Graves was 83, according to a biography on the website IMDB.com.
In a Times story late last year, Graves said he initially turned down the role for "Airplane!" because he thought it was in poor taste--until actors Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen signed on to the cast. "They say you are supposed to stretch as an actor, so let's go stretch it," he told The Times' Susan King.
A full obituary is coming shortly from The Times.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/actor-peter-graves-found-dead-at-his-home-in-pacific-palisades.html
Herb Cohen dies at 77
Label operator introduced Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits
By CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016565.html
Herb Cohen, the tough, litigious manager and label operator who
introduced such notables as the Mothers of Invention and Tom Waits
during the '60s and '70s, died Tuesday of unknown causes in Napa, Calif.
He was 77.
After beginning his professional career as an L.A. club booker and
operator, Cohen branched into management in the mid-'60s. His biggest
clients were Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, the outre band that
became a top attraction in venues on the Sunset Strip.
After the Mothers released their initial albums on Verve, Cohen and
Zappa established their own imprints, Straight, Bizarre and Discreet.
The labels issued material by the Mothers and such off-the-wall,
Zappa-produced L.A. acts as Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band,
groupie unit the G.T.O.'s and itinerant songsmith Wild Man Fischer, as
well as singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, hard rock unit Alice Cooper and
comic Lenny Bruce. The partners' association collapsed amid an exchange
of lawsuits in 1976.
Cohen also handled beat-styled singer-songwriter Waits, who secured a
contract with David Geffen's Asylum Records in 1972
RON LUNDY DIES AT 75. ...
March 13, 2010
March 15, 2010: Ron Lundy, who was on the New York airwaves almost continously from 1965 until 1997, has died at age 75. Lundy began his career on Memphis radio and later moved on to WIL/St. Louis. He came to New York and then-Top 40 WABC in 1965, where his signature line, "Hello, love, this is Ron Lundy from the greatest city in the world," was heard until the station flipped to Talk in 1982.
Link ...
http://musicradio77.com/
In 1984 he reappeared in New York on WCBS-FM, remaining there until his retirement in 1997. Lundy retired to Mississippi, where he died on Monday.
The New York Daily News, reporting earlier today on Lundy's illness, said he had had a lung removed after cancer treatment and suffered several mini-strokes. His wife, Shirley Lundy, told the paper, "We're so thankful for all his friends in New York." Former WABC and WCBS colleague Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow said, "Ron's one of the class acts in radio."
Airchecks and a salute to Lundy can be found at this WABC/Music Radio 77 tribute site, which also broke the news of his passing.
Other News: NWA Hall of Famer Corsica Joe dies today at age 90
Mar 14, 2010 - 12:39:02 PM
By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor
The NWA announced today the death of wrestling legend Corsica Joe (Francois Miquet) in Nashville, Tenn. at the age of 90 today.
Miquet and his tag partner, Corsica Jean, were inducted into the NWA's Hall of Fame two years ago when the NWA ran a big-arena show at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta.
Corsica Joe & Jean held the NWA World Tag Titles five times in the 1950s and they were NWA Soutern tag champs in Georgia during the 1960s.
Miquet was on the very first TNA PPV in June 2002, back when the promotion was NWA-TNA. Miquet was part of the parade of NWA legends to create synergy between TNA and the heritage of the NWA.
Miquet, as Corsica Joe, was joined by his wife, Sarah Lee, Harley Race, Dory Funk Jr., Jackie Fargo, Bob Armstrong, and Ricky Steamboat.
-- READ MORE: Wade Keller's original TNA PPV Report & Analysis.
Thanks to Bill Behrens for the information.
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