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Julian Bond, Civil Rights Leader and ‘Saturday Night Live’ Host Dies at 75

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He also narrated the ‘Eyes on the Prize’ documentary and anchored ‘America’s Black Forum'.

Julian Bond, a leader in the civil rights movement for more than fifty years, died on August 15 at his vacation home in Fort Walton Beach, Florida after a brief illness his family announced. He was 75.

Bond was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was one of the most important civil rights organizations in the South during the 1960s, often pushing for change much faster than Martin Luther King, Jr. was comfortable with (some sense of the SNCC-King dynamic can be seen in the 2014 film Selma). He also narrated numerous documentaries (including Eyes on the Prize), appeared in the 1977 Richard Pryor film Greased Lighting, and hosted Saturday Night Live in its second season.

Bond got involved in the civil rights movement while a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta (where ironically he took a class with Dr. King) when he got involved in the sit-ins that swept the South in the spring of 1960. The sit-ins revived a civil rights movement that had lost momentum after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the Martin Luther King-led Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56.

Bond was SNCC’s Communications Director from 1961 to 1966 and he played a crucial role in helping sell the movement to the North with his straightforward approach. Newspapermen learned to trust Bond at a time when white southern lawmen and politicians often did not provide accurate information.

In 1965, following he passage of the Voting Rights Act, Bond was one of eight African Americans elected to the Georgia House of Representatives but the House voted 184-12 not to seat him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. Bond sued and in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he had been denied his freedom of speech and ordered the Georgia House to seat him. The case made Bond nationally famous. In 1968 he became the first African American to be proposed as a major party’s vice presidential nominee at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. He declined, in part because, at 28, he was below the constitutional age of 35 for the office. In the ‘70s and early ‘80s he was often mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate.

Bond served in the Georgia House until 1975 and then in the Georgia Senate from 1975-1987. He ran for Congress in 1987 but lost the democratic nomination in Georgia’s 5th District to his old SNCC friend John Lewis.

Bond’s fame also brought him attention from Hollywood. He hosted Saturday Night Live in 1977, the show’s second season, and had a small role in the 1977 Richard Pryor film Greased Lighting. In 2014, Bond wrote a column for the Hollywood Reporter about how a famous skit he did with Garret Morris about light-skinned versus dark-skinned African Americans made him uncomfortable.

Julian Bond, Civil Rights Leader and ?Saturday Night Live? Host Dies at 75 - Hollywood Reporter

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TV'S BATGIRL YVONNE CRAIG DIES AGED 78
Share. The star also appeared in Star Trek.
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Actress Yvonne Craig, who found fame as Batgirl in the original 1960s Batman TV series, has died aged 78.

According to a statement on her website, the actress passed away at her home in Pacific Palisades on Monday surrounded by family, after secretly battling against breast cancer for the past two years.

‘Fight as she did; however, over the past two plus years, she still lost her battle with metastasized breast cancer that had gone to her liver,’ the statement read.

‘Her operation right before Christmas, removed portions of her liver and some tumors as well as her gallbladder (not infected but in the way) and honestly she never totally recovered from that and more malignancies showed up again much to our dismay.

Her family added: ‘She had been in chemo almost continuously for the past two plus years since being diagnosed and that had weakened her immune system as well as her body.

‘This didn’t dampen her sense of humor or her spirit, she intended to fight and win this battle. In the end, her mind still wanted to fight but her body had given up.’

Yvonne began her career as a ballet dancer while she was still a teenager, before being discovered by the son of film director John Ford and cast in the 1959 movie The Young Land.

She later went on to appear alongside Elvis Presley in two movies, Kissin’ Cousins and It Happened At The World’s Fair, as well as appearing in a string of other TV shows and movies throughout the 60s.

However it was her TV role as Batgirl for which she will be best remembered, starring alongside Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin in the show, which ran from 1966-68.

The actress went on to appear in the third series of Star Trek in the small but significant role of Marta, an Orion slave girl who tries to kill Captain Kirk in the episode Whom Gods Destroy.

In her later life she forged a career in real estate, as well as working in the prepaid phone card business, alongside her sister Meridel Carson.

She also became heavily involved in charity and social work, campaigning for free mammograms for women who were unable to afford them.
Yvonne is survived by her husband Kenneth Aldrich, her sister and nephews Kenneth and Todd Carson.

TV medium Colin Fry dies aged 53 - BBC News

^Always sad when cancer strikes a happy medium.

