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Actor Jimmy Stewart was among the hundreds of people who paid tribute to the populist vision of Frank Capra, the Oscar-winning director whose films often championed the common man. More than 500 colleagues, family and friends attended the memorial service for Capra Saturday at the Directors Guild of America. Capra, who died Sept. 3 at age 94, was the guild's founder and three-time president. "I can't tell you the exhilaration of what he gave to all of us," Stewart said. "It was based on his wonderful humor and feeling of living and being alive."