The Brittany mantra could fit quite well with this story about Dawn Wells. The actress who played the innocent little sweet heart for years on “Gilligan’s Island” is currently serving six months of unsupervised probation on a drug charge in Idaho.
First, Mary Ann is a naive and sweet girl who obviously doesn’t know that […]

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
Sherwood Schwartz, the man behind two of TV comedy’s greatest classics, “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Brunch,” he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday.
I don’t wish to take anything away from Sherwood and applaud the decision by the committee for […]

“He was a gamer’s gamer, an icon of a time of wonder and imagination.” — Tracy Hickman (”Dragonlance”)
The “Dungeons and Dragons” (D&D) co-creator and legengary gaming pioneer E. (Ernest) Gary Gygax has died at the age of 69 from complications arising from past multiple strokes.
A gamer all his life, Gygax started out like most kids […]

Source: The Honolulu Advertiser
Ben Chapman, a Honolulu resident best known for playing the title character in the 1954 horror film “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” died yesterday at Tripler Medical Center. He was 79.
Chapman was a retired real estate executive. But his role as the Gill Man — the quintessential 1950s monster in Universal Pictures’ […]

Written by: Mark Schilling
Source: Variety Asia
TOKYO — Kon Ichikawa, celebrated Japanese helmer whose career spanned more than seven decades, died on Feb. 13 of pneumonia. He was 92.
Best known abroad for “The Burmese Harp” (1956) and “Fires on the Plain (1959), pics that vividly, if grimly, portrayed the human […]

Steven Spielberg may always be remembered as the man who made us afraid to go in the water with his 1975 film “Jaws,” but it was actor Roy Scheider’s perfect performance in the movie that made it visceral. Scheider died yesterday (Feb. 10) after suffering from a form of cancer known as multiple myeloma. […]

Source: Variety
Movie poster artist John Alvin died February 6 of a heart attack in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was only 59.
A leading film campaign designer who created posters for more than 135 movies, his career began in 1974 with the poster for Mel Brook’s “Blazing Saddles.”
Most recently, he contributed design ideas for the campaign for […]

Barry Morse, the actor who hunted down David Janssen for years as Lt. Phillip Gerard is dead at the grand age of 89 after suffering a brief illness.
Morse had one of the most recognized faces in show business after his long stint on the American television series “The Fugitive,” which ran for 5 seasons with […]

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
British actor Kevin Stoney has passed away. He was 86. Stoney, best-known to fans of “Doctor Who” for his roles in two serials from the 1960’s in which he played two different villains, retired from show business in the late 1990’s.
Stoney first appeared on “Doctor Who” in […]

Veteran film and TV actress Lois Nettleton has died this week after her battle with lung cancer. She was 80.
Nettleton is remembered by sci-fi fans as Daggair, the enduring wife of Londo in the highly popular “Babylon 5″ television series.
Her career spanned over 5 decades beginning in the early heyday of television production. […]

Allan Melvin, the character actor who brought voice and life to such well known cartoon characters as Popeye’s number one nemesis, Bluto and Magilla Gorilla in the Hanna-Barbera series of the same name has died of cancer at the age of 84.
Melvin was a fixture on television dating back to the industry’s early “Golden Era,” […]

Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful actress with the husky-voice has died at the age of 70 of respiratory failure after a long battle with lung cancer.
Most remember Suzanne for her very popular role as Emily Hartley, the wife of Bob Newhart’s character in the long running sitcom “The Bob Newhart Show.” In real life she […]

Maila Nurmi, the lady who starred as “Vampira” on television in the 1950’s and who helped create the Goth-look, as well as one of the early pioneers for the fright-night venue on television has died at the grand old age of 85.
Nurmi created Vampira as her gimmick character so that she could host her horror […]

Source: Yahoo News
Johnny Grant, a tireless show business figure dubbed the “honorary mayor of Hollywood” for his devotion to the historic movie industry hub, died on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. He was 84.
Grant was perhaps best known for introducing celebrities when they got their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But […]

This has been another year that has seen the loss of many great and talented people throughout the SF/fantasy/horror and genre-related entertainment industry. As 2007 comes to a close we bid them all a final farewell in this memorium.

