Just days after announcing a leave of absence from writing to deal with a recurrence of cancer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported this afternoon that legendary movie critic Roger Ebert has died.
A controversial new app set to be released in March aims to keep the Twitter statuses of the dead and buried alive, by continuously updating them long after the worms eat into their brains.
July 24, 2012 Sherman Hemsley who played one of the most famous dads in TV history, died today at 74. Hemsley played the cheap skate owner of a chain of dry cleaning stores George Jefferson who moved to the "deluxe apartment in the sky" in the TV series 'The Jeffersons' from 1975 - 1985, it remains the longest-running sitcom with a predominantly Black cast in the history of American television.
April 18, 2012 Iconic broadcaster Dick Clark has died, reports TMZ. He was 82.
The news that pop diva Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48 is still sinking in, with scant few details available about how Houston died. The mystery deepens, as members of the singer’s immediate family were in contact with her right before her untimely passing.
Apparently, Houston’s mother Cissy as well as her cousin and fellow singer Dionne Warwick both spoke to the ‘The Greatest Love of All’ singer on the phone just before her death and Houston seemed fine at the time.
November 9, 2011 I'm finding out one of the crappy things about getting older is learning about the death of people that were part of your childhood. This week is kind of a bummer with the death of the "Overweight Lover" Heavy D, now I learn the Bil Keane, the man that created the 'Family Circus' has died at the age of 89.
July 23, 2011 Police in London have confirmed that singer Amy Winehouse was found dead today in her London apartment, she was only 27.
Amy has struggled for years with drug and alcohol addiction that she famously sung about it in her 2006 hit 'Rehab'.
May 20, 2011 Legendary wrestler 'Macho Man' Randy Savage died today in a car accident in Tampa, Florida, reports TMZ. He was 58.
Savage's brother, Lanny Poffo, said he passed away after he lost control of his car when he had a heart attack shortly before 9:30AM. The Florida Highway Patrol says Savage drove across a concrete median and into oncoming traffic before he hit a tree.
