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Actor Peter Graves Dead At 83

1:33PM Adrian Chen | Peter Graves, who starred in the original Mission: Impossible series, is dead. He was 83.
Flotsam & Jetsam

Gay Porn Actor Dies On Camera After Being Tased On Reality Show

8:40PM Maureen OConnor | Police arrested Andrew Grande (porn name Dustin Michaels) with a bag of weed in his possession, which he apparently tried to swallow. When he resisted arrest, they tased him and he choked on the bag. A reality cameraman filmed it. More »
People

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”.
Big Screen

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 »
Big Screen

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 »
People

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. More »
Music

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 »
People

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 »
People

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 »
People

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 »