David Sheehan, Veteran LA Entertainment Journalist and Broadcaster, Dies at 82
Los Angeles Times, Sheehan had been battling cancer for years and passed awat on Tuesday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center from complications of a stroke he suffered last week.Coined the “Dean of Hollywood Entertainment Reporters,” Sheehan was a founding member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (now Critics Choice Association).Sheehan started his career and broke ground as the first entertainment interviewer and reviewer on Los Angeles television when he joined CBS in 1970. Sheehan would work there for 14 years, and then spent a decade working at NBC.