Hollywood Headliners

• Television's Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert, died of bone cancer June 12 at his Bell Canyon home.
• The Real World: San Diego's Frankie (you remember her? the girl with the lip piercing, goth makeup and crazy hair) passed away at her mother's home in Michigan. Having suffered from cystic fibrosis (and leaving the house in San Diego prematurely because of it), the exact cause of death, while officially unkown, is believed to be from complications of her illness.
• After ten turbulent seasons, The Sopranos finally ended its run on HBO on Sunday, June 10. In one of the most controversial endings of a series in a long while, the Soprano family was seen sitting at a diner, where Tony Soprano selected "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey from a tableside jukebox. Tony looks up and sees someone apparently approaching their table, and the screen goes black for a full five seconds before the credits begin to roll. While this ending has provided loyal viewers with little to no closure on the series and its characters, the creators of ABC's Lost promise to not repeat this sort of ending. "We will not be ending with a blackout," said Carlton Cuse, referring to the black screen that delivered an unresolved ending to HBO's mob drama. "I'm not sure there is any ending that will satisfy everyone...Our hope is that the ending will be ... the logical conclusion of the story."
• Amidst controversy that he is the father of Melanie Brown's (aka Scary Spice) 2-month old daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown, Eddie Murphy has finally taken a paternity test. I don't know which is less-classy: the fact that Murphy is being so unsupportive, or that Brown named her kid Murphy Brown.