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9/11 'dust lady' Marcy Borders dies from cancer aged 42
03:40, 26 AUGUST 2015 UPDATED 06:23, 26 AUGUST 2015
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A woman whose picture became one of the iconic images of the 9/11 terror attacks, leading her to be known simply as the “Dust Lady”, has died from cancer.

Marcy Borders passed away on Monday after a year long battle against the disease.

The 42-year-old mother-of-two was pictured covered head-to-toe in thick dust after being caught up in the collapse of the Twin Towers.

Up until her death she always questioned whether her illness was related to what she endured.

“I’m saying to myself ‘Did this thing ignite cancer cells in me?” she once said.

“I definitely believe it because I haven’t had any illnesses. I don’t have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes.”

Marcy, of Bayonne, New Jersey, had only been in her job for a month working as a legal assistant for Bank of America on September 11, 2001.

Her office was on the 81st floor of 1 World Trade Centre when al Qaeda terrorists attacked flew into the two aboard two hijacked jets.

She disobeyed her boss who ordered her to stay at her desk - a move that saved her life.

Marcy, then 28, pushed her way down the stairwell to the streets below and stepped onto the pavement just as the south tower began to collapse.

A stranger pulled her into the reception of a nearby building as the other tower crumbled.

Following her death her’ brother, Michael Borders, wrote on Facebook: “I can’t believe my sister is gone."

After 9/11 she struggled as her life spiralled out of control.

She battled severe depression and became addicted to crack cocaine.

“I didn’t do a day’s work in nearly 10 years, and by 2011 I was a complete mess,” she said.

“Every time I saw an aircraft, I panicked.”

Eventually she lost custody of her two children as she checked into rehab in April 2011.

Following her death her cousin, John Borders called her a “hero” saying she, “unfortunately succumbed to the diseases that has ridden her body since 9/11.”

“In addition to losing so many friends, co-workers and colleagues on and after that tragic day. The pains from yesteryear have found a way to resurface,” he wrote on Facebook.

Darryl Dawkins: former Sixers, Nets star dead at age 58 - NBA - SI.com

Former Sixers, Nets star Darryl Dawkins dies at age 58



RIP to Chocolate Thunder.


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Guitar Legend Stevie Ray Vaughan Died 25 Years Ago Today:

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Bart Cumming racehorse trainer, twelve-time winner of the Melbourne cup

Bart Cummings, the 'Cups King', dies aged 87 at home in Sydney | Sport | The Guardian
The racehorse trainer Bart Cummings has died at the age of 87 surrounded by family at his homestead in north-western Sydney.

His grandson and training partner James said the 87-year-old had died in his sleep in the early hours of Sunday morning.

“James Bartholomew Cummings, OAM, passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of this morning, Sunday the 30th of August 2015, in his homestead at Princes Farm, Castlereagh,” a statement said.

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“His final moments were spent with his family and wife of 61 years, Valmae, with whom he celebrated their anniversary on Friday.

“For Bart, aged 87, this was a fitting end. A husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather; a master trainer and a larger than life figure.

“We will miss you.”
Cummings was hailed the racehorse trainer in Australia’s history, winning the Melbourne Cup 12 times, the Golden Slipper four times, the Caulfield Cup seven times, the Cox Plate five times, the VRC Oakes nine times and the Newmarket Handicap eight times.
Cummings had been in ill health for some time and rarely ventured from his farm in recent years.
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Director Wes Craven died today in Los Angeles. Craven was 76 and passed away after battling brain cancer.
From his first feature film The Last House On The Left in 1972, Craven immediately made his mark as a genre-bending, bracingly innovative horror director with a biting sense of humour.
Craven also consistently demonstrated that he was a filmmaker with heart.
Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic and very scary A Nightmare on Elm Street, which also introduced a then-unknown Johnny Depp.

Self-help guru Wayne W. Dyer dies at 75

"Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, the best-selling self-help guru and author of 30 books, died late Saturday, his family and publisher said. He was 75.

A posting on Dyer's Facebook page said: "Wayne has left his body, passing away through the night. He always said he couldn't wait for this next adventure to begin and had no fear of dying. Our hearts are broken, but we smile to think of how much our scurvy elephant will enjoy the other side."

The posting was signed by his family. Within an hour, it had been shared more than 32,000 times.
Dyer died Saturday night in Maui, Hawaii, Reid Tracy, chief executive of Dyer's publisher, Hay House, told NBC News. The cause of death wasn't immediately reported, but he had been diagnosed with leukemia several years ago.

In an interview posted to the KPBS-TV, San Diego, website in 2012 after his leukemia diagnosis, Dyer said he’d begun looking at the illness as “just the body’s way of responding to, perhaps, psychological traumas, you know, from failed relationships in the past, or whatever it is, and that the body just always knows what it’s doing — and the body is perfect.”

