Jack Hanson Dies: Longtime Bay Area TV Personality, Weatherman & Cartoonist Was 91

Carmel Dagan Staff Writer English actress Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager confirmed to The Washington Post. She was 100.

Herman (Hy) Levine, who had a nearly 50-year career in the film industry and worked with Lew Wasserman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dick Cook, and many other prominent executives, has died at 87.

Les McCann, acclaimed jazz pianist and vocalist whose greatest commercial success came with the 1969 song “Compared to What”, from his album Swiss Movement, criticizing the Vietnam War, has died. His longtime manager Alan Abrahams confirmed to multiple media outlets that McCann died Friday at a hospital in Los Angeles where he had been admitted with pneumonia. He was 88.

Jordan Moreau Kamar de Los Reyes, who played the villain Raul Menendez in the popular video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” and starred in the soap opera “One Life to Live,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles after a brief battle with cancer, his wife’s publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 56.

longtime love Farrah Fawcett at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles — two weeks after his death at the age of 82 from congestive heart failure. According to the Daily Mail, the Oscar nominee’s intimate funeral drew about 25 people, including ex-wife Leigh Taylor-Young, whom he was married from 1967-74; their son Patrick O’Neal, 56; and Fawcett’s best friend, Alana Stewart, 78.Fawcett — who died of cancer in 2009 at the age of 62 — began her tumultuous on-and-off-again love affair with O’Neal in 1979 after being introduced by her then-husband, Lee Majors.

Love Story actor Ryan O’Neal was buried Saturday next to his longtime lover Farrah Fawcett.

Selma Archerd, a staple at Hollywood events for decades as she accompanied longtime Variety columnist and husband Army Archerd, has died at 98. Multiple reports indicate she died Dec. 14 in Los Angeles.

Ruth Seymour, the longtime leader of Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW has died, her daughter Celia Hirschman told the Los Angeles Times. She was 88.

Longtime boxing commentator Larry Merchant was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles last night and is in the critical care, according to a report.

Olivia Wilde is spending some time with longtime collaborator Bryn Mooser.

A former assistant of Vin Diesel is suing the actor for sexual battery, alleging in a suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles she was assaulted while working on the "Fast Five" film. Asta Jonasson accused Diesel, his sister Samantha Vincent and their One Race Productions of discrimination and wrongful termination for firing her only after the alleged sexual assault took place, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital. In the suit, she claimed Diesel "forcibly grabbed Ms.

Vin Diesel’s former assistant filed a lawsuit today, claiming that the actor sexually battered her during her employment in 2010.The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles, states that Asta Jonasson was hired by Diesel’s company, One Race, to work for the action in Atlanta, where Fast Five was in production.According to Vanity Fair, here job responsibilities ranged from organising parties, accompanying Diesel to events and ensuring she was in close physical proximity to him to protect him from being photographed with women when in attendance without his girlfriend.The suit details an incident in September 2010, where Jonasson claims that she asked to wait in Diesel’s suite while he entertained some people he had brought back from a nightclub.According to Vanity Fair, the lawsuit claims that once the other women were gone, Diesel “grabbed Ms. Jonasson’s wrists, one with each of his hands, and pulled her onto the bed.”She reportedly asked him to stop, escaped and waited for him to leave.

Norby Walters, the onetime music agent who ran the annual “Night of 100 Stars” Oscar party for years and hosted an iconic low-stakes poker party for actors, died December 12. He was 91. His son, Walters Media Group founder and former Bold Films CEO Gary Michael Walters, confirmed the news but did not provide details.

Vanity Fair, the “Fast and Furious” star’s former assistant Asta Jonasson claims Diesel, whose real name is Mark Sinclair, invited her to his suite at the St. Regis hotel in Atlanta after coming back from the club with hostesses.

Seamus Lyte, the UK agent to the late Carrie Fisher, has died at his home in Los Angeles of glioblastoma. He was 54.

Darius Jackson is responding to Keke Palmer‘s accusations of abuse against him.

Jim Ladd, the longtime Los Angeles FM deejay known as “The Lonesome L.A. Cowboy” who had hosted a SiriusXM show for 12 years and was the inspiration for Tom Petty‘s album The Last DJ, died Saturday of a heart attack at his L.A. home. He was 75.

told media outlets.“I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with him in his last years, as he had no immediate family,” Garland said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “We spent much time outdoors, where Jack loved to sketch, read news articles, and recite Shakespearean sonnets.” Born on Jan.

Jack Axelrod, the actor who played the role of Victor Jerome on General Hospital, has died. He was 93.

The legal battle between Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson has taken another turn. By now you know the 30-year-old was granted a t