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Wide of podium2. Kermit the frog and Johnny Grant at podium3. Fan cutaway4. Johnny Grant reveals star5. Medium of Kermit the Frog6. Pan from photographers...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSHOTLIST(including transcript):-\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eHollywood, 15 November 2002\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of podium\u003cbr/\u003e2. Kermit the frog and Johnny Grant at podium\u003cbr/\u003e3. Fan cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e4. Johnny Grant reveals star\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of Kermit the Frog\u003cbr/\u003e6. Pan from photographers to podium\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eHollywood, 17 November 2003\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Johnny Grant, and Britney Spears unveiling star\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up of Britney Spears\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of podium\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eHollywood, 20 November 2007\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of podium\u003cbr/\u003e10. Fan cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e11. Johnny Grant at podium wearing hat\u003cbr/\u003e12. Johnny Grant and \"The Wizard of Oz\" munchkins unveil star\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eHollywood, 03 April 2007\u003cbr/\u003e13. UPSOUND (English) Johnny Grant, Hollywood mayor: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great joy and pride that we welcome to the Hollywood Walk of Fame - Halle Berry.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Halle Berry kneeling over star\u003cbr/\u003e15. Halle Berry and Johnny Grant hug on podium\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eHollywood, 29 November 2004\u003cbr/\u003e16. UPSOUND (English) Johnny Grant:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to unveil a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame for Godzilla!\" \u003cbr/\u003e17. Johnny Grant revealing star to Godzilla\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment File\u003cbr/\u003eHollywood, 15 November 2006 \u003cbr/\u003e18. UPSOUND (English) Johnny Grant, Honorary Mayor of Hollywood:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"I am pleased to present the Victoria's Secret Angels with a key to Hollywood and Gisele (Bundchen,) would you come over and accept it?\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Cut away crowd\u003cbr/\u003e120. UPSOUND (English) Gisele Bundchen, Supermodel:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"We want to give you a pair of angel wings, as well, so you can fly away! Here, the City of Angeles has angel wings. \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English) Johnny Grant, Honorary Mayor of Hollywood:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Let's get out here.\"  \u003cbr/\u003eUPSOUND (English) Gisele Bundchen, Supermodel:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Let's put them on.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e21. Johnny Grant wearing angel wings \u003cbr/\u003eJohnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who travelled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than a half-century, has died. He was 84.\u003cbr/\u003eGrant died just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, apparently of natural causes, said Officer Jason Lee. Grant was found dead on a bed in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Lee said.\u003cbr/\u003eGrant was perhaps best known as the jolly host alongside more than 500 celebrities he inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\u003cbr/\u003eThe lifelong bachelor lived in a 14th-floor suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.\u003cbr/\u003eGrant's mission in life was bringing the Tinseltown story to everyone. He hosted red carpet Oscar arrivals and Walk of Fame festivities, appeared in bit parts in movies, and produced Hollywood's annual Christmas Parade.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel I have been the luckiest guy in the world,\" he often said. \"It's been a pretty good ride.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGrant also joined globe-trotting Bob Hope as a USO ambassador, bringing entertainers to war zones to perform for U.S. military personnel during the Korean and Vietnam wars and battles in the Middle East.\u003cbr/\u003eHe helped introduce homesick soldiers to Debbie Reynolds, Connie Stevens, Jane Russell, Terry Moore, Penny Singleton and Angie Dickinson, among others, leading Hope to once quip that he himself was \"the rich man's Johnny Grant.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"You'll never find a more generous soul in your life,\" Dickinson told The Associated Press in 2006. \"He was a ladies man. He's a Taurus. He's a doll.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnother close friend, actress Mamie Van Doren, described Grant simply as \"Mr. Hollywood.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"I dated him in my teens,\" she recalled. \"He's one of the greatest people I've ever known, so kind.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOver the years, Grant chatted with Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Frank Sinatra and Dolly Parton, and was a friend to several presidents, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. He counted President Reagan as one of his closest friends.\u003cbr/\u003eBorn in Goldsboro, N.C., Grant was a cub reporter for radio station WGBR when he hitchhiked to Washington to cover President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third inauguration. The diminutive reporter sat in a tree to write down what he saw for his report.\u003cbr/\u003eHe joined the U.S. Army in 1943, then came to Hollywood after his discharge, where he landed a small role playing a reporter in \"The Babe Ruth Story\" (1948), which starred William Bendix.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was lured to Hollywood, he once recalled, after seeing Mickey Rooney in the 1938 film \"Boys Town.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"If that little guy can do it, so can I,\" he remembered telling himself.\u003cbr/\u003eGrant also had a part in Irving Berlin's \"White Christmas\" (1954) with Bing Crosby and played himself in 1966's \"The Oscar.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe did Lucky Strike cigarette commercials on radio's \"The Jack Benny Show\" and radio celebrity interviews at the Ham \u0026amp; Egger restaurant on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.\u003cbr/\u003eHe also did radio interviews in the lobby of Ciro's on Sunset Boulevard, now the Comedy Store, which was the personification of glamour and glitz in the 1940s and 1950s. His guests included Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Grable, Mel Torme and Joe DiMaggio.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This really was Hollywood,\" Grant said of those days.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1951, he made his first overseas trip to entertain the troops.\u003cbr/\u003eBeginning in 1946, he was host of the game show \"Stop the Clock,\" which aired alternately on Dumont Television in New York City, WBGR-TV in Schenectady, N.Y. and WPTZ-TV in Philadelphia.\u003cbr/\u003eHe also worked for Gene Autry at radio station KMPC as host of the \"Freeway Club\" from 1951 to 1959, becoming one of the nation's first disc jockeys to mix regular traffic reports between playing records and interviewing celebrities.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Hollywood Chamber of Commerce named Grant Hollywood's honorary mayor in 1980, a position he held for the rest of his life.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the dozen or so Walk of Fame ceremonies the job called for him to preside over each year, he would gin up the crowd with laughter, jokes, handshakes and an occasional embarrassing moment.\u003cbr/\u003eHis biggest flub, according to Grant, was when he introduced inductee Joan Rivers to the cheering crowd by shouting, \"Here she is, Miss Joan Collins.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRivers shook it off, telling the host she had been called much worse.\u003cbr/\u003eGrant also liked to recall a flub he had no control over. It happened one year during Hollywood's annual Christmas parade.\u003cbr/\u003eThe televised event concludes each year with Santa in the final float, waving to the crowd. 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