Archive for the 'Dead' Category

Estelle Getty of ‘Golden Girls’ dies at age 84

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 84.
Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at her Hollywood Boulevard home.
Later Estelle…..we’ll miss ya.
(busted)

Comedian George Carlin Dies at 71

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Dying Is Hard. Comedy Is Harder.
By JERRY SEINFELD
The honest truth is, for a comedian, even death is just a premise to make jokes about. I know this because I was on the phone with George Carlin nine days ago and we were making some death jokes. We were talking about Tim Russert and Bo Diddley […]

Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he’d covered with trademark intensity.
Russert, 58, was a political operative before he was a journalist. He joined NBC a quarter century […]

The Guy Who Married Audrey Hepburn Died

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The American actor, film director and producer Mel Ferrer, who was once married to the cult actress Audrey Hepburn, has died in California at age 90.
Aart from his marriage to Hepburn, whom he met in 1954 when they both performed in a play in New York, Ferrer was best known for his roles in “Brave […]

Bo Diddley is Dead at 79

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a […]

Harvey Korman is Dead

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described “luminous second banana” for a decade on television’s “The Carol Burnett Show” and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as “Blazing Saddles,” has died. He was 81. He was very funny….see ya. (busted)

Jeff Healey is Dead!

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Blind rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey has died after a lifelong battle against cancer. He was 41.
Among his many musical accomplishments, he appeared in the film ‘Roadhouse’ along with the talented and acclaimed Patrick Swayze.
See ya…Jeff. (busted)

Roy Scheider Dead at 75

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the Jaws movies, has died at the age of 75.
This bummed us all out as Jaws was kick ass.
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Check out this re-edit of the Jaws trailer…..parody is always the best medicine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yHyxeju1U

Hey Roy…later.  (busted)

Pictures of Anna Nicole’s Dead Son? Gross!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Just when we thought we were done with this asshole, we hear this.
A former companion of Anna Nicole Smith said this week that her attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern took several photographs of the collapsed body of her late 20-year-old son Daniel for profit.  
G. Ben Thompson testified that Stern took about four pictures of Daniel Smith’s body after […]

Jethro’s Girlfriend is Dead

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

According to our pals at the AP…The live-in girlfriend of former “Beverly Hillbillies” star Max Baer Jr. apparently shot herself and died several days later.
Police were still investigating the death of 30-year-old Chere Rhodes.
Baer, 70, an entrepreneur who played “Jethro” in the 1960s “Hillbillies” series, summoned authorities to his Lake Tahoe home last Thursday after […]