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		RMH999 Wrote:Actor Adam West I was already planning to watch  Return of the Caped Crusaders again today - now it won't be quite as fun. 
 
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		Quote:robkelk wrote:
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I was already planning to watch Return of the Caped Crusaders again today - now it won't be quite as fun.  
 
(And his ATT article is written in the first person... I'll think of something.) 
Boingboing has a  delightful anecdote about West today -- complete with photographic documentation.  It's worth a read. 
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		Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died.
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		Twitter and  Variety both report that Stephen Furst has died.
 
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		I don't know how many of you outside the New York City area will recognize the name, but pioneer TV journalist  Gabe Pressman died this morning.
 
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		RIP Prof. Jerry Nelson, inventor of the segmented-mirror design that allows large telescopes to work.
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		RIP Stewart Wieck, co-creator of the original  Mage: The Ascension
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		Whoa.  I worked with Stewart when I was writing GURPS Mage.  I wouldn't call him a friend, but he was certainly an industry acquaintance.  Wow. 
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		RIP Michael Nyqvist
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		"Miss Mary Ann" from Romper Room has passed.
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		RIP Michael Bond, creator of the  Paddington Bear series.
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		RIP Richard Fyfe, saviour of the peregrine falcon. 
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		RIP Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Tiananmen Square student movement leader. 
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		RIP Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal 
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		Martin Landau - Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood, and others 
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		Chester Bennington of Linkin Park has committed suicide.
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		RIP Deborah Watling, best known in North America for playing Victoria Waterfield on  Doctor Who in the late-1960s
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		One of the King's closer friends has rejoined him beyond the Veil:   http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/n ... 493330001/
	 
	
	
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		RIP John Heard 
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		RIP Barbara Sinatra 
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		One of the people who helped get Marvel Comics off the ground is gone: 
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		Rocket J. Squirrel has been grounded. 
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