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Radio Lab, broadcast over WNYC, recently aired a piece about Blanc ...featuring an interview with his son Noel Blanc, who is also a voice actor. Noel Blanc tells the story of a terrible car accident that badly injured his father in 1961 as he was driving home along Sunset Boulevard from a job in San Francisco. Mel Blanc, driving an Aston Martin, collided with another car on Dead Man's Curve. Blanc was almost killed and slipped into a coma. Blanc's son and wife spent two weeks at his bedside trying to revive him, but got no response. One day, about...

Authorities are trying to determine why a 1993 Ferrari Testarossa crashed and overturned this afternoon near Agoura Hills, killing two people. CHP Officer Leland Tang says there weren't any witnesses and the details aren't known. The crash occurred shortly after 3:20 Tuesday afternoon on Cornell Road, near Muholland Drive. Evidence at the scene indicated that one of the men killed in the crash may have been an off-duty CHP officer, sheriff's Lt. Phil Brooks told the Los Angeles Times. Lt. Richard Hanna of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner said early this morning that there was a "security hold"...

Dean Remembers Jan Torrence pays tribute to his late surf-rock mate Best friends "He was driven," says Dean Torrence of singer, songwriter and producer Jan Berry -- his best friend and the other half of the best-selling surf-rock and hot-rod-pop duo Jan and Dean. "He always knew what he wanted to do and how to go about doing it. And he didn't wait around for someone else to tell him it should be done differently. Luckily for him, most of the time it turned out." The tragic exception came on the morning of April 12, 1966, when Berry -- at...