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Dee Booher, better known as "Queenie," first used the stage name of "Queen Kong" while skating for 5 years with such roller derby teams the Chicago Hawks, the New York Bombers, the Detroit Devils and the Texas Outlaws. Her acting career was augmented by a short-lived stint as a rock star. The video to her hit single, "(I Eat) Raw Meat", was played often by Los Angeles sportscaster Fred Rogin for a number of years on KNBC-TV4.

She appeared on numerous games shows such as "Win, Lose or Draw" and "The Gong Show" (where she was a co-host for 14 episodes). She also made a living delivering very physical singing telegrams known as "Slam-A-Grams", where she would take down the victim, errr, guest of honor at a party in various professional wrestling moves, all designed to look extremely painful and brutal, but ultimately harmless. Due to various injuries over the years from wrestling and roller derby, she no longer performed "Slam-A-Grams" for health reasons.

Some of her greatest fans were children. During her "Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling" (aka G.L.O.W.) days, her personal appearances were often mobbed by kids. Despite her rough and gruff image, she was in real life a most sweet and gregarious person, treating her friends and fans alike with immense kindness and affection. The "Matilda The Hun" moniker was given to her by G.L.O.W. producers. It wasn't until the show was over for a number of years she discovered they had taken the name directly from a character played by Roberta Collins in Death Race 2000 (1975).

She resided in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Ken. Her website features many photos of herself throughout her career.

Actor and bodybuilder Mark Forest was born in Brooklyn as Lorenzo Luis Degni, a third generation Italian-American (his grandparents hailed from Naples). He began as a bodybuilder at the tender age of thirteen, found himself featured on the cover of magazines and soon operated his own gym on Long Island. He entered and won several bodybuilding competitions before finding his way into show business via Mae West's troupe of musclemen (who featured as ladies' eye candy in her touring act along with the singers and dancers). West's entourage variously included other luminaries of the muscular fraternity, such as Ed Fury, Gordon Mitchell and Reg Lewis.

Mark Forest came to international fame after being recruited to star in Italian peplum (sword and sandal) epics, becoming only the second American actor (after Steve Reeves) to find lucrative work and popularity in that medium. His success was greatly helped by the fact that he was already fluent in Italian. Forest's film career spanned a modest five years (1960-1965), in the course of which he starred in a dozen pictures. Most often, he portrayed either Hercules or the equally brawny hero Maciste, created by Gabriele D'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. In fact, Forest played Maciste seven times - more than any other actor.

At the end of his brief fling with the movies, Forest turned to his other passion and reinvented himself as an opera singer (tenor) in Europe. He became adept at the bel canto technique, trained by Giovanni Milillo, a composer and former tenor at the New York Opera and father of operatic soprano Aprile Millo. After his return to the U.S., Forest settled in California, latterly teaching vocal technique in Studio City.

Vitaliano Trevisan was born on 12 December 1960 in Sandrigo, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Primo amore (2004), Still Life (2007) and Senza lasciare traccia (2016). He died on 7 January 2022 in Crespadoro, Veneto, Italy.

Joyce Lynn O'Connor was born on 11 November 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order (1990) and The Sopranos (1999). She was married to James Houghton. She died on 7 January 2022 in New York City, New York, USA.

Mary Brill was an actress, known for Drillbit Taylor (2008), Little Nicky (2000) and Knocked Up (2007). She died on 7 January 2022 in the USA.

Edgardo Román was born on 4 August 1950 in Bogota, Colombia. He was an actor, known for Metástasis (2014), Cuando quiero llorar no lloro (1991) and The History of the Pink Trunk (2005). He died on 7 January 2022 in Bogota, Colombia.

Gerson Da Cunha was born in June 1929 in British India. He was an actor, known for The Maharaja's Daughter (1994), Asoka (2001) and Rangoon (2017). He died on 7 January 2022 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Amy Lin Johnson was born on 8 March 1972 in Caro, Michigan, USA. She was a producer and production manager, known for Crash Course (2009), Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards (2014) and CMT Campfire Sessions (2021). She died on 7 January 2022 in Costa Rica.

Nevi'im Nesta Ali Shane O'Connor was born on 10 March 2004 in Holles Street Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. He died on 7 January 2022 in Bray Area of Wicklow, Ireland.

R. Dean Taylor was born on 11 May 1939 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a producer, known for Last Night in Soho (2021), Phenomenon (1996) and Striptease (1996). He was married to Janee. He died on 7 January 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Bobby Harrison was born on 22 June 1939 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Amy's Orgasm (2001), Children on Their Birthdays (2002) and Attraction (1969). He died on 7 January 2022.

Robert Hughes was born on 3 January 1932 in Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland, UK. He died on 7 January 2022 in the UK.

