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Robert Logan, who succeeded Edd “Kookie” Byrnes as the valet parking attendant on the famed ABC detective show 77 Sunset Strip and starred as the dad in a series of return-to-nature adventure movies, has died. He was 82.

Logan died May 6 of natural causes in Estero, Florida, his son, Anthony Logan, told The Hollywood Reporter. His family chose to wait until this week to announce his death.

After Gerald Lloyd Kookson III was promoted from parking attendant at Dino’s Lodge — a nightclub owned by Dean Martin — to partner and private investigator at the detective agency next door, the Brooklyn-born Logan joined Warner Bros. Television’s 77 Sunset Strip to play his replacement, another hipster named J.R. Hale.

On the swanky series that starred Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith as the crime solvers Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer, respectively, Logan portrayed Hale on 50 episodes of the show’s final two seasons,...

WWE 2K23 soundtrack will be curated by none other than the game's cover star, John Cena. Given the popularity of WWE soundtracks, Cena's selections will play a significant role in setting the game's vibe before a single match is played.

Before John Cena's most well-known gimmick as WWE's equivalent of Superman, he worked a highly attractive rapper gimmick, nicknamed "The Doctor of Thuganomics". Not only did he play the gimmick to perfection, but he also had a brief rap career of his own, recording the album You Can't See Me in a collaboration with Tha Trademarc, so as well as being the cover star of WWE 2K23, his musical roots make him a good choice to also become its soundtrack curator. This also isn't John Cena's first time working on a WWE game's soundtrack, as he was also a featured artist on two Wiz Khalifa songs that appeared on the...

While not exactly a moment of dj vu, I did feel a sense of the familiar while listening to director Saheem Ali's new podcast production of Anne Washburn's provocative play of Trump-era liberal ideology, Shipwreck, subtitled 'a History Play about 2017'. It was followed almost immediately by an internal debate as to whether or not it was okay to mention in in this review.