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Year End Roll Call: The Passing of A Few Notable Celebrities
We’d like to remind you of those who have gone on in this year 2007. We’ll be naming more than the two most recent celebrity deaths of Evil Knievil and Ike Turner.
There was Herbert Saffir, the building engineer who co-developed the Saffir-Simpson hurricane score system. Actor Dick Wilson passed on. you may remember him as Mr. Whipple from that famous commercial for “squeezably soft” toilet tissue. Writer Ira Levin who gave is “Stepford Wives” and “Rosemary’s Baby” died this year. He told a good tale. Also Norman Mailer the writer who help establish New York’s Village Voice newspaper.
Two blasts from the 1940s actress Laraine Day and Paul Tibbets the pilot who flew the Enola Gay the plane which delivered the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Singers Robert Goulet and Porter Wagoner both died in October 2007, as did Chef “Tell”, Friedman Paul Erhardt, Philadelphia based television chef whose syndicated cooking segments were popular during the 1980s and 1990s.
Also gone is cute little singer Teresa Brewer , writer Peg Bracken famous for the “I Hate To Cook Book”, Academy Award wonning actress Deborah Kerr, the last member of the famed “Rat Pack” funny man Joey Bishop, along with the world’s greatest mime Marcel Marceau, comic actress Alice Ghostley famous for her roles on the tv series “Bewitched” and “Designing Women”.
No longer with us is Brett Somers, the former(?) Mrs. Jack Klugman, Jane Wyman the former Mrs. Ronald Reagan, world famous opera star, known as one of the greatest tenors, Luciano Pavarotti. the first Asian actor to receive the Academy Award for best supporting actress Miyoshi Umeki for her role in 1957s “Sayonara”.
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