Reality TV star Jade Goody dies after cancer fight
0 Comments Published March 23rd, 2009 in Entertainment, NewsLONDON – Jade Goody’s family asks for “privacy at last” after the death at 27 of the brash former dental assistant who turned her tumultuous life and struggle with cervical cancer into a one-woman reality show.
Mocked as a slob, then celebrated as an everywoman, Goody lived one of the world’s most public lives, with cameras [...]
LOS ANGELES – Altovise Joanne Gore Davis, a dancer and actress and the widow of Sammy Davis Jr., has died. She was 65.
Davis died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a stroke, said Amy Malone, a publicist for her family.
Davis worked her way to the Broadway stage where she met the legendary entertainer when [...]
Brazilian model who lost hands and feet dies
0 Comments Published January 25th, 2009 in Most Pepular, NewsRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – One month ago, 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Bridi was living the dream of many young Brazilian women, trading her striking good looks for a modeling career that promised to lift her family out of poverty.
Then she contracted a seemingly ordinary urinary tract infection. The bacteria spread quickly and inexorably through [...]
Prize-winning writer Hortense Calisher dies at 97
0 Comments Published January 15th, 2009 in Entertainment, NewsNEW YORK – Hortense Calisher, a prize-winning writer and former president of PEN known for her dense, unskimmable prose in such works of fiction as “False Entry” and “In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks,” has died. She was 97.
Her granddaughter, Katy Spencer, said Calisher died Tuesday in Manhattan of natural causes.
Calisher, the author of [...]
Mark Felt, Watergate’s `Deep Throat,’ dies at 95
0 Comments Published December 19th, 2008 in CNN News, Mobiles, News, Opinion, Politics, World NewsSAN FRANCISCO – W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, has died. He was 95.
Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family friend John D. [...]
My Three Sons’ actress Beverly Garland dies at 82
0 Comments Published December 7th, 2008 in Entertainment, NewsLOS ANGELES – Beverly Garland, the B-movie actress who starred in 1950s’ cult hits like “Swamp Women” and “Not of This Earth” and who went on to play Fred MacMurray’s TV wife on “My Three Sons,” has died. She was 82.
Garland died Friday at her Hollywood Hills home after a lengthy illness, her son-in-law Packy [...]
Obama’s grandmother dies just before Election Day
0 Comments Published November 4th, 2008 in Most Pepular, NewsHONOLULU – Barack Obama’s grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86.
Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. The joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham died [...]
Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies in Los Angeles
0 Comments Published October 20th, 2008 in Most Pepular, NewsLOS ANGELES – Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.
Blackwell died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection, publicist Harlan Boll said.
Blackwell, whose first name was Richard, was a little-known dress designer when he issued [...]
Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65
0 Comments Published September 15th, 2008 in Most Pepular, NewsLONDON – Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died Monday. He was 65. Pink Floyd’s spokesman, Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist, said Wright died after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. He says the band member’s family did not want to give more [...]
Reports: Model dies in apparent NYC suicide dive
0 Comments Published June 29th, 2008 in Most Pepular, NewsNEW YORK – A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.
Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. in a fall from a building on Water Street, in Manhattan’s Financial District, The New York Post, the Daily News and Newsday reported. The [...]