Obits The multihyphenate’s hit single “Goodbye Cruel World” reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961 LOS ANGELES – CIRCA 1961: Actor James Darren attends a party in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) James Darren, who became an instant teen idol as the boyish surfer Moondoggie in the “Gidget” movies and went on to a prolific career in TV and music, has died. He was 88. Darren went to a Los Angeles hospital for scheduled heart surgery

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