Category Archives: Death

Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies in NY

By doris | Published: February 4, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and the film “The Big Lebowski,” has died at [...]

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Death certificate: James Farentino died of broken hip

By doris | Published: February 3, 2012

Full Story at TODAYEntertainmentoday.msnbc.msn.com James Farentino, a prolific character actor who in later years played George Clooney’s estranged father on “ER,” was originally said to have died last week following a long illness. But that’s not the whole story, according to the death certificate released today by the L.A. County Department of Public Health and [...]

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Photojournalist Eve Arnold dies at 99

By doris | Published: January 24, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com Eve Arnold, a globe-trotting photojournalist who captured iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, has died, the Magnum photo agency said Thursday. She was 99. Magnum spokeswoman Fiona Rogers said Arnold died peacefully Wednesday in a London nursing home. Born in Philadelphia in 1912 to Russian immigrant parents, Arnold began working as a [...]

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Singer Etta James dies at 73

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com Etta James’ performance of the enduring classic “At Last” was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as she sang tenderly about a love finally realized after a long and patient wait. In real life, little about James was as genteel as [...]

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Fred Milano of Dion and the Belmonts dies at 72

By doris | Published: January 4, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Milano, who made rock and roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s and continued to perform while starting a late-in-life career with the New York City Department of Correction, has died. He was 72. Milano died Sunday, three weeks after [...]

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Singer, actress Kaye Stevens dies in Florida

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show,” has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79. Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday at the Villages Hospital north [...]

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Grammy-winning singer Cesaria Evora dies at age 70

By doris | Published: December 24, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LISBON, Portugal — Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70. Evora, known as the “Barefoot Diva” because [...]

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Hundreds attend Jubilee Duggar’s memorial

By doris | Published: December 17, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (PEOPLE.com) — On Wednesday, an unseasonably warm winter day in Springdale, Arkansas, friends and family of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar gathered to pay their respects to the couple’s 20th child, a stillborn baby girl named Jubilee Shalom. “I feel a great sorrow and grief, and yet at the same time [...]

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Scott Baio is not dead, despite Twitter trend

By doris | Published: December 16, 2011

Full Story at Scoop.today.msnbc.msn.com If you’re the type to follow trends on Twitter, you might have noticed that #RIPScottBaio is trending. If you’re the type of person who gets their facts from Wikipedia, you might have then learned that he “died on December 14, 2011 of a diaper-related illness.” If any of the above news [...]

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Michelle Duggar: ’19 Kids and Counting’ Star Has Miscarriage

By doris | Published: December 10, 2011

Full Story at ABC.News.go.com Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar were preparing to welcome their 20th child in April when a routine doctor’s appointment revealed that Michelle had miscarried during the second trimester. “I feel like my heart broke, telling my children,” Michelle Duggar, 45, told People magazine today. “They have all been so excited about [...]

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