Actor and one time teen idol Corey Haim has passed away at age 38 from an apparent overdose. The man who met fame, fortune and sadly, his demons in the 1980’s with his partner in madness Corey Feldman, was pronounced dead at his Los Angeles home this morning by LAPD. The actor had recently been [...]
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Sadly, tonight marked Conan O’Brien’s last night behind the desk of “The Tonight Show” and I’m not going to lie, I got teary eyed. After all the nonsense and all the snark going around the past couple of weeks regarding NBC’s Late Night Wars 2.0, there is something to be said about the goodbye O’Brien [...]
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Sadly, Patrick Swayze finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer earlier today. The actor was 57. Recent reports had the actor returning to his home a few days ago, to be surrounded by his family and friends in his last hours. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, one of the strongest forms, over a year ago and [...]
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Just watching this video made me a bit sad. It seems that the glory days of Lindsay Lohan are long gone and every year we will have to watch her have paranoid freak outs in the public eye. Originally, it was just standard celebrity scandals, with her crashing stolen cars, falling asleep while her secret [...]
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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
Truer words could not have been spoken about or by Senator Ted Kennedy. Edward Kennedy, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor last May, passed away early this morning at the age of 77. He was known as [...]
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I could not settle on just one song from the epically crafted soundtracks and scores that accompanied the films of John Hughes, so I copped out and put together a Song of the Day collection in honor of Hughes. Hope you enjoy. Anything missing?
I fell in love with the song the moment I [...]
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As a child of the 1980’s, there was no other writer or director who made as big of an impression on me as John Hughes did. So its with a saddened heart that I have to report that Hughes, 59, has passed away following a heart attack he suffered during a stroll through New [...]
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It’s finally here. In 2007, Heath Ledger approached Modest Mouse about directing a video for their song “King Rat”. Ledger put together the concept for the animated video, which was to highlight illegal whale hunts along the coast of Australia, and was working on the project up until his untimely death last year. [...]
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Ryan O’Neal, while being interviewed for Vanity Fair’s September cover story on his ex-wife Farrah Fawcett, went into full detail as to why any child of his should and probably does have a drug problem. The magazine was interviewing O’Neal for the story they did on the life and loves of Fawcett and O’Neal [...]
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Ergh. This is some freaking sad news. The Beastie Boys have canceled their upcoming tour, which included headlining gigs at Lollapalooza and All Points West, as well as pushed back the release of their latest album after Adam Yauch, MCA, was diagnosed with cancer. Yauch and Adam Horovitz, Ad-Rock, sent a video [...]
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