Al Lewis died Friday. He was 83 years old.
Best known for his role as Grandpa in television’s “The Munsters,” Lewis died after a long illness, a local radio station said on Saturday.
A movie Web site listed his age as 95, but there have been reports that he was 83.
Lewis was born in Brooklyn and was raised by his mother, an immigrant sweatshop worker in the Brownsville district of that borough.
At least 73 people are dead as the result of a stampede at a stadium in Manilla. Hundreds of people showed up hoping to get into a popular television game show offering cash and prizes.
Vice President Noli de Castro had put the death toll at 79, with other estimates even higher. But Health Secretary Francisco Duque told Reuters there had been some double-counting of victims, adding that 353 people were injured.
Most of the dead were elderly women, crushed against a closed steel gate at the bottom of a slope or trampled underfoot. One child was killed, hospital officials said.
Some witnesses said chaos erupted when someone shouted “bomb” but others reported a railing collapsed as people were being let into the stadium, causing guards to panic and slam shut the gate on the surging crowd.
“My mother came here hoping to win a prize,” said one man in his 20s, holding her dead hand and sobbing.
Some tickets for the first anniversary celebration of the game show “Wowowee,” which picks contestants at random from the audience, were given out earlier in the week.
But thousands of fans, many of them poor, camped out for days for a chance at the usual jackpot of 1 million pesos ($19,230) and special prizes of a car and a house with land.
The thought of winning gave them hope of ending their poverty. Instead, they end up paying the ultimate price.
The Danish Embassy in Syria has been set on fire by Muhammad cartoon protesters.
Rage against caricatures of Islam’s revered prophet poured out across the Muslim world Saturday, with aggrieved believers calling for executions, storming European buildings and setting European flags afire.
Thousands of outraged Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, setting fire to both buildings.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators at the Norwegian Embassy after the Danish building was burned.
But the protesters broke through police barriers and set fire to the second building, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” which is Arabic for “God is great!”
Gateway Pundit is covering the outrage, and the absurdities.
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