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Monday, September 14, 2009
People

Jim Carroll, Author

10:15AM Foster Kamer | Jim Carroll, the former drug addict turned prolific poet and writer of The Basketball Diaries, died of a heart attack on Friday at his residence in Manhattan. He was 60. More »
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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 »
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Small Screen

The Girl Who Flipped Off Simon Cowell

12:30AM Brian Moylan | Alexis Cohen, who cursed her way into the spotlight after being rejected from American Idol was struck by a car and killed. Police are investigating the case as a homicide. Let’s hope Cowell has an alibi. More »
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
People

Ed McMahon: TV’s Affable Uncle

12:01AM Richard Lawson | Sad news about the death of Ed McMahon today, a TV icon who represented a disappearing breed—of ubiquitous, up-for-anything TV personality, of a colloquial ease with the camera that transcended any silly show he found himself on. More »
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Music

Rapper Murdered At LA Shopping Mall

11:23PM Hamilton Nolan | Dolla, a 21 year-old Atlanta rapper signed to Akon’s label, was shot and killed yesterday in the parking garage of an LA mall. More »
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Heaven’s Movie Pirates About To Meet Their Worst Nightmare

9:59AM Defamer Hollywood | It is with a heavy heart that we note the passing of former MPAA lobbyist Jack Valenti, an enemy of the movie-pirate menace so terrifying that a future generation of unauthorised downloaders will trade apocryphal stories about the copyright-defending bogeyman in hushed tones while watching illegal copies of Spider-Man 16, visibly trembling as they hear once again how a DVD-ripping friend of a friend’s grandfather once awoke to find Valenti’s hook embedded in the side of her computer and the message STOP RAPING HOLLYWOOD scrawled in blood on the bedroom wall. The LAT has a detailed obituary for those interested in the hyperbole-prone pirate-hunter and ratings system pioneer’s legacy; after the jump, a tribute round-up of our Hollywood sibling’s posts about Valenti’s fascinating thoughts on subjects like elves, the hostess-humping absurdity of the Hayes Code era, and the un-fucking-believable magic boxes that assist outlaws in stealing food from the mouths of honest stuntmen: More »
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