For years, Dyer was a regular guest on Oprah Winfrey's talk show, and Winfrey's OWN network broadcast many interviews with and documentaries by him. The network began tweeting a series of interviews with Dyer beginning Sunday on the account of its spirituality and religion show "Super Soul Sunday," NBC reported.

On Sunday, Winfrey tweeted: "It was always a pleasure to talk to @DrWayneWDyer about life's big questions. He always had big answers. RIP Wayne. You brought the Light."

Deepak Chopra tweeted: "Grieving deeply at sudden passing of my life long friend @DrWayneWDyer. I saw him 2 weeks ago at Chopra Center in good spirits."

Another self-help guru, Tony Robbins, tweeted late Sunday: "Wayne Dyer has passed away today. 4 those of us who loved him it's sad, but he knew death was a transition. We send love 4his next adventure."

Dyer's Facebook page on Sunday still advertised an upcoming two-week seminar, scheduled for October and dubbed "The Holy Land and Beyond: A Spiritual Journey of Self-Discovery."

A native of Detroit, Dyer had been living in Maui".

Oliver Sacks dead: Neurologist and acclaimed writer dies aged 82

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Oliver Sacks, the British-born neurologist and acclaimed writer once described as the “poet laureate of medicine”, has died at the age of 82.

The polymath doctor, who was the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, announced in February that his “luck had run out” and he had terminal cancer. He added that he intended to spend his remaining months living “in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can”.

Dr Sacks’ long-time personal assistant confirmed that he had died on Saturday at his home in New York, where he had lived since 1965 after being born in London to his surgeon father and GP mother.

Among those who paid tribute to Dr Sacks, renowned for his ability to straddle academic and artistic disciplines while often combining both in his writing, were the author JK Rowling, who described him as “great, humane and inspirational”. Fellow academic Richard Dawkins said he had “greatly admired” him.

Born in 1933 and educated at Oxford University after being a wartime evacuee and a victim of boarding school bullying, Dr Sacks was best known for his books chronicling some of the medical conditions he encountered in six decades of investigating the workings of the human mind.

His 1985 collection of essays based on his clinical notes, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, was an insight neurological conditions and the remarkable mental powers of those with disabilities such as autism or Tourette’s syndrome. The book became the basis for an opera but it was Awakenings, his account of how he treated catatonic patients in the late 1960s with a drug to bring them out of their frozen state, that brought his work to a mass audience. Dr Sacks recognised the patients, based in a ward in a psychiatric hospital in the Bronx, as victims of sleeping sickness, the pandemic which swept the world between 1916 and 1927. His treatment with the then experimental drug, L-DOPA, enabled many to enjoy “enduring awakening”.

The 1990 film version of Awakenings, which starred Robert De Niro and Robin Williams, was nominated for three Oscars.

Jacqui Graham, Dr Sacks’ publicist, said he had been “unique” and always “completely full of love for life”. She told BBC News: “He died surrounded by the things he loved and the people he loved, very peacefully… He taught us a great deal, right up until the very end. He always taught us what it was to be human, and he taught us what it is to die.”

The author of more than 1,000 journal articles as well as countless letters and clinical notes, Dr Sacks was garlanded with honours, including being made a CBE by the Queen. He was professor of neurology and psychiatry at New York’s Columbia University and professor of neurology at NYU School of Medicine.

But it is for his ability to enliven the dry stuff of a clinician’s observations with an empathy-laden retelling of his patients’ lives that he will be most remembered.

His website notes that The New York Times referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine”, while the 1973 cover of the first edition of Awakenings, quoted the eminent British literary scholar Frank Kermode saying: “This doctor’s report is written in a prose of such beauty that you might well look in vain for its equal among living practitioners of belles lettres.”

For his part, Dr Sacks, who counted among his fascinations a passion for motorbikes, was unstinting in his celebration of the infinite variation of human beings and his “gratitude” for life. He recently wrote: “I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written… Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

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For his part, Dr Sacks, who counted among his fascinations a passion for motorbikes, was unstinting in his celebration of the infinite variation of human beings and his “gratitude” for life. He recently wrote: “I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written… Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

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Lovely quote. RIP Dr Sachs.

Lord Montagu dead: Founder of the National Motor Museum, dies aged 88

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Lord Montagu, who established the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, has died aged 88.
A spokeswoman for Beaulieu Estate, in the New Forest, said Edward, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, died "peacefully" after a short illness.
He is survived by his wife Fiona, his son and heir Ralph, daughter Mary and second son Jonathan.

