Stephen R. Covey, a former Brigham Young University business professor who blended personal self-help and management theory in a massive bestseller (“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”) died Monday at a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 79. The cause was complications from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident, said Debra Lund, a […]
Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in “Oklahoma!” and won an Oscar in “Gentleman’s Agreement” but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday – a relative said. She was 95. Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration after a […]
Sylvester Stallone’s son (36-year-old Sage Stallone) has died. Sage, who starred alongside Stallone in Rocky 5, was found dead in his Los Angeles home Friday afternoon. “Sylvester Stallone is devastated and grief-stricken over the sudden loss of his son Sage Stallone” – Sylvester’s rep said in a statement to E! News. “His compassion and thoughts […]
Film and television actor Ernest Borgnine, who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a lovelorn butcher in 1955′s “Marty,” has died at age 95 – his manager said Sunday. The thick-set, gap-toothed Borgnine built a reputation for playing heavies in early films like “From Here to Eternity” and “Bad Day at Black Rock.” […]
Andy Griffith (an actor whose folksy Southern manner charmed audiences for more than 50 years on Broadway, in movies, on records, and especially on television, most notably as the small-town sheriff on the long-running situation comedy that bore his name) died Tuesday at his home on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. He was 86. The […]
Don Grady, who played Chip and Ernie’s wholesome (heartthrob big brother Robbie on the long-running television sitcom “My Three Sons”) died on Wednesday at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 68. A family spokesman said the cause was cancer. Mr. Grady, a versatile musician and singer who got his start in television as […]
Nora Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism, has died. She was 71. She died of leukemia Tuesday night at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, her family said in a statement. “She was so, so alive” – said her friend Carrie Fisher. “It makes no […]
Henry Hill, the infamous mob informant whose life of crime was chronicled in the film classic “GoodFellas,” was the first to admit that he did “a lot of bad things back then.” “I shot at people. I busted a lot of heads, and I buried a lot of bodies” – he told the London-based Daily […]
Bob Welch (a former member of Fleetwood Mac) was found dead in his home in Nashville on Thursday (7th June) from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 66-years old. According to the Nashville police, Welch shot himself in the chest, and his body was discovered by his wife around noon. The police told WKRN-TV, Nashville’s […]
Richard Dawson, the British actor who went from comedy co-star in the popular TV series “Hogan’s Heroes” to his best-known role as the charming host of the TV game show “Family Feud” with his trademark of kissing the female contestants on the lips, has died. He was 79. Dawson died Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA […]