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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Broadsides: As Always, Oprah Winfrey Is Ruining It For The Rest Of Us |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Broadsides, Cervical Cancer, Congo, Obesity, Obituaries, Oprah Winfrey, Pregnancy, Rich Women, Sikh Weddings, Violence Against Women |
| Women between the ages of 50 and 70 are about to become the richest demographic in the United States, claims writer Marti Barletta. We'd see this as cause for celebration except that the inclusion of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Broadsides: Thank God Donatella Versace Makes Fashion, Not Babies |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| Tags: Abortion, Boxing, Broadsides, Hiv, Italian Women, Menopause, Obituaries, Pregnancy |
| Italian women over the age of 40 are having more babies than similarly-aged women in any other western industrialized country. But the U.S. is not far behind! [Guardian] Speaking of wombs: A group... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Hal Fishman passes away * |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 12:12 pm |
| Tags: Los Angeles, Obituaries, Television |
| The face of KTLA news died this morning at home, the station announced. Fishman was 75 and had suffered from colon and liver cancer and an infection. He last anchored the news on July 30. Fishman began to anchor Channel 5's nightly news in 1975. The station's story says that makes him the longest-running anchor in television history. He also was |
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| Fishman gets 31 minutes |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 3:00 am |
| Tags: Los Angeles, Obituaries, Television |
| KTLA's Prime News team remembered and praised their late anchor and managing editor Hal Fishman for the first half of the broadcast tonight. When they finally broke for the news, the top story was Barry Bonds clobbering his record-breaking 756th home run in San Francisco. After a few other stories, the broadcast returned to focus on Fishman with |
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| Blogging his son's death |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 2:37 am |
| Tags: Obituaries |
| Ed Padgett, the blogging pressman at the Times' Olympic plant downtown, posted this morning that a coroner had just delivered the awful news that his son Bryan died in a traffic accident. The best wishes of everyone at LA Observed go out to Ed and his family. |
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| Former Wisconsin State Journal biz reporter dies |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 3:02 am |
| Tags: Information, Obituaries |
| Roger Gribble, a longtime reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal who was a business reporter during the latter part of his career, has died of cancer, according to a story in the paper. William Wineke wrote, “Even shortly before his death, he took telephone calls from friends wishing to say goodbye and dictated the words by which he wished |
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| Remembering Ron Brown |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 12:45 pm |
| Tags: Obituaries |
| The death of the, ahem, colourful MP Ron Brown reminded me of one of my favourite political posters, posted everywhere in my student days. Mr Brown, then sitting for Labour, had visited Afghanistan during the Soviet ascendancy there. He claimed... |
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| Merv Griffin Dies at 82 |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 3:44 pm |
| Tags: Television, Obituaries, Gossip |
| Merv Griffin died early Sunday of prostate cancer. He was 82. Griffin got his start as a $100-a-week San Francisco, California, radio singer before he scored his own show, “The Merv Griffin Show”. But his biggest financial success came from inventing and producing “Jeopardy” in the 1960s and “Wheel of Fortune” |
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| WWE Wrestler Brian Crush Adams Dies |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 1:01 pm |
| Tags: Pro Wrestling, Sports Obituaries, Brian Crush Adams, Dies, Wcw, Wrestler, Wwe, Wwf |
| Brian “Crush” Adams, 1964-2007 Former WWE wrestler Brian Adams, known to fans as “Crush”, died Monday of unknown causes. He was found by his wife unconscious in bed and not breathing. Adams’ wife called 911, but the 44-year-old could not be revived. According to Wiki, Adams gained fame while he was with the [...] |
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| TV Obits: Callahan, Tuttle, Handelman |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 10:01 am |
| Tags: Charles In Charge, Ed Sullivan, James Callahan, Jamescallahan, Scott Baio, Stanley Myron Handelman, Stanleymyronhandelman, Television Obituaries, The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show Johnny Carson, The Twilight Zone, Tv Deaths, Tvdeaths, William Tuttle, Young Franke |
| under: Celebrities, ObituariesA roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away. James Callahan: He played the grandfather on Charles In Charge. He had appearances on several shows over the years, including Medium, ER, Promised Land, Cybill, Caroline in the City, Picket Fences, Golden Girls, |
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| Master jazz drummer Max Roach dead at 83 |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Obituaries |
| Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington's drummer fell ill in 1940. |
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| Michael Deaver, Reagan insider was 69 |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 12:07 am |
| Tags: Los Angeles, Obituaries |
| Michael Deaver worked for Ronald Reagan in the governor's office and in the White House and was known both as a clever image shaper and one of the insiders who would speak up to the boss. He later became a Washington lobbyist and in 1987 was convicted on three counts of perjury for lying to a House subcommittee and a federal grand jury about |
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| Leona 'Queen of Mean' Helmsley dead at 87 |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 10:22 am |
| Tags: Obituaries |
| NEW YORK -- Leona Helmsley, the hotelier who went to prison as a tax cheat and was reviled as the "queen of mean," died today at age 87. Leona Helmsley in 1997.She died of heart failure at her summer... |
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| Ex-mayor, freeholder Luger dies at 74 |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 6:39 pm |
| Tags: Morris County, Politics, Obituaries |
| Former Denville mayor and Morris County freeholder Walter Luger has died in Florida following a brief illness. He was 74. Luger was a Republican councilman in Denville from 1972-75 and mayor from 1976-79. He then was elected to the... |
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| TV Obits: Hodge, Collier, Boyd |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 12:04 pm |
| Tags: Batman, Chet Collier, Ed Edd N Eddy, Ededdneddy, Fox News, Foxnews, Max Hodge, Mr Freeze, Paul Boyd, Tv Obits, Tv Obituaries, Tvobits |
| under: Celebrities, ObituariesA roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away. Max Hodge: He was a writer who worked on several TV shows over the years, including Mission: Impossible, Wild Wild West, CHiPs, Ironside, Alias Smith and Jones, The Waltons, Eight is Enough, The Amazing Chan and |
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