Hollywood became a little less cool today as acclaimed acting legend Paul Newman passed away at 83 after a long battle with cancer. Oddly enough, last night at the supermarket, I contemplated purchasing a Newman’s Own Peanut Butter Cup, but then opted against it for fear that it wouldn’t live up to my expectations. Still, …
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DEAD CELEBRITIES: LeRoi Moore Edition
RIP LeRoi I’ve been a pretty big slacker lately with the celebrity obits on this site, but when it came to the passing of Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore, I just had to write something. As many of my friends know, I’m an unabashed DMB fan  the owner of several bootlegs, t-shirts, and …
DEAD CELEBRITIES: Estelle Getty Edition
Picture it: NBC, 1985. It’s a sad day indeed for ’80s sitcom fans. Estelle Getty, best known as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (or simply as “MA!”), has died at the age of 84. According to her family, she suffered “advanced dementia.” While reports of her illness had surfaced over the past few years, …
DEAD CELEBRITIES: Tim Russert Edition
Talk about coming out of left field. Tim Russert, longtime anchor of Meet The Press has died at the age of 58 from an apparent heart attack. If this was MSNBC’s morbid attempt to divert attention away from its new rep as being a sexist paradise, that’s really f’d up, yo. NBC’s Tim Russert dead …
DEAD CELEBRITIES: Sydney Pollack Edition
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about dead celebrities. This is mostly due to laziness, but a small part of me also didn’t like seeing the “death” and “sad” tags having such prominent places in my tag cloud. (IndianJones, meanwhile, is eager to have his name ascend beyond the lower tier, but that’s another …
SASSY DEAD CELEBRITIES: Richard Widmark Edition
Okay, I’ll be honest. I didn’t even know who Richard Widmark was until today, but I checked out his IMDb, and when I saw that he’d starred in a TV movie called Cold Sassy Tree, I just had to pay my respects. Further investigation shows that Cold Sassy Tree also starred the likes of Faye …
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DEAD CELEBRITIES: Anthony Minghella Edition
Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of the tear-jerker epics The English Patient and Cold Mountain — among others — died today from a massive surgery-related hemorrhage. He was only 54. No word on yet on funeral arrangements, but I’m sure they’ll be SWEEPING (and possibly involving Juliet Binoche). For more information on this sad turn of events, click …
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The Heath Effect
Renfro? Really? Him? Has Brad Renfro received an upgrade in the legacy department? The troubled actor, who never quite lived up to his perpetual “rising star” status, has suddenly been thrust into the upper echelon Died-Young category, joining the likes of River Phoenix, Tupac, and Janis Joplin, and it all seems to be thanks to …
My Tribute to Heath Ledger
We were all deeply shocked and saddened by Heath Ledger’s untimely death yesterday, and while those in New York City have manifested their grief by erecting a candlelit shrine for the actor, I’ve paid tribute the only way I know how: with yogurt. Yes, in honor of Heath, I ordered my frozen yogurt tonight with …
DEAD CELEBRITIES: Heath Ledger Edition
This one is really sad. Well, they’re all sad, but this death seems particularly tragic. Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead in “a possible drug-related death” today in Manhattan. This makes him the second actor in the past week to die young (after Brad Renfro). I feel bad for his kid. • Heath Ledger Found …