Stories tagged "inmemoriam"

Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday.

Rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79. A spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure Monday. He had suffered a heart attack in August 2007, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.

Comic actor Harvey Korman has died at 81, according to the UCLA Medical Center.

Today isn't Earth Day anymore. Haven't you heard? Earth Day is dead. It collapsed yesterday after one of its many news conferences and was rushed by hybrid ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. (Where staff members were immediately fired for peeking a

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.

Earlier today it was announced that New Line Cinema as we know it is dead and will be folded into a unit of Warner Brothers. Massive layoffs will begin immediately. This is sad news for us all...

Christopher Nolan, director of BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT, wrote a moving piece for Newsweek - giving an amazing tribute to Heath Ledger...

HEATH Ledger adored Australia, loved helping his friends and never became an actor "for fame or fortune", his father Kim said today

The changes on these official Warner Bros. The Dark Knight sites speak for themselves

When an Australian person, such as Ledger or Steve Irwin, is swept up into worldwide celebrity, they become part of the pride of and in our nation. There is an factor of pride that feeds into the country's nationalism and patriotism...