May 25, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: The Bradys would be sitting on a fortune if they'd stayed married and alive! (GIF via GIPHY) DO YOU REMEMBER?: HGTV will flip the famous Brady Bunch house — and the price tag is $5.5 million. Nude, but not naked? (Image via Paramount) PEOPLE: Judge…
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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Icon of Survival, Dies @ 83
May 24, 2023 Peter Ashworth's iconic cover of Private Dancer (Image via Capitol) She was the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, the Acid Queen, Auntie Entity, an eight-time Grammy Award winner and one of the 20th century's most iconic live performers. https://youtu.be/dVTmckFWOYM On May 24, 2023, Tina Turner, who had long battled issues including intestinal…
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Marlene Clark, Model, ‘Ganja & Hess,’ ‘Sanford & Son’ Actress, Dies @ 85
May 20, 2023 Marlene Clark, the phenomenal beauty who went from modeling to acting in the '60s, '70s and '80s, has died peacefully in her L.A. home. She was 85, not 73, as initially thought. Kiss of the Cobra Woman (Image via video still) Glass Hair Design posted a remembrance stating that Clark died on…
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Helmut Berger, Austrian Arthouse Star, Dies @ 78
May 18, 2023 Film star Helmut Berger, 78, died Thursday in Austria. He had been famous for his work in the '60s and '70s, when he was a leading European sex symbol. At the dawn of his career (Image via Warner Bros./7 Arts) Berger, who was bisexual, was a nearly singular screen presence, a rare…
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood Reunites for 1 Song, MTV News Ends & More
May 9, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Holly Johnson's voice is still strong! (Image via Facebook) THE GUARDIAN: Frankie Goes to Hollywood reunites for first performance in 36 years! They only performed "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" (that song went over the heads of U.S. listeners) for Eurovision, just one track, but it…
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TV History Up for Grabs, Valerie Perrine, Richard Lewis & Michael J. Fox on Parkinson’s Battles & More
April 30, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: You'll drop out of bidding faster than a speeding bullet ... (Image via HA) HA: The fabled Comisar Collection, made up of totally iconic TV items ranging from the early days of TV until the present, is up for grabs! The collector behind the hoard…
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Harry Belafonte, Crossover Icon & Political Activist, Dies @ 96
April 25, 2023 The ultimate stage star (Image via head shot) The loss of Harry Belafonte at 96 is truly the loss of a great figure, not only in entertainment — where his supremacy was the stuff of legend — but also in the field of social justice and civil rights. The Jamaican-American "King of…
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Betty White’s Home Razed, Terry Moore on ‘Unthinkable’ Things Howard Hughes Did, Little Richard’s Legacy & More
April 22, 2023 Links to the past, with relevance today: Moore a few years ago and (inset) in Silent Life (Images by Matthew Rettenmund & Dave Friedman) PEOPLE: Actress Terry Moore, 94, opens up about her relationship with the late Howard Hughes — to whom she has claimed she was married — telling People he…
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Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage’s Host Body, Dies @ 89
Via ExtraTV: Australian comic Barry Humphries, better known as his saucy drag persona Dame Edna Everage, died Saturday at 89 in Sydney, the BBC reports. Hello, possums! (Image via supplied) His death was attributed to complications from hip surgery in March, following a fall in February. Humphries was born February 17, 1934, in Melbourne. Artistic and…
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Carol Locatell of ‘Friday the 13th V’ Dies @ 82
The death of Carol Locatell, best known for a wild appearance in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, was announced by friends on social media. She had a mouth on her! (Image via Dimension) She was 82. Locatell was Ethel Hubbard, the mother of Junior Hubbard, in the film, earning a place in the hearts…
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