Weekend Newsy Notes
* Did Dr. Manhattan shoot his load the first weekend?Depending on whom you talked to this week, the opening weekend box office for WATCHMEN...
RIP: Rod Gilchrist
Rod Gilchrist, executive director of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, died of brain cancer at age 58 on February 26th. The SF Chronicle has...
RIP: John Carbonaro
John Carbonaro, a longtime fan-turned publisher when he purchased the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, passed away at age 58 on February 25th, as...
RIP Lux Interior
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Frontman of seminal Psychobilly rock band, The Cramps.
A little bit more on McGoohan
Cartoonist Michael Aushenker sent us a link that provides a bit more information on the enigmatic Patrick McGoohan, who died last week. Aushenker is...
RIP John Updike
Famed novelist John Updike has died at age 76. Besides winning awards and being one of the best prose stylists of recent American letters,...
RIP: Bob May
After the shocking double dose of death with Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban the other day, we know you were all wondering who would...
Inside the Secret Agent
I think I must have fallen in love with Patrick McGoohan the first time I saw him. It's not hard to see why a...
RIP: Ricardo Montalban
In a day that has sent pop culture fans reeling, we've also lost Ricardo Montalban. Best known as the white-suited smoothie from Fantasy Island,...
RIP: Patrick McGoohan
The Beat will surely have more on this later, given her love of the Prisoner. This is just a newsflash until she posts later.
The...
RIP Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt died yesterday at age 81. Many people are called "legendary," but Kitt truly was, as a singer, dancer, and actress. Julie Newmar...
RIP: Majel Barrett Roddenberry
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, passed away today at the age of 76.
She had just recently finished voice work...
