Our Daily Dead

Yvonne De Carlo, star of TV’s ‘Munsters,’ dies in LA at 84.

From the San Jose Mercury News:

Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses’ wife in “The Ten Commandments” but achieved her greatest popularity on TV’s slapstick comedy “The Munsters,” has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Woodland Hills, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

The vampire-like Lily presided over the faux scary household and was a rock for her gentle but often bumbling husband, Herman, who was played by 6-foot-5-inch character actor Fred Gwynne (decked out as the Frankenstein monster).

The series lasted only two years, but it had a long life in syndication and resulted in two feature movies, “Munster Go Home!” (1966) and “The Munsters’ Revenge.” (1981, for TV).

More childhood memories dashed up on the cruel rocks of time, eh what?

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Pamela Anderson the former Baywatch babe who has enjoyed the marvelous benefits of various surgeries to sculpt, chisel, strategically suck, creatively inject, and serially augment. Pamela has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, an incurable viral disease usually caused by sharing bodily fluids or infected needles with other people who carry the disease.

You can read more about hepatitis C at Hepititis C Facts. Pamela claims she got hep C from her then husband bad-boy rocker Tommy Lee when they shared tattoo needs, although he says “no way,” has offered to take a blood test. Seventy percent of people with hepatitis C have liver disease which may progress to the need for liver transplant.

We’d like to say that “This sex bomb has a ticking time bomb,” but that would be just too, too cute.

Pamela has a new book (we haven’t read it, and probably won’t). See the link below. And, there is the matter of the infamous Pamela-Tommy Lee video that’s been cruising around the Internet for a few years. Don’t expect us to link to it. We may be a bit ODD, but we ain’t twisted.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Iwao Takamoto, as Stuart Heritage over at Heckler Spray says “the Real Mr. Scooby-Doo”, has died of heart failure in Los Angeles at age 81.

Let us explain…no, there is no time. Let us sum up….

The oh so recently departed Joseph Barbera along with Mr. Hanna founded a cartoon studio. At the Hanna-Barbera studio worked the most excellent Mr. Iwao Takamoto. Got it so far? Good.

Now then as Mr. Heritage continues it was Takamoto who “…was directly responsible for breathing life into some of the most memorable cartoon dogs ever - he was an animator on ‘Lady and the Tramp’ and ‘One Hundred And One Dalmatians’, and created Muttley and Astro from ‘The Jetsons’…” AND one fine young pup called Scooby-Doo.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Frank Campanella is dead at age 87. Frank Campanella was one of those venerable character actors; someone whose face you remember, but just can’t tease your brain to remember his name.

Mr. Campanella’s signature role was the tough guy and it was something he gave us in some 100 movies. The NY Times article tells that “his movie credits included parts in ‘Dick Tracy,’ ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Beaches,’ ‘Overboard’ and ‘The Flamingo Kid.’

His TV roles included stints with ‘The Fall Guy’, ‘Hardcastle and McCormick’, ‘St. Elsewhere’, ‘The Love Boat’, ‘Barnaby Jones’, ‘Maude’, ‘The Rockford Files’, ‘All in the Family’, ‘Kojak’, ‘Route 66′ and ‘Quincy, M.E.’. Busy man was Mr. Frank.

Young Frank was the younger brother of veteran actor Joseph Campanella. A rather busy guy himself, Joseph has some 200 TV and film roles to his credit.

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