The Hampshire estate and visitor attractions are to continue to operate as usual, the spokeswoman confirmed.

An estate funeral will be held at Beaulieu, followed by a memorial service at St Margaret's in Westminster "for his friends in London and further afield", she added.
The dates are yet to be confirmed.

Lord Montagu was one of the pioneers of the stately home industry and first opened his home, Palace House, to the public in 1952.

He also founded the National Motor Museum on the 7,000-acre (2,800-hectare) estate and was a leading authority on veteran and vintage cars, usually taking part in the London to Brighton run.

At the age of two, Lord Montagu succeeded his father, John, to become the 3rd Baron.
He studied at Eton and then Oxford, after army service as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards.
In 1948, when he was still in the army, he made his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
Lord Montagu was involved in two infamous trials.

At the first in 1953, he was cleared of a serious offence against a 14-year-old boy scout.
However, the following year the peer was charged with homosexual acts, which were then illegal.
He pleaded not guilty but was convicted and given a 12-month jail sentence.
An obituary on the Beaulieu website said Lord Montagu went about rebuilding his life and developing the estate following his release from prison.

"While not wanting to hide his bisexuality, he was also determined to keep his private life private and refused to comment on the events of the trial, a silence broken only in 2002 with the publication of his autobiography Wheels within Wheels," it said.

Lord Montagu first opened his home to the public in 1952
Since 1983, he had been chairman of English Heritage, the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission.
He fought vigorously - though often unsuccessfully - to have various buildings listed.
Lord Montagu took over the running of the Beaulieu Estate on his 25th birthday in 1951.
It had previously been managed by his mother and the trustees since the death of his motor pioneering father in 1929.
He later described it as a "white elephant" after finding the £1,500-a-year inheritance barely covered the running costs.
"The wise solution was to get rid of it," he said.
"For me, however - neither entirely sensible nor rational - that was unthinkable."
He later recounted: "What catapulted me permanently into the major league for the future was the idea of commemorating my father's life… by exhibiting veteran cars.
"Without it, my life would have been very different and I doubt whether I would have been able to remain as owner and occupier of my ancestral home."

NO RIP for cujo, there's going to be a lot of people bashing on his coffin every day telling him that he's not funny and giving him reds for no apparent reason just because they can. :chitown:

R.I.P.Cujo

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Disney's Herbie The Love Bug actor Dean Jones dies at 84
By Rachel Middleton
September 3, 2015 06:24 BST 1 2

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Actor and singer Dean Jones, best known for his character race car driver Jim Douglas in The Love Bug hit Disney franchise, has died at the age of 84.

Spokesman Richard Hoffman said Jones died on Tuesday (1 September) in Los Angeles. He died of complications related to Parkinson's disease.

Jones started his career as a teenage radio host and performer in amateur musical revues before becoming a stage actor. Then, together with child star Hayley Mills, he became the face of Disney, more often than not, playing alongside intelligent animals in That Darn Cat, The Ugly Dachshund, Monkeys, Go Home, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Shaggy DA.

The New York Times said the actor's best known role was in The Love Bug where he worked with a Volkswagen Beetle called Herbie, which had a mind of its own. He reprised the role in the 1977 sequel Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo and in the 1982 TV series Herbie, the Love Bug.

Although The Love Bug was remade as a TV movie in 1997, Jones again played the part of Douglas but the star of the show was Bruce Campbell, the newspaper noted.

He has acted alongside famous names like Jane Fonda, Hayley Mills, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Elvis Presley, Glenn Ford and Frank Sinatra, among others.

He became a born again Christian in 1973 after a religious awakening following a night of drinking and reckless stunt driving at a construction site in which he and a passenger could have been killed.

"A tremendous sense of fulfillment that had eluded me all my life became the 'sign' I had asked God for," he recounted in his autobiography Under Running Laughter, The New York Times said.

Although he continued to appear occasionally in Hollywood films including in the 1994 Clear and Present Danger, he mostly confined his work to Christian-themed straight-to-video films, and to an organisation that he and his wife founded in 1998, the Christian Rescue Fund, a support group for Christians, Jews and others who have been persecuted because of their faith.

Jones, from Alabama, is survived by his wife of 42 years, a former model and actress, Lory, and three children - two from his first marriage, Caroline Jones and Deanna Demaree and a son Michael Patrick, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Japanese-American WWII war hero Ben Kuroki dies

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Ben Kuroki, who overcame the American military's discriminatory policies to become the only Japanese American to fly over Japan during World War II, has died. He was 98.

