passings

Small Screen

Vale Don Lane

4:21PM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia was sad to learn that entertainer Don Lane has passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. More »
Music

Vale Dean Turner

9:52AM Jess McGuire | Some terrible news for the Australian music world today – Dean Turner, bass player for Magic Dirt, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. More »
Small Screen

Vale Mollie Sugden

3:41PM Jess McGuire | I was sad to learn today that Mollie Sugden, a woman famous around the world for playing the role of pussy-referencing department store employee Mrs Slocombe on bawdy British comedy Are You Being Served, has passed away at the age of 86. More »
Big Screen

Vale Charles “Bud” Tingwell

3:30PM Jess McGuire | Australian film and television icon Charles “Bud” Tingwell passed away this morning aged 86. More »
Small Screen

Vale Andy Hallet

9:45AM Jess McGuire | Sad news today – Andy Hallet, the American actor who played the role of Lorne in Joss Whedon’s Angel, has passed away at the age of 33. More »

A Look Back At Loki

4:10AM Kyle Buchanan | The tragic, pre-Oscar passing of Mickey Rourke’s chihuahua, Loki, is clearly the most ill-timed thing to have happened since Barack Obama’s grandmother died just before the election. Join us for a Loki retrospective. More »

Oh Heavenly Dog: Mickey Rourke’s Loki Is Dead

2:10AM Kyle Buchanan | Oscar season has claimed its first victim. Mickey Rourke’s treasured, constant companion—his Chihuahua, Loki—is dead at age 18. More »

Ricardo Montalbán: 1920 – 2009

8:03AM Seth | It’s with heavy heart that we pass along news of Ricardo Montalbán’s passing today, announced at a City Council meeting by president Eric Garcetti. He was 88. More »

Book Soup Owner Glenn Goldman Dies At Age 58

7:07AM Seth | Glenn Goldman, the proprietor of Book Soup, died at age 58 Saturday from pancreatic cancer, one day after announcing he’d be selling the Sunset Strip landmark. More »

2008: A Bad Year For Staying Alive

2:35AM Seth | 2008 was a banner year for celebrity deaths, beginning with the most shocking—Heath Ledger—and ending with the sound of a single, melancholy meow echoing across a cloudy night sky. More »