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26 Aug, 2014

Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Hartman is honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame under the category of Television. Friend and former co-star Kevin Nealon:

We called him ‘Glue’ because he held the sketches together. When one of us messed up he covered for us. Every week he would teach the guest host how to read the cue cards and not get caught. And he taught us there was life outside of (SNL).

28 May, 1998

Phil Hartman dies from shooting

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Hartman dies with his wife in what appears to be a murder-suicide instigated by Mrs. Harman. Police finds their two children unharmed. Police:

We know for sure (Brynn Hartman) inflicted her own gunshot wound, and she apparently shot herself as the officers were in the house. Mr. Hartman had been dead for a while. He did not die at the same time that Mrs. Hartman apparently killed herself.