Marcia Karen Wallace (November 1, 1942 – October 25, 2013)

LOS ANGELES (AP) –  Marcia Wallace, the voice of scoffing schoolteacher
Edna Krabappel on "The Simpsons," whose wise-cracking characters on
"The Bob Newhart Show" and other prime-time hits endeared her to many 
generations of TV viewers, has died.

"Simpsons" executive producer Al Jean called said in a statement Saturday
that her "irreplaceable character," the fourth-grade teacher who contended
with Bart Simpson’s constant antics, would be retired from the show.

“Simpsons” character, Edna Krabappel

Wallace as Carol Kester, The Bob Newhart Show

 
        Hal Brett Needham (March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013)

LOS ANGELES (AP) –  Hal Needham, a top Hollywood stuntman who
turned to directing rousing action films including "Smokey and the Bandit"
(1977) and "The Cannonball Run” (1981).

His business managers tell the Los Angeles Times that Needham died on
Friday in Los Angeles.

A former paratrooper, Needham was a billboard model for Viceroy Cigarettes
while beginning a career in Hollywood as a motion picture stuntman. He had 
appeared in thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies, performing
and designing stunts and new equipment to execute them.

Needham’s first break was as the stunt double for actor Richard Boone on
the popular CBS-TV western Have Gun, Will Travel (1957-1963).

Needham jumped from planes, was dragged by horses and wrecked cars —
breaking 56 bones in the process. He received an honorary Oscar last year.

DALLAS (FoxNews) –  Lee Harvey Oswald’s gold wedding band has sold at auction
for $118,000. 

RR Auction said the ring that belonged to the man who assassinated President John
F. Kennedy sold to a Texas buyer who wishes to remain anonymous. The ring was among nearly 300 items linked to the former president that went up for auction
Thursday in Boston.

Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald are shown in a photo
booth image taken in Dallas, soon after their arrival
from Russia.

                                     
                                                   Wallace Hartley

LONDON (AP) –  A violin believed to have played on the Titanic before the doomed vessel sank on April 15, 1912, was auctioned for more than $1.6 million Saturday, a fantastic figure which one collector said may never be beaten.

The sea-corroded instrument, now unplayable, is thought to have once belonged to
bandmaster Wallace Hartley who was among the disaster’s more than 1,500 victims. 

Artists depiction of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

  Edward Matthew "Ed" Lauter II (October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013)

(The Hollywood Reporter) – Ed Lauter, the always working character actor
who played the butler/chauffeur of Berenice Bejo’s character Peppy in the
best-picture Oscar winner The Artist, died Wednesday.

According to his publicist, Edward Lozzi, Lauter discovered in May that he
had contracted mesothelioma, a terminal form of cancer most commonly
caused by exposure to asbestos.

Lauter recently played a baseball scout opposite Clint Eastwood in Trouble
With the Curve (2012).