Ricardo Montalban, requiescat in pace ...

[Dave Monroe]

By Associated Press
3:14 PM CST, January 14, 2009


LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles city councilman says Ricardo
Montalban has died. He was 88. 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 at his home in Los Angeles, City
Council President Eric Garcetti said Wednesday.

Montalban lived in Garcetti's district in Los Angeles

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-obit-montalban,0,65930.story

   "'In the parking lot at the Taco Bell in Hermosa, yes a memorable
series of evenings, much celebrated in the folklore of my
people'--this being in the early days of a Ricardo Montalban
impersonation that would over the years grow more refined." (VL, Ch.
3, p. 23)

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