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Host and actor Peter Marshall has died aged 98 from kidney failure. The former Hollywood Squares host passed away Thursday at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said. He was the beloved game show host on more than 5,000 episodes of the iconic NBC show from 1966 to 1981. 'It was the easiest thing I've ever done in show business,' Marshall said in a 2010 interview for the Archive of American Television. 'I walked in, said `Hello stars,' I read questions and laughed. And it paid very well.' Hollywood Squares would become an American...

Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98. He died Thursday of kidney failure at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said. Marshall helped define the form of the smooth, professional, but never-too-serious modern game show host on more than 5,000 episodes of the series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1981.

Ministry Let me share with you the burden of my heart: I believe that America is in the worst crisis of our entire history-massive corruption in business and political life; an immoral sexuality responsible for the pornography plague, AIDS, and abortion; disintegrating family structures; teenage suicides; the drug wars--the list goes on and on. We may have very few years left before the disintegration of our society reaches the point of no return--where it has become too sick to heal. Obviously, the Church is not impacting our society as it should. We have lost America's moral and spiritual foundations. The...