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New details about Taylor Hawkins’ death emerge from Colombia

By Reel 360 Mar 30, 2022

On Friday, March 25, 2022 The Foo Fighters shocked the world when they announced the passing of their drummer, Taylor Hawkins on Twitter: Hawkins had been the band’s drumm...

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Oscar-winner William Hurt passes at 71

By Reel 360 Mar 13, 2022

Somber news for a Sunday. Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, star of the Oscar-winning star of Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Big Chill, and Lost in Space, has died. Hi...

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Academy Award-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr. passes at age 84

By Reel 360 Mar 4, 2022

Academy Award-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr, who was behind an array of iconic films, has passed away at age 84. Affectionately known as "Laddie", Alan Ladd Jr. was involv...

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Chicago-born actress Lindsey Pearlman found dead in LA

By Reel 360 Feb 18, 2022

TV actress, Lindsey Pearlman, who appeared on Chicago Justice and General Hospital, was found dead Friday, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Police have not revealed a c...

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Ghostbusters producer and director, Ivan Reitman passes at age 75

By Reel 360 Feb 15, 2022

Academy Award nominee and producer and director of huge films such as Ghostbusters, Animal House, and the 1979 Bill Murray cult classic Meatballs, Ivan Reitman passed away peac...

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Bob Saget’s cause of death revealed

By Reel 360 Feb 11, 2022

A month after Full House and Fuller House patriarch Bob Saget was found unresponsive and deceased at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida his official cause of death has been r...

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Visual Effects icon Douglas Trumbull passes at 79

By Reel 360 Feb 9, 2022

Three-time Academy Award nominee Douglas Trumbull, trailblazing special effects artist best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and...

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Grammy-winner Meat Loaf dies of COVID-19

By Reel 360 Jan 23, 2022

Grammy award winner Meat Loaf passed away Thursday night with his wife Deborah and daughters Pearl and Amanda at his side. He was 74. The news was confirmed on his Facebook...

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Hollywood mourns Bob Saget’s sudden death

By Reel 360 Jan 11, 2022

On January 9, 2022, we reported that Grammy Award-nominated stand-up comedian, T.V. host, director, and beloved sit-com patriarch Danny Tanner from Full House, Bob Saget passed...

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Full House’s Bob Saget passes at age 65

By Reel 360 Jan 9, 2022

Grammy Award-nominated stand-up comedian, T.V. host, director, and beloved sit-com patriarch Danny Tanner from Full House, Bob Saget has passed away in a hotel room in Orlando ...

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Academy Award winner, film director, Sidney Poitier has passed at age 94

By Reel 360 Jan 7, 2022

Academy Award winner, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, film director, activist, and ambassador, Sidney Poitier has passed away at age 94. He died Thursday at his hom...

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Last Picture Show director Peter Bogdanovich passes away at 82

By Reel 360 Jan 6, 2022

Two-time Oscar nominee, Peter Bogdanovich has passed away at age 82. Bogdanovich is known for directing films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc?, Mask...

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Television icon Betty White dead at 99

By Reel 360 Dec 31, 2021

Beloved actress, comedian and TV and radio pioneer, Betty White, has died, just weeks before a milestone birthday. She was 99. White had the longest-running career for a...

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NFL GOATJohn Madden dies at 85

By Reel 360 Dec 28, 2021

There is an entire generation that will only recognize the name John Madden from the popular EA Sports video game. However, there is an older generation who will remember the o...

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Joan Didion passes away at age 87

By Reel 360 Dec 23, 2021

American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died quietly at her home in New York at age 87 last week. Didion's publisher, Penguin Random House, announced the author'...

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Monkees star Michael Nesmith passes away at 78

By Reel 360 Dec 10, 2021

Grammy Award-winning Musician and producer Michael Nesmith has passed away at age 78. He rose to fame initially as a member of The Monkees, but went on to have a long and influ...

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Suspect arrested in Jackie Avant shooting

By Reel 360 Dec 2, 2021

Beverly Hills police have reportedly made an arrest in connection with the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Beverly Hills philanthropist, and wife of music legend Clarence Avant, ...

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Police suggest Jackie Avant’s brutal killing may not be random

By Reel 360 Dec 2, 2021

While shocked tributes were pouring in for the slain wife of legendary "The Godfather of Black Music," Jackie Avant, Beverly Hills Police were hard at work putting together the...

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Jackie Avant, wife of Clarence Avant, killed in Beverly Hills home invasion

By Reel 360 Dec 1, 2021

The Beverly Hills Police Department has released a media alert that Jackie Avant, the wife of iconic music executive Clarence Avant, was killed during a Beverly Hills home inva...

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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 ...