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IN MEMORIAM

PERNELL ROBERTS

By Associated Press   |  TV  |  January 26, 2010

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Pernell Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV’s “Bonanza” at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on “Trapper John, M.D.,” has died. He was 81.

Roberts, the last surviving member of the classic Western’s cast, died of cancer Sunday at his Malibu home, his wife Eleanor Criswell told the Los Angeles Times.

MORE: http://www.pbpulse.com/tv/2010/01/26/pernell-roberts-last-star-of-tvs-bonanza-dies/

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ZELDA RUBINSTEIN

Zelda Rubinstein (May 28, 1933^[1] – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, best known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the movies Poltergeist (1982) and its sequels, Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), and Poltergeist III (1988). She also made guest appearances in the TV spin-off Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as a seer, Christina.^[2] Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

On December 29, 2009, it was reported that, after a month-long stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, her close companion and her family made the decision to take Rubinstein off life support due to both kidney and lung failure.^[8] On January 2, 2010, friends reported she was not near death, and was well on her way to recovery.^[9] On January 27, 2010, Rubinstein died at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles.^[1]

^{MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Rubinstein}

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J. D. SALINGER

Jerome David "J. D." Salinger (IPA: [ˈsælɪndʒər], SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.

Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.^[2] The novel remains widely read and controversial,^[3] selling around 250,000 copies a year.

The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny: Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), a collection of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924," appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.

Salinger died of natural causes on January 27, 2010, at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.^[5][6][7]

^{MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger}

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Erich Segal, ‘Love Story’ Author, Dies at 72

Erich Segal, a Yale classics professor turned popular writer whose first novel, “Love Story,” became a staggering commercial success if not quite a critical one when it appeared in 1970, died on Sunday at his home in London. He was 72.

The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Francesca said on Tuesday. Mr. Segal had been ill with Parkinson’s disease for 25 years.

MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20segal.html

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Arnold Stang, actor famed for playing nerdy roles, dies at 91

NEWTON, Mass. — Arnold Stang, Hollywood's favorite nerd, has died.

His son says the radio, theater, film and television actor famous for his geeky roles and demeanor, died of pneumonia Sunday at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts. He was 91.

The New York City native started his career on the radio as a teenager.

He played alongside Milton Berle in the 1950s, starred as Frank Sinatra's sidekick in the 1955 movie "The Man with the Golden Arm," and was a member of the ensemble comedic cast of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in 1963.

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'Mister Ed' actress Connie Hines dies at age 79

Actress Connie Hines, who played Wilbur's wife on the popular 1960s television show "Mister Ed" has died. She was 79, AP reported.

Her "Mister Ed" co-star Alan Young told the Los Angeles Times that Hines died Friday at her Beverly Hills home from complications of heart problems.

Hines was best known for portraying Carol Post on the show that featured a talking horse. She wrote a book in 2007 entitled "Mister Ed and Me and More."

MORE: http://en.trend.az/regions/world/usa/1605872.html

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Dan O’Bannon, 63, Who Wrote Screenplay for ‘Alien,’ Is Dead

The Writers Guild of America confirmed his death. The cause was Crohn’s disease, a chronic gastrointestinal disorder that Mr. O’Bannon endured for 30 years, his wife, Diane, told The Los Angeles Times.

Mr. O’Bannon had an early start as a screenwriter when he and the director John Carpenter, students at the time at the University of Southern California film school, wrote the low-budget film “Dark Star,” which was released as a feature in 1974.

MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/movies/21obannon.html

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ROY DISNEY

Roy Edward Disney, KCSG (January 10, 1930 – December 16, 2009)^[1] was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded. At the time of death he was a shareholder (over 16 million shares or about 1%),^[2] and served as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors. He is perhaps best known for organizing the ousting of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005.

As the last member of the Disney family to be actively involved in the company, Roy Disney was often compared to his uncle and father. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his personal fortune at about USD$1.2 billion.^[3]

MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_E._Disney

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Gene Barry: Deep-voiced, debonair TV and stage star, has died

Gene Barry, who died at age 90 on Wednesday, had a great voice: Deep and growly, but with a nice lilt to it when he wanted to put a playful spin on a tough-guy line. It was a voice he used to charm audiences first in the TV Western that made him a star, Bat Masterson (1958-61), then as Amos Burke, a rich guy who joined the L.A. police force in Burke’s Law (1963-66) and sped to crime scenes in a Rolls Royce. My mom had a crush on him when he starred in as a magazine tycoon in The Name of the Game (1968-71). His biggest movie role by far was in 1953’s George Pal version of War of the Worlds. And Barry carved out a career as a Broadway leading-man, winning particular praise for his turn as Georges in La Cage Aux Folles, and worked up a solid nightclub act in which his voice was used to sing rumbling versions of pop standards.

MORE: http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/12/11/gene-barry-dies/

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In Memoriam: Ken Krueger

Scoop is saddened to report that noted fan, promoter, publisher, advisor, bookstore owner and friend to fandom Ken Krueger has passed away. Born October 7, 1926, Krueger  was a member of First Fandom, the group of attendees of the very first science-fiction convention in New York in 1939. He is perhaps best known as the co-founder of what is now Comic-Con International: San Diego.

“A book store owner and small press publisher he was instrumental in the founding of the San Diego Comic-Con along with Shel Dorf, Richard Alf and a group of young local fans including Scott Shaw!, Bill Lund, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso and Bob Sourke,” said writer-artist Jim Valentino of Image Comics.

“He served as the con's first chairman, later treasurer and resident grown-up,” he said.

During his career he owned many bookstores, several publishing houses and worked in distribution for Pacific Comics and CapitolCity .

MORE: http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=260&ai=89255

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San Diego's Comic-Con Creator Shel Dorf Dead at 76

With the San Diego Comic-Con now running like clockwork as one of the biggest gatherings for comics, movies, and any other vaguely nerdy pop-culture ephemera in the world, it's hard to believe that it's largely the work of one man. Shel Dorf, a comic book collector who moved from Detroit to San Diego, put together the first con back in 1970, which was attended by 300 people. The most recent SDCC, this past August, was attended by 125,000 people, with next year only promising more. It's sad that having passed away earlier today [Friday, Nov. 6], Dorf will no longer be able to attend.

MORE: http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie-news/4997/san-diegos-comic-con-creator-shel-dorf-dead-at-76

JOHN HART - ACTOR
13-12-1917 - 20-9-2009

JOHN Hart, who played the Lone Ranger in 52 episodes of the long-running 1950s television series featuring a masked cowboy, has died of dementia at his home in Baja California. He was 91.

A Los Angeles native who launched his Hollywood career with a minor part in Cecil B. DeMille's 1938 film The Buccaneer, Hart played small roles in a string of films before being drafted into the US Army in 1941.

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Comedy Icon Soupy Sales dies at age 83

Soupy Sales, the comedy icon who made the made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon, died Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the age of 83.

To see Soupy Sales tell a true and funny story as to how his live, on-air humor about "green pieces of paper" got him into trouble and thrown off the air in 1963, watch the video below.

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Captain Lou Albano dies at 76

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LUCY VODDEN (LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS)

Lucy Vodden (née O’Donnell), who was the inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” has died, following a long battle with the autoimmune disease lupus. The British housewife — whose passing was announced by the St Thomas’ Lupus Trust charity — was 46.

