At a sad time like this, we cling to the happy memories of our youth: practicing our crane-kicks at recess with friends, a summer spent humming Peter Cetera's "For the Glory of Love," the launch of Hilary Swank's Oscar-winning career.

RIP Gordon "Porky" Lee.

99: [Looking at an image of a mushroom cloud] Oh, Max what a terrible weapon of destruction.

RIP Bob Denver, 1935-2005.

It's much easier to headline the obituary with a reference to the just-deceased actor's Empire role (he played Admiral Ozzel, if you didn't know that already) than his apparent struggle with typecasting, as Sheard played Adolf Hitler in Indiana Jones and Last Crusade...and three other times. Somewhat ironically, he didn't land the role in the 1973 TV movie The Death of Adolf Hitler; he had to settle for lesser National Socialist Heinrich Himmler (whom he would also play again).

Actor James Doohan, Star Trek's excitable engineer, dies.