Archive for August, 2008
Posted by celeborama on August 27, 2008
Andre Young, Jr., the 20 year old son of Rapper Dr. Dre, was found dead by his mother in their Woodland Hills home Saturday.
An autopsy was performed Monday, but the county coroner, Lt. John Kades indicated Andre’s cause of death possibly wouldn’t be determined for weeks until toxicology tests are done.
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Posted by celeborama on August 26, 2008
Fred Crane, the old-school actor whose distinct Southern drawl got him a role in the 1939 classic film as one of Scarlett O’Hara’s suitors in “Gone With the Wind,” has died. Crane played the part of one of the Tarleton twins.
Crane came by his role by chance when he accompanied his cousin to the movie audition. His accent was such a hit he landed the role of Brent Tarleton, the character that spoke the opening lines to the movie, “What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is going to start any day now, so we’d have left college anyhow.”
Scarlett, played by the beautiful Vivien Leigh, replied to Brent and his twin brother, played by George Reeves (who later played Superman), “Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream.”
His 5th wife, Terry Lynn Crane, said that he died Thursday of complications from diabetes. She did not give any further details. He was 90 years old an is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Posted in Deaths, Movies, News, Television, Uncategorized | Tagged: Celebrity Deaths, classic movies, Fred Crane, Gone With The Wind, movie news, obituaries, Vivien Leigh | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 25, 2008
This just on the net:
This just hasn’t been the Barenaked Ladies’ year. First, cofounder Steven Page gets busted for drugs. Now this.
BNL’s lead singer and principal songwriter, Ed Robertson, and three others narrowly averted disaster Sunday, walking away unscathed from a float-plane crash near Bancroft, Ontario…
To read the rest of the story, Read Josh Grossberg’s Account HERE.
Posted in Artists, News, music | Tagged: Bare Naked Ladies, Celebrity News, Ed Robertson, music, music news, News, Pop music, Rock | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 24, 2008
Four relatives of actress Helena Bonham Carter died in a minibus crash during a safari vacation in South Africa on Wednesday, according to the UK newspaper, Telegraph…
For more on this story, GO HERE.
Posted in Deaths, News, World | Tagged: breaking news, Celebrity Deaths, Helena Bonham Carter, Movies, News, South Africa, Terminator Salvation, World | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 21, 2008
Click on the link below for a complete list of medal winners, their medal and the type of sport. The list is down the page so just scroll down once you get there. Congratulations to all the amazing athletes that won this year, as well as thanks to the ones that dedicate their lives to making the U.S.A. proud on the field of competition! I hope this experience has blessed them all and made them better human beings.
U.S.A. Complete List of Medal Winners, Beijing, 2008.
Go, U.S.A.!
(The list will be updated periodically so be sure and bookmark the page link and visit it again soon!)
Posted in Events, News, Olympics, World, sports | Tagged: Beijing Olympics, Bronze, Gold, News, Olympic Medal Winners, Silver, sports, U.S.A. Medal Count, U.S.A. Olympic teams, World News | 1 Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 21, 2008
Two elderly Chinese women who applied during the Olympic Games to protest the loss of their homes have been ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday, as more foreign activists were detained.
The women were still at home three days after being officially notified they would have to serve a yearlong term of reeducation through labor, but were under surveillance by a neighborhood watch group, said Li Xuehui, the son of one of the women…
For more on this post, Check out this WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE.
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Image Is Everything, Law and Order, News, Olympics, Politics, World, sports | Tagged: Beijing, Beijing Olympics, China, Communist China, Human Rights Abuse, Labor Camps, Olympic games, Police State, Protesters sentenced to labor camp | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 21, 2008
Posted in Children of the Stars, Deaths, Movies, News, Uncategorized | Tagged: Celebrity Deaths, Colin Farrell, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Matilda Ledger | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 21, 2008

Stephanie Tubbs Jones
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio has died.
Eileen Sheil, a clinic spokeswoman, states Tubbs Jones died at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function…
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Wiki
Official Government Website of Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
Posted in Deaths, News, Politics | Tagged: Democratic, obituaries, Politics, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Super Delegate Death | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 20, 2008
Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong’s successor as Chinese Communist Party chairman, has died. He was 87.
Guofeng died at 12:50 pm in Beijing of an as yet unspecified illness.
His death marked the passing of one of the last of an old guard of Communist leaders who had lived through the Mao era… read the rest of the post HERE: MAO’S SUCCESSOR DIES AT 87.
Also, check out the HUA GUOFENG WIKI.
Posted in Deaths, Image Is Everything, News, World | Tagged: Beijing, Beijing Olympics, China, Communism, Communist China, Deaths, Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong, obituaries, Past Communist Leaders | Leave a Comment »
Posted by celeborama on August 20, 2008
Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group’s founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.
You can find the rest of the story HERE.
You can also go to the Dave Matthews Band site from this tribute page (just click anywhere on the page to click through to the DMB site.)
Posted in Deaths, News, music | Tagged: Celebrity Deaths, Dave Matthews Band, jazz, LeRoi Moore, music, music news, obituaries, saxaphone | Leave a Comment »