MORE: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/09/28/lucy-vodden-of-beatles-song-fame-dies/

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CRYSTAL LEE SUTTON, 68

Labor Organizer Was Inspiration for 'Norma Rae'

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MARY ALLIN TRAVERS

Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter and member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey. Peter, Paul and Mary was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.^[3] Almost unique among the folk musicians who emerged from the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960s, Travers actually came from the neighborhood.^[3]

^{MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Travers_(singer)}

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HENRY GIBSON 73

Henry Gibson, who died on Monday from cancer at the age of 73, was a fine comedic actor and living pun. (Born James Bateman, his stage name was a tip of the hat to playwright Henrik Ibsen.) Gibson initially became famous in the late ’60s with his turns on the satirical comedy show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and, more recently, portrayed an idiosyncratic judge on Boston Legal. His film credits included The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Wedding Crashers, and the Blues Brothers, in which he memorably essayed a Nazi. He was also a favorite actor of the director Joe Dante who cast him in Innerspace, the ‘burbs, and Gremlins 2.

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Ellie Greenwich dies at 68; co-wrote 'Da Doo Ron Ron,' 'Chapel of Love' and other '60s hits

By Randy Lewis

Ellie Greenwich, the New York songwriter behind a string of 1960s hits that gave effervescent voice to unbridled teen romance including "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Chapel of Love" and "Be My Baby," many of them in collaboration with producer Phil Spector, died Wednesday of a heart attack, according to her niece, Jessica Weiner. She was 68.

She was being treated for pneumonia and "some other heart issues" at St. Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York when she suffered the heart attack, Weiner said.

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Leader of the Pack by the Shangri Las written by Ellie Greenwich

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'60 Minutes' creator Don Hewitt dies

(CNN) -- Television pioneer and longtime CBS executive Don Hewitt, the creator of "60 Minutes," has died, the network said Wednesday. He was 86.

Hewitt, who had been battling pancreatic cancer, died at his home in Bridgehampton, New York, surrounded by his family, CBS said.

The winner of eight Emmy and two Peabody awards, Hewitt began working for CBS News as an associate director in 1948. He was executive producer of "60 Minutes" when it premiered on CBS on September 24, 1968. Hewitt stepped down in June 2004, but the program remains on the air and is the number-one news program, according to CBS News' Web site.

MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/19/hewitt.obit/index.html

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Guitar Hero: Les Paul, 1915-2009

Guitarist and inventor Les Paul — who invented the device that made the electric guitar possible — died Aug. 13 at the age of 94.

Paul's contributions to rock 'n' roll went well beyond one gadget. He designed guitars — vintage models were selling for thousands of dollars even before news of his death came — and made the first multi-track recorder. He introduced innovations that established the recording studio itself as a legitimate musical instrument. And in doing so, he shaped much of the genre's sound.

MORE:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111888401

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Billy Lee Riley (October 5, 1933 - August 2, 2009) 

was an American rockabilly musician, singer, record producer and songwriter.

Born in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the son of a sharecropper, Riley learned to play guitar from black farm workers. After 4 years in the Army, Riley first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955 before being lured to Sun Studios by Sam Phillips. He recorded "Trouble Bound" for Jack Clement and Slim Wallace. Sam Phillips obtained the rights and he released "Trouble Bound" b/w "Rock With Me Baby" on September 1, 1956 (Sun 245). His first hit was "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" b/w "I Want You Baby" released February 23, 1957 (Sun 260) after which he recorded "Red Hot" b/w "Pearly Lee" released September 30, 1957 (Sun 277) both with backing piano by Jerry Lee Lewis.

"Red Hot" was showing a lot of promise as a big hit record, but Sam Phillips pulled the promotion and switched it to "Great Balls Of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis. The record was pulled without a lot of sales. He had other Sun recordings and they, likewise, did not have a lot of sales as his promotion had stopped.

Considered good looking and with wild stage moves, Riley had a brief solo career with his backing band "The Little Green Men". Riley and his Little Green Men were the main Sun studio band. They were Riley, Roland Janes, J.M. Van Eaton, Marvin Pepper, and Jimmy Wilson, later joined by Martin Willis.

In 1960, he left Sun, and started Rita Record label with Roland Janes. They produced the national hit record "Mountain Of Love" by Harold Dorman. He later started two other labels Nita and Mojo.

In 1962, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a session musician with Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, Sammy Davis Jr. and others, as well as recording under various aliases.

MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lee_Riley

TO HEAR BILLY LEE RILEY SING RED HOT CLICK HERE: 

VIDEO JUKE BOX -- 50s

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John Hughes, 59, dies of heart attack

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Brenda Joyce, Jane to 2 Tarzans, Dies at 92

A family friend, David Ragan, said she died of pneumonia at a nursing home after suffering from dementia for a decade.

Ms. Joyce, who was born Betty Leabo, appeared in about two dozen movies, but was best known for succeeding Maureen O’Sullivan as Jane in the “Tarzan” pictures. She appeared in five “Tarzan” movies in the 1940s, beginning with “Tarzan and the Amazons” opposite Johnny Weissmuller in 1945. Her final “Tarzan” film was “Tarzan’s Magic Fountain,” with Lex Barker, in 1949, which was also the last year she acted in movies.

MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/arts/23joyce.html?_r=1

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)^[2][3][4] was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America" because of his professional experience and kindly demeanor.^[5][6] Cronkite died on July 17, 2009 at the age of 92 from cerebrovascular disease,^[7] described by his son as complications from dementia.^[8]

Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena (née Fritsche) and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist.^[9][10] He had remote Dutch ancestry on his father's side, the family surname originally being Krankheyt.^[11]

Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri until he was ten, when his family moved to Houston, Texas.^[9] He attended junior high school at Lanier Junior High School (now Lanier Middle School) and high school at San Jacinto High School where he edited the high school newspaper.^[1] He was a member of the Boy Scouts. He attended college at The University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on The Daily Texan, and became a member of the Nu chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity.^[12][1] He also was a member of the Houston chapter of DeMolay, a Masonic fraternal organization for boys. It was while attending the University of Texas that Cronkite had his first taste of performance appearing in a play with fellow students Eli Wallach and Ann Sheridan.

He dropped out of college in his junior year in 1935 after starting a series of newspaper reporting jobs covering news and sports.^[3] He entered broadcasting as a radio announcer for WKY in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1936, he met his future wife Mary Elizabeth Maxwell (known by her nickname "Betsy") while working as the sports announcer for KCMO (AM) in Kansas City, Missouri.^[9][3] His broadcast name was "Walter Wilcox".^[13] He would explain later that radio stations at the time did not want people to use their real names for fear of taking their listeners with them if they left. In Kansas City, he joined the United Press in 1937.^[3] He became one of the top American reporters in World War II, covering battles in North Africa and Europe.^[9] He was one of eight journalists selected by the U.S. Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress.^[14] He also landed in a glider with the 101st Airborne in Operation Market-Garden and covered the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he covered the Nuremberg trials, and served as the United Press main reporter in Moscow for two years.

In 1950, Cronkite joined CBS News in its young and growing television division, recruited by Edward R. Murrow, who had previously tried to hire Cronkite from UP during the war. Cronkite began working at WTOP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C.. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15 minute late Sunday evening newscast Up To the Minute, which followed What's My Line? at 11:00pm ET from 1951 through 1962.

On July 7, 1952, the term "anchor" was coined to describe Cronkite's role at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which marked the first nationally-televised convention coverage.^[15] Cronkite anchored the network's coverage of the 1952 presidential election as well as later conventions. In 1964 he was temporarily replaced by the team of Robert Trout and Roger Mudd; this proved to be a mistake, and Cronkite was returned to the anchor chair for future political conventions.

From 1953 to 1957, Cronkite hosted the CBS program You Are There, which reenacted historical events, using the format of a news report. His famous last line for these programs was: "What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... and you were there." In 1971, the show was revived and redesigned to attract an audience of teenagers and young adults on Saturday mornings. He also hosted The Twentieth Century, a documentary series about important historical events of the century which was made up almost exclusively of newsreel footage and interviews. It became a long-running hit. Cronkite also hosted It's News to Me, a game show based on news events.

MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite\

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Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as Defense Secretary for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. Following that he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.^[4]

^{MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara}

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GAIL STORM DEAD AT 87

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KARL MALDEN DEAD AT 97

Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009)^[1][2] was an American actor. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he featured in classic Marlon Brando films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks. Among other notable film roles were Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll, Zebulon Prescott in How the West Was Won and General Omar Bradley in Patton. His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco. During the 1980s he was spokesperson for American Express, reminding cardholders "Don't leave home without it".

MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malden

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ED McMAHON

Edward Leo Peter "Ed" McMahon, Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009) was a decorated war veteran, an American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality. Most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992, also as the host of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995, also co-hosting with Dick Clark on TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes from 1982 to 1986, he also became well-known as the presenter of the now-defunct American Family Publishers sweepstakes (not, as is commonly believed, its main rival Publishers Clearing House).^[1][2]

McMahon annually co-hosted the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. He performed in numerous television commercials, most notably for Budweiser. In the 1970s and 1980s, he anchored the team of NBC personalities conducting the network's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

McMahon appeared in several films, including The Incident (1967), Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), Full Moon High (1981), and Butterfly (1982), as well as briefly in the film version of Bewitched (2005). According to Entertainment Weekly he is considered one of the "greatest sidekicks".^[3

MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon

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FARRAH FAWCETT

Farrah Fawcett (February 2, 1947^[1] – June 25, 2009)^[2] was an American actress. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels in 1976. Fawcett later appeared off-Broadway to the approval of critics and in highly rated television movies in roles often challenging (The Burning Bed, Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, Margaret Bourke-White) and sometimes unsympathetic (Small Sacrifices). Fawcett was also a pop culture figure whose hairstyle was emulated by millions of young women and whose poster sales broke records, making her an international sex symbol in the 1970s and 1980s. While her impact was particularly strong on the teens of the 1970s (Generation Jones), her appeal spreads over multiple generations.^[3]

^{MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett}

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^{MICHAEL JACKSON}

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, philanthropist and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his debut onto the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1969, then began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group. Referred to as the "King of Pop"^[2] in subsequent years, his 1982 album Thriller remains the world's best-selling record of all time^[3] and four of his other solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995).

In the early 1980s, he became a dominant figure in popular music and the first African American entertainer to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. The popularity of his music videos airing on MTV, such as "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and "Thriller"—widely credited with transforming the music video from a promotional tool into an art form—helped bring the relatively new channel to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made Jackson an enduring staple on MTV in the 1990s. With stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced many hip hop, pop and contemporary R&B artists.

MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson

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DAVID CARRIDINE

On June 4, 2009, Carradine was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit, in central Bangkok, Thailand.^[2][3] A police official said Carradine was found hanging by a rope in the room's closet,^[13][14] and the Bangkok Post reported that his body was found curled up in the wardrobe with a shoelace tied around his genitals and neck.^[15]

Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunand, a Thai forensic pathologist and Director of Central Institute of Forensic Science, stated the incident met four of the criteria for accidental death involving autoerotic asphyxiation. Police Lieutenant General Worapong Chewprecha, Commander of the Metropolitan Police, remarked that the closed circuit television installed within the hotel supported the theory that no other persons were involved with the death.^{[16][17][18][19]} Carradine's representative and family members told the press that they believed the death to be accidental and not a suicide.^[20]

Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot his latest movie, Stretch, but the film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on June 3.^[2]

MORE:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine

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MORT ABRAMS

Dom DeLuise

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dom DeLuise, who spiced up such movies as "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie" and "The Cannonball Run" with his manic delivery and roly-poly persona, has died, his son's publicist said.

Publicist Jay Schwartz did not disclose the cause of death, but DeLuise, 75, had been battling cancer for more than a year.

DeLuise was surrounded by family when he died in a Santa Monica, California, hospital Monday night, son Michael DeLuise told CNN affiliate KTLA.

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BEA ARTHUR

Arthur died at her home in the Greater Los Angeles Area in the early morning hours of April 25, 2009, aged 86. She had been ill from cancer.^[9][15][16]

Both of Arthur's surviving Golden Girls co-stars commented on Bea's death. Rue McClanahan saying, "I suppose perhaps the thing she did the best and the most of was make people laugh". ^[17] Betty White also commented saying, "I knew it would hurt. I just didn't know it would hurt this much". ^[18]

On April 28, 2009, the marquees of New York City's Broadway theater district were dimmed in her memory for one minute at 8:00 P.M.^[19][20]

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MARILYN CHAMBERS

Marilyn Chambers, the pretty Ivory Snow girl who helped bring hard-core adult films into the mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit 1972 movie "Behind the Green Door," has died at 56.

The cause of death was not immediately known. A family friend, Peggy McGinn, said Chambers' 17-year-old daughter found the actress' body Sunday night at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Canyon Country. Chambers was pronounced dead at the scene, the county coroner's office said Monday.

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FRANK SPRINGER RIP

Newsday reports the death last week of veteran artist Frank Springer at age 79.

Springer was a gregarious and practical man who labored for hours a day in his backyard studio, said his son, Jon Springer of Brooklyn. “He’d be out there basically all day long, morning until dinnertime.”

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Jose “Pepe” Gonzalez

The artist who defined Vampirella’s look for at least two generations of comic book fans has passed away. The death of Jose “Pepe” Gonzalez at age 70 was announced by Harris Comics.

Gonzalez is best known for his work on Vampirella when it was published in magazine form by Warren, beginning with Vampirella #12 (1971). “His work was thrilling, sensuous and beautiful. He brought the character to life, elevated her to an icon and, most deservedly, won over a legion of fans who have never forgotten him. To this day, many would say his was the definitive rendition of the character,” Harris said in their press release.

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'Lost in Space' actor Bob May dies at 69 in Calif.

LOS ANGELES – Bob May, who donned The Robot's suit in the hit 1960s television show "Lost in Space," has died. He was 69.

May died Sunday of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Lancaster, said his daughter, Deborah May.

He was a veteran actor and stuntman who had appeared in movies, TV shows and on the vaudeville stage when he was tapped by "Lost in Space" creator Irwin Allen to play the Robinson family's loyal metal sidekick in the series that debuted in 1965.

Bob May

http://www.hightechscience.org/robots.htm

"He always said he got the job because he fit in the robot suit," said June Lockhart, who played family matriarch Maureen Robinson. "It was one of those wonderful Hollywood stories. He just happened to be on the studio lot when someone saw him and sent him to see Irwin Allen about the part. Allen said, 'If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.'"

Although May didn't provide the robot's distinctive voice (that was done by announcer Dick Tufeld), he developed a following of fans who sought him out at memorabilia shows.

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OBITUARIES

Ricardo Montalban, early Latino leading man, dies

By Claire Dederer and Bruce Weber

Published: January 15, 2009

MORE:  http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/15/news/obits.1-407992.php

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Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan passed away in Los Angeles today. He was 80.

McGoohan is (arguably) best knows as Number Six in THE PRISONER, for which he was a producer, writer, and director. Some theorize THE PRISONER may have been a loose continuation of DANGER MAN, an early 60s TV series featuring McGoohan as an operative named John Drake (more on the series' connections HERE).

But his accomplishments spanned a far greater range of projects - including ICE STATION ZEBRA, ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, David Cronenberg's SCANNERS, Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART, and THE PHANTOM (father to Billy Zane's character). In 1976 he co-starred with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in Arthur Hiller's SILVER STREAK.

