Our beloved Miss Teschmacher from Superman: The Movie , one Ms. Valerie Perrine , has passed.  She was 82. Perrine starred in movies like S...

We're sad to report that comic artist and story-teller Sam Kieth has passed.   Kieth was the original artist on The Sandman , one of th...

Chuck Norris - sometime Texan, internet meme, ace martial artist, actor, star of B-movies and the long running Walker: Texas Ranger  - has p...

Tom Noonan is one of the best actors I ever saw in a movie.  I've never gotten over his performance in What Happened Was...     He was ...

Back in an era when the news media was functional, I was well aware of Jesse Jackson , his history and some of what he stood for.  From a yo...

Actor Robert Duvall has passed.  He was 95 .   Gen-X and older have a place in their hearts and minds for Duvall who starred in *something...

I don't know what it says about me that of the famous people whose passing I regularly note, this is maybe the third that genuinely upse...

Sal Buscema was just one of those names I learned to recognize as one of the greats when I got into comics .   The truth is, artists come, ...

prepare to get weepy. This is the first time in a while I've been surprised by so many names as they went by - I simply didn't hea...

Legendary Texas Musician Joe Ely has passed.  He was 78. More here . Ely was part of the Flatlanders and continued to perform up until ver...

I hate this.  I hate writing this.   No one deserves to die the way Rob Reiner and his wife Michele passed.   Most of the time, I'm able...

Udo Kier , an actor who has been in a ridiculous number of movies, has passed . Kier was in some of Andy Warhol 's films, Suspiria , and...

I first came across Diane Ladd - at least saying "I know that actress is named Diane Ladd" - when I rented Wild at Heart in high...

Huh.  Dick Cheney died.

June Lockhart, born during the silent era of film and when Calvin Coolidge was president of the US, and who had her first credit in 1938 (th...

  Artist Drew Struzan, who painted the iconic posters for a wide, wide range of favorite movies during my lifetime, has passed. I include th...

Diane Keaton has passed at the age of 79. I think for a lot of folks, across a few generations, this one is going to hit hard.  Keaton as a...

Dr. Jane Goodall , scientist, primatologist and conservationist, has passed. In 1960, Jane Goodall was not even a trained scientist when sh...

Actress Claudia Cardinale has passed at the age of 87 . Cardinale, who hailed from Italy, appeared in a handful of American films.  She'...

Robert Redford, actor, producer, director, activist and all-around okay guy, has passed. I'll say it:  I've never seen Redford deliv...