Not that I'm a big fan or anything, but some other people may be so I thought I'd pass the info on.... R&B Singer Teddy Pendergrass died today of colon cancer.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100114/...pendergrass_42

R.i.p.

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Jean Simmons has died after losing her battle with lung cancer at the age of 80.

The Emmy Award winning British actress, who was recognised for her role in the 1980s drama The Thorn Birds, passed away at her home in Santa Monica on Friday, her agent told the LA Times.

Simmons moved from the UK to Hollywood in the 1950s and won roles playing Estella in Great Expectations, Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and sang with Marlon Brando in Guys And Dolls.

Other Hollywood greats that she starred alongside included Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas.

The Hollywood leading lady was Oscar-nominated for both her role in Hamlet and for her part in the 1969 movie The Happy Ending.

Zelda Rubenstein, best known for her work in Poltergeist, passed away today at the age of 76.

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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movi...ctor-dies.html

RIP Zelda. You were a great presence in many movies. You'll be missed.

Sad news indeed. RIP :(

Rip Zelda you will be greatly missed.

R I P Zelda......go into the light.


almost missed this one......a familiar face to those of us grew up in the 60s/70s

LOS ANGELES : Pernell Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's "Bonanza" at the height of its popularity, then found fame again years later on "Trapper John, M.D.," has died. He was 81.

Roberts, the last surviving member of the classic Western's cast, died of cancer Sunday at his Malibu home, his wife Eleanor Criswell told the Los Angeles Times.

Although he rocketed to fame in 1959 as Adam Cartwright, eldest son of a Nevada ranching family led by Lorne Greene's patriarchal Ben Cartwright, Roberts chafed at the limitations he felt his "Bonanza" character was given.

"They told me the four characters (Greene, himself and Dan Blocker and Michael Landon as his brothers) would be carefully defined and the scripts carefully prepared," he complained to The Associated Press in 1964. "None of it ever happened."

It particularly distressed him that his character, a man in his 30s, had to continually defer to the wishes of his widowed father.

"Doesn't it seem a bit silly for three adult males to get Father's permission for everything they do?" he once asked a reporter.

Roberts agreed to fulfill his six-year contract but refused to extend it, and when he left the series in 1965, his character was eliminated with the explanation that he had simply moved away.

RIP: JD Salinger author of 'Cather in the Rye'

And who would have guessed Salinger was old enough to have known Willa Cather.


But seriously- not many authors had the effect he did on generations of readers.

RIP.