death

Flotsam & Jetsam

Dudes With Fancy Water Bottles Have The Hardest Penii

3:54AM Hamilton Nolan | Hippie yupsters have always been like, “I don’t use plastic water bottles cause their chemicals cause cancer”, or whatever and we just laugh at them, but it turns out those people are the ones with the best erections. More »
Print

In Memorian, Vol. 3

6:17AM Hamilton Nolan | Here, the victims of the Great Magazine Die-Off of 2008-2009. Good lord. It keeps getting bigger. [Pic by Anna Edwards]
Print

Newspaper Heiress Had Problems

12:49AM Hamilton Nolan | Anne Morell Petrillo, 38-year-old heiress to the Scripps newspaper fortune, jumped to her death off the Tappan Zee bridge last week. Trauma from a bad marriage and her mom’s brutal murder? Perhaps. But the NYT has an additional theory: More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Time To Work Yourself To Death

6:20AM Hamilton Nolan | The Way We Live Now: On the job. Who can afford to retire? Who can afford to take a vacation? Who can afford to stop thinking about making money for one single instant? Nobody we know. More »
People

DJ AM: The Aftermath, Tributes, And Legacy

10:16AM Foster Kamer | DJ AM – nee Adam Goldberg – was the Kevin Bacon of LA’s music-celebrity scene, except he was connected to everyone by two degrees. His death gets more tragic as it unfolds. The outpouring for him out there’s large. More »
People

Sandford Dody, Ghostwriter

5:56AM Pareene | Sandford Dody, author of multiple best-sellers, died July 4 at 90 years old. If his name is unfamiliar, it may be because it did not appear on the covers of his books. More »
Big Screen

Should Bruno Cut Its LaToya Jackson Scene?

4:15AM Richard Lawson | Bruno is involved in the whole Michael Jackson foofaraw, of course. There’s a scene in the film where the Austrian gay toys with LaToya Jackson and tries to get her brother’s phone number from her BlackBerry. Should Universal cut it? More »
People

Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson’s Doctor?

3:38AM Hamilton Nolan | When Jermaine Jackson made a statement on his brother’s death last night, he noted that Michael Jackson’s family physician was with him when he collapsed. But was he? And where is that doctor now? The world is looking for him. More »
Online

Daily News Breaks Farrah’s Death Before It Happens?

5:07AM Hamilton Nolan | The New York Daily News tried to say it broke the news of Farrah Fawcett’s death online before it even happened. Time stamp proof: More »
People

Noted Forensic Expert Definitively Rules Out Suicide In Carradine Case

8:21AM the cajun boy | Just as some had specualted, New York-based forensic scientist Michael Baden announced this afternoon that he has reviewed the case of David Carradine and ruled out the possibility of suicide, to which we say, duh! More »