Bob Guccione, founder of much-loved and much-missed science fiction magazine Omni, died yesterday of cancer in a Plano, TX hospital.
Guccione also won fame as the producer of the classic seventies epic Caligula.
A Rolling Stone profile from 2004 is worth a revisit on this day: The Twilight of Bob Guccione.
(Thanks, Rob Beschizza)
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