'Apocalypse Now' actor Sam Bottoms dies in LA

** FILE **In this May 11, 2001 file photo, director Francis Ford Coppola, left, and actor Sam Bottoms appear during a photocall for their film "Apocalypse Now Redux" at the Film Festival in Cannes, France. Bottoms, one of four actor brothers, died Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008 of brain cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his wife, Laura Bickford, told the Los Angeles Times. He was 53. Bottoms had small but memorable roles in the 1970s classics "Apocalypse Now" and "The Last Picture Show." (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)