Peter Jennings
Goodbye, Peter Jennings. You were a good news reader. You read the news from the teleprompter like almost no one else could. Your skill at reading from a monitor and not moving your eyes will be missed.
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Deaths & Transitions
Sometimes noteworthy people die.
Monroe's Last Living Husband Dies
Marilyn Monroe’s first and last surviving husband, James Dougherty, has died in California. He was 84. Dougherty, a retired Los Angeles detective and former local politician in Maine, died on Monday in San Rafael, according to his stepdaughter Annie Woods. Dougherty married 16-year-old Monroe, real…
Bob (Gilligan) Denver Dies
Bob Denver was attending college at Loyola-Marymount University, in Los Angeles, when he got into acting. At first, Denver wasn’t sure he wanted to be an actor, but gradually gave in, deciding that’s what he was going to do for a career. Before he became…
Maureen Stapleton: 1925-2006
Maureen Stapleton, the Oscar-winning actress who was revered for her roles on the stage and screen, passed away today in Lenox, Massachusetts, from chronic pulmonary disease. She was 80. Stapleton’s matronly appearance belied a fiery emotional core, one she used to devastating effect in her…
Television host Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin dead at 44
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality was killed by a stingray while he was filming an underwater documentary. But is that the whole truth? Consult the picture below, taken in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera on September 8, 2006, for some shocking evidence to the…
RIP: Herb Peterson
A Southern California McDonald’s restaurants official says Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson has died in Santa Barbara at age 89. Â Egg McMuffin creator Herb Peterson with his breakfast idea in 1997. From CNNMoney: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg…
George Carlin Dead at 71
Dammit. We’ve lost another dark humorist. George Carlin died at 71 from heart failure. He’d had heart troubles for a long time, and they finally caught up with him. Here’s a link to a YouTube video obituary, highlighting just a few of Carlin’s bits. Rest…