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EDWARD D. CARTIER

Edward D. Cartier, sci-fi, and pulp fiction illustrator for the legendary The Shadow series died on Christmas Day, December 25, 2008 at his home in Ramsey, New Jersey. Reported by his son Dean Cartier, he suffered from Parkinson’s disease. He was 94 years-old.

His artwork appeared in literature by authors like Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, but he’s most well known for illustrating The Shadow in the 1930s and ‘40s. The Shadow novels were written by Walter B. Gibson, appearing in pulp magazines, they chronicled the adventures of the mysterious black clad crime fighter.

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VAN JOHNSON

Battleground 1949

Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) (born Charles Van Johnson) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during World War II.

Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy next door," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or B-25 bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the war years. At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age." ^[1]

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Majel B. Roddenberry, wife of 'Star Trek' creator, dies

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and an actress whose longtime association with the "Star Trek" franchise included playing Nurse Christine Chapel in the original series, died early Thursday morning. She was 76.

Roddenberry died at her home in Bel-Air after a battle with leukemia, said family spokesman Sean Rossall.

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BETTIE PAGE DEAD AT 85

Bettie Page, the bombshell pin-up queen who both titillated and outraged Americans during her legendary career as a model and actress in the 1950s, has died at the age of 85.

Page never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack last week in Los Angeles, said her agent, Mark Roesler. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.

“She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality,” Mr Roesler said. “She is the embodiment of beauty.”

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FORREST J. ACKERMAN

Forrest J Ackerman magazine editor, literary agent, actor, and Ray Bradbury’s discoverer, passed away Thursday, December 4, 2008 of heart failure in his Los Angeles home, Kevin Burns, Prometheus Entertainment head and trustee of Ackerman’s estate said. He was 92 years-old.

Entrenched in the sci-fi genre, Ackerman is credited with coining the term “science fiction”. He is a legend through sci-fi circles as the founding editor of the pulp magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. “He became the Pied Piper, the spiritual leader, of everything science fiction, fantasy, and horror,” Burns said last Friday.

Ackerman was the owner of a huge, private collection of science fiction movie and literary memorabilia that filled his mansion. The collection once included over 50,000 books, thousands of sci-fi magazines, and incredible pieces like Bela Lugosi’s cape from 1931’s Dracula. On Saturdays, he opened his home to anyone wanting to view the treasures within. He told the Associated Press, “My wife used to say, ‘How can you let strangers into our home?’ But what’s the point of having a collection like this if you can’t let people enjoy it?”

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ODETTA DEAD AT 77

Odetta, the famed American folk singer whose powerful songs became anthems for the U.S. civil rights movement, has died at 77.

Her manager, Douglas Yeager, said Odetta died of heart disease in a New York hospital on Tuesday. Yeager noted she had hoped to sing during the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama on January 20, when he is to become the first African-American
president of the United States.

Odetta sang during the 1963 march on Washington, which was led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. On that day, she performed a song from the slavery era called "O Freedom."

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JACK NARZ /1922-2008

John William (Jack) Narz, Jr. (November 13, 1922 – October 15, 2008) was an American television announcer and game show host. He was the brother of Tom Kennedy and the former brother-in-law of Bill Cullen. In his career, Narz hosted several game shows, including Concentration, Beat the Clock, Now You See It and Dotto.

Narz was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for missions in the China-Burma area as a fighter pilot during World War II. He went to broadcasting school in Los Angeles after the war and was later hired as an announcer the Los Angeles radio station KXO and did radio commercials for local businesses.^[1]

In the initial (1951) episode of Adventures of Superman, he narrated at key points in the backstory of the title character. At the conclusion of the opening episode of Superman, Narz's voiceover asked viewers to "Join us every week for the adventures of Superman!" Narz was paid $150 for the voice work and received annual royalty payments of $1.98.^[1] He also made appearances in local Los Angeles television and served as the announcer on one of TV's first nationally-broadcast children's shows, Space Patrol.

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EC historian and art expert Roger Hill contributed this story.

On August 6, 2008, it was reported that veteran Golden Age artist Jack Kamen passed away in Florida at the age of 88. Jack was one of the more prolific artists who started out doing backgrounds in the Harry Chesler Comic Shop around 1940 and wound up a steady contributor to Bill Gaines' EC (Entertaining Comics) group during the 1950s, where he produced over 160 stories and 11 covers. While Kamen never reached the level of popularity as Wally Wood or Graham Ingels, his consistant contributions to EC were part of the "EC experience" that continues to make their publishing output some of the most reprinted comics in the market today.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 29, 1920 and during his earliest childhood years decided he wanted to become a fine artist or illustrator. During the late 1930s he took lessons at the National Academy and the Art Student's League and shortly afterwards broke into the business doing pulp illustrations for Standard Publications. From there he graduated to the Harry Chesler Shop where he began as a background artist working on Bulletman and Spy Smasher, and other stories being supplied to Fawcett Publications. By 1941 Jack was working for the Jerry Iger Shop where he met a very young Al Feldstein then breaking into the business. Most of Kamen's work for Iger fed into the Fiction House line of titles, turning out popular features such as "Rip Carson" and "Kayo Kirby," among others. He also freelanced a few things to Timely/Marvel Comics before being drafted into the Army during World War II. While in the service, Jack illustrated and helped put together training manuals and visual aids for G.I.s headed overseas, then later on, after being re-assigned to the Signal Corps, saw action in New Guinea and the Philippines.

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GEORGE CARLIN: MAY 12 1937/JUNE 23 2008

George Carlin, whose astringent stand-up comedy made him an heir of Lenny Bruce, who gave voice to an indignant counterculture and assaulted the barricades of censorship on behalf of a generation of comics that followed him, died on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 71 and lived in Venice, Calif.

The cause was heart failure, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. Mr. Carlin, who performed earlier this month at the Orleans hotel in Las Vegas, had a history of heart problems.

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IN MEMORIAM: DODIE GOODMAN

Dolores "Dody" Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress known for her portrayal of the title character's (played by Louise Lasser) mother on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Her high-pitched voice could be heard announcing the show's title at the beginning of each episode.

Born Dolores Goodman in Columbus, Ohio, Goodman was notoriously secretive about her age, successfully shaving off 15 years (giving a birthyear of 1929) for many years before the discrepancy was publicly debunked.

Goodman gained a measure of newspaper column space for her dancing solos in such Broadway musicals as High Button Shoes (1947), and Wonderful Town (1953). In 1955, she stopped the show in Off Broadway's Shoestring Revue with the novelty song "Someone's Been Sending Me Flowers." She returned to Broadway in 1974 to appear in Lorelei with Carol Channing.

Adopting the guise of a fey airhead, Goodman was good for a few off-the-wall quotes whenever she submitted to an interview. She came to the attention of nighttime talkshow host Jack Paar who, after becoming enchanted with her ditzy persona and seemingly spontaneous malaprops, invited the lady to become a semi-regular on The Tonight Show.

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IN MEMORIAM: STAN WINTSON

He made his living with robots, dinosaurs, and aliens. Groundbreaking, Oscar winning special effects creator Stan Winston passed away Sunday, June 15, 2008, after a seven year fight against multiple myeloma. He was 62 years old.

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IN MEMORIAM: BO DIDDLEY

June 2, 2008

by Joan Anderman
Globe Staff

Bo Diddley, one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, died of heart failure yesterday at his home in Archer, Fla., according to his publicist. He was 79.

Mr. Diddley, whose signature bomp ba-bomp bomp bomp bomp beat influenced musicians from Buddy Holly and the Rolling Stones to Bruce Springsteen and U2, had suffered a heart attack last August, three months after being felled by a stroke during a performance in Iowa. He had returned to Florida, his home of 20 years, to rehabilitate.

