Friday, April 27, 2007
Jack Valenti, who became a confidant of President Lyndon B. Johnson and then a Hollywood institution, leading the Motion Picture Association of America and devising a voluntary film-rating system that gave new meaning to letters like G, R and X, died Thursday April 26,2007 at his home in Washington.... Sign in to see full entry.
Bobby Pickett
Bobby (Boris) Pickett, whose Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween novelty song “Monster Mash” to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music’s most enduring one-hit wonders, died Wednesday April 25,2007 in Los Angeles. He was 69. His longtime manager, Stuart Hersh, said... Sign in to see full entry.