There may be a hint of back-to-school in the air, but it’s still officially summer. Summer ’09. Summer of death. Summer that came in like a lion, and went out like a blood-thirsty madman hell-bent on slaying every beloved person this cruel world has ever known. Summer has now officially claimed its second Kennedy, baby …
The latest victim: your childhood. It brings me great sadness to report that John Hughes, director of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has died of a heart attack at the age of 59. Weep for another victim of Summer 09; weep for the 80s; weep for yourselves, good …
It’s been a cruel summer, folks. Nobody knows this more than acclaimed choreographer Merce Cunningham, who is now dead. Merce joins the ranks of Walter Cronkite, Karl Malden, Billy Mays, Gale Storm, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, David Carradine, Dom Deluise, Oscar Mayer, Frank McCourt, and Mollie Sugden, as victims of the bloodiest celebrity …
Death has been no friend to the glitterati this summer. In truth, Summer 09 is playing out like a real-life celebrity slasher flick, and this weekend was no exception. Frank McCourt and Walter Cronkite are the latest victims cut down in the prime of life, and Hollywood has been left wondering: who’s next? While we …