Kuroki died Tuesday at his Camarillo, California, home, where he was under hospice care, his daughter Julie Kuroki told the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.

The son of Japanese immigrants who was raised on a Hershey, Nebraska, farm, Kuroki and his brother, Fred, volunteered for service after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

They were initially rejected by recruiters who questioned the loyalty of the children of Japanese immigrants. Undeterred, the brothers drove 150 miles to another recruiter, who allowed them to sign up.

At the time, the Army Air Forces banned soldiers of Japanese ancestry from flying, but Kuroki earned his way onto a bomber crew and flew 58 bomber missions over Europe, North Africa and Japan during the war. He took part in the August 1943 raid over Nazi oil fields in Ploesti, Romania, that killed 310 fliers in his group. He was captured after his plane ran out of fuel over Morocco, but he managed to escape with crewmates to England.

Because of his Japanese ancestry, he was initially rejected when he asked to serve on a B-29 bomber that was to be used in the Pacific. But after repeated requests and a review of his stellar service record, Secretary of War Harry Stimson granted an exception.

Crew members nicknamed him "Most Honorable Son," and the War Department gave him a Distinguished Flying Cross. He was saluted by Time magazine in 1944 under the headline "HEROES: Ben Kuroki, American."

He was hailed a hero and a patriot at a time when tens of thousands of Japanese Americans were confined at internment camps amid fears of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast.

After the war, Kuroki enrolled at the University of Nebraska, where he obtained a journalism degree. He published a weekly newspaper in Nebraska for a short time before moving to Michigan and finally to California, where he retired as the news editor of Ventura Star-Free Press in 1984.

In 2005, he received the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal, one of the nation's highest military honors.

"I had to fight like hell for the right to fight for my own country," Kuroki said at the award ceremony in Lincoln, Nebraska. "And I now feel vindication."

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Hell no:

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This is an interesting piece of news and quite a milestone, particularly since the guy lived to be 98.

Just because YOU haven't heard of him, Cujo, does not mean that he was not famous. In my mind this is half what this thread is about : discovering that people who were famous elsewhere outside our own parochial little worlds have died, and learning a bit about their often extraordinary lives.

If you can't see this you have a problem. This thread is not all about YOU.
You are trying to impose your narrow view of things too strongly here and are coming across as an idiot and forum nazi.

Cujo the tosser will have a shit fit. Another famous person of which he's never heard. But Cujo is very important and must tell us who is famous.

Martin Milner, Star Of 'Adam-12' And 'Route 66,' Dies At 83
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Actor Martin Milner, whose work as Officer Pete Malloy introduced generations of Americans to a tough and honorable policeman on Adam-12, died on Sunday. Milner, who was 83, died at home in Carlsbad, Calif.

Word of Milner's death came out Monday, via a fan page on Facebook. His former co-star on Adam-12, Kent McCord, then confirmed to the AP that the actor had died.

"I had a long, long friendship with Marty and we remained friends up till the end," McCord tells the news agency. "He was one of the really true great people of our industry with a long, distinguished career ... Wonderful films, wonderful television shows, pioneering shows like Route 66. He was one of the great guys. I was lucky to have him in my life."

Born in 1931 in Detroit, Milner grew up in Seattle and Los Angeles, where he studied theater at the University of Southern California before his acting career took off.

In 1949, Milner had a minor role in the John Wayne film Sands of Iwo Jima. He went on to other notable roles in the 1950s, acting in 1955's Mister Roberts, with Henry Fonda, and 1959's Compulsion, with Orson Welles. In 1957, he appeared in both Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Sweet Smell of Success. In 1967, he appeared in Valley of the Dolls.

But one of the most fateful acting jobs Milner had came in 1950, when he met Jack Webb on the set of Halls of Montezuma. At the time, Webb was in the second year of making his Dragnet radio series — and just two years away from turning the show into a TV series. He went on to create Adam-12 in 1968.

In 1960, Milner became a household face after Route 66 debuted, telling the itinerant stories of Tod Stiles, a once-wealthy young man who drove around America in his Corvette along with his friend Buz Murdock (George Maharis). It was famously filmed on-location.

"We never saw the schedule," Maharis told NPR in 2012. "It was week-to-week. We didn't know where we were going and sometimes we wouldn't know what the script was until two days before shooting."

Route 66 ran for more than 115 episodes; Milner followed it up with Adam-12, which ran from 1968-75. In it, he played Malloy, the veteran cop who was partnered with rookie officer Jim Reed (McCord).