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IN MEMORIAM: WILL ELDER

The comic industry is mourning the loss of a truly talented creator. Will Elder, whose work was influential to the beginning of MAD magazine, passed away last Thursday morning, May 15, 2008. He was 86 years old.

Elder was born Wolf William Eisenberg in the Bronx, New York. During World War II, he served as part of the map-making team that helped to plan and carry out the invasion of Normandy. Upon his return from the war, he changed his name to Will Elder, which is how he is known to legions of comics fans.

Mad ad parody by Elder

In 1952, Elder was hired by Harvey Kurtzman to provide content for the first issues of the newly-launched MAD magazine. Elder worked with comic legends such as Wally Wood, John Severin, and Jack Davis.

"Willie Elder was one of the funniest artists ever to work for MAD. He created visual feasts with dozens of background gags layered into every MAD story he illustrated," says John Ficarra, editor of MAD magazine, "He called these gags 'chicken fat.' Willie's 'anything goes' art style set the tone for the entire magazine and created a look that endures to this day."

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RICHARD WIDMARK

Richard Widmark, Actor, Dies at 93

His death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard. She said that Mr. Widmark had fractured a vertebra in recent months and that his conditioned had worsened.

As Tommy Udo, a giggling, psychopathic killer in the 1947 gangster film “Kiss of Death,” Mr. Widmark tied up an old woman in a wheelchair (played by Mildred Dunnock) with a cord ripped from a lamp and shoved her down a flight of stairs to her death.

“The sadism of that character, the fearful laugh, the skull showing through drawn skin, and the surely conscious evocation of a concentration-camp degenerate established Widmark as the most frightening person on the screen,” the critic David Thomson wrote in “The Biographical Dictionary of Film.”

The performance won Mr. Widmark his sole Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor.

Tommy Udo made the 32-year-old Mr. Widmark, who had been an established radio actor, an instant movie star, and he spent the next seven years playing a variety of flawed heroes and relentlessly anti-social mobsters in 20th Century Fox’s juiciest melodramas.

His mobsters were drenched in evil. Even his heroes, including the doctor who fights bubonic plague in Elia Kazan’s “Panic in the Streets” (1950), the daredevil pilot flying into the eye of a storm in “Slattery’s Hurricane” (1949) and the pickpocket who refuses to be a traitor in Samuel Fuller’s “Pickup on South Street” (1953) were nerve-strained and feral.

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DAVE STEVENS: R.I.P

Illustrator Dave Stevens, best known for his "good girl" art and The Rocketeer, died yesterday following a long, wrenching battle with Leukemia. Dave was born July 29, 1955 in Lynwood, California. He was raised in Portland, Oregon, then his family relocated to San Diego, where he attended San Diego City College and became involved in the early days of the San Diego Comic Book Convention, now known as the Comic-Con International. His skills as an artist were instantly evident to all, and he was encouraged by darn near every professional artist who attended the early cons, but especially by Jack Kirby and Russ Manning. In 1975, when Manning began editing a line of Tarzan comic books to be published in Europe, Dave got his first professional assignment, working on those comics and also assisting Russ with the Tarzan newspaper strip. Soon after, he worked on a few projects for Marvel (including the Star Wars comic book) and a number of underground comics. Later, he also worked with Russ on the Star Wars newspaper strip.

In 1977, Dave went to work for Hanna-Barbera where he drew storyboards and layouts, many of them for the Super Friends and Godzilla cartoon shows and bonded with veteran artist Doug Wildey, who produced the latter. Wildey and Stevens became close friends and in 1982, when Dave created his popular character, The Rocketeer, he modelled the character's sidekick, Peevy, on photos of Doug. Dave himself was Cliff Secord, who donned the mask of The Rocketeer, and other friends appeared in other guises.

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BILL PINKNEY OF THE ORIGINAL DRIFTERS DIES AT 81

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rhythm and blues singer Bill Pinkney, the last surviving member of the original lineup of The Drifters, was found dead in his hotel room hours before he was due to perform in a July 4 celebration.

Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said 81-year-old Pinkney was found dead on Wednesday evening at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort in Florida. There was no evidence of foul play, he said.

Pinkney was scheduled to perform with The Original Drifters that night for U.S. Independence Day festivities.

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MR. WIZARD DIES AT 89

Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 89.

Herbert died at his home in Bell Canyon after a long battle with multiple myeloma, said Tom Nikosey, Herbert's son-in-law.

A low-key, avuncular presence who wore a tie and white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, Herbert launched his weekly half-hour science show for children on NBC in 1951.

Broadcast live from Chicago on Saturdays the first few years and then from New York City, "Watch Mr. Wizard" ran for 14 years.

Herbert used basic experiments to teach scientific principles to his TV audience via an in-studio guest boy or girl who assisted in the experiments.

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TOM POSTON DIES:

HE APPEARED IN THE VERY FIRST EPISODES OF TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET

From the New York Times:

Tom Poston, Virtuosic Comic Actor, Is Dead at 85 

Tom Poston, an Emmy-winning comic actor whose television characters ranged from the slow-witted Everyman on "The Steve Allen Show" to a cantankerous closet-dwelling clown on the recent sitcom "Committed," died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85.

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Left, Tom Poston as a panelist on “To Tell the Truth,” around 1961, and as the incompetent handyman George Utley on “Newhart,” in 1985.

Mr. Poston died after a short illness, his wife, the actress Suzanne Pleshette, said.

A long-faced, buggy-eyed second banana, Mr. Poston was for a half-century a Paganini of the bewildered, the benighted and the befuddled. His best-known television roles include George Utley, the sublimely incompetent handyman on "Newhart"; Mr. Bickley, the troublesome neighbor on "Mork & Mindy"; and Cliff Murdock, Mr. Newhart's doltish college chum on the original "Bob Newhart Show."

Mr. Poston appeared on Broadway and in films, among them "Christmas With the Kranks" (2004); "The Princess Diaries 2" (2004); and "Cold Turkey" (1971). He was also, variously, a pilot, an amateur boxer, a tumbler with the Flying Zebleys, an aspiring chemist and a panelist on the game show "To Tell the Truth."

It seemed Mr. Poston would do anything for a part. For his first Broadway appearance -- a tiny role in a 1946 production of "Cyrano de Bergerac," the audition consisted of falling off a parapet onto his head, as the character did. Mr. Poston and his head withstood the test admirably.

Six decades later, Mr. Poston tried out for "Committed," broadcast on NBC in 2005. His character, a surly, dying clown known simply as Clown, lives out his days in the closet of one of the show's main characters. (Clown came with the apartment.)

The audition required aspirants to pull down their pants, as called for in the script. Most actors did so only in pantomime. Mr. Poston complied in full, with electrifying results.

"He dropped his trousers and had on these gold lamé boxer shorts," Eileen Heisler, an executive producer of the show, told The Associated Press in 2005.

Whether Mr. Poston had been tipped off about what the audition would entail is unrecorded.

Thomas Gordon Poston was born in Columbus, Ohio. As a boy, he wanted to be a prize fighter, and as a young man he boxed in several hundred amateur fights. He also learned tumbling, performing with the Zebleys as a child. In the late 1930s, he enrolled at Bethany College in West Virginia, where he studied chemistry.

His studies were interrupted by World War II, in which he served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps in Europe. After the war he moved to New York and trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Mr. Poston's Broadway appearances include "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" (1955); "Mary, Mary" (1961); and the 1972 revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." In 1959, starring on Broadway in "Golden Fleecing," Mr. Poston met Ms. Pleshette. The two began a romance, though they later married others.

