RIP Taylor Negron 1957 - 2015

Comedic Actor Taylor Negron is dead

He was 57

He had over 125 acting credits including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Easy Money, Seinfeld and Punchline.

He lost his battle with cancer on Saturday January 10th, 2015.  His family were at his side.

Via The Hollywood Reporter

His Cousin Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night announced the death in a Youtube video

This has been confirmed by his friend Selene Luna.

He was 57

I don't know where exactly he died.  Here is Taylor's Los Angeles home

He was a painter as well.  Martha Plimpton tweeted this

RIP Samuel Goldwyn Jr. 1926 - 2015

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. died on Friday January 9, 2015 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

He gave the world Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza (uhhhhh, thanks?).  He also produced the films The Preachers Wife, Stella, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Cotton Comes to Harlem and more.

He was the son of legendary producer Samuel Goldwyn, who put the Goldwyn in

 Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

Best story:

 Goldwyn Jr. had a privileged upbringing. As a newspaper delivery boy, he initially tossed the papers, rolled up, from the window of his father’s limousine.

Goldwyn Jr. with a poster from his father's legendary film Wuthering Heights

His son Tony Goldwyn stars in the show Scandal.

Source:  New York Times

RIP Actor Rod Taylor is dead.

Rod Taylor, star of The Birds and The Time Machine has died on Wednesday January 7.

According to his daughter, the Australian born actor died of a heart attack 

just a few days before his 85th birthday

Rod Taylor

1930 - 2015

Again confirmed by his daughter, Rod died in his Los Angeles home.

Source:  CBS

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RIP Actor Khan Bonfils died on January 6, 2015

The actor is best known for being in Star Wars, Tomb Raider and Skyfall.

He died in an East London Theater in Spitalfields.  Not the first time that happened.

He was 42.

Cause of death has not been released and everyone is appropriately devastated.

On Tuesday January 6th he was rehearsing a play, Dante's Inferno, in the Rag Factory Theater in Spitalfields Market.

Source:  NY Daily News

There she goes... Miss Americaaaaaa

 RIP Bess Myerson 

Miss American 1945

The shoplifting beauty queen died on December 14, 2014 in Santa Monica, CA

She was 90 years old.

Tipped by Amanda Hersch

Source: NYTimes

RIP Little Jimmy Dickens - oldest Grand Ol Opry member

Little Jimmy Dickens who Hank Williams Sr. nicknamed "tater" dies on January 2, 2014 in Nashville.

Cause of death: cardiac arrest after a stroke.

Tipped by Danny Campbell

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RIP Donna Douglas Elly May Clampett dead at 81

Donna Douglas has indeed said, "HOWDY" to her maker and is dead.

According  to Steve Cox, author of the book The Beverly Hillbillies, Max Baer has confirmed this.

There is talk that she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about 4 months ago.

According to Shelly Brown of The Browns gospel singers.

There is finally an legit news agency reporting it.

Things are funky though.  The Examiner published a lengthy obit, but took it down.

Some douche on Wikipedia posted a death date, then took it down, then put it back up, then took it down.  EXHAUSTING.

Donna sued Disney for stealing the idea for Sister Act.  They offered he a settlement, she refused and pursued more.  She lost  She sued Mattel for creating a Barbie Doll in her image.  She settled with them.  She wasn't gonna let that shit happen again.

Donna was a kind and shy woman.  Very shy.  EXTREMELY shy.  

Bananas.

RIP Edward Hermann Gilmore Girls star dies at 71

RIP Actor Edward Hermann

Gilmore Girls, Richie Rich, The Lost Boys

Dead at 71 in New York

Hermann had been diagnosed with brain cancer.

Soure:  VARIETY

Legendary Falcon Studios on Hollywood Blvd. being destroyed.

Falcon Studios located at 5526 Hollywood Blvd. since 1929 has been destroyed.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Barrymore, Ronald Coleman, Errol Flynn, they all studied fencing under Ralph Faulkner "Swashbuckler to the Stars'.

This is unsurprising:  The Los Angeles City Council gave it Landmark Status

then took it away.

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Oh wait, they kept the facade.  HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!

It's making way for a $100-million "mixed use" apartment complex and retail development.

So what else.

RIP Voiceover Artist Christine Cavanaugh - 1963 - 2014

Voiceover artist Christine Cavanaugh died on December 22 in Los Angeles.

She was 51.

Cause of death unknown.

Babe the pig, Oblina, Chucky from Rugrats.  RIP.

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RIP Luise Rainer 1910 - 2014

Luise Rainer died today in her London home.  She was 104

I had a chance to rub shoulders with her once. I mean, really actually rub shoulders.  I was at Ian McKellan's surprise 60th birthday party (I swear.  Prob 100 people.  Sting sang Happy Birthday) and Luise was there.  When she was getting a piece of birthday cake, I brushed up against her on purpose.

Right up there with Thora Hird running over my foot with her wheelchair.

RIP

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