In Remembrance...Celebrities In 2006.

[Truth Seeker]

Kool & the Gang co-founder dead

Claydes Charles Smith, a co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 57.

Smith died Tuesday in Maplewood, New Jersey, after a long illness, his publicist said

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[Jamdin]

Television producer Aaron Spelling dies. He passed away on Friday, June 23, 2006 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83 and suffered a stroke on June 18. He created a number of hit series, from the vintage "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty" to "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place."

 

[Fast Learner]

To be younger brother to Otto Preminger, director of a dozen famous films, ensured a relatively obscure career for Ingo Preminger, who has died aged 95. Yet his one successful film, 1970's MASH, outshone anything by Otto.

As a comedy it had an unpromising setting, a blood-spattered Korean war Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Yet the antics of the surgeons and nurses provided the rich but caustic humour for a film that remains a Hollywood legend. Adapted for a television series, it lasted from 1972 to 1983, made Alan Alda a star, and turned Loretta Swit as "Hot Lips" Houlihan into a household name.

Well... Ingo produced M*A*S*H, and I imagine that the was certainly influential, but I think it's pretty safe to say that it was Robert Altman's directing that made this film what it was. In my opinion, anyway, that one production credit doesn't even touch brother Otto's body of work.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Actor Kenneth Griffith dies at 84

The actor and documentary-maker Kenneth Griffith has died at the age of 84.

Born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, he had been a familiar face on TV and cinema screens since the 1940s.

He was in such TV series as the 1960s cult hit The Prisoner, and was more familiar recently with a cameo role in 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Griffith, who died at his London home, also made often controversial films on such subjects as the Boer War - on which he was an expert - and Ireland.

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[Truth Seeker]

'Frasier's' Best Friend 'Eddie' Dies

Moose, the sassy Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for 10 years on NBC's"Frasier," has died, his trainer Mathilde Halberg told People magazine.

"He was 16-and-a-half years old, and he just had an in credible charisma and was a such a free spirit," Halberg told People.

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R.I.P.​

 

[Truth Seeker]

Music producer Mardin dies at 74

Music producer Arif Mardin, who worked with such artists as Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Diana Ross and the Bee Gees, has died at the age of 74.

According to his longtime friend and colleague Ian Ralfini, he died at New York home from pancreatic cancer.

Mardin built his reputation at Atlantic Records, where he worked as a producer and arranger from 1963 to 2001.

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[Truth Seeker]

US TV chef Carrier dies aged 82

Acclaimed American chef Robert Carrier, who made his name in print and on TV in the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 82.

He presented the series Carrier's Kitchen and promoted the idea of dinner parties with books on entertaining. He travelled extensively and his work was inspired by trips to countries including Morocco and France.

Carrier established a country house hotel with a cookery school in Suffolk, and opened a restaurant in London and an international chain of shops.

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[DMH]

Jim Baen died. Truely a loss.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Jim Baen died. Truely a loss.

Jim Baen's obituary, written by David Drake: http://david-drake.com/baen.html

 

[Truth Seeker]

Lennie Weinrib, voice of H.R. Pufnstuf, dead at 71

Toon Zone has reported that Lennie Weinrib passed away on Wednesday at his home in Chile. He was 71-years-old. You may not recognize the name, although he wrote for and performed in numerous television series for over 40 years. However, if you were a child of the 1960's, 70's or 80's you would probably recognize him as the voice of numerous Saturday morning cartoon characters that you loved, including H.R. Pufnstuf and Scrappy-Doo.

In Remembrance.