Former Laker, NBA Broadcaster 'Hot Rod' Hundley Dies At 80
Hot Rod Hundley, the former NBA player who broadcast Jazz games in New Orleans and Utah for 35 years, died Friday. He was 80.
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Hot Rod Hundley, the former NBA player who broadcast Jazz games in New Orleans and Utah for 35 years, died Friday. He was 80.
Retired KCBS weathercaster George Fischbeck has died at the age of 92, his family announced Wednesday.
Private funeral services were being planned Friday for radio and television voiceover personality Gary Owens, best known for holding his hand to his ear while serving as the announcer on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."
Arthur L. Alarcon, a judge who served on California and federal benches for 50 years and was the first Latino appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has died. He was 89.
Goldwyn, a member of one of show businesses most storied families, was 88.
The newspaper said Monday that Champlin died at his Los Angeles home on Sunday. He was 88.
Tim Hauser founded Manhattan Transfer and helped launch hits such as "Operator" and "The Boy from New York City."
Vic Braden, a tennis player in the late 1940s and early '50s who became one of the nation's top tennis teaching professionals, has died from complications of congestive heart failure. He was 85.
Vicki Lawrence says Rivers was always a hard act to follow.
A longtime Los Angeles music agent who represented such artists as Whitney Houston, the Eagles, Tom Petty and Journey has died.
Emigdio Vasquez, whose bold use of color, exacting brush skills and uncanny ability to capture everyday people in dramatic moments made him one of the most influential pioneers of the Chicano art movement, has died in Newport Beach. He was 75.
George Nicholaw, the former general manager of KNX 1070 Newsradio, has died, it was reported Sunday.
Bel Kaufman was a middle-age teacher and single mother in the mid-1960s when her autobiographical novel was welcomed as a kind of civilian companion to Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," a send-up of the most maddening bureaucracy.
Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films such as "The Rockford Files" and his Oscar-nominated "Murphy's Romance," has died, police said. He was 86.
Kasem, the radio host of "American Top 40" and voice of animated television characters like Scooby-Doo's sidekick Shaggy, died June 15 at a hospital in Gig Harbor
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members were among the leaders of the original punk rock movement with songs like "I Wanna Be Sedated," ''Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Rockaway Beach."
"Designing Women," a popular sitcom about four sassy and sharp-tongued women who ran an Atlanta design business, ran on CBS from 1986-1993.
Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70.
Caleb Bankston, 26, a contestant on "Survivor: Blood Vs. Water," was crushed between two railroad cars.
Wallach was known for playing Mexican bandits in "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
James Pitts, a pioneering smog researcher whose work spurred California's ground-breaking clean-air regulations, has died. He was 93.
Legendary radio personality Casey Kasem has died following months of declining health and a bitter family battle over his care and treatment, according to a family spokesperson. He was 82.
Her interview subjects included Bob Hope, Richard Burton, Sylvester Stallone and many others.
He is probably best known for playing blustery and rather buffoonish pimp Billy Clyde Tuggle on ABC's now defunct "All My Children."
Former California Assemblyman John Vasconcellos, a colorful Democrat who was considered a visionary and served for 38 years in the state Legislature, died Saturday. He was 82.
