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Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide. “Hi. Billy Mays here,” he would begin, before showing off his latest cleaning product or gadget.

Family, friends and colleagues mourned Mays, 50, who was found unresponsive in his Tampa home Sunday, and awaited an autopsy to determine the cause of his sudden death.

Police said Mays told his wife he didn’t feel well when he went to bed Saturday night. Earlier in the day, he said he was hit on the head when his airliner had a rough landing at Tampa Bay’s airport.

But the airline said no passengers reported any serious injuries, and Mays himself cheerfully recounted the landing for a local TV station. His wife, Deborah, found him unresponsive Sunday morning.

Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said linking Mays’ death to the landing would “purely be speculation.” She said Mays’ family members didn’t report any health issues with the pitchman, but said he was due to have hip replacement surgery in coming weeks.

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CBS has announced the premiere dates for its fall lineup, which will mostly launch during the week of Sept. 20, the official start of the 2009-2010 season.

In addition, the network announced that “Survivor: Samoa,” the 19th installment of the reality series, will start Sept. 17, a week prior to the formal launch of the season.

CBS’ new season will kick off Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. with the return of “How I Met Your Mother” and the premiere of the comedy “Accidentally on Purpose,” followed by “Two and a Half Men,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “CSI: Miami.”

Tuesday’s block will feature “NCIS,” followed by its spinoff, “NCIS: Los Angeles,” and the debut of the new drama “The Good Wife.”

Wednesday’s lineup will be “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” “Gary Unmarried,” “Criminal Minds” and “”CSI: NY.”

Thursday’s schedule will be “Survivor: Samoa,” followed by “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “The Mentalist” in its new 10 p.m. slot.

The move of NBC’s “Medium” to CBS will debut Sept. 25 at 9 p.m., preceded by “Ghost Whisperer” and followed by “Numb3rs.”

Saturday’s slate will be two hours of drama repeats, “Crimetime Saturday” followed by “48 Hours Mystery.” Sundays will mark the return of “60 Minutes” at 7 p.m., followed by “The Amazing Race” at 8 p.m. and “Cold Case” at 10 p.m. CBS’ new medical drama “Three Rivers” will premiere Oct. 4 at 9 p.m.

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Farrah Fawcett, the “Charlie’s Angels” star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62.

The pop icon, who in the 1980s set aside the fantasy girl image to tackle serious roles, died shortly before 9:30 a.m. in a Santa Monica hospital, spokesman Paul Bloch said.

Ryan O’Neal, the longtime companion who had reunited with Fawcett as she fought anal cancer, was at her side, along with close friend Alana Stewart, Bloch said.

“After a long and brave battle with cancer, our beloved Farrah has passed away,” O’Neal said. “Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world.”

She burst on the scene in 1976 as one-third of the crime-fighting trio in TV’s “Charlie’s Angels.” A poster of her in a clingy swimsuit sold in the millions.

She left the show after one season but had a flop on the big screen with “Somebody Killed Her Husband.” She turned to more serious roles in the 1980s and 1990s, winning praise playing an abused wife in “The Burning Bed.”

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Ed McMahon, the loyal “Tonight Show” sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” for 30 years, died early Tuesday. He was 86.

McMahon died shortly after midnight at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his wife, Pam, and other family members, said his publicist, Howard Bragman.

Bragman didn’t give a cause of death, saying only that McMahon had a “multitude of health problems the last few months.”

McMahon had bone cancer, among other illnesses, according to a person close to the entertainer, and had been hospitalized for several weeks. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release the information.

McMahon broke his neck in a fall in March 2007, and battled a series of financial problems as his injuries preventing him from working.

McMahon and Carson had worked together for nearly five years on the game show “Who Do You Trust?” when Carson took over NBC’s late-night show from Jack Paar in October 1962. McMahon played second banana on “Tonight” until Carson retired in 1992.

“You can’t imagine hooking up with a guy like Carson,” McMahon said an interview with The Associated Press in 1993. “There’s the old phrase, hook your wagon to a star. I hitched my wagon to a great star.”

McMahon, who never failed to laugh at his Carson’s quips, kept his supporting role in perspective.

“It’s like a pitcher who has a favorite catcher,” he said. “The pitcher gets a little help from the catcher, but the pitcher’s got to throw the ball. Well, Johnny Carson had to throw the ball, but I could give him a little help.”

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Drivers slowed and stopped with bemused tolerance as actors dressed as zombies paraded under the railroad bridge on Main Street on June 12. The 16 thespians were students from the Highland Lake-based Margolis Method Center, and they were making a three-minute zombie video as part of the 2009 Digit Exposition.

The exposition, sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, was held from June 12 through June 14, in various locations in Narrowsburg, and part of the lineup was a “Quick and Gritty Video Slam.” The slam consisted of five videos, each less than three minutes in length and shot during the weekend in Narrowsburg.

One of the performers, Sarah Harwood, said with a wide grin that the zombie filmmakers were “going for a kind of a metaphor. Sometimes, we all walk through life like zombies, so the film is kind of an advocation for living life to the fullest.”

Did they achieve that with their video? Go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4C3hZryQ2E to find out. The film tied for first place along with Cass Collin’s “Narrowsburg at Night.” Each was awarded a $500 prize.

Kari Margolis, founder of the Margolis Method and a co-founder of Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, said the company usually performs in places like New York City, and other places around the world with large venues.

She added, however, that this weekend the company will be staging a show at the Tusten Theater in Narrowsburg on June 20, at 8:00 p.m. It’s billed as a theatrical improvisational performance event. Go to www.margolismethod.org for more on the performance.