Articles tagged with: dead celebrities
Is your voice so husky, growling and croaky that it borders on the emphysemic? It is? Great - Hollywood's got an opening for you. That's because Don LaFontaine has died. You know Don LaFontaine - he's the man who has done the voiceover for every single movie trailer in the history of time. The man with the voice so intimidatingly authoritative that if he slipped the phrase 'now take off your trousers' into a trailer, cinemas everywhere would end up full of shivering confused people in their knickers. Yeah, him. He's dead. It's being reported that Don LaFontaine died of complications arising from pneumonia, but let's hope he hasn't gone to heaven. Chances are his voice would have made God's sound weedy and effeminate in comparison, and we hear that God gets really quite vengeful when he thinks someone's got a bigger willy than him.
The death of Andre Young Jr - the 20-year-old son of Dr Dre - has shocked many, mainly because nobody seems to know why he even died. Andre Young Jr was found dead on Saturday morning. However, the auopsy carried out on his body offered no clues into his cause of death. And that means that everyone involved will have to go through an uncomfortable wait while a toxicology test is carried out. As sad as this obviously is, the parallels between Dr Dre's son and Anna Nicole Smith are painfully clear. In short this story will probably go on forever, with weird scary clown facepaint videos and a lengthy investigation into the paternity of Andre Young Jr's bab... no, wait, it's nothing like Anna Nicole Smith's death. Sorry.
Comedian Bernie Mac died on Saturday after complications arose from his pneumonia. And we'll be the first to hold our hands up and say: we 'effed up. Both in printing a story with contradictory information, entitled 'See - We Told You Bernie Mac Was Going to be Okay', then going on to delete said story from the site when news of Bernie's death broke - it was a kneejerk reaction that, in hindsight, probably wasn't the best of ideas. In frantically trying to minimise the offence caused by the post, we ended up going against what hecklerspray is all about - so for both of these reasons above we say sorry. Just as it was not our intention to say anything truly offensive, it was also not our intention to print misinformation concerning Mac's health. Unfortunately, this is the way it sometimes goes with the Hollywood lark, and relying on the statements of a publicist who is saying the actor was getting better is something we will probably do less of in future, as it's ended up with us looking like a right bunch of idiots.
There are some 'are they-aren't they?' games that we prefer not to play, as they're simply not as much fun as they should be. Assuming that Angelina Jolie has had herself some kids is one version of the game we're more than willing to play. Even when it's as clearly wrong as some people can be. That's almost fun, if you're into that kind of thing. But a new take on the game seems to have been popping up over the course of the year - first we had Patrick Swayze and his cancer that was definitely going to kill him within weeks, then it didn't, leaving the public confused and Swayze looking healthier than ever. Now it's the turn of Bernie "I took over from Bill Murray in Charlie's Angels" Mac to keep the press and public frantically guessing as to whether he's actually alive, dying or dead. Frankly, it's quite a morbid game and we don't want to play much.
Amy Winehouse used to be a healthy, fit women, whose only ghastly features were the tattoos that made her look like some sort of burly transvestite sailor. However, heavy drinking and smoking have alarmingly made her thinner, sicker and a bit more violent. Oh, and there’s the drugs. You can’t forget about the drugs. Anyway, all of this combined might be about to kill her, her Dad says. Who'd have guessed?
Beloved children's entertainer or feared icon striking terror into the hearts of those clever enough to realise that clowns are created from pure, distilled evil - however you look at him the news is the same: Bozo the clown has passed on.
Larry Harmon, credited not with the creation of the Bozo character but with the popularisation of an existing clown and in the process the creation of a legend, died of congestive heart failure on Thursday, aged 83. It is unconfirmed whether he was in full costume at the time, though we hope he was - just so the man could get one last smile from the world.
Soap operas are brilliant, aren’t they? They all give a retrospective insight into life in the various locations where they are all filmed.
In Emmerdale for instance, all the characters belong to rival farming tribes and live in the middle of nowhere. Coronation Street is full of a variety of characters, from the old, young and transsexual. But the best has to be EastEnders. It's attempt at showing murky gangster activity is hilarious. All these soaps also have one thing in common.
It doesn't matter how legendary a soap character is, as soon as they've been killed off they'll never work on television again. For one unlucky EastEnders character, their 14-year stint is soon to be over. But who is it? Find out after the jump.
Sad news - George Carlin, the man known to various generations as either a groundbreaking taboo-shattering comedian or Rufus from Bill And Ted - has died.
According to reports, George Carlin died of heart failure after being admitted to St. John's Health Centre in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon,
complaining of chest pain. He was 71.George Carlin's career is littered with landmarks - he hosted the first-ever Saturday Night Live, for example, while
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