Bernie Mac is dead

Bernie Mac

This is a very sad day. Comedian Bernie Mac is dead at 50 from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs. He passed away at a Chicago area hospital. Read more at Yahoo news. Goodnight, Mr. Mac.

It was just yesterday that we were all reading that he was responding well to treatment. What happened?

Found: Ruslana Korshunova's MySpace

Photo from Ruslana's MySpace

Ruslana Korshunova's MySpace is here, but it is set to private.

Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

Here's a photo of her with her boyfriend from last year.

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Ruslana Korshuonva's MySpace

Model Ruslana Korshunova dives from her NYC balcony

Here is a nice photo of the fashion model who committed suicide Saturday by leaping from her NYC balcony. Click here. Ruslana was only 20. She was represented by IMG Models and they have already pulled her modeling profile from their site, click here to see.

Brad Renfro just a few months before he died

I stumbled upon some videos of shot Brad Renfro just before he died. It was shot last fall. He looks happy, which is a good thing.

Brad singing and being happy
Brad trying to sing

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With friends at his house having fun!
Drunk watching football..at Brad's house!

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A photo montage set to music. I assume the blonde woman is his rumored girlfriend, Haley.
Memories of Brad

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Brad at Universal City Walk with friends
Universal City Walk, California

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More of Brad smiling at Universal City Walk
Making noise / Universal City Walk/ Warped Tour

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Brad being sweet and washing his girlfriend's car
Car wash

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Brad did have a MySpace. The url is: http://www.myspace.com/studpowercock
It has been set to private, most likely because of the videos it contained of Brad drinking.

Here is a photo harvested from his profile prior to it being shut down.

That's Brad with his cousins

This is a snap of what his MySpace (now made private) looks like.

Bye Bye Heath

While the media is calling this one of the last ever photos of Heath Ledger taken while he was alive, it was actually taken while he was shooting a film in London, which is why he looks so grubby.

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Heath's body is removed from his apartment

Heath Ledger Is Dead

What sort of sick fucking week is this? Heath Ledger has just been found dead in an apartment near Manhattan's Nanette Lepore store. Mary Kate is allegedly in California. There were sleeping pills found by his bedside. My hypothesis is that he likely built a tolerance to them over time and just before his last nap, took a bunch, thinking that they'd put him to sleep.

My thoughts go out to his baby daughter Mathilda, who never really got to know her Daddy.

Lead Singer Of Quiet Riot Dead

The lead singer of Quiet Riot is dead. He was living in Las Vegas. The cause of death hasn't been determined.

Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre Dies

Veteran fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre has died at the age of 62. He was stylistic director at Christian Dior in Paris from 1989 to 1997. Visit his site for a retrospective of his work.

Remembering Anna Nicole Smith

Let's remember the fun times Anna Nicole Smith had bringing joy to TV viewers!

RIP James Brown

The King of Soul is dead, but here is his performance of 'I Feel Good' recorded in Dublin on October 29 last year. RIP, James Brown!

Good Night Lionel

By The Associated Press

TWENTYNINE PALMS, California (AP) - Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV comedy series “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” has died. He was 57.

Evans, who was born in Salisbury, N.C., died of throat cancer Dec. 14 at his mother’s home in Twentynine Palms, said his niece, Chrystal Evans.

Evans, along with Eric Monte, also created and wrote for “Good Times,” one of the first TV comedy series that featured a primarily black cast.

Michael Jonas Evans was born Nov. 3, 1949. His father, Theodore Evans Sr., was a dentist while his mother, Annie Sue Evans, was a school teacher.

The family moved to Los Angeles when Evans was a child.

He studied acting at Los Angeles City College before getting the role of Lionel Jefferson in the 1970s situation comedy “All in the Family.”

Evans kept the role of Lionel when “The Jeffersons” launched in 1975. The hit show was a spinoff featuring bigoted Archie Bunker’s black neighbors in Queens who “move on up to the East Side” of Manhattan.

Evans was replaced by Damon Evans (no relation) for four years, then he returned to the series from 1979 to 1981.

He also acted in the 1976 TV miniseries “Rich Man, Poor Man” and made guest appearances on the TV series “Love, American Style” and “The Streets of San Francisco.” His last role was in a 2000 episode of “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

In recent years he had invested in real estate in Southern California.