In early television Mr. Poston was the host of "Entertainment" (1955), a 2 1/2-hour, five-day-a-week live variety show on ABC.

"I once timed it and I ad-libbed 35, 36 minutes a day," he told The Associated Press in 2005. "You can imagine how clever that was. It was filled with, 'Wasn't that wonderful!' 'Yes, that was wonderful!' 'Isn't that wonderful!' "

But Mr. Poston's ability to think on his feet earned him a regular role on Mr. Allen's show. There, in the company of Don Knotts and Louis Nye, he played a roster of supporting characters, chief among them Everyman, who is rendered dazed and speechless whenever he is asked a question in the show's "Man on the Street" segments. (A typical question: "What's your name?")

For his work on the Allen show, Mr. Poston won an Emmy in 1959.

Mr. Poston was married four times, to three women. His first marriage, to Jean Sullivan, ended in divorce, as did his second, to Kay Hudson. He and Ms. Hudson later remarried; the marriage lasted until her death in 1998. He married Ms. Pleshette in 2001.

Besides Ms. Pleshette, Mr. Poston is survived by a daughter from his first marriage, Francesca Poston of Nashville; two children from his marriage to Ms. Hudson, a son, Jason Poston of Los Angeles, and a daughter, Hudson Poston of Portland, Ore.; and a sister, Rosalie Cassou, of Fredericksburg, Va.

Before she married Mr. Poston, Ms. Pleshette laid down one ironclad condition: she wanted "a big rock," she said in a telephone interview yesterday.

So Mr. Poston gave her exactly that. A piece of unpolished granite the size of a large marble, it was culled from the gravel in his driveway. He had it put in a platinum setting.

The rock worked like a charm, Ms. Pleshette said. She added: "Of course, he later was taught the pleasures of diamonds."

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FROM THE L.A. TIMES:

Herman Brix, 100; Olympian became actor known as Bruce Bennett

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REPORT FROM MIKE ELMO:

Patricia Soteras passed away Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, of a heart attack.  

Patsy Parsons (her maiden name) was in the first season of Rocky Jones and played Suzerain Clealanta of the planet Ophiucius, an adversary of Earth and The United Worlds. She Starred in," Beyond The Curtain Of Space, The Pirates Of Prah, Bobby's Comet, Rocky's Odyssey, and Crash Of Moons".  You could tell that there was a subplot of sexual tension between her and Rocky. You get the idea that if she could not have him, no one would! Patsy was an accomplished Actress!! She had a very strong stage presence as told to Ann Robinson by Sally Mansfield. Ann and Patsy never got to meet each other, due to Patsy leaving acting to start her Family. I'm not sure how many children she had, but I do know of a Son and Daughter, any more I'm not sure. She was a scene stealer! As I said, a tremendous presence!!  Too bad she left the business after the R.J Series! Crash Of Moons was a good ending for her stint, but, it left you wanting much more! In  the second season, Rocky and others talk about New Ophiucius, but nothing of the characters of Cleolanta or others. I have to beleive that if there were more years for the Series to develop, Patsy may have been persuaded to come back as Cleolanta again. Sally said  that Patsy did enjoy the work she did on R.J. and was sad about leaving the Series.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES OBIT

In a message dated 5/17/2006 6:51:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, Merlinest writes:

    We gathered at the grave site, a trim green lawn shaded by a large tree, at 3:00 pm...about 20 close friends and relatives, of which 14 were considered the actual invited. The elegant heavy wooden coffin was already in place over the open grave, blanketed with flowers. More flowers were hung on stands and in baskets to one side. His mother and father's graves were next to his. A white church with a clock on its steeple loomed in the background.
    The afternoon blazed with sunlight, and some folk sat on a row of chairs while the  others stood behind them as a minister read his long bio of Frankie's career and life doings. When he had done with his summary and prayers, the guests were invited to speak any words they wished to say, and a few did. Mostly relating amusing happenings they experienced with Frankie.
    Few knew he'd already had another. His original space cadet uniform had been left at the mortuary for them to dress him in it... and when the few family members had a short viewing period just before the burial time, it was discovered that the upper part of the uniform had been put on backwards, so that he was zippered up the front, and the insignia of the Space Cadets was on his back. Of course, that mistake was hastily remedied before the coffin was brought to the site. I had to chuckle, knowing that Frank would have found it as funny as I did.
    Julie, his step-daughter, stood to read the words to the Space Academy oath and the Space Cadet song... it was quite moving, for it personified all that Frankie believed and portrayed in his favorite role.  She had everyone wish Frankie Spaceman's Luck together, and then the coffin lid was opened for the guests to place his old golf balls and photographs of his family and friends and the folded American flag once displayed at his father's funeral. I sprinkled Frankie with a handful of tiny gold metallic stars and wished him farewell under my breath... and as the folk left the coffin, I took a few pictures before the lid was reclosed.
    The invited 14 departed for the Bistro Restaurant, one of Frankie's favorites, and had a fine dinner and drinks and more talk about the man they had lost. It wasn't the same without him there... I had no sense of him being with us at all. I think he stayed behind to be with his Mom and Dad.

Jan Merlin

COMMANDER BUZZ CORRY'S LAST FLIGHT

Hi Cadets,

Ed Kemmer wanted his ashes scattered from a plane, so a few weeks ago,
his younger son Todd set out to do this with a friend who's a pilot.
Todd loved planes as a kid, but as he grew older, he didn't care for
them much and after takeoff, he felt scared - especially since this was
a small plane. Then, he says, for some reason, a sense of calm came over
him and he wasn't scared at all. In fact, at one point, much to his
surprise, he felt a strange kind of confidence, took the controls, and
actually flew the plane.

I believe that Ed was happiest when he was flying. Thinking back, I
remember that one of his favorite stories was about how he was the first
cadet in his class to solo during his Air Corps flight training in San
Antonio.

His ashes were scattered over Fire Island in Long Island Sound. 

jnb (11-06-05)

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FROM WARREN CHANEY:

I heard Lion’s Gate is taking another look at a feature film using  Captain Marvel (the real one). 

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Lone Ranger cartoonist Tom Gill dies at 92

Gill art work supplied by Dr. Warren Chaney

Oct. 19, 2005, 1:34PM

NEW YORK -- Tom Gill, who drew The Lone Ranger comic books, died on Monday of heart failure at his home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., his wife said on Tuesday. He was 92.

Between 1950 and 1970, Gill drew the masked rider of the Old West, the Lone Ranger, and his Indian sidekick Tonto for The Lone Ranger comic books. He also drew the Hi-Yo Silver and Bonanza comic books.

He taught cartooning and children's book illustration in New York area colleges, including the School of Visual Arts, where he served as department chair in 1948 and alumni director in 1969.

