Donna Summer, the singer who came to be known as the “Queen of Disco” during her 1970′s heyday, died at her Naples, Fla. home today after battling lung cancer. She was 63. “Early this morning, surrounded by family, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith” – her [...]
Boston Red Sox public address announcer Carl Beane (the voice of Fenway Park whose booming baritone called ballplayers to the plate for two World Series champions) died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack while driving. He was 59. “We are filled with sadness at this tragic news” – Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said [...]
George Lindsey, better known as the grinning (beanie-wearing Goober from the classic rural comedy ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and ‘Hee Haw’) has died on Sunday at age 83. According to a press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville, Tennessee, the actor passed away after an extended hospitalization. Lindsey is best remembered as Goober Pyle, [...]
Adam Yauch (the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group) has died. He was 47. Yauch’s representatives confirmed that the rapper died Friday morning in New York after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. Also known as MCA, Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous salivary gland in [...]
Junior Seau’s apparent suicide stunned an entire city and saddened former teammates who recalled the former NFL star’s ferocious tackles and habit of calling everybody around him “Buddy.” It also left everyone wondering what led to Seau’s death Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43. “I’m sorry to [...]
Seven people, including three young children, who died when their minivan plunged 60ft and landed in a ravine on the grounds of a zoo, have been named by police. Police identified the dead adults as Jacob Nunez (85) and Ana Julia Martinez (81), both from the Dominican Republic, and their daughters, Maria Gonzalez (45) and [...]
For the second time in two months, a customer at Las Vegas’ Heart Attack Grill collapsed mid-meal and was carted off to a hospital. The female customer, a Las Vegas resident in her 40′s, had been devouring a “double bypass burger,” puffing on cigarettes, and sipping a margarita when she collapsed Saturday night, the Grill’s [...]
After more than half a century on national television, ushering music acts into the public eye and ringing in the new year for millions, Dick Clark was eulogized last week as a cultural giant first, a shrewd businessman second. Clark (who died of a heart attack at age 82) would not have objected. But there [...]
Jonathan Frid (a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera “Dark Shadows”) has died. He was 87. Frid died Friday of natural causes in a hospital in his home town of Hamilton, Ontario, said Jim Pierson, a friend and spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, the creator of [...]
Dick Clark (whose “American Bandstand” made him rich, famous, influential and sometimes controversial by marrying rock ‘n’ roll with television) died Wednesday morning at the age of 82. His agent (Paul Shefrin) said he suffered a massive heart attack. He had struggled with health issues since suffering a a serious stroke in 2004. Before then [...]