On Monday, Milner's death brought the notice of the current chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. In a tweet, Charlie Beck wrote:

"Adam 12 and Martin Milner embodied the spirit of the LAPD to millions of viewers. His depiction of a professional and tough yet compassionate cop led to thousands of men and women applying to become LAPD officer, including me. Godspeed Martin, you will live forever in our hearts."

In the later phase of his career, Milner went on to guest-star on numerous TV shows. Starting in 1993, Milner, an avid fisherman, began co-hosting a syndicated radio talk show about fishing, called Let's Talk Hook-Up. He stayed with the program for about a decade.

Milner is survived by three of his four children — Molly, Stuart, and Andrew — and by his wife, Judy Jones. A fourth child, Amy, died of leukemia in 2004.

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Judy Carne, a sprightly British actress and comedian who rocketed to pop culture fame as the “sock it to me” girl on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” a landmark of television zaniness, before her career was derailed by drug arrests and a near-fatal automobile accident, died on Thursday in Northampton, England. She was 76.

The probable cause was pneumonia, said a friend, Jon Barrett, who said Ms. Carne had been in the hospital for several days and that the official death certificate was not yet available.

After starting her career in England and building a résumé of appearances onstage, on television and in movies, Ms. Carne moved to the United States, where her first television role was as an exchange student in the sitcom “Fair Exchange.” She also became the first wife of a later-to-be movie star, Burt Reynolds.

She made guest appearances on westerns including “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke,” dramas like “12 O’Clock High” and comedies including “Gidget” and “The Patty Duke Show” before landing a starring role in a “Love on a Rooftop,” a romantic comedy set in San Francisco about a young woman from a wealthy family who has disappointed her father by marrying a struggling young architect played by Peter Deuel (later known as Pete Duel).

Ms. Carne became widely known on “Laugh-In,” an ensemble comedy show composed of brief bits of slapstick antics and verbal nonsense tumbling over one another in furious succession. It ran on NBC from 1968 to 1973.

Often racy in content — well, racy for the time — the show featured attractive women (Ms. Carne and Goldie Hawn among them) in miniskirts and other revealing costumes and jokes about sex, drugs and politics that tested network censors. It was enormously popular, in part because of Ms. Carne and the running gag that became a national meme.

Slender but shapely, with a pixieish haircut and a gamely irrepressible manner, she would appear before the camera and declare, in one variation or another, “It’s sock-it-to-me time,” and she would be subsequently doused with water or she’d vanish through a trap door in the floor or have some other indignity visited on her.

The phrase “sock it to me,” evidently seized by the show’s writers from a chant in Aretha Franklin’s recording of the Otis Redding song “Respect,” became cool, hip enough lingo that celebrity guests appeared on “Laugh-In” in cameo bits to utter it, including, most famously, Richard Nixon, less than two months before he was elected president in 1968.

Ms. Carne was trained in dance and theater and reportedly took the name Judy at the suggestion of a teacher. The name Carne came from a character in a play by the English playwright Charlotte Hastings. She was born Joyce Audrey Botterill in Northampton on April 27, 1939. Her parents were greengrocers.

Ms. Carne left “Laugh-In” in 1970. The sock-it-to-me label had become trying to live with, she said; people would douse her with water on the street.

That year she starred in a Broadway revival of the musical “The Boy Friend,” but her life began spiraling out of control as a drug habit grew worse. She was arrested several times, and as a result she wasn’t being cast as readily as she had been, and her nightclub bookings dried up.

She and Mr. Reynolds divorced in 1965, and in her 1985 autobiography, “Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside,” written with Bob Merrill, she wrote that Mr. Reynolds was abusive.

In the memoir she confessed to myriad love affairs with name brand actors and others, and she acknowledged her drug abuse, including an addiction to heroin. A second marriage, to Robert Bergmann (sometimes spelled Bergman) in 1970, lasted less than a year, though he figured importantly later in her life. She leaves no immediate survivors.

Mr. Barrett said he met Ms. Carne when she returned to England after the 1978 automobile accident, settling in Pitsford, near Northampton. He was a hairdresser and she came in to have her hair cut, he said. Ms. Carne was popular with her neighbors and performed occasionally in cabaret and dinner theater, he said, but she was frail and remained so. “She was a bit of a recluse toward the end,” Mr. Barrett said.

The accident came about after she began spending time again with her former husband Mr. Bergmann. He was behind the wheel when their car went off the road in Bucks County, Pa., and she broke her neck.

