Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and 'King of the Bs,' dies at 98

Roger Corman, Hollywood’s “King of the Bs,” has died. He was 98. Corman produced such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors their first breaks in some of the hundreds of B-movies he helped create as a producer and director. Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Francis Ford Coppola all worked for him early in their careers, as did Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Ellen Burstyn. Some of Corman's former underlings repaid his kindness years later. Coppola cast him in “The Godfather, Part II,” while Jonathan Demme included him in “The Silence of the Lambs."