Gill grew up in Brooklyn and went to work for the New York Daily News, where he was credited with drawing the first map of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Later he worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia, daughter Nancy Zaglaluer, son Tom, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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MIKE AND KIM ELMO AT SWAPSALE'S SECRET MOUNTAIN TOP RETREAT

Mike and Kim Elmo, Bruce David (Swapsale) and wife Wendy

SolarGuard member and the man behind the terrific Space Patrol/Tom Corbett/Rocky Jones jackets, shirts and caps (Sci-Fi Apparel) came to visit us with his wonderful wife Kim last Saturday evening.  They are a great couple, fun to hang out with.  When we weren't talking about the old TV shows we worked on solving  questions about quantum physics and the nature of space/time.  I'll tell you this, it was no easy task keeping up with Mike on those matters.  Of course he cheats:  he remembers absolutely everything he has ever read or heard.  No fair, Mike. -- Bruce David/Oct. 22, 2005

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DAN THOMPSON'S REPORT FROM THE ATLANTA DRAGON CON

History: The character is "the Sandman", who is a DC character from the Golden Age of comics.  He appeared about the same time as Batman (1939) and was one of the original members of the Justice Society of America.  He faded away by the late '40s but was brought  MORE

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George Wallace, famous for playing Commando Cody in the 1952 movie serial Radar Men From The Moon, died Friday, July 22 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following injuries from a fall while in Pisa, Itally.  He had parts in 80 films including Submarine Command, Lifeguard, Nurse Betty, and Minority Report.  His TV guest appearances included Hopalong Cassidy, Four Star Playhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joan of Arcadia.  Tristram Coffin played Wallaces part in King Of The Rocketmen (1949) and Judd Holdren -- who later played Commando Cody on TV -- played the part in Zombies Of The Stratosphere.  Aline Towne played Commando Cody's assistant in both Radar Men From The Moon and the TV show.  

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FROM MAJOR CHUCK OF THE SOLARGUARD (9-9-05)

Tom Corbett lunch box in space!  For real!

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FROM FRANKIE THOMAS

Hi gang,
I tried to post this today, but my FTP program is still on the fritz. I
found the picture of the lunch box in the Washington Times Tuesday.  I'm
looking for the source now. Nice picture of the lunch box.  Till later
Spaceman's Luck
Ed

Chuck Lassen wrote:
> On Fox News, I just saw a brief footage of the astronauts working in the
> shuttle, and there it was!  Steve Robinson's "Tom Corbett Space Cadet"
> lunch box, slowly floating along in the background!  He said he was
> going to take it into space, and he sure did!

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FROM JAN MERLIN

    John Fiedlers death at 80 is a shock to me, for we were both students at New York's famed Neighborhood Playhhouse School of the Theater after the war in1946, learning to become actors.  He remained unchanged throughout all the  years afterwards, retaining his sweet aura and sincerity...
    I was delighted when I got him hired as the little mental giant, Alfie Higgins, for the Tom Corbett Space Cadet series to appear from time to time as a regular cadet. He was beloved by the fans of the show, his high, piping voice and serious demeanor as Alfie were unmistakable, and instantly recognizable when he was providing the voice for Disney's "Piglet" in the Winnie the Pooh cartoons. In these past years, Frankie Thomas and I had often tried to get him to do one of our radio show recreations or even just show up at a festival, but Johnny preferred to decline. He wouldn't reply to any message we sent him. I guess he was too ill... and simply didn't want us to know about it.
    While he was out here doing films, I failed to see him socially, but did get to work with him once in GUNS OF DIABLO, in which he played one of his many fine character roles. His absence is everyone's loss. I wrote his part into the radio recreation we'll be doing at the  Williamsburg Festival next March... and hoped to coax him into attending... but he didn't respond, and Ben Cooper has accepted to play it instead.
    We'll be thinking of him in March... and Ben will attempt to bring him to life again. But no one could be the same Alfie Higgins that Johhny created.>>

Jan Merlin -- 6-- 28 -- 05

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Jan (Roger Manning) Merlin, Bruce (Swapsale) David and Frankie (Tom Corbett) Thomas

It was a giddy moment for me; there I was standing between two of my favorite members of the Polaris crew getting my picture taken.  It was at Jan's house in Burbank, California (you should see his collection of African art) and I was there to get Jan and Frank to sign some more copies of the Tom Corbett Collectors Edition videos we offer on this site.  While there we decided that's it's time to put the autographed Collectors Edition on DVD so keep an eye out for that in the near future.  It's at the duplicators right now.

You'll notice, by the way, that both these guys look better than me (and, I confess, I airbrushed my face a bit).  Frank, who, to this day, has his Tom Corbett uniform, can still fit in it.  I can't even fit into the clothes I bought last year.  

 -- Bruce David/Swapsale (6-05-05)

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Here is astronaut Stephen K. Robinson, a member of the crew of 

the STS-114(return to flight of the space shuttle)In Stephens hand

is the Tom Corbett Space Cadet lunch box, the lucky charm of the

astronauts. They will not fly without it. This is of interest since

the two stars of the highly successful TV and radio series of the

1950's are local residents. Frankie Thomas played Tom while Jan

Merlin was Roger Manning. They sent pictures of the old show and

wished the shuttle crew lots of Spaceman's Luck.

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WILL EISNER DEAD AT 87

Will Eisner, a titan of the comics world who in the 1940s brought to life characters such as The Spirit and Sheena, the Jungle Girl, and three decades later shifted into far more realistic and gritty terrain by pioneering the graphic novel, has died. He was 87.

Eisner died Monday at Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., after suffering complications related to a quadruple heart bypass he underwent last month, according to Denis Kitchen, Eisner's publisher for three decades and his agent in recent years.

The artist's body of work, which began in earnest in the 1930s with the swashbuckling "Hawks of the Sea," will be capped by the May release of "Plot," a graphic novel that is his personal take on the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a weapon against Jews. The book will be published by W.W. Norton & Co.

Eisner's work was marked by sophistication; his Spirit newspaper strips are still hailed as a melding of German Expressionist imagery and the sly worldview of Hollywood's screwball comedies. He was constantly experimenting in the use of panels, lettering and even format. The Spirit was published in newspapers from 1940 to 1952 in a self-contained, four-color insert.

In similar fashion, Eisner would test the boundaries of comic books in 1978 with "Contract With God," a collection of illustrated stories about real people that he called "a graphic novel," marking a new area of ambition in comics.

Eisner devoted his recent decades to graphic novels about poverty, aging and despair in such titles as "The Tenement" and "The Invisible People." Since "Contract With God" came out, he had published about a book a year.

"My stories are all centered around the human being, the business of survival, of struggling against the forces of life itself," Eisner said in one interview. "We're dealing with impossible and unbeatable forces, not a single monster. My interest is not the superhero, but the little man who struggles to survive in the city."

Author Michael Chabon, who fictionalized Eisner in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," said Eisner was really the only one at the time to see comics for what they were: a medium in which an artist could find new ways of telling stories.

"There's no question, he [was] one of the most important figures in comic books," Chabon said.

Since 1988, the comics industry's top award has been called "the Eisner." Eisner's textbooks, "Comics and Sequential Art" and "Graphic Storytelling," are required reading in the comics field and dovetail with his teachings at the New York School of Visual Art in New York City.

Art Spiegelman, who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for "Maus," a graphic novel about the Holocaust, once called Eisner a "genius cartoonist who changed the vocabulary of comics." Cartoonist Jules Feiffer declared Eisner a national treasure.

This year, several museum exhibitions about Eisner have been planned, and two books concerning him are scheduled to be published: "Eisner/Miller," a dialogue between Eisner and comics artist Frank Miller, and "Will Eisner: A Spirited Life," a biography by Bob Andelman.

Eisner was born March 6, 1917, in Brooklyn. His father, an emigre from Vienna, painted stage sets and encouraged his son's artistic aspirations. Eisner attended De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx (along with friend Bob Kane, who would create Batman), and his first work was published in the school newspaper.

In what became industry legend, Eisner started a comics production company with friend Jerry Iger in 1937. Their $15 investment bought three months' rent on East 41st Street for their firm, Eisner & Iger.

"Like brokers who forecast a sudden demand for pork bellies, we believed that pulp publishers, who were repackaging newspaper comic strips into magazine-size formats, were going to run out of them at any minute," Eisner recalled in the New York Times Book Review in 1990. That prediction would be a solid one.

