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AFI establishes scholarship in Halyna Hutchins’ name

By Reel 360 Oct 23, 2021

While Halyna Hutchins was in New Mexico shooting Rust, a Western starring Alec Baldwin, she was shot by a loaded prop gun that contained a live round of ammunition and died ...

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Founder of mcgarrybowen, John McGarry, loses battle with Parkinson’s

By Reel 360 Oct 15, 2021

In 2002, one of the original "Mad Man," John McGarry left his CEO position at Y&R along with Gorden Bowen and Stewart Owen to launch revered creative shop, mcgarrybowen. At...

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Cliff Freeman dead at 80

By Reel 360 Sep 29, 2021

Advertising lost a comedic icon on September 5. Longtime advertising legend Cliff Freeman who coined such 80s terms as "Where's the beef?" and was the voice for Little Caesars ...

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Actor Michael K. Williams remembered by his colleagues

By Reel 360 Sep 23, 2021

Many were expecting Michael K. Williams to win a posthumous Emmy, however Emmy voting ended August 30, a week before Williams died of a possible drug overdose. The actor was he...

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Godfather of Black Cinema, Melvin Van Peebles, passes away at age 89

By Reel 360 Sep 23, 2021

Daytime Emmy Award Winner, actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist, composer, and Godfather of Black cinema, Melvin Van Peebles has passed away at age 89 at his home in Manhatta...

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Sex and the City’s Willie Garson passes at 57

By Reel 360 Sep 22, 2021

Willie Garson, an actor best known for playing Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City and Mozzie on White Collar, has passed away at age 57. News of his passing was confirmed b...

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Norm Macdonald loses battle to cancer, passes away at 61

By Reel 360 Sep 14, 2021

Comedian and Saturday Night Live alum Norm Macdonald has been reported to have passed away at 61 after quietly and privately battling cancer for the past nine years. News ...

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Ed Asner passes away at 91

By Reel 360 Aug 29, 2021

Seven-time Emmy-winning actor, activist and philanthropist, Ed Asner, former president of the Screen Actors Guild, who starred as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show an...

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Markie Post of Night Court fame passes at 70

By Reel 360 Aug 8, 2021

Growing up, the West Coast Editor of Reel 360 had a major crush on actress Markie Post, an actress best known for playing public defender Christine Sullivan on the 1980's hit s...

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Richard Donner, director of Superman passes away at 91

By Reel 360 Jul 5, 2021

He made movie audiences believe a man could fly and that an innocent-looking child could be the spawn of Satan. Famed film and TV director-producer Richard Donner has died at 9...

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Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins’ rare 2019 interview

By Reel 360 Apr 29, 2021

Yesterday, we lost the final astronaut of the Apollo 11. Often called, "The Forgotten Astronaut," Michael Collins passed away at the age of 90. Collins never touched down ...

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Digital Underground’s Shock G passes at 57

By Reel 360 Apr 23, 2021

We have suddenly been hit recently with a spate of 90s hip hop stars passing. In the last two weeks we have lost DMX, Black Rob and now Grammy nominated Rapper and producer Sho...

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Cousin Itt, Felix Silla pases at 84

By Reel 360 Apr 20, 2021

The original 1960’s Addams Family lost their beloved, gibberish speaking, exceptionally hairy Cousin Itt. Felix Silla passed on April 16, 2021 from pancreatic cancer at age 8...

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Josh Hurley, former Deutsch, FCB Creative passes

By Reel 360 Apr 19, 2021

Sad news from the west coast. Los Angeles-based CNVYR Chief Creative Officer and Partner, Josh Hurley, passed away suddenly Sunday night in Michigan. No cause of death was giv...

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Grammy nominee DMX dies at age 50

By Reel 360 Apr 9, 2021

Sad news from the music world. Grammy Award nominee and American Music Award winner DMX has died at age 50. TMZ reported DMX, who’s real name is Earl Simmons overdosed, wh...

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Emmy Winner, SNL writer Anne Beatts passes

By Reel 360 Apr 9, 2021

Emmy Award winner and Saturday Night Live writer, Anne Beatts passed away on April 7, 2021. She was 74. Beatts was born in 1947 in Buffalo, New York and began her career in...

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‘Arrested Development’s’ Jessica Walter passes at 80

By Reel 360 Mar 25, 2021

She played Arrested Development's self-centered matriarch, Lucille Bluth, to perfection. Jessica Walter, a fan-favorite actress who starred in the Ron Howard series as well as ...

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The Goldbergs’ George Segal dies at 87

By Reel 360 Mar 23, 2021

Acclaimed actor George Segal, best known for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and ABC's The Goldbergs has died due to complications from bypass surgery, his family announced o...

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‘Amityville Horror’ killer Ronald DeFeo dies at 69

By Reel 360 Mar 16, 2021

Ronald DeFeo, who was convicted of killing his parents and four siblings at the family’s home in Amityville, N.Y. in 1974, died on Friday at a hospital in Albany, N.Y. He was...

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Rare behind-the-scenes footage with Roger Mudd

By Media Burn Mar 12, 2021

For three decades, Roger Mudd epitomized network TV news. It is difficult now, in an age saturated with media personalities, to imagine just how influential anchors like Mudd w...