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Academy Award-winning Director Blake Edwards has died. The legendary filmmaker reportedly succumb to [...]

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Leslie Nielsen, who is remembered best for his comedic roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun movies, has died.

Nielsen gained fame as a dramatic actor in the classic sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet and then furthered his career as a leading man in romantic [...]

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Ronnie Chasen, who has always been a friend to entertainment journalists, has died.

According to the police, units arrived on the scene of Sunset Boulevard and Whitter around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. They found an [...]

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Dino De Laurentis, who breathed life into the Italian cinema business after World War II, has died.

The famed producer had his hand in a volume of productions included the Federico Fellini Oscar-winning classics La Strada and Nights in Cabiria (with legendary producer Carlo Ponte) as [...]

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Jill Clayburgh, who was nominated for the Academy Award her stunning performances in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over, had died.

Throughout her career, which spanned over 40 years, Clayburgh delivered solid performances in a variety of roles in film, [...]

 
Director George Hickenlooper passed away today at the age of 47.  The cause of death is unknown at this time. Hickenlooper directed movies such as Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller, and The Man from Elysian Fields starring Andy Garcia and Mick Jagger. His latest film, Casino Jack, starring Kevin Spacey, which is about the controversial Washington [...]

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Although it wasn’t exactly sudden (he was 90), TV cartoonist extraordinaire Alexander Anderson Jr. has died.

Creator of Rocky the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle the moose and several other famous celluloid creatures notable for appealing equally to [...]

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Tom Bosley, best known as Ritchie Cunningham’s affable dad on the hit series Happy Days, has died.

Original reports claimed that the actor succumb to a staph infection in his Palm Springs home Tuesday. But since that time, [...]

Stephen J. Cannell, prolific producer of mega-hit TV shows like The A Team and 21 Jump Street and, of course, The Rockford Files has died from complications associated with melanoma.

Cannell really was a success story. He grew up a child of privilege to parents who owned a chain of furniture stores, but, education didn’t come [...]

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We wrote a few days ago that comedy star Greg Giraldo had taken an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, said to be recovering, and the next news would certainly be his return.  But the next news [...]