“I lost sight of myself in the last few years,” she told People magazine during her recuperation. “My whole life has been extremes. It took me near death to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

She added: “I guess this is the ultimate sock-it-to-me.”
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'Marmaduke' comic strip creator Brad Anderson dies at 91

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Published Tuesday, September 8, 2015 2:07PM EDT
MONTGOMERY, Texas -- Brad Anderson, creator of the "Marmaduke" cartoon strip that for more than 60 years featured the antics of a lovable Great Dane, has died.
A statement Tuesday from Universal Uclick, which syndicated the comic strip, says Anderson died Aug. 30. He was 91.
Universal Uclick spokeswoman Julie Halper didn't immediately provide additional details on the death of Anderson, who lived in Montgomery, Texas, near Houston.
Anderson was born in Jamestown, New York, in 1924. The Universal Uclick website says Anderson's interest in cartooning dated to his childhood, when he drew popular cartoon characters to amuse himself.
He graduated from Syracuse University and did freelance work for magazines before creating "Marmaduke" in 1954.
Anderson's son, Paul, assisted him in later years on the popular comic strip.

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R.I.P bryn merrick. bass player from the damned and a local good bloke from my town..:confused:

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Most hated team in the world - Barry Town AFC. Obvious where I am from, isn't it ? Still, pity about him dying so young, very sad.

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William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88
By SAM ROBERTSSEPT. 13, 2015

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William Becker, a theater critic and financier who acquired Janus Films with a partner in 1965, expanded its catalog of art-house and Hollywood classics and broadened their distribution to university audiences and home viewers on DVD, died on Saturday at his country home in Southampton, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 88.

The cause was complications of kidney failure, his daughter, Alison Price Becker, said.

Janus’s founders said that the company’s two-faced logo symbolized art and commerce, and nobody embodied that duality more than Mr. Becker, a culturally minded businessman, Rhodes scholar and intimate of auteurs and writers who was driven as much by a passion for film as an art form as by making money.

Founded in the mid-1950s by two former Harvard students, Janus originally prospered by exposing American filmgoers to the avant-garde work of groundbreaking but largely unfamiliar post-World War II European and Japanese directors, including Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson and Kenji Mizoguchi.

After acquiring the company, Mr. Becker and Saul J. Turell, a documentary producer and television pioneer, secured the rights to a vast trove of international films, including Jean Renoir’s “Grand Illusion” and Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin,” as well as vanguard American works like Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” and the original “King Kong.”

They transformed Janus from a financially shaky boutique company to one that is still flourishing today by distributing its films in all forms, from celluloid to streaming on the Internet.

In 2006, when the company celebrated its first half-century by releasing a DVD boxed set titled “Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films,” the critic Dave Kehr, writing in The New York Times, likened the collection to the 50-volume set of the world’s great literature selected a century earlier by Charles William Eliot, the president of Harvard.

“Janus Films does not have quite the clout of Harvard,” Mr. Kehr wrote, “but it says a lot about the central role Janus has played in American film culture that the selections made by a modestly staffed for-profit distribution house have come to assume almost as much canonical authority as Mr. Eliot’s choices.”

Arthur William John Becker III was born in St. Louis on May 23, 1927, to Arthur Becker Jr., an engineer and president of a fuel oil company, and the former Margaret Heath.

He entered Washington University in St. Louis when he was 15 and, as a precocious teenager already open to radical culture, began corresponding with the renegade writer Henry Miller. He attended Duke, graduated from Harvard in 1948 and earned a doctorate at Wadham College at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, writing his thesis on the poet William Butler Yeats.

After serving in the Navy on Guam, he was a drama critic for the literary journal The Hudson Review in the early 1950s and a partner of Roger L. Stevens, the Broadway producer and real estate mogul who once owned the Empire State Building and who helped Mr. Becker buy Playbill, the theater magazine.

Mr. Becker and Mr. Turell, who was acquiring films for what became the Walter Reade Organization, bought Janus from its original owners, Cyrus Harvey Jr. and Bryant Haliday, two actors who capitalized on the post-World War II popularity of foreign films by programming art films at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Mass.

They expanded to the 55th Street Playhouse in Manhattan in 1953 and three years later founded Janus, with its distinctive logo depicting the two-faced ancient Roman god of new beginnings (the company also had two heads).

In 1957, after screening two films by an obscure Italian director named Fellini, they scored their first breakthrough hit with Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal,” a medieval fantasy that unfolds against a plague epidemic and features a chess duel between a knight (Max von Sydow) and the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot).

By the early 1960s, though, Janus had become a victim both of tepid reviews for foreign films from mainstream critics and of its own early success, as major studios started luring directors from abroad. The owners were approached by old friends from the Harvard Veterans Theater Workshop, including Mr. Becker, who had just returned from Oxford.