The national demand for comics, which would be spurred by the 1938 advent of Superman, exploded. Eisner was writing and drawing under five names "in what would soon become a kind of artistic ghetto in which people with authentic, if offbeat, talents had to suffer the disdain of the mainstream," he once wrote. His 1986 graphic novel, "The Dreamer," is a roman a clef about those early years.

Recruiting a number of young peers, including Kane, Jack Kirby and Lou Fine, the Eisner & Iger studio became a factory, and its output included Sheena, Blackhawk and Dollman. The shop did have one historic misstep -- Eisner declined a crude character sketch presented by a pair of youngsters, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who took their Superman pitch elsewhere.

The Eisner/Iger partnership ended in 1939 when a newspaper syndicate hired Eisner to create a 16-page newspaper supplement featuring what would become his best-known character, The Spirit. Unlike other heroes, The Spirit wore a suit and, like a pen-and-ink Cary Grant, was by turns dashing, funny and feckless. He roamed back alleys instead of a gleaming Metropolis,

When presenting a lifetime achievement award to Eisner in 2002 at the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, Spiegelman said: "What made Superman popular was its fantasy. What made The Spirit popular was its smell of reality, its sophisticated style, its ambience and its stories."

In 1942, a draft notice forced Eisner to abandon The Spirit. In the Army, he made strips and posters, among them the cautionary pratfalls of Joe Dope. His studio hands, among them Feiffer and Fine, took over The Spirit.

After the war, Eisner founded American Visuals Corp., which produced art for such clients as RCA Records, the Baltimore Colts and New York Telephone. In 1952, he retired The Spirit and dedicated his labor to advertising and marketing instead of storytelling.

His interest in comics was reignited in the 1970s when he saw the underground works of artists such as Robert Crumb. Eisner went back to the drawing board and created his first graphic novel.

He is survived by his wife, Ann, and his son, John. Services were pending Tuesday.

From the L.A. Times Jan 5, 2005

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EMAIL FROM JEAN-NOEL BASSIOR (11-30-04)

Here's a link to some notes about Ed's memorial service that I posted on the Solar Guard BB.

http://www.solarguard.com/bboard/messages/11416.html

Also, here's the story that ran in the LA Times. (AP and other outlets ran scaled-down versions of it.)

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-kemmer13nov13.story
 

jnb

ED KEMMER INTERVIEW

SPACE PATROL REVIEW

MORE INFO AT SWAP TALK

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Thanks to Beth Flood, Lyn Osborne's sister, for the following two Space Patrol pix.  The first one is the picture as it was photographed, the second one is the painting made from the pic.  Here's what Beth says about it:

You may not know the history of the painting, which was done about 1953.  The name, "Valentine", appears in the lower right hand corner, and we've always supposed that it was the artist's name.  It was painted from a black & white photo, and he used a different background and made some other minor changes when he did the painting.  We found it in Lyn's apartment, after he died, and Mom took it back with her, when we returned home to Michigan after the funeral.  She brought it to California when we all moved here in 1959.  It was given to me when Mom died, and it has been hanging on my living room wall for the past 29 years.  I will send you a snapshot of the painting and a copy of the original black & white photo that the artist painted it from.  Of all the SP pictures I have, that one is my favorite.

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Report From Chuck Lassen (pt. 2)

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CLYDE LYMAN'S SPACE PATROL REVIEW

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Report From Chuck Lassen

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TOM MASON

1934-2003

 We regret to announce the passing of Tom Mason, the Crimson Collector, a true fan of 50s nostalgia and an overall nice guy. Tom worked in the television industry for over 36 years at the very ABC studios lot where the SPACE PATROL series was originally filmed.  He got to meet and work with many of the original crew-members of the show. His website has been a powerful source of nostalgia information and historical perspective. He will be missed by his many friends and fans.  

Click here: www.theCrimsonCollector.com - HOME PAGE

http://cmp.bravepages.com/

August 15, 2003

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KENNETH TOBEY, 85, STAR OF 50'S TV SHOW WHIRLYBIRDS

Kenneth Tobey, star of movies and television, died after a lengthy illness at Rancho Mirage  hospital this past Sunday December 29, 2002.  Tobey, who starred in such movies as The Thing, 12 O'Clock High, Gunfight at OK Corral, Billy Jack, MacArthur and Airplane, began his career with a bit part in the 1948 Hopalong Cassidy film, Dangerous Venture.  In the 50's he made a move into TV as a regular on the Walt Disney Davy Crockett show, then captured the lead in Whirlybirds with Craig Hill playing his sidekick.  Tobey is survived by his daughter, a stepson and daughter, two grandchildren and his brother. 1/4/03

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From Dr. Warren Chaney

The above poster is just one of the extremely cool electronic files sent to us here at Swapsale as a Christmas gift.  Dr. Chaney, who has been instrumental in researching  and saving film and TV history (he's the guy who found and restored the original Lone Ranger serials), has for the past few years been busily restoring old Space Patrol premiums (many of those seen above), including everyone of the Space Patrol collector's cards originally obtained in Ralston cereals. (He has also created a few very cool new cards of his own design.)  Our very special thanks to Warren! -- Bruce David/Swapsale 12/28/02

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Art by Warren Chaney, based on a photo by Jean-Noel Bassior

THE FOLLOWING SAD EMAIL CAME FROM JEAN-NOEL BASSIOR ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH 2002.

I’m sad to report that Norm Jolley passed away on Tuesday, August 13th.  He was 86. He gave us the Space Patrol TV shows and was head writer for Wagon Train, The FBI, Ironside, Barnaby Jones, and did multiple scripts for Highway Patrol, The Virginian, Laramie and many others.

Norm was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a couple of weeks ago. His wife, Lois, rushed him to Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he underwent a five-hour operation. He came through it fine. I spoke with him afterwards and he promised me he’d “come back,” as he put it. He promised that to Lois, too. He was recovering well and the doctor told him he could leave the hospital in a few days. On Tuesday morning, he left early. They’re still not sure why he suddenly died.

For me, this is a great personal loss. The best praise I ever got from anyone was when he called me “a damn good writer.” I used to tell him he’d saved my life as a child because, coming from an abusive home, I’d see Cadet Happy survive some pretty rough stuff each week, just like I did. But afterwards he could joke about it, so it showed me that you could go through bad stuff and come out OK. That made Norm’s eyes tear up. He said one day that he always thought he’d be remembered for his work on Wagon Train, and he was so surprised that, instead, it turned out to be Space Patrol.

jnb

Bruce,

It has been a long time since we have been in touch, but I wanted to pass along some sad news to you.  Norman died at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale last Tuesday.  He and Lois had been in San Diego when he got ill and she drove him to Scottsdale, AZ to the Mayo Clinic.  My brother lives in Scottsdale and was able to be with them there.  They discovered Norm had pancreatic cancer so they operated and removed the tumor.  They were very optimistic that they had gotten all of the cancer and he was recovering very nicely.  A week after the surgery his heart gave out and we lost him.  I called him at the hospital the night before he died and he was in good spirits and looking forward to being with all our family at a reunion in Minnesota the end of this month.  I will miss him terribly, but he had a long life and a good one.

I know that you had the opportunity to meet him and spend a little time together, so I was sure you would want to know.  The family has enjoyed the Space Patrol tapes that you sent me and I am especially happy now that I have them to keep.  I will always be grateful to you for that. Norm and I watched them together and he was so pleased that I had them.

Lois and Norm's grandson is going to drive the motor home back to Palm Springs.  Lois will then come to Minnesota to join us for the reunion and then she will go back to California. 

Joan

(Joan Jolley Carlson)

FOR MORE ON NORMAN JOLLEY  CLICK HERE

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MIKE ELMO'S ROCKET ROOM!

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