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PASSINGS: Justin Mentell, Jack Brisco, Barry Blitzer
Justin Mentell
'Boston Legal' cast member
Justin Mentell, 27, an actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal," was killed Monday in an SUV crash in Wisconsin.
The Iowa County Sheriff's Department said Mentell was killed when his SUV went down an...Tags: Education, Surgery, Transportation Accidents, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Vehicles
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Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children
Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95.
Ruben, who devoted much of...Tags: Jim Nabors, George Burns, Education, Los Angeles, Fred Allen
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PASSINGS: Johnny Seven, Victor Cianca, Mimi Perloff, Donald N. Gates
Johnny Seven
Prolific character actor
Johnny Seven, 83, a prolific character actor who appeared in dozens of TV episodes that included a recurring role as Lt. Carl Reese on "Ironside," died Friday at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission...Tags: City University of New York, Music, University of California, Los Angeles, Raymond Burr, California
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America's Healthiest Retirement Spots
Premium Health News ServiceThink of it as retirement reinvented. As Americans live longer and in better health, all those old retirement cliches seem evermore removed from reality. Long walks on the beach? Hitting the links? Fiddling around the house? Nope, modern retirement can be...Tags: Education, Mountains, Medical Staff, Hobbies, Research
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"Early TV Memories" Stamps to be Unveiled
ProducerFor more than half a century, Americans have turned to television for entertainment and information. Whether laughing at the first situation comedies, identifying with ordinary people who had their day in the spotlight on game shows, or tingling at...Tags: Gracie Allen, Social Issues, Lifestyle and Leisure, Alfred Hitchcock, Juvenile Delinquency
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Joe Namath, Keith Hernandez, Yogi made TV cameos
WatchdogThe other day I did the last of my annoying "My Boys" posts for the year - in which I discuss the appearances by two current Cubs and mention past athlete cameos on shows about fictional sportswriters, such as Deacon......Tags: ESPN, Casino and Gambling Industry, Major League Baseball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Television Industry
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Move it and lose it at 'Minsky's'
A good dancer does more than just defy gravity; he seems to have his own personal supply -- a force field that shapes space and time around his movements. Every impulse has weight and no energy is wasted, even in the enervating trial and error of...Tags: Music, Bananas, Lower East Side, Theater, Duke Ellington
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2009 stamp sets to feature old TV shows, other topics
Staff WriterLucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands "just the facts" with a penetrating gaze. A secret word brings Groucho a visit from a duck. Folks who grew up as television came of age will delight in a 20-stamp...Tags: George Burns, Los Angeles, Abraham Lincoln, I Love Lucy (tv program), Jack Webb
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Audrey Meadows, Alice in 'The Honeymooners,' Dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAudrey Meadows, revered as the feisty Alice Kramden opposite Jackie Gleason's garrulous bus driver Ralph in television's comedy classic " The Honeymooners," has died. Meadows died of lung cancer at 8:50 p.m. Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,...Tags: Dean Martin, Los Angeles Times, Illnesses, The Honeymooners (tv program), Steve Allen
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