Category: In memoriam

Well, this has been a fairly sad week of saying good-bye to cultural icons. We now add Grumpy Cat, whose sad face launched over a thousand memes, to that list who includes Tim C...

Tim Conway, co-star of the famed Carol Burnett Show and early TV comedy classic, McHale's Navy has died due to an excess of fluid on his brain. He was 85. A native of Willoug...

It was a weekend of losing blonde legends. Just a day after it was reported that Mod Squad and Twin Peaks actress Peggy Lipton had died, comes news that legendary actress and...

The New Zealand Herald is reporting that Somoan-born actor Pua Magasiva was found dead in New Zealand on Saturday. He was 38. Magasiva was best known for playing the Red Wind...

It is a sad Mothers Day for Rashida (The Office, Parks and Recreation) and Kidada Jones as they bid farewell to their mother, Golden Globe winning actress, Peggy Lipton. Qui...

Sad news from Los Angeles. Oscar-nominated director John Singleton, who helmed the ground-breaking Boyz N the Hood has died at 51. The director suffered a massive stroke 13 d...

Grammy-nominated hip hop star, Nipsey Hussle whose real name is Ermias Asghedom, died Sunday after a shooting in Los Angeles. According to multiple sources, the 33-year-old r...

If you ever saw cult horror film classics like It's Alive or It Lives Again, then you are probably familiar with the work of Larry Cohen. The writer-director of films includi...

Good-bye, Dolly. According to BroadwayWorld, the theatre world lost an icon last night. The website is reporting that Channing died at 12:31am on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019,...

Proctor opened very first African-American owned ad agency Barbara Gardner Proctor's story is what American dreams are made of. Born in 1933 in Black Mountain, North Ca...

"Father of Direct Marketing" Created a Trillion-Dollar Industry Advertising has lost a trailblazer. Lester Wunderman, chairman emeritus and founder of Wunderman, the ...

Veteran comedian and writer, Albert Brooks, announced on Twitter Wednesday that his older brother, the brilliantly funny Bob Einstein, had passed after a brief battle with cance...