SAN DIEGO —FOX- Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., who as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts combined the Right Stuff _ textbook-perfect flying ability and steely nerves _ with a pronounced rebellious streak, died Thursday at 84.
He was
LOS ANGELES — FOX- Tom Poston, the tall, pasty-faced comic who found fame and fortune playing a clueless everyman on such hit television shows as “Newhart” and “Mork and Mindy,” has died. He was 85.
San Fran Chron–(04-23) 19:24 PDT MENLO PARK — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam was killed today doing what he had done for more than four decades: chasing down a great story.
In many ways, Halberstam was the inspiration for
The Moscow Times is reporting, just now:
Former President Boris Yeltsin died of heart failure in a Kremlin hospital on Monday. He was 76.
The Kremlin’s top doctor, Sergei Mironov, said Yeltsin died at 3:45 p.m. at the Central Clinical
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I’ve made no secret that I’m a fan of air shows, and the Blue Angles particularly. It’s with sadness, tonight, that I pass along news of the death of one of the Angles:
PENSACOLA, Fla. —FOX/AP- Investigators looked through wreckage
Odd timing.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) _ Brant Parker, who for decades illustrated “The Wizard of Id” comic strip, has died just days after the passing of his collaborator. He was 86.
Parker died Sunday at a nursing facility in Lynchburg
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These people had names, faces and stories. They need to be heard. It is not the time for moving on. It is the time to grieve.
(H/T and BSWK photo: Pamela Geller Oshry, Atlas Shrug.)
NEW YORK —AP- Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie “A Night at the Opera,” has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.
Christopher Hart said his mother
Sad news from NR:
Patricia Aldyn Austin Taylor Buckley — Pat Buckley, as so many knew her, WFB’s beloved — died last night at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut.
She died of septic poisoning following a vascular operation on her left
HONOLULU -AP- Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune “Tiny Bubbles,” has died. He was 76.
He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.
From all
NEW YORK — In books such as “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle,” and “Hocus Pocus,” Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound.
Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence in shaping 20th-century American literature,
B.C.’ cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at storyboard
ENDICOTT, N.Y. -(AP)- cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.” comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76.
“He had a stroke,”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Character actor Calvert DeForest, best known for his dead-pan appearances as the pudgy, bespectacled everyman Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night TV show, has died at age 85.
DeForest died on Monday at Good Samaritan
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With a nod of thanks to Warren Zevon, who, I think would approve.
Shadows are falling and I’m running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn’t mean I love you any
Lewis Fein, Cathy’s World:
We lost Cathy at 2:05 PM today. May her memory last, her family persevere and her friends endure this terrible loss. We’ll all have more to write shortly, but for now I’d like to truly
