R.i.p.

[Hawk]

RIP balloon boy

oops...just a hoax afterall!

[Mr. Scot]

Old time slapstick comic Soupy Sales, dead at 83.

[SMACKDAB]

Old time slapstick comic Soupy Sales, dead at 83.

I heard he was Donovan McNabb's favorite comedian. :rofl:

[dimbee]

Brittany Murphy.

And I couldn't care less.

[Boltergeist]

George Michael

The sportscaster, not the singer

[Jangler]

Saw that! Loved his show...

[DudeNamedJeremy]

never noticed this thread before

happened a week or 2 ago but

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/James_The_Reverend_Sullivan.html

[Jangler]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/14/teddy.pendergrass.obit/index.html

R&B legend Teddy Pendergrass died Wednesday evening, his former publicist said. He was 59.

Pendergrass, known for smash love ballads such as "Turn Off the Lights" and "Love TKO," died after a long illness, according to Lisa Barbaris, who described herself as a close friend and his last publicist.

He died at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born.

His family did not reveal details about his illness, but said it was related to complications from a 1982 car accident, Barbaris said.

[SMACKDAB]

Not that I watch the show, but kind of a sad story no matter if you are rich or poor.

Jennifer Lyon, who placed fourth on "Survivor: Palau" in 2005, died at her home in Oregon Tuesday night, PEOPLE has confirmed. She was 37.

The reality TV star was first diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer a few months after she wrapped "Survivor," and opted for a modified, radical bilateral mastectomy, followed by courses of chemotherapy and tamoxifen, a drug used to prevent recurrence.

"In the summer of 2004, I felt something in my right breast that didn't feel normal," Lyon told PEOPLE in October 2005. "I thought it was probably scar tissue related to my breast implants. So I let it go — for a long time."

[Sapper]

http://www.deathlist.net/?y=2010

2010 watch...this site is macabre but also interesting.

[Hawk]

I hear Jase just entered the top 10

[Jangler]

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2010/01/23/actress_jean_simmons_dies_at_80

Actress Jean Simmons Dies At 80

January 23rd, 2010 10:15am EST Post a comment Add to My News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean Simmons, the lovely, ethereal film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando in "Guys and Dolls" and costarred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas, has died. She was 80.

Simmons, who won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s miniseries "The Thorn Birds," died Friday at her home in Santa Monica, her agent Judy Page told the Los Angeles Times.

Simmons had lung cancer.

Already a stunning beauty at 14, Simmons made her movie debut in the 1944 British production "Give Us the Moon."

Several minor films followed before British director David Lean gave the London-born actress her breakthrough role of Estella, companion to the reclusive Miss Havisham in 1946's "Great Expectations." That was followed by the exotic "Black Narcissus," and then Olivier's Oscar-winning "Hamlet" in 1948, for which Simmons was nominated as best supporting actress.

She would be nominated for another Oscar, for best actress for 1969's "The Happy Ending," before moving largely to television roles in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.

Her other notable films included "Elmer Gantry" (with Burt Lancaster), "Until They Sail" (with Newman), "The Big Country" (Peck), "Spartacus," (Douglas), "This Earth Is Mine" (Rock Hudson), "All the Way Home" (Robert Preston), "Mister Buddwing" (James Garner) and "Rough Night in Jericho" (Dean Martin).

[Jangler]

http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_14266711

Pernell Roberts, a versatile actor best remembered for his portrayal of the handsome eldest Cartwright son on the classic television western "Bonanza" and later as the lead character in the medical drama "Trapper John, M.D.," died at his Malibu home Sunday. He was 81.

His death after a two-year battle with cancer was confirmed by his wife, Eleanor Criswell.

Roberts became a star as Adam Cartwright, the heir apparent of the fictional Ponderosa ranch, a role he filled from the show's debut in 1959 until 1965, when he left the cast despite the series' immense popularity. "Bonanza" remained on the air for eight more years without him.

The longest-running TV western after "Gunsmoke" and the first to be broadcast in color, "Bonanza" broke the mold for its genre with its emphasis on character development over gunplay.

[mr beauxjangles]

J.D. Salinger...

NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.