Category Archives: ’70s

March 6, 2023 Better off Ed (Image by Bob Mizer/AMG) Ed Fury, a physique-model legend and legit movie star in the '60s, died at 94 on February 24, 2023. The sad news of Fury's passing was confirmed by his wife to various friends, who broke the news on social media. https://www.tiktok.com/@boyculturedotcom/video/7207517022647881002?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7200813291274503722 Born Rupert Edmund Holovchik…

February 25, 2023 Mirisch became a beloved and outspoken authority on the art and business of film. (Image via video still) Walter Mirisch, who was the only person ever to win the Irving G. Thalberg Award, an Oscar for Best Picture and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award — and who had been the oldest-surviving Oscar…

February 20, 2023 Sad to report Barbara Bosson, who was the achingly vulnerable divorcée Fay Furillo on Hill Street Blues, died Saturday, February 18, 2023, in L.A. in her sleep. Bosson as Fay (Image via NBC) Born November 1, 1939, in Pennsylvania, she lived in Florida before moving to NYC to pursue acting. She was…

February 19, 2023 The great — and edgy — Richard Belzer died today at 78. The marvelous Munch (Image via NBC) He was at his home in France when he died, and his confirmed last words were: "F**k you, motherf**ker!" — definitely in keeping with his raunchy stand-up persona. Belzer was a comedian's comedian —…

February 17, 2023 Another legendary Hollywood sex symbol has left the theater — blonde bombshell Stella Stevens died at 84 on Friday, February 17, 2023, in L.A. Modeling for Coppertone and promoting How to Save a Marriage ... in 1968 (Image via Coppertone) According to her actor-producer son, Andrew Stevens, 67, she had been in…