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Al Martino, Godfather Singer, Dead At 82
3:38PM Andrew Belonsky | “Volare” singer Al Martino who played the Don’s godson, Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, has died at the age of 82. Friend Jerry Blavat described Martino, who got his start in 1952, as “the last of the show business legends”.
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Nashville, Laugh In Star Henry Gibson Passes On
7:06AM Richard Rushfield | One of the gigantic comic character actors of modern times, Henry Gibson, died today at age 73 after battling cancer. More »
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Patrick Swayze Is Now Dead. And It’s Sad.
11:06AM Andrew Belonsky | We’ve all known this was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to announce. Patrick Swayze, American actor and icon, has died and, at the tender age of 57, succumbed to pancreatic cancer. More »
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10:40AM Kym Weathersten | Sad news this morning- Patrick Swayze, the actor who made many hearts a’flutter when he refused to put baby in a corner, has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
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Breaking: Patrick Swayze Dead At 57
10:40AM Kym Weathersten | Sad news this morning- Patrick Swayze, the actor who made many hearts a’flutter when he refused to put baby in a corner, has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
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DJ AM Found Dead
10:12AM Ryan Tate | Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, the nightclub disk jockey who not one year ago narrowly escaped death in a jet crash, was found dead in his New York apartment. He was 36. More »
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Dominick Dunne, Author
7:33AM Pareene | Dominick Dunne, chronicler of crime, celebrity, and the intersection of the two, has died at 83. Dunne had been suffering from bladder cancer. More »
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Ted Kennedy: 1932-2009
12:42AM Pareene | Edward Kennedy, the last surviving son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, was the third-longest serving US Senator of all time. He was a drunken degenerate. And he might’ve been the best argument for the US Senate ever elected. More »
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Ted Kennedy Dead At 77
3:22PM Andrew Belonsky | Ted Kennedy survived years in Washington, but, sadly, he couldn’t survive brain cancer. The long-serving American Senator succumbed to the disease this evening, thus ending an illustrious, at times scandalous and always headline-grabbing life. More »
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AP’s First Female Photog Dies
12:25PM Andrew Belonsky | Mary Morris Lawrence, the first female photographer for the AP, has died at the age of 95.
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