Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who served the state for three decades and notably switched from the Republican Party to the Democrats in 2009 to help pass the Affordable Care Act by giving Democrats the necessary 60 votes in the Senate, has passed away due to complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 82. On the difficult [...]
Alex Karras, the former Detroit Lions defensive tackle turned actor in the ABC sitcom “Webster,” died Wednesday in his Los Angeles home following a battle with kidney disease, heart disease, dementia and stomach cancer, according to a family spokesman. He was 77.
Oscar-nominated actor Michael Clarke Duncan died on Monday in Los Angeles due to complications from a heart attack suffered back in July. He was 54. Mr. Duncan was born poor on the South Side of Chicago on Dec. 10, 1957. His father left when he was 5, and his mother and older sister raised him. [...]
Neil Armstrong, who was the first human to set foot on the moon, died on Saturday. He was 82. Think about that for a moment and let it sink in. The man walked on the moon! I’m travelling in San Francisco for work, which is why I was a little late to this news. My apologies.
Director Tony Scott, Ridley’s younger brother and best known for his highly stylized action films like Top Gun, Domino, Man on Fire, Enemy of the State, Crimson Tide, True Romance, and more, died in an apparent suicide Sunday when he jumped from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, California. He was 68.
Johnny Pesky, a beloved Red Sox icon, passed away at the age of 92. Pesky debuted for the Red Sox as a 22-year-old shortstop in 1942 and has been with the organization in some capacity virtually every year since. He played eight seasons in Boston, giving up three years of his early career to serve [...]
“Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.” [...]
Legendary actor Ernest Borgnine has passed away from renal failure. He was 95. Borgnine, who endeared himself to a generation of Baby Boomers with the 1960s TV comedy “McHale’s Navy,” first attracted notice in the early 1950s in villain roles, notably as the vicious Fatso Judson, who beat Frank Sinatra to death in “From Here [...]
Actor Andy Griffith, best known for his roles as Sheriff Andy Taylor in “The Andy Griffith Show” and country lawyer Ben Matlock in “Matlock,” died this morning. He was 86.
Nora Ephron, writer and director behind romantic comedies like You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle, has died due to complications of illness. She was 71. For the last six years Ephron struggled with myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, that made her extremely ill. She passed away Tuesday in a New York hospital. Aside from directing [...]