Lisa Anderson was born on 16 July 1976 in Kewanee, Illinois. She was a production manager and assistant director, known for The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999), Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1966) and The Oscars Red Carpet Live (2013). She died on 7 January 2022 in Miramar, Costa Rica.

Jean Philippe was born on 27 November 1930. He was an actor, known for Jazz Boat (1960), Fermeture de l'usine Renault à Vilvoorde (La vie sexuelle des Belges, 3e partie) (1999) and Denis (2009). He was married to Rosanne Jennings. He died on 7 January 2022.

Mary Helen Eilts, born October 2, 1949, passed away at age 72 on January 7, 2022. She died from complications of Huntington's disease. She was born in Michigan, raised predominantly in Ohio, and lived her adult life between Hollywood (California), Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), and Chapala (Jalisco, Mexico).

Mary was married to her work and her children were the films she created. As a director and producer of film, her career took her all over the world meeting people from all walks of life. Her career began behind the camera when she was moving cables during a live televised broadcast to make a little extra money and a camera man collapsed. She got the man help and then automatically took over manning the camera. This was unheard of being she was a woman and it was the late 1960s...but she simply said over the set radio to the grumbling outrage "do you want this done or not?" From then on, she was behind the camera or behind the scenes putting a vision to the madness of film.

By 1975, she was a film and television unit manager, by the early 1980s she was assistant directing and by the mid-1980s she found her favorite part of film...production. From producer to production manager and back again, producing was what she loved and eventually started her own production company. Mary was an esteemed member of the Directors Guild of America, along with other film society organizations.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Mary Rita Eilts of Reynoldsburg, Ohio and two grand-nieces, Ireland Joyce Owens and Hazel Lily Lawrence. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Henry & Sally Eilts (of Plano, Texas) and sister and brother-in-law, Rose & Ron Holeman (of Olympia, Washington). She is also survived by her nephew and niece-in-law, Christopher and Mary Owens and their children (Ivy and Ella); her niece and nephew-in-law Jennifer and Ben Lawrence and their children (Isabelle and Scarlett); and by her niece and nephew-in-law, Mary Catherine and Reed Heath and their children (Renner and Margaret).

In lieu of flowers, you may make a donation in her memory to The Huntington's Disease Society of America.

So turn on a movie tonight and raise a glass... to all those faces behind the camera that you never see that make the magic happen. Cheers to the magic of the movies made possible by Mary and those like her and cheers to Mary Helen and the incredible ride of a life she had.

Guy Cavagnac was born on 15 September 1934 in Paris, France. He was a producer and assistant director, known for Le soldat Laforêt (1972), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and La campagne de Cicéron (1990). He died on 7 January 2022 in France.

Jack Dromey was born on 21 September 1948 in Brent, London, England, UK. He was married to Harriet Harman. He died on 7 January 2022 in Birmingham, England, UK.

Aleksandr Timofeevskiy was born on 21 October 1933 in Moscow, USSR. He was a writer, known for Leto 43-go goda (1968), Skazki starogo volshebnika (1985) and Mednoy gory khozyayka (1975). He was married to Natalia Dyakova, Lyudmila Kichina and Irina Alexandrovna Ulanovskaya. He died on 7 January 2022.

Lucille Lauzon was born on 3 July 1925 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Moi et l'autre (1966) and Sol et Gobelet (1968). She died on 7 January 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Richard 'Chief' Olague was born on 7 February 1930. Richard 'Chief' is known for An Eye for an Eye (1981). Richard 'Chief' died on 7 January 2022 in the USA.

Thomas Schultze-Westrum was born on 15 April 1937 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas was a director and writer, known for Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (1982), Waigeo - Insel der Magier (2003) and Thisavroi tis ellinikis fysis (1988). Thomas died on 7 January 2022.

Lani Guinier was the daughter of a Jamaican-born father who was appointed chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard in 1969. She attended Radcliffe College and Yale Law School and was a civil rights attorney for more than ten years, as part of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and serving in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter Administration. She was also a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Guinier first came to public attention in 1993 when President Clinton nominated her to be the first black woman to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. But immediately after her name was put forward in 1993, conservatives attacked Guinier's views on democracy and voting (including affirmative action, gender equity, and racial districting), driving Clinton to withdraw her nomination without a confirmation hearing.

Guinier joined the faculty at Harvard Law School in 1998, becoming the first black woman tenured professor in that school's history.

Harpdog Brown was born on 28 January 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Jinxed (2013). He died on 7 January 2022 in Alberta, Canada.

Gerardo de la Torre was born on 15 March 1938 in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was a writer and actor, known for Los hermanos del viento (1977), La secta del sargón (1990) and Hora marcada (1988). He died on 7 January 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico.