Category Archives: Dead Celebrities

The great actress Olympia Dukakis was 89, which is a lot of well-deserved curtain calls. There’s an incredible body of work that she leaves behind; she was so much more than Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias. Variety has a lovely obituary with … Continue reading →

Cousin Itt has left the building. Felix Silla, who played the mumbling, long-haired Cousin Itt on the 1960s television comedy “The Addams Family,” died Friday. He was 84… Silla started off as a stunt man before he was cast as … Continue reading →

The transition into the Prince Philip News on BBC R1 Dance was something else 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/HoYseQMcYa — Mark Holt (@MarkHolt4) April 9, 2021 How could they tell? (I don’t know what happened to the post, WordPress seems to have written … Continue reading →

G. Gordon Liddy, who resembled a Warner Brothers cartoon villain in real life, and was the mastermind of a cartoonish burglary that brought down a real villain —Tricky Dick— has gone to his great reward, which no doubt involves serving … Continue reading →

Jessica Walter was a rare talent, she could play any role, but when she found comedy (or did it find her?), it was a match made in heaven, and there’s gonna be big guffaws in the great beyond. She was … Continue reading →

Norton Juster, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ Author, Dies at 91 I owe the world to Mr. Juster. The Phantom Tollbooth is what made me fall in love with wordplay when I was a kid. I still reread it just for the … Continue reading →

Ol’ Scratch throws another log on the fire to welcome home favorite son the junkie Rush Limbaugh, who died today of lung cancer. I wished for Rush EVERYTHING he ever wished for me, my family, and my friends. And you … Continue reading →

Look, he was a complicated person, and there’s so much more to him than a pornographer, and it feels weird to call him a first amendment hero, and yet here I am. Instructive Quote from Mr. Flynt: “If the First … Continue reading →