http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertain...dead_at_86.htm
Wow!
Ed McMahon, one of the great wingmen in show business history and an essential, elemental and indispensable part of Johnny Carson's act for over thirty years, died last night. He'd been hospitalized since February for pneumonia, and had been diagnosed with systemic bone cancer. More details as they come. The news was just announced on "The Today Show." He died at the UCLA Medical Center.