by Abb Jones The Reelness 30 years after her initial diagnosis, breast cancer has claimed the life of one of the world’s best-selling musical artists, four-time Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Olivia Newton-John. Newton-John’s husband John Easterling says she died peacefully at her home near Santa Barbara, California Monday morning, surrounded by loved ones, just […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Director Ivan Reitman, the man behind such iconic comedies as Animal House, Dave, Kindergarten Cop and Ghostbusters, has died at age 75. His family says he died peacefully Saturday night in his sleep at his home in Montecito, California. Born in 1946 in Komarmo, Czechoslovakia, where his father owned the […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Ed Asner, whose role as the tough talking newsroom boss Lou Grant won him five of his record-setting seven Emmys on two different shows – three for Mary Tyler Moore, then two more on CBS’ Lou Grant – has died. He was 91. Only Uzo Aduba shares the distinction of […]
Diana Rigg, the Tony and Emmy award winning actress who career included the iconic 1960s TV series The Avengers, a slew of stage and screen performances, a stint as a Bond girl, and more recently, success as sharp-tongued Lady Olenna in Game of Thrones, has died at age 82. Rigg, who was diagnosed with cancer […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Olivia de Havilland, the oldest surviving Oscar winner and one of the last of Hollywood’s Golden Era, has died of natural causes at the age of 104. De Havilland died overnight in her sleep at her home in Paris, where she had lived for the past 64 years. Following her […]
The Marvel Universe is mourning the death of an icon. Stan Lee, creator of the modern day comic book, died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. As the top writer at Marvel Comics and later, as its publisher, Lee revived and modernized the comic book industry in the 1960s, creating Spider-Man, the Hulk […]