The body of Stanley Kamel, who will be remembered as one of the great character actors, was found yesterday afternoon. He had died of an apparent heart attack. When the news broke earlier this evening, I was actually watching one of the DVDs from the 3rd season of “Monk.” At that particular moment of an episode, Kamel’s psychiatrist character, Dr. Charles Kroger, had paused to pull a granola bar out of his pocket while tending to his very high-maintenance patient, Adrian Monk, the hopelessly obsessive-compulsive detective. “Monk” will be entering its 7th season this July, and, to be perfectly inadequate in my choice of words, the death of Stanley Kamel really sucks. He was 65.
