. Ullman promoted more

Line” from its time in workshop

to its award-winning, record-

breaking run on Broadway.

He worked as a press agent

at the Public Theater, with

producers and directors in-

cluding Joseph Papp and Mi-

chael Bennett. In the 1970s, he

began devoting his time to

new works as a press agent at

Playwrights Horizons.

Mr. Ullman was known for

dressing in mismatched plaids

and stripes. In a homage to

the musical “Gypsy,” his

Christmas cards were signed

“Mama Rose.” And his email

handle, “Ullmerman,” honored

Ms. Merman.

“He had an encyclopedic

memory,” said Jackie Green,

vice president of account ser-

vices at theater public-relations

firm Boneau/Bryan-Brown. She

said Mr. Ullman was her first

boss. “He would talk about mu-

sicals from the ’60s and could

tell you the name of the third

chorus member from the left as

recently as last year.”

Mr. Ellis said he remembers

asking Mr. Ullman for help

breaking into the Broadway

business and getting a job

within 10 minutes. He said Mr.

Ullman was a friend, a mentor

and someone who taught him

that there was more to life

than Broadway.

For years, Mr. Ullman spent

most weekends in East Hamp-

ton, N.Y., with Milton “Mike”

Freeman, with whom he

shared a committed relation-

ship for more than 60 years.

The two married when they

were both in their 90s. Mr.

Freeman died in 2015.

A couple of weeks before he
died, Robert “Bob” Ullman
told a friend he was ready for
his final curtain call.
Just like
everything
else in life,
the long-
time Broad-
way press agent “talked about
death in theater terms,” said
André Bishop, producing artis-
tic director at Lincoln Center
Theater.

BYACACIACORONADO

than 150 Broadway and off-

Broadway shows, including “To-

gether on Broadway” with Ethel

Merman and Mary Martin,

“Cactus Flower” starring Lau-

ren Bacall, as well as “A Chorus

Robert ‘Bob’

Ullman, 97,

promoted

more than 150

Broadway and

off-Broadway

productions.

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