MSNBC - USA - As he fights foreclosure on his home in the prestigious Santa Monica Mountains, TV icon Ed McMahon said the same thing all too many Americans are saying these days: “I didn't see it coming.”

Since 1991, Ed McMahon’s six-bedroom Mediterranean mansion in Beverly Hills has been a proud, everyday reminder of his accomplishments and affluence, forged over a long career that made him a familiar face for many decades.

But now television’s most famous second banana is wondering if it will all slip away.

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria - PALM SPRINGS, California (AP) - Longtime «Tonight Show» talk show sidekick Ed McMahon is urging people to donate DVDs for U.S. troops in Iraq, saying movies offer them a safe escape from wartime realities.

"This program accomplishes two things: the troops are entertained and they know that citizens at home care and support them," McMahon, 84, said Wednesday during ceremonies at the Palm Springs Airport's USO facility.

Operation DVD collects new and used DVDs to distribute overseas to U.S. military personnel. The year-old program has already collected more than 250,000 DVDs.

"This war in Iraq is unusual because soldiers never know where the