In Remembrance:2007

[Cthulhudrew]

I wonder what's going to happen to his strips.

Probably just reprint them, like they do Peanuts and Family Circus.

 

[DMH]

Probably just reprint them, like they do Peanuts and Family Circus.

No, there is mention of his assistants keeping it going for years since he left plenty of unpublished ideas on his PC.

 

[DMH]

Roscoe Lee Browne- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001975/ (which hasn't reported his death yet)

A great voice and actor.

 

[Wombat]

Kurt Vonnegut is dead

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...AR2007041200164.html?nav=rss_email/components

Nice mud...

Sorry to see you go. You helped me see through the ... effluent ... many times.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

1st James Bond dies

The first actor to play James Bond has died, and no, it's not Sean Connery.

In 1954, eight years before Dr. No came out, Barry Nelson starred in a made for TV adaptation of Casino Royale.

Nelson was a contract player for MGM during the 1940s. After World War II, he had a prolific career in theater.

Nelson died April 7. He was 89.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Legendary crooner Don Ho, whose Waikiki show entertained tourists to Hawaii for four decades, died yesterday of heart failure. He was 76.

Ho is probably best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles", which opened and ended his shows -- a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history, and audience participation.

 

[Jamdin]

Brant Parker, Wizard of Id cartoonist, died April 15, 2007 at the age of 86 according to Editor & Publisher article. He died eight days after Johnny Hart died.

 

[Storm Raven]

Jaime Bishop, son of author Michael Bishop, was among those killed yesterday by the Virginia Tech shooter.

 

[jaerdaph]

Kitty Carlisle Hart dead at 96

Actress and New York socialite Kitty Carlisle Hart passed away Tuesday 4/17/2007 at the age of 96. Mrs. Hart was best known for appearing in the 1935 Marx Brothers' movie A Night at the Opera and serving as a panelist on the 50s and 60s game show To Tell the Truth. She was the widow of Broadway musical legend Moss Hart.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=68860

 

[Mark CMG]

Tom Moldvay died March 8th, 2007