Sad news that legendary tap dancer Arthur Duncan died January 3. He was 89. A dapper Duncan at the height of his dance career (Image via Wiki) Duncan was esteemed as a lifelong dancer who became TV's first Black regular on a variety show when he joined The Betty White Show in 1954. Southern censors…
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Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’s Only Child, Dies @ 54
Elvis died tragically young at 42 of heart disease. Now, on January 12, 2023, his only child — singer Lisa Marie Presley — has died at 54 following what was reportedly "full cardiac arrest." A rare image of Lisa Marie Presley with her four kids (Image via Instagram) Lisa Marie had just been at the…
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Carole Cook, Frequent ‘The Lucy Show’ Guest & ‘Sixteen Candles’ Grandma, Dies @ 98
Carole Cook, one of the oldest living actors with name recognition, died January 11, 2022, of heart failure in L.A. She had been injured in a fall recently. Cook in 2018 at 94 (Image by Matthew Rettenmund) Cook was three days shy of 99 years old. Her nephew announced her death on Facebook, writing, "My…
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Dolly Parton Salutes Leslie Jordan, Ex-Child Stars Remember Adam Rich & More
January 8, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Dolly sang a bit of a song she recorded with Leslie. (Image via video still) EW.COM: Dolly Parton joined Call Me Kat to pay homage to the late, great Leslie Jordan. NYT: So long to veteran newsman Bernard Kalb, who has signed off at the…
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Earl Boen, Instantly Recognizable Character Actor, Dies @ 81
It's hard to believe the late character actor Earl Boen was only 81; he has seemed to be everywhere for so long, I assumed he was 10 years older. Another Seinfeld guest star has died. (Image via video still) In fact, the hard-working thesp worked on the stage as a teen in the '50s until…
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Barbara Walters Dies @ 93
Barbara Walters, the most legendary female newsperson of all time, died Friday at 93. She had suffered from dementia for several years. Walters's final farewell on The View in 2014 (Image via ABC) Born September 25, 1929, Walters was the daughter of Lou Walters, who managed the Latin Quarter nightclub, produced Ziegfield Follies of 1943…
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‘Babylon’s’ 1920s Hollywood Flashback, 100-Year-Old WWII Photographer on War, Bob Saget’s Widow Remembers & More
December 26, 2022 Links to the past, with relevance today: "It" girls Clara Bow & Margot Robbie (Images via vintage still & Paramount) VARIETY: Was '20s Hollywood really as debauched as it is portrayed in Babylon? (YUP.) THR: Oh, man, remember Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)?! DO YOU REMEMBER?: Demi Moore is about to be…
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20 Celebrities We Lost in 2022
It's always so hard to narrow this down to just 20 famous faces we will no longer have with us ... which celeb deaths had the greatest impact on you? https://youtu.be/QzsEU7ioITA
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‘Variety’ Picks Top 100 Films Ever — Headed Up by ‘Psycho’
The truth hurts. (GIF via GIPHY) Variety, a publication that brags it is as old as the movies, has cooked up a list of the Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time. They report, "[I]n making this list, we wanted to reflect the beautiful, head-spinning variety of the moviegoing experience. We don’t just mean different…
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Diane McBain, ‘Batman,’ ‘Claudelle Inglish’ Actress & Elvis Co-Star, Dies @ 81
Diane McBain, a blonde beauty who enjoyed popularity mainly on TV in the '60s, died Wednesday, December 21, at 81. The cause was liver cancer. McBain in Mary, Mary (Image via Warner Bros.) McBain was born May 18, 1941, in Cleveland, Ohio, but her family quickly relocated to Glendale, California, putting her in Hollywood's orbit.…
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