Character actress Sandra de Bruin , 85, died of the flu (get your vaccines, dear readers!) on Jan. 30, it was just announced. Although...

Actor Gerald Dwight "Wings" Hauser , 77, died this week, it was announced on March 20. The son of writer and actor Dwight Hauser, he...

New York’s MTA has just announced that it will discontinue the hugely annoying Metrocard  next year in favor of an even worse idea: you...

Nadia Cassini , an American girl who moved to Italy and became a star of sex comedies, died on March 18. She was 76. Born in Woodstock,...

West Side Story dancer Carole D’Andrea , 87, died on March 17. D’Andrea played slinky Velma, the girlfriend of Riff (Mickey Calin...

High-octane comic Lenny Schultz , 91, died on March 17. Schultz was said to be an influence on Robin Williams, Gallagher, and Carrot Top,...

TV and movie writer David Steven Cohen , 58, died of cancer, it was announced on March 17. Cohen’s breakthrough project was the animated...

Fashion store Forever 21  announced on March 17 that it will be filing for a (second) bankruptcy, and will be shuttering all of its...

Singer/songwriter Jesse Colin Young , of the Youngbloods, died on March 16. He was 83. Young began performing in the early ’60s, and...

Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne , 43, died of adrenal cancer on March 16. Dequenne won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress...

British actress Eileen Bennett , 105, died on March 9. The native Londoner appeared in about a dozen films from 1939-42, including He...

Italian stage, screen, and TV actress Maria Grazia Spina , 88, died this week, it was announced today. Born in Venice, Spina never became...

German writer and actress Peggy Parnass , 97, died on March 12. Parnass was the only one of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust...

British drag queen David Raven , who performed as Maisie Trollette , died on March 12. He was 91. He was working as a waiter and drag...

Voice-over actor Dave Mallow , 76, died on March 11. After long career as Midwestern radio announcer, he moved to L.A. and was able to...

I don’t usually cover politics, but Sir Francis Billy Hilly ? I’m only human. He died on March 10, age 76; his bio begins, “Francis Billy...

Korean pop singer Choi Whee-sung , who performed as Wheesung , was found dead in his apartment on March 10. He was 43, and the cause was...

Blockbuster movie producer Stanley R. Jaffe , 84, died on March 10. From 1969 through 2002, Jaffe produced such hits as Goodbye Columbus,...

Songwriter and record producer Beau Dozier , 45, died this week, it was announced on March 10 (what wasn’t announced was how he died)....

British character actor Simon Fisher-Becker , 63, died on March 9. The London-born actor had a long career in theater and radio, as well...