have a White Castle Slider in his memory.. Tracy Torme...

[danny burstein]

[courtesy of that Usenet Thing]

>Subject: Tracy Tormé, Son of Mel, Co-Creator of 'Sliders'
>From: A Friend <no...@noway.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
>Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:09:35 -0500


>From the Hollywood Reporter:

Tracy Tormé, a UFO expert and son of stylish crooner Mel Tormé who
co-created the 1990s series Sliders and was hand-picked by Gene
Roddenberry to serve as the head writer on Star Trek: The Next
Generation, has died. He was 64.

Tormé died Thursday of complications from diabetes in Escondido,
California, his sister and brother, actress Daisy Tormé (Superman &
Lois) and recording artist James Tormé, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tormé also was a writer on Saturday Night Live during its eighth season
(1982-83); wrote and produced with Travis Walton the fantasy drama film
Fire in the Sky (1993), starring D.B. Sweeney and Robert Patrick; and was
a consultant on the acclaimed Robert Zemeckis sci-fi drama Contact (1997).

Rest at:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tracy-torme-dead-sliders-st
ar-trek-next-generation-1235783832/

BTW Mel Tormé died in 1999.

[James Stanley Barr]

“The Big Goodbye from Life”