Frank Cady, a career character actor best known as the general store owner on the famous sitcom Green Acres , has died. He was 96 years old. Cady’s daughter, Catherine Turk, reportedly told the Los Angeles Times that her father passed away Friday at his home in Wilsonville, Ore. A cause of death has not been released at this time. Cady played Sam Drucker, one of the less loony denizens of fictional Hooterville in Green Acres , for the show’s entire run, from 1965-1971. The show, centered about a Manhattan couple who left the big city to live in a rundown farm, became one of the staples of early television. Cady also played the same character in Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies and played Doc Williams on Ozzie and Harriet . He and his wife, Shirley, retired to Oregon in the 1990s. She died in 2008.
Band plays U.S., then the world in support of Liquid Zoo . By Christina Garibaldi 100 Monkeys Photo: MTV News Jackson Rathbone has been keeping himself very busy since wrapping up “Breaking Dawn” earlier this year. The “Twilight” star is currently on the road with his band, 100 Monkeys , hitting towns all across the U.S. before taking their act overseas later this year . The band, which recently released its second full-length studio album, Liquid Zoo, stopped by the MTV Newsroom to give us a sneak peek at what fans can expect from its usually unexpected live shows. “It’s a raucous, theatrical live set, constantly switching instruments and singers and jumping and running around onstage, very interactive with the audience,” Ben Graupner said. “We pull ideas from the crowd and make up a song on the spot. People will come out of nowhere and start rapping. You really don’t know what to expect except for a smile and a good time.” 100 Monkeys, who are pretty confident they have never played the same set twice, are constantly thinking up new ways to keep their fans entertained. “We always just have fun with it,” Rathbone said. “At the end of the day, the thing we do with 100 Monkeys is we play with our audience. It’s just a fun time. They came out to see us and we came there to see them. That’s what makes us a great live band. We love playing.” Next up, they are taking on New York City with a show at the Gramercy Theatre on Saturday, but don’t ask them what they will be playing. They still have no idea. “We write our set lists 30 minutes to an hour before our show,” Rathbone revealed. “We always write the set list, sometimes it gets a lot of doodles. It’s fun. The best set list we ever had was from a sticker book.” So, is life on the road as glamorous as it looks? Well, not for these guys. “We are on a red, smelly bus,” Rathbone joked. “It wasn’t as smelly before we got on, but it definitely had some residue. It’s actually from the 1992 Metallica tour; it’s got a little Metallica vibe to it.” Are you going to see 100 Monkeys on tour? Let us know in the comments below! Related Artists 100 Monkeys
Filed under: Lost , TV Finally, a purpose for those damn ” Lost ” numbers — because if you played the same cursed digits that Hurley used on the show … you could have walked away with $150 in last night’s Mega Millions lottery. Of course, Hurley’s numbers were 4,8,15,16,23… Read more
Actress Helen Wager, a star on As the World Turns for nearly six decades, died over the weekend of unknown causes at the age of 91. Wagner portrayed ATWT matriarch Nancy Hughes for 54 years, a Guinness world record for the longest time an actor played the same character on television. “All of us at As the World Turns are deeply saddened by Helen’s passing,” executive producer, Christopher Goutman, said in a statement. “She is loved by generations of fans and while we will miss her greatly Helen will always remain the heart and soul of As the World Turns .” [ AP ]
