[Deathwatch] Johnny Grant, 'honorary mayor of Hollywood', 84

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Johnny Grant, honorary Hollywood mayor, dies
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/grant.obit/index.html

(CNN) -- Johnny Grant, Hollywood's honorary mayor, was found dead
Wednesday night, Los Angeles police said. Grant, 84, appeared to have
died of natural causes.

Authorities found him in his bed at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he
lived, about 7 p.m. Pacific Time (10 p.m. ET), said Los Angeles Police
Officer Jason Lee.

Grant last conversed with his business manager Wednesday afternoon and
said he was feeling "lousy," said Jim Harper, who had managed Grant for
60 years.

A radio personality and television producer, Grant was best known as
the honorary mayor of Tinseltown. It was a ceremonial position bestowed
upon him for enthusiastically supporting the community for half a
century.

Grant was chair of the committee that selected stars for the Hollywood
Walk of Fame and was a familiar face in the foreground when celebrities
immortalized their handprints in cement outside the Grauman's Chinese
Theatre.

Many thanks to TheLenGuy for posting this obituary