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more about #deaths more comments → raincoaster: How would you like THAT to be the last thing you saw? #obits more » miss_msry: Lady Gaga etched on his retinas for eternity. There is no god. #obits more » BowlingForDollars: Wow, the song "Paparazzi" takes on another meaning here. #obits more » DaeSu: Why do I have the feeling that Lady Gaga is GG Allin reincarnated? #obits more » RollsRoyceRevenge: Technically speaking, we will all die post-Gaga. That's the way time works. #obits more » TableNein: She must be becoming more powerful. Usually her outfits only cause seizures. #obits more » Matt Cherette: I guess this means she finally loved him? #obits more » Conchie Birdie: Ruth's twitter from about an hour ago says she's packing up. Apparently everyone was given 48hrs to clean out their desks. Nice, Nast. more » misslinda: I'm hearing the Conde layoffs are throughout the entire company/departments, not just the folded mags. Also, there will be drinks later, and by later,... more » m4ximusprim3: In other news, the server hosting "jobs@thebaltimoresun.com" has just exploded in a fiery ball that can be seen from space. more » DahlELama: Well, nothing quite tempers the sadness of learning that nearly 200 journalists were laid off quite like hearing that one was killed. Thanks? more » Magister: Condolences to her family, but I also have to feel for "The Cajun Boy" because he had to watch MSNBC. more » son of spam: I've been involved with the Special Olympics in the past and can't say enough good things about that organization and her work on its behalf. Her dea... more » raincoaster: Play him off, Keyboard Cat. more » JimJoeJack: NEVER READ so much anti coke ranting at the Gawk before. Most of y'all star-havin folks like to claim casual sex and yayo like this is Brazil, but you... more » -
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Paparazzo Dies Post-Gaga
Celebrity photographer A.J. Sokalner was working the rope line at the ACE Awards in Manhattan last night. Just after Lady Gaga arrived, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. Not how anyone deserves to go. [PDN] -
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Close to 200 Layoffs at Conde
In your deathly Monday media column: More details on today's Conde Nast purge, point-counterpoint on Tribune Co's criminal management, an online news operation folds, and a journalist is killed. More » -
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MSNBC just announced that Eunice Kennedy Shriver passed away around 2am this morning.
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Cocaine Implicated in Billy Mays' Death
Billy Mays died from heart disease, but final autopsy reports cite cocaine was a contributing factor in the TV ad-man's death, AP reports. More » -
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This is probably the best remembrance of John Hughes you could ever possibly read.
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Budd Schulberg, the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, has died at 95.
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A central figure in the New Jersey corruption/organ-trafficking case has been found dead.
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Today in Autopsies
Happy Autopsy Day! Michael Jackson's revealed him to be a hairless disfigured ghoul, but was also fake. Billy Mays' found that he died of heart failure, not head trauma after a rough airplane landing. More » -
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Billy Mays: Mr. As-Seen-On-TV, Dead At 50
Billy Mays, TV salesman, was found discovered dead this morning by his wife. There are no signs of foul play. Mays was 50 years-old. More » -
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Was the Times' Alessandra Stanley Too Hard on Farrah Fawcett?
We've received many emails tonight from readers taking issue with an Alessandra Stanley piece in the Times on Farrah Fawcett. Maybe it's the lede—"She really tried. And for a sex symbol that alone can be like an accomplishment." More » -
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Michael Jackson Dies at 50
Updated The King of Pop Michael Jackson has passed away, according to TMZ, after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home. Paramedics arrived on the scene but were unable to revive him. More » -
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Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009
Actress, model and international sex symbol Farrah Fawcett has succumbed to a 3 year battle with cancer. She was 62 years-old. More » -
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Ed McMahon Has Died
Matt Lauer just reported on the Today Show that former Johnny Carson sidekick and TV host Ed McMahon passed away last night at the age of 86. No word is currently available on the cause of death. [MSNBC] -
#tragedies
DC Metro Crash Death Toll Rises
Three more bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the yesterday's Metro train collision overnight, raising the confirmed number of deaths to nine. [WTOP] -
#iran
Details Emerge About Neda, the Face of the Iranian Revolution
Over the past couple of days the world has been captivated by the death of a young woman, Neda, who was gunned down on a Tehran street by Iranian forces. Now details about her are beginning to emerge.
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Holocaust Museum Shooting Victim Dies
Stephen Tyrone Johns, a security guard shot today at the D.C. Holocaust Museum, died after being taken to the hospital. The shooter, suspected to be 88-year-old white supremacist James von Brunn, is in critical condition. [Wash. Post] -
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David Carradine Death Photo Rules Out Suicide
A Bangkok tabloid ran a photo of David Carradine's hanging body that was leaked to them in this morning's edition. The rather disturbing photo definitely shows the actor's hands tied above his head. There's something eerily off, here. More » -
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David Carradine Dead In Bangkok; Early Report Suggests Suicide
David Carradine, who starred in Kung Fu and Kill Bill Vols. I and II, was found dead in his Bangkok hotel room yesterday. A Thai news report says it was a suicide, but his agent in L.A. says it was "natural causes." More » -
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Millvina Dean, the Titanic's last living survivor, died on Sunday. [NYT]
