Curtain calls of 2009

**FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS** FILE - In this 1969 file image originally released by Universal Pictures, actor Ricardo Montalban is shown. The Mexican-born actor, who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's \"Fantasy Island,\" died Jan. 14, 2009, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. (AP Photo/ABC, file) ** NO SALES **

Actor Ron Silver stands at the podium to get an overall view of Madison Square Garden during preparations for the Republican National Convention Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Savoia)

**FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS** FILE - In this April 26, 2005 file photo, actress Natasha Richardson is shown at her opening night performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" Studio 54 in New York. Richardson, 45, died Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in New York after suffering an apparent head injury from a skiing accident in Canada on Monday. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

**FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS** FILE - This 1975 file photo shows actress Bea Arthur at an unknown location. Family spokesman Dan Watt says the 86-year-old Arthur died at home early Saturday, April 25, 2009. She was 86. (AP Photo/File) NO SALES

HOLLYWOOD - MAY 05: (FILE PHOTO) Actor Dom DeLuise is shown as he signs copies of newly released \"The Mel Brooks Box Set,\" which includes some movies he acted in, at Rocket Video on May 5, 2006 in Hollywood, California. According to reports, DeLuise died in his sleep the evening of May 4, 2009 in a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 75. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 12: (FILE PHOTO) Actor David Carradine poses for a portrait at the 2007 World Talent Style Lounge held before the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel January 12, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. Carradine, 72, was reportedly found hanged in his Bangkok, Thailand hotel room. (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images for DPA)

FILE - In this May 1977 file photo, actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors, poses on the tennis court in Los Angeles. Fawcett died, Thursday, June 25, 2009, at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 62. (AP Photo, file)

FILE - In this March 17, 2005 file photo, pop star Michael Jackson arrives at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, file)

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2005 file photo, actor Patrick Swayze poses for the photographers, prior to the premiere of his new film \"Keeping Mum\" at a Leicester Square cinema in central London. Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old \"Dirty Dancing\" actor died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 21: (FILE PHOTO) TV Personality Ed McMahon arrives at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre on September 21, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. McMahon, 85, has been hospitalized with at least pneumonia for reportedly weeks in Los Angeles, California, according to reports out on February 27, 2009. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

IRVINE, CA - MAY 16: (FILE) DJ AM of TRVSDJAM performs at the KROQ Weenie Roast Y Fiesta 2009 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on May 16, 2009 in Irvine, California. According to reports on August 28, 2009, DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, was found dead in an apartment on Lafayette Street in New York City. (Photo by Noel Vasquez/Getty Images)

CBS correspondent Walter Cronkite is seen, July 1972.

**FILE** Les Paul gets ready to rehearse at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York before his regular Monday night gig on Oct. 4, 2004. Twice every Monday night, the renown musician also known for his innovations on the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording gets on stage with his trio at the club. \"It's quite a challenge but I enjoy it,\" the Waukesha, Wis., native said. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak speaks during a taping of \"Meet the Press\" at NBC Studios in Washington July 15, 2007. Novak spoke on various topics including the presidential elections in 2008, and his new book \"The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington.\" REUTERS/Alex Wong/Meet the Press/Handout (UNITED STATES). MUST USE BEFORE (July 22, 2007) MUST CREDIT \"MEET THE PRESS\". EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.

FILE - This undated photo show Mary Travers. Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72. (AP Photo)

** CORRECTS AGE TO 59 NOT 58 ** FILE - This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote \"National Lampoon's Vacation,\" \"Mr. Mom\" and \"Natonal Lampoon's European Vacation.\" He also wrote and directed \"16 Candles,\" \"The Breakfast Club,\" and \"Weird Science.\" Hughes, who was 59, died in New York on Thursday. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK - JANUARY 11: (FILE PHOTO) Beat poet Jim Carroll performs at the benefit \"Arts on the High Wire\" January 11, 2002 in New York City. Poet and musician Jim Carroll, who is best known for his memoir \"The Basketball Diaries\" died of a heart attack September 11, 2009 at his home in New York City. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier/Getty Images)

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2004 file photo, against a backdrop of the famous \"60 Minutes\" stop watch, Don Hewitt, the program's creator and executive producer, reads prepared remarks to reporters during a session on \"60 Minutes\" during CBS' Winter Press Tour in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Hewitt, 86, the newsman who invented \"60 Minutes\" and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died, according to CBS. (AP Photo/Rene Macura, file)

FILE - In this 1950 file photo, actor Karl Malden is shown. Malden, a former steelworker who won an Oscar for his role as Mitch in the 1951 classic \"A Streetcar Named Desire,\" died Wednesday, July 1, 2009. He was 97. (AP Photo, file)

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 1966 file photo, Soupy Sales rehearses for his Broadway debut in \"Come Live With Me\", in New York. Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. He was 83. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. actress Brittany Murphy waves as she arrives at the Sydney premiere of the movie \"Happy Feet\" at Fox Studios in Sydney in this December 10, 2006 file photo. Murphy, who starred in such films as \"Just Married\" and \"Uptown Girls\" but saw her fortunes fade in recent years, died on December 20, 2009 after going into cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles Times reported. She was 32. REUTERS/Will Burgess/Files (AUSTRALIA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT OBITUARY)