Actor John Philip Law, who was extremely tall and had a long career in films, including good movies like Barbarella and turkeys like 1968's immortal Skidoo, where he played a hippie love interest of the daughter of retired mobster Jackie Gleason, has died at the age of 70, his former wife announced.
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Danton Burroughs, 63, grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, died under particularly tragic circumstances. He died of heart failure the day after a fire destroyed a room full of family memorabilia.
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Larry Levine, 80, a sound engineer who helped create the so-called "Wall of Sound" employed by former record producer and killer Phil Spector, has died of more or less natural causes, unlike Lana Clarkson. He died May 8 and suffered from emphysema.
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