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We just had a mini-spate of celebrity deaths.

John Saxon, an icon of the 1970s, just passed away on July 25th at 83.

TV icon Regis Philbin, America's go-to show host for morning news/talk and evening game shows, passed away on July 24 at 88.

I know Saxon best for two roles, both of them corny and campy: he played Mr. Roper in "Enter the Dragon" alongside Bruce Lee, and he played the hilariously evil Sador in the sci-fi cringefest "Battle Beyond the Stars," which tried to take advantage of the wave of Star Wars mania sweeping the nation in the early 80s.

Olivia de Havilland, billed as the "last surviving star of 'Gone with the Wind,'" has also just passed away on July 25 at the ripe old age of 104.

ADDENDUM: on July 13, "Mythbusters" star and former ILM genius-employee Grant Imahara suffered a brain aneurysm and died. Imahara was only 49. Good Lord. That hits me harder than any of the deaths listed above. Some of you may know that Grant was the roboticist who created the iconic robot sidekick Geoff Peterson for "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson." The hit Discovery Channel show "Mythbusters" is a long catalogue of many of Grant's amazing inventions. This might not be appropriate, but the thing I'll remember most about Grant is the "Mythbusters" episode in which he found himself in the ocean, surrounded by sharks and freaking out. Hilarious and scary. I'll miss him.