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The timing is eerie. Not only because it follows the death of Alex Toth, but also because 'Entourage' returns to HBO this Sunday with the first episode dealing with the premiere of the "Aquaman" movie.

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Mark Evanier's tribute to George Kashdan is lovely but is missing a few factual particulars. George's health was robust until his first stroke in the spring of 2000. The stroke was a cruel irony because George's appearance was preternaturally youthful. After that event he recovered for a few years in rehab centers near his home in West New York, New Jersey, only moving to the Westwood, California center recently. In the 1980s he began to work long late night hours doing proofreading for New York City law firms as a means of helping to support his grown-up autistic son (his only child) who was institutionalized. He continued doing this right up until his stroke in 2000. He also revived his activity as a short story writer in the 1990s. His wife, a public school teacher, died of cancer in the early 1990s. (Sadly, his son died, too, about a year or two ago. George had been unable to visit him since his 2000 stroke.) After his wife's death George, a lively widower, had a series of interesting women companions. He was a great connoisseur of both classical music and the legitimate theate--even as late as 2002 he was able to travel to an occasional concert by wheelchair-- and an ardent oldline liberal, always acutely interested in politics and world affairs, even after his stroke. He was a lively mind. a good friend, and a gentleman, and he will be missed not just by comic book connoisseurs but by all those who knew him in the last 20 years. I talked to him regularly on the telephone for years until a week or so before his second stroke in May. -- posted by a friend

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