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Uncapie here - Some sad news. Even sadder as I had just met the man in December at Mr.
Robert Wise's tribute. Mr. Franciosa was a gentleman and in good health at the time
I met him. He enjoyed talking about his work and was interested in meeting
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Hey folks, Harry here... Peter Jennings just passed away. He'd been fighting Lung Cancer for some time now - and well... that's one thing killing folks that we have a lot further to go in fighting it. Honestly, I never really watched ABC NEWS, I'
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Father Geek here... Our beloved Scotty, James Doohan, the engineer of the Starship Enterprise on the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who never failed to answer the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died today, Wednesday, at the age of 85
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Ahoy, squirts. Quint here with some more sad news for us Hitchcock fans. Ernest Lehman, who wrote NORTH BY NORTHWEST, died recently and now we have heard that Evan Hunter, who wrote THE BIRDS (one of my personal favorites) and also revolutionized det
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Father Geek here with some sad news... Ernest Lehman screenwriter of NORTH BY NORTHWEST, WESTSIDE STORY, and THE SOUND OF MUSIC among other great films has died at the age of 89.
Lehman established his astounding archives at the University of Texa
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Hey folks, Harry here in Minneapolis at Convergence. It is ironic that I'm at one of the wonderful science fiction - fantasy conventions when I find that one of the great B-movie monsters is dead. The HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, Robert Clarke passed away a
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Hey folks, Harry here... Wasn't that familiar with Ed Bishop by name, but I certainly remember his work on UFO and CAPTAIN SCARLET and the STAR TREK animated series, but I hadn't heard he'd passed away. Here's SpectrumIsSad with the proper OBIT th
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Harry here... In the blistering Austin summer on 1990 - Ismail Merchant helped to change my life. I was a Pre-Law student with Radio-Television-Film leanings... My hair was cut short and off the collar and I did my best to avoid run on sentences
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Hey folks, Harry here... I felt we had some readers that felt like writing about these three voice giants, that knew more about their lives than I. To be honest, I never knew the name of the voice behind Fred Flintstone... kinda odd that one. Bu
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Father Geek here with a hefty update from Elston packed full of the latest confirmed news from Hollywood to Cannes, buuut before I turn you over to our man Gunn I'd be amiss if I didn't mention a rash of entertainment related deaths from the past wee
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Father Geek here with Baaaad news...Frank Gorshin, the Riddler on the
"Batman" TV series, has died at age 72 Tuesday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in California of complications of lung cancer, emphysema and
pneumonia.
Gorshin ea
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Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Dr. Hfuhruhurr is a good friend of mine, and he frequently invites Obi-Swan and I to idle away good hours at a local cigar club where he?s a member. One of the great joys of that club has been sitting and talking with any number of unusual Hollywood figures, like Temuera Morrison or John Millius, getting lost in conversations that just meander about any number of topics.
Some of the greatest evenings we spent up there were in the company of George Pan Cosmatos, director of TOMBSTONE and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART 2. He was a gentleman, a collosally entertaining storyteller, and a generous soul. Anything I could write about him, Dr. Hfuhruhurr already said better in the e-mail I got just a few minutes ago:
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Father geek here with the sad news that Dale Messick, whose long-running newspaper comic "Brenda Starr" paved the way for her entry into the male dominated world of comic art, has died at the age of 98.
Her strip ran in 250 newspapers at its heig
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Father Geek reporting in with sad news... Science fiction and fantasy authoress Andre Norton, who wrote the hugely popular "Witch World" series, has died at the age of 93 in historic Murfreesboro, just outside Nashville, Tennesse.
Father Geek h
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Father Geek here with sad news... John Carpenter's longtime writing-producing partner 54 year old DEBRA HILL has died. I've met Debra several times here in Austin when she would come here on business or to attend film fests or to visit long time frie
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Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Wow. This coming right on the heels of the John Vernon news yesterday... just wow. One of the things I've been complaining about recently is how our generation doesn't seem to be
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Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Simply put, John Vernon was one of the best.
He was one of those guys who you could always count on to make the most of any sized role. I think most people immediately think of
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Father Geek here once again with the sad duty of informing you of the passing of two of our few remaining classic silver screen actresses...
Pneumonia claimed the life of RUTH WARRICK Saturday in New York. The very 1st movie of any kind ol' Father
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Ahoy, squirts. Quint here with some sad news for the people like me who love INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM as well as fans of Bollywood. Amrish Puri, who played Mola Ram in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM has died at the age of 72.
I'm
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Father Geek here with some sad, sad news to start off 2005... Two giants of pen and brush have departed this earthly realm. Comic Writer-Artist-Creator WILL EISNER, and legendary Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Book illustrator FRANK KELLY
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I am - Hercules!!
Jerry Orbach passed away Wednesday morning at age 69, according to New York radio station WINS, which reportedly got the news from Orbach's manager, Robert Malcolm.
It comes as a bit of a shock because a) Orbach was first d
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At the age of seven years old, I wrote three heroes of mine for their autograph. The only one that responded was Christopher Reeve. 8 months after I mailed it, in an envelope one day came a small 3x5 photograph of Superman autographed "To Harry, Ch
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Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
I don't like writing obits for Ain't It Cool. To me, there's nothing cool about having to break the news that someone whose work you enjoy has passed on. But it is cool to honor
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Hey folks, Harry here... I'm in the middle of finishing my DVD column for the month of October (to appear later tonight) - but realized before getting some rest, that Janet Leigh was just announced as having passed away.
While PSYCHO is a great m
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