FORMER TV GUIDE COLUMNIST SCHWED FOUND DEAD

Veteran newspaper and magazine TV critic Mark Schwed, 52, who spent 11 years as a writer and columnist for TV Guide and its cable channel and before that worked as the TV critic for the now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, was found dead in his Palm Beach, FL apartment Thursday. He had currently been working as a feature writer for the Palm Beach Post. The newspaper said that Schwed had been in apparent good health until Monday, when he called in sick. Friends became alarmed when they did not hear from him after that; a co-worker entered his apartment Thursday and found his body. No cause of death has been determined.

01/02/2008