In Remembrance...Celebrities In 2006.

Johnny Callison, former Phillies All-Star, dies at 67

[imagel]http://philadelphiaathletics.org/images/wall/CALL1.jpg[/imagel]Johnny Callison, the strong-armed outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies who won the 1964 All-Star game with a ninth-inning homer, died at 67.

He died Thursday at Abington Hospital following an illness, Phillies spokesman Larry Shenk said Friday. He lived in Glenside, a Philadelphia suburb.

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Famed Comedy Writer Belson Dead at 68

Jerry Belson, an Emmy-winning comedy writer for "The Tracey Ullman Show" whose wit graced numerous other films and TV shows, including "The Odd Couple" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show," has died. He was 68.

Belson died of cancer at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday, said friend and writing partner Garry Marshall.

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Tex-Mex singer, Freddy Fender died at age 69.

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Mad Hatter said:

Tex-Mex singer, Freddy Fender died at age 69.

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Patrice Holloway, "Valerie" on "Josie & the Pussycats" 1948 - 2006

Singer/songwriter Patrice Holloway passed away on October 1, 2006, due to a heart attack. Holloway was the singing voice of Valerie Brown, the tambourine player for the fictional band Josie and the Pussycats, during the first season of their eponymous cartoon.

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RIP Miriam Engelberg

Miriam Engelberg who became a first time graphic novelist this year with CANCER MADE ME A SHALLOWER PERSON has died at age 48 of breast cancer.

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RIP Hilda Terry

[imagel]http://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/terry_hilda/terry_photo.jpg[/imagel]Trina Robbins passes along word that comics pioneer Hilda Terry has passed away at the age of 92.

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Chen Shu, Actor Who Is Good at Playing Bad Guys

[imagel]http://www.monkeypeaches.com/pix/061017d.jpg[/imagel]People outside of the China know very little about him as well as most movies he starred in., but people of the older generation in China remember him as a master who is good at playing bad guys. Chen Shu, a native of Shanghai, passed away this morning(posted on the 17th/MonkeyPeaches.com) in his home city, at the age of 86. He was originally a Shanghai postal worker, who enjoyed playing roles on stage. He became a movie actor in 1948 and joined Shanghai Film Studios four years later.

One of his first roles in the studios, a cunning intelligence chief in Du Jiang Zhen Cha Ji (literal: A Reconnaissance Mission to the Other Side of the River) instantly made him a household name. Twenty years later, when the movie was ordered to be remade as a political assignment, Chen Shu was the only one resumed his role in the remake. Almost all his roles in more than thirty movies he was involved in are pure villains. In 1995, he played Shi Ye, a crime lord in Zhang Yimou’s Shanghai Triad. In 2000, he cameoed in Jiang Wen’s Devils on the Doorstep and Ho Yim’s Pavilion of Women, as two of his last onscreen appearances.

Hollywood Wax Museum Founder Singh Dies

Spoony Singh, who once said he founded the world famous Hollywood Wax Museum to give tourists who couldn't find any real celebrities in Hollywood the next best thing, has died. He was 83.

Singh died Wednesday at his Malibu home of congestive heart failure, his family announced Friday.

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'House of Wax' Actress Kirk Dies at 79

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Phyllis Kirk, who played the raven-haired beauty stalked by Vincent Price in the 1950s horror film "House of Wax," has died. She was 79.

Kirk died Thursday of a post cerebral aneurysm at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, said her publicist, Dale Olson.

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