“I was looking for a job where I could have one foot in the money world and one foot in the theater,” Mr. Becker recalled in a 2006 interview with the film historian Peter Cowie.

During the 1960s and ‘70s, the new owners vastly expanded Janus’s library of 30 films, forging relationships with foreign distributors and acquiring rights to experimental works and to a repertoire of classics that could be combined in recurring festivals as a new generation embraced film as an art form.

Mr. Becker’s talents embodied the Janus logo’s twin goals — for example, when he negotiated with the French filmmaker Jacques Tati, who was over budget on a film and had gone into bankruptcy and lost all his titles to his lenders.

“We put up the final $25,000 that enabled him to get control of his films back from the banks,” Mr. Becker said.

Janus capitalized on an art-house revival, the growth in college enrollment and proliferation of university film courses, and a growing market in home video by releasing its collection on laser disc, and later on DVD, with commentaries and other supplemental features, joining forces with Voyager, which evolved into the Criterion Collection, and eventually expanding into cable television and online videos.

“Nothing beats seeing a new generation of audiences get blown away by a Bergman or a Fellini, a Renoir or a Truffaut,” Mr. Becker said.

He slowly eased his way out of the business as his son Peter became president of Criterion. Mr. Turell’s son Jonathan became managing director of Janus and chief executive officer of Criterion.

In addition to his daughter, a restaurateur and product development consultant, and his son Peter, Mr. Becker is survived by his wife, the choreographer Patricia Birch; another son, Jonathan, a photographer; a sister, Jane Daniel; and six grandchildren.

His circle of friends was composed primarily of writers, many from The Paris Review, including his Harvard classmate George Plimpton. He and his wife lived in a Greenwich Village loft formerly occupied by the poet Allen Ginsberg, whom Mr. Becker met through a childhood friend, Lucien Carr, a member of Ginsberg’s Beat Generation circle.

Jonathan Becker said his father brought “an academic’s discipline and discernment and a financier’s initiative” to the movie world, and an antenna for auteurs whose works animated others.

“George Lucas volunteered to me,” Jonathan Becker recalled, “‘None of us might have been inspired had it not been for the Janus films at our schools.’”

Gary Richrath, founding member of REO Speedwagon died last Sunday. He was only 65.

Reo Speedwagon - Little Queenie

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Great tune.

RIP, Gary...

^ Of course it's a great tune, written by a master, Chuck Berry.

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Novelist Jackie Collins dies aged 77

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The novelist Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer at the age of 77, her family said in a statement.
"It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one-of-a-kind mother," the statement said.
The British-born writer, sister of actress Joan Collins, died in Los Angeles, her spokeswoman said.
Collins's career spanned four decades and she sold more than 500 million books in 40 countries.
The family statement said the writer lived "a wonderfully full life", adored by family, friends and readers.
"She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words," it added.
Collins was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, according to US celebrity magazine People.
Scandalous bestseller
Her sister Joan, 82, told People magazine she was "completely devastated".
"She was my best friend. I admire how she handled this. She was a wonderful, brave and a beautiful person and I love her," she said.
Jackie Collins began writing as a teenager, making up racy stories for her schoolfriends, according to a biography on her website.
Her first novel, The World is Full of Married Men, was published in 1968 and became a scandalous bestseller. It was banned in Australia and branded "disgusting" by romance writer Barbara Cartland.
In 1985, her novel Hollywood Wives was made into a mini-series by ABC, starring Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.
In a 2011 interview with the Associated Press, Collins said that she "never felt bashful writing about sex".
"I think I've helped people's sex lives," she said.
"Sex is a driving force in the world so I don't think it's unusual that I write about sex. I try to make it erotic, too."

Todd Ewen, Former NHL Star and Stanley Cup Winner, Dead in Apparent Suicide

Former NHL star Todd Ewen died this past weekend, the St. Louis Blues confirmed via Twitter on Saturday. The following day, police confirmed Ewen's death was from an apparent suicide. He was 49.
“We’re sad to learn of the passing of former Blue Todd Ewen today,” the Blues tweeted on Saturday, Sept. 19. “Our thoughts are with the Ewen family at this time.”
The late hockey enforcer skyrocketed to NHL fame when he played more than 500-plus games in the 1980s and '90s. According to CTV Calgary reporter Amanda Singroy, police have ruled Ewen's death as a suicide.
"We've learned former #nhl enforcer Todd Ewen appears to have died of self-inflicted gunshot wound to head @CTVNews," Singroy tweeted on Sept. 20.
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