A short, private battle with cancer has ended the life of TV and movie star Kirstie Alley at 71. The Rebecca days (Image via NBC) Her family announced her death on her official social media accounts: (Image via Twitter) Alley was born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, but relocated to Los Angeles in…
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Nancy Olson’s Ready for Her Close-Up, Kennedy Center Honorees, Remembering Leslie Jordan & More
Links to the past, with relevance today: Between now and July, Nancy will become twice the age Gloria Swanson was when she shot Sunset Boulevard! (Image via Dr. Ward Bond) YOUTUBE: Fabulous, hour-long chat with Nancy Olson Livingston, Oscar nominee for Sunset Boulevard (1950) whose new memoir is being published at the age of 94.…
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Mylène Demongeot, French Movie Legend, Dies @ 87
The very year she appeared in one of the most successful films of her career — Retirement Home — French movie star Mylène Demongeot has died at 87. As Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (Image via Pathé) Demongeot died of primary peritoneal cancer on Thursday, December 1, in a Paris hospital. Born September…
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Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac Dies @ 79
A "short illness" has taken the life of legendary singer-songwriter Christine McVie, who died Wednesday, November 30, 2022, in a London hospital. She was 79. Upon the occasion of the release of a compilation album in June, McVie had told Rolling Stone she was in "quite bad health," noting she was dealing with severe back…
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Irene Cara, Oscar Winner for ‘Flashdance… What a Feeling,’ Dies @ 63
Irene Cara, a triple threat who made her mark in theater, on TV, in movies, on concert stages and on the Billboard Hot 100, died unexpectedly on Friday, November, 25, 2022. She was 63. (Image via press release) According to an announcement by her publicist, he cause is as yet undetermined. Cara is survived by…
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80 Stars Turning 80 in 2023
Yes, we're talkin' to him! (Image via Columbia) Check out this list of 80 famous names who will turn 80 in 2023: Doris Kearns Goodwin — presidential historian (b. January 4, 1943) Richard Moll — Bull on Night Court (b. January 13, 1943) Bosom buddy (Image by Matthew Rettenmund) Holland Taylor — Two and a Half Men star, Sarah Paulson’s…
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Mickey Kuhn Dies @ 90; Had Been Last Credited ‘Gone with the Wind’ Cast Member
Mickey Kuhn, the final surviving credited cast member from the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind, died November 20 in hospice in Florida. Kuhn in his big GWTW scene Image via MGM) He was 90. Kuhn was born September 21, 1932, in Waukegan, Illinois, but was moved to L.A. by his family within a year.…
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Blythe Danner Reveals Cancer Battle, Sinbad’s Stroke Recovery & More
November 21, 2022 — Links to the past, with relevance today: Hollywood royalty (Image via goop) PEOPLE: Blythe Danner, 79, reveals she battled the same oral cancer that killed her husband, Bruce Paltrow (1943-2002). She also talks about the awful moment she told her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, the eerily bad news that she had the…
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Robert Clary, Last ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ Star, Dies @ 96
Robert Clary, who played impish foodie Corporal LeBeau on the sitcom Hogan's Heroes – and who had been the legendary show's final living main cast member — has died at 96. The dream team (L-R): Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Cynthia Lynn, Bob Crane, Larry Hovis, Robert Clary, Ivan Dixon & Richard Dawson (Image via CBS)…
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Kevin Bacon Still Footloose, Nazareth Singer Dies, Leno Seriously Burned & More
Links to the past with relevance today: Take that, Bomont! (Image via Facebook) FACEBOOK: Kevin Bacon, 64, is still Footloose and fancy free — dancing on TikTok and Facebook with his daughter. NYT: The lead singer of Nazareth, Dan McCafferty, has died at 76. TWITTER: Lydia Cornell is tweeting about that infamous male-rape episode of…
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