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Doreen Tracey, one of the original Mouseketeers on Disney’s popular after-school program “The Mickey Mouse Club” and later an associate of avante-garde composer and musician Frank Zappa, has died. She was 74. Tracey, who long described herself as the “black sheep” of the 1950s children’s show, died Wednesday while being treated for pneumonia at a hospital in Thousand Oaks. A bubbly child and Type A personality, Tracey was featured on “The Mickey Mouse Club” during the entirety of its original 1955-59 run on ABC. The show lived on in syndication and she maintained a lifelong association with Disney, appearing in...

Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

And then, Fess Parker embarked on his second career. A winery. If you go to the Fess Parker Winery and Vineyard link, you will see the Parker families business.

Fess Parker -- who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone -- has died of natural causes ... a rep confirms with TMZ. Parker -- who also starred in "Old Yeller" -- owned the DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara and the Wine Country Inn & Spa in Los Olivos, CA. Parker married Marcella Rinehart in 1960. They had two kids. He was 85.

TUESDAY, MAY 8 1st Hour--? 2nd Hour David Talbot, acclaimed journalist and founder of Salon.com will be in studio with us to discuss his new book Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. 3rd Hour CHUMP LINE! Call 617-779-3469 and leave Howie, Sandy or Happy a message about today's stories or anything else buzzing around your bonnet and we may play it back on the air!. TV legend Fess Parker, (Daniel Boone was a man......) will be with us. The classic...

The frontier TV series "Daniel Boone" was big in its day, but that was more than 40 years ago. No matter. The show's first two seasons, which come out Tuesday on DVD, are among the top 10 sellers for this week's releases at Amazon. Fess Parker, who starred as the famous historical figure, knows why the 1964-70 series remains popular. "The show has lots of adventure and deals with groundbreaking themes that still attract audiences," said the actor, now 82. "The writing and acting was always superb, and when you do a show that good, it always resonates with old...

The Fuss about Fess - A California developer turns to Indian tribes to evade foes of growth. Friday, May 28, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT The coonskin cap he wore as Disney's Davy Crockett now rests in the Smithsonian. But at age 79 Fess Parker remains a frontiersman, albeit of a distinctly modern variety: He's a land developer. And that's just what has some California neighbors so upset that they're pasting "FESS" stickers on stop signs. Give the man credit for clever marksmanship. The deal he's proposed with the neighboring Chumash Indians is at once simple and audacious: He sells the...