Denise Nickerson, best known for her role as Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, died Wednesday night after suffering a severe stroke ...
He had the look of a pimp. And the soul of a funky, voodoo high priest.
Legendary New Orleans-based musician Dr. John, also known as "The Night Tripper," died at the age of 7...
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...
As wrestling fans welcomed in a new year, they were also met with sad news as The Wrap reported that iconic WWE and WCW interviewer “Mean” Gene Okerlund had died. He was 76....
CAVU.
According to CNN reporter Jamie Gangel, this was the code word that the Bush family used to let each other know that their patriarch and 41st President of the United St...
This has been a tough year for losing creative geniuses.
"The Wrap" is reporting that Spongebob Squarepants creator, Stephen Hillenburg, died yesterday after a battle with AL...
Then I discovered
my first
"Spider-man"
comic.
Here was
someone I could
relate to.
Stan Lee will always be remembered for creating iconic Marvel superheroes Spide...
Longtime journalist
spent almost 30 years
at NBC 5 before retiring
in 2009
The Chicago broadcasting community has lost an icon.
Award-winning journalist, WMAQ (NBC 5) anch...
He was the man who came up with the title, The Empire Strikes Back. Not George Lucas. Gary Kurtz. And today, The BBC is reporting that the producer on Star Wars and The Empire S...