Good night, Mr. Evans, you were funny!!1

Celebrities go in threes

First 60 Minutes reporter Ed Bradley, and actor Jack Palance and singer Gerald Levert have passed on. Ouch, this hurts, I thought rather highly of this particular trio of entertainers. Sleep well, gentlemen!

Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance dies (AP)
R&B crooner Gerald Levert dies, 40 (AP)

60 Minutes Reporter Ed Bradley has died

CBS News reports that newsman Ed Bradley has died. Bradley spent 26 seasons on the newsmagazine "60 Minutes." Mr.Bradley died from complications of leukemia.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Dead

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has been killed in a stingray attack near Cairns on Australia's far north coast.

It was believed Irwin had been swimming off the coast of Cairns when he was stung.

"It is understood he was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest," Brisbane's Courier Mail reported this afternoon.

Read more at Yahoo Australia.

Aussie stingrays are very dangerous.

Angry Principal From The Breakfast Club Is Dead

Paul Gleason

Paul Gleason, who played the go-to bad guy in "Trading Places" and the angry high school principal in "The Breakfast Club," has died. He was 67.

Gleason died at a local hospital Saturday of mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer linked to asbestos, said his wife, Susan Gleason.

"Whenever you were with Paul, there was never a dull moment," his wife
said. "He was awesome."

Agreed! Thanks for all the laughs, Mr Gleason!!

Pointer Sister Dies

June Pointer

According to a report posted on EURWeb this morning, June Pointer Whitmore the youngest of the legendary Pointer Sisters has died. She was 52. Ms. Pointer died yesterday, April 11. According to the National Enquirer, the singer, who has had a troubled history of drug and alcohol abuse, suffered a stroke on Feb. 27, 2006. While in the hospital Pointer was also diagnosed with breast cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer and bone cancer. "After speaking to her sister Bonnie Pointer, she confirmed that June doesn’t have much longer to live,” said senior reporter Patricia Shipp. Pointer was in a hospice in Santa Monica. According to www.thepointersistersfans.com website, Ruth and Anita cancelled their shows on 4/8 and 4/9 to be by the side of their gravely ill sister.

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Don Knotts Dies

Thanks For All The Laughs, Sir!!!

One of the television actors in the history of the medium passed away Friday night. Don Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs "The Andy Griffith Show," and another Knotts hit, "Three's Company."

Its an understatement to say that he will be missed by the multitude of TV generations that he entertained. Thanks for all the laughter, Mr. Knotts!

Read more at Yahoo News.

Here's a long video interview with Don Knotts from 1999.

Grandpa Munster Dies

Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died after years of failing health. He was 95.
Read more at Yahoo.

R&B Great Wilson Pickett Dies

Legendary soul singer Wilson Pickett died Thursday at age 64, his
agent confirmed to the Associated Press.

The "Mustang Sally" and "In the Midnight Hour" singer suffered a heart
attack at a hospital near his home in Virginia. Chris Tuthill, a
spokesman for the singer's management company Talent Source, said
Pickett had been suffering from health problems for the past year.

"I loved him and I'm sure he was well-loved, and I just hope that he's
given his props," the singer's son, Michael Wilson Pickett, told
WRC-TV in Washington, the AP reports.

'West Wing' Actor John Spencer Dies at 58

John Spencer, who played a tough and dedicated politico on "The West Wing" who survived a serious illness to run for vice president, died of a heart attack Friday. He was 58. Read more at Yahoo news.

Comedian Richard Pryor Dies

Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood's biggest black stars, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 65. Read more at Yahoo.

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Buy the Richard Pryor Box Set
Richard Pryor Live (1979)
Richard Pryor Anthology

Rosie talks about Luther Vandross

Apparently, Rosie and her wife, Kelly, had dinner with Luther Vandross and she writes about it on her blog.

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Buy Luther Vandross Greatest Hits
Buy A Rosie Christmas

Luther Vandross Dies

Soulful singer Luther Vandross died today in a New Jersey hospital at the age of 54. According to a hospital spokesperson, Vandross never fully recovered from a stroke two years ago.

Links:

Luther Vandross Music
Dance With My Father
Luther Vandross Greatest Hits
Forever, For Always, For Luther

Johnny Carson Dies

Johnny Carson died on Sunday at the age of 79. See the rest of the photos taken at his Hollywood Walk of Fame in the members area. Flowers and touching cards from fans have been left at his star.