Photo from NBC News via YouTube Leah Chase (1923 – 2019) was the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating for both African-American art and Creole cooking, and a central cultural figure in both the politics of New Orleans and the national struggle for Civil Rights. Her New … [Read more...]
#R.I.P.: “Absolutely Fabulous” Star, June Whitfield
June Whitfield unselfishly supported star comedians for seven decades, often slyly outshining them. Her career began on stage in the 1940s, and she captivated a new generation as Jennifer Saunders' vague, yet acerbic mother on the television series Absolutely … [Read more...]
#RIP: Actor / Singer, Jim Nabors
James Thurston Nabors has taken his final bow, passing today after spending more than 60 years in showbiz. Jim Nabors became a star playing the clumsy deputy sheriff Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show (1960-68) and eventually starred in his own spin-off. He died … [Read more...]
#RIP: Musical Theatre Legend, Barbara Cook
Tony Award-winning actor / singer Barbara Cook, an ingénue in Broadway's Golden Age of the 1950s and 1960s, who later transformed herself into a concert and cabaret star, has taken her final bow. She was 89-years-old. Up until a month ago, Cook was doing book signings … [Read more...]
#RIP: Actor, John Heard
Not to be confused with the late John Hurt who passed away in January, John Heard was probably, unfairly, best known for playing Macaulay Culkin’s character Kevin’s frazzled father in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992), but he accomplished so … [Read more...]
R.I.P: Rock N’ Roll Legend, Chuck Berry
R.I.P. Charles Edward Anderson Berry (1926-2017) Rock N’ Roll legend Chuck Berry has taken that final bow. As a songwriter, Berry was the Ernest Hemingway of Rock N’ Roll. He got right to the point. He told his stories in short sentences. You got it told in a two minutes … [Read more...]
Boner’s dead
No "he's a stiff" jokes, please. Andrew Koenig's body was just discovered in Stanley Park, a vast urban wilderness area near Vancouver. He was 41. The cause … [Read more...]
The Seaver’s are very sad right now
Scenes from a funeral
The Alexander McQueen funeral was today, and the crowd of mourners did not disappoint. We can all take solace knowing that Lee would have wanted Daphne Guinness (top) to wear her billowing garbage bag cape and full-on … [Read more...]
Recently Dead
We're just learning that Warhol court photographer and longtime NYC scenester, Nat Finkelstein, died of complications of pneumonia and emphysema on October 2. He was 76. From 1964 to 1967, Nat was the … [Read more...]
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