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In 2007, French model Isabelle Caro famously posed for an anti-anorexia billboard plastered in Milan during fashion week. Today, various media outlets are reporting that Caro has died. More »
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The singer was found dead yesterday at the age of 54. Known as the "Ivory Queen of Soul," she was one of the very few white artists to sign with Motown records. Additional track below. More »
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After fighting chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than 21 years, two-time Oscar nominee Jill Clayburgh has died. Her final film, the upcoming Bridesmaids, hits theaters in 2011, but it's her work during the 1970s that made her so legendary. More »
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Gloria Stuart, who played Rose in Titanic has died at the age of 100. More »
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Richards, grandmother of 12, was the voice of Rudolph in the 1964 TV special. She was often credited as "Billy" Richards, to obscure her gender. Although the specials aired for decades, she only earned residuals for three years. More »
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Star of '40s/'50s MGM movie musicals like Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate, the actress died in Los Angeles yesterday at the age of 88. Great quote about why she never wrote a memoir, at the link. [Death Beeper] More »
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A garment by Alexander McQueen is not necessarily a "safe" pick for a celebrity. More »
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The man whose name was often followed by the words "enfant terrible" was found dead today in London. While he may be remembered as a bad boy, it's more likely that he will be called a visionary. More »
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Alaina Reed Hall, who played Olivia for 12 years on the PBS kids' show, died on December 17 in Los Angeles. You may not know this, but Alaina Reed had an impressive career: More »
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In the Times' Patrick Swayze obituary, Anita Gates writes that though he was diagnosed with cancer in January 2008, six months later he'd already outlived his prognosis and was filmed at an airport, smiling and calling himself "a miracle dude." More »
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The director, producer and writer responsible for hugely popular movies like National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink died today in New York. More to come. [TMZ, Wikipedia] More »
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Naomi Sims, the first black model on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal in November 1968, died over the weekend at the age of 61. Her obituaries reveal a classic American rags-to-riches tale: More »
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It's been a year since Heath Ledger died, but many of his friends and colleagues have never spoken publicly about the beloved actor. Until now. Entertainment Weekly has the scoop: More »
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The fashion critic known as Mr. Blackwell died Sunday after an illness, reports the Associated Press. He was 86. Born Richard Sylvan Selzer in 1922, Mr. Blackwell created a career out of being bitchy and snarky — decades before the internet was born. Though Blackwell started out as an actor, he abandoned stage and screen after failing to "make it." At age 36, he switched gears and went into creating fashion, claiming to be the first to make designer jeans for women. He had a few Hollywood clients when he first issued his list of fashion faux pas in 1960. In a world where everyone worshiped movie stars, being the guy who tore idols down quickly made Mr. Blackwell famous. More »
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Today it was announced that CosmoGirl! is folding. Hearst has decided to "consolidate its teen publishing activities into Seventeen," though the CosmoGirl! brand will continue online. Founded by Atoosa Rubenstein in 2000, CosmoGirl! was the smarter, less sex-obsessed little sister of Cosmopolitan. Atoosa supposedly came up with the idea of CosmoGirl! in 48 hours, reportedly scrawling the word "girl" in lipstick over and over on mockup covers while in bed with her husband. (She became the youngest editor-in-chief in Hearst Magazine's 100 year history, but left for Seventeen in 2003.) As for CosmoGirl!, the splashy, colorful magazine managed to cram everything teenage girls really care about inside each issue: More »
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If ever there was an icon for the union of the personal and the political, it was lesbian activist Del Martin, who died yesterday at 87. Martin and her partner Phyllis Lyon cofounded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in the US, and they also married each other twice, once during San Francisco's "Winter of Love" in 2004, and again on June 16 of this year in the first legal gay marriage in California. Of California's legalization of gay marriage, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Kate Kendall said, "It would not be happening if it were not for Del and Phyllis." Which turns out to be true of many advances in LGBT rights dating all the way back to the 1950s, and of a fifty-five-year partnership now receiving much-deserved public honor. More »
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