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Dick Wilson (Charmin’s Mr. Whipple)
Verity Lambert (1st Doctor Who […]

Famed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, creator of the landmark novel “2001: A Space Odyssey” is celebrating his 90th birthday at his home in Sri Lanka. Besides creating such wonderful novels like Odyssey and the Rama series, he is also the father of the whole concept of geostationary satellites now used in everyday […]

Dick Wilson had a long and varied career in show business, but he will forever be remembered as cranky store manager Mr. Whipple with his catch phrase, “Please Don’t Squeeze the Charmin!” He was 91.
Wilson died a few weeks ago at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, announced […]

Source: Variety Europe
Written by: Steve Clarke
U.K. producer Verity Lambert dies — TV pioneer started ‘Doctor Who’
LONDON — Verity Lambert, one of the great pioneers of British television drama and film, has died aged 71.
In a career lasting more than 40 years Lambert, who famously became the youngest and only female producer at the BBC in […]

Source Yahoo News
Romulus and Remus cave may have been found

Italian archaeologists believe they have found the cave where a she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome, according to legend.
An underground cavity decorated with seashells and mosaics was discovered near the ruins of Emperor Augustus’s palace on the Palatine hill. It is likely […]

The Clinton Presidential Library has opened up, for public viewing, some of its Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) text reports and video files gathered during Bill Clinton’s 8-year tenure as President of the United States of America. However, the most controversial footage is still being kept classified.
Much of the data released has been sought for […]

Source: Yahoo News
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Ira Levin, author of the best-selling horror and suspense novels “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Stepford Wives” and “The Boys from Brazil,” all later made into popular films, has died at age 78, according to media reports.
The New York Times reported that Levin died on Monday at his […]

Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveler dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police, according to Reuters.
The 24-year-old Hamburg man was passed out drunk on one of the train seats after a fun-filled Halloween party. The zombie wannabe had what appeared to be blood and […]

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Sylvester Stallone says he and his “Rambo” sequel movie crew witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border.
“I witnessed the aftermath — survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off. We saw many elephants with blown off legs. We […]

Lois Maxwell, the Canadian-born actress, whose movie and stage roles ranged from high drama to campy comedies has died of cancer at the age of 80.
Maxwell, had a vast film career, even starring opposite the late President Ronald Reagan in the 1950’s comedy film “Bedtime for Bonzo,” but will be remembered most for the one […]

Alice Ghostley, the Emmy-nominated and Tony Award-winning actress has died at age 81 after a long struggle with colon cancer. In her later years Ghostley became debilitated after several strokes.
The funny actress started on Broadway then moved on to film and finally television in its early days.
While her film career spanned several decades with […]

Famed fantasy writer Robert Jordan is dead
The author of the “Wheel of Time” fantasy series and many of the Conan books died at the young age of 59 after his battle with the debilitating condition known as cardiac amyloidosis. He would have celebrated his 60th birthday next month.
Jordan’s real name was James Oliver Rigney, […]

Source: StarTrek.com
Percy Rodriguez was “Commodore Stone,” the commander of Starbase 11 who presided over the trial of James T. Kirk in the Original Series episode “Court Martial.” Rodriguez died last Thursday, September 6, of complications from kidney disease, according to his talent agency and various reports. He was 83.
A Canadian of Afro-Latino descent, the […]

Jim Carrey films video to raise awareness of imprisoned human-rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi
NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Carrey has made a straight-to-YouTube video. And it’s not funny at all.
The 45-year-old actor-comedian — in rare serious mode — appears in a new public service announcement on behalf of the Human Rights Action Center […]

A tribute from JQ of Marvel Comics for one of their own

Ringo!
From the bouncy signature to the remarkable art that it brands, last week the world lost one of the greats, and what is truly a loss for all of us is that we lost him way too early.
On Sunday, August 12, Mike Wieringo passed […]

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