Damn ... if these things happen in threes, who's next?

Hollywood's 'King Leer', Russ Meyer, dies

Director Russ Meyer, whose soft core porn films, ?The Immoral Mr Teas,? ?Vixen? and ?Beyond the Valley of the Dolls? earned him millions of dollars and the title of Hollywood?s ?King Leer,? has died at age 82, his film company said Wednesday.

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Meyer died Saturday of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, his company, RM Films International Inc., said.

The son of an Oakland, Calif., policeman and a nurse, Meyer parlayed a talent as a cameraman and an obsession with the female bosom into a legendary film career.