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Emmy award-winning news anchor Denise D'Ascenzo died Saturday at her Connecticut home. She was 61 and no cause of death was disclosed by the TV outlet, which announced her passing. D'Ascenzo joined television outlet WFSB-TV in 1986 and "through the years has been a steady and reassuring presence on the anchor desk,"…

Juice WRLD, who built a career by posting his melodic hip-hop songs online before signing to a major record label, died Sunday after collapsing from a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead. No cause of death has been revealed and an autopsy…

Caroll Spinney, a puppeteer who brought the beloved Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life, died today at his Connecticut home. He was 85 and died from Dystonia, a movement disorder. His death was announced by the Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit focused on helping preschool-age children reach…

Friends, family, and fellow Hollywood Boulevard costumed characters said goodbye to Christopher Dennis Saturday during his funeral in Los Angeles at Old North Church Forest Lawn. The actor — known as “Hollywood Superman” for donning a Man of Steel costume over more than two decades and entertaining fans along the Walk…

Ron Leibman, who won a Tony Award for his role as Roy Cohn in 1993’s Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, and co-starred with Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-winner Norma Rae, has died from complications of pneumonia. Leibman also won a Primetime Emmy as Lead Actor In A Drama Series for his role as Martin ‘Kaz…

Robert Walker Jr., best known for a classic early Star Trek episode and as the son of Hollywood stars Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, died Thursday in Malibu, according to family members. He was 79. The New York native portrayed the twitchy, callow title character in “Charlie X,” the second episode of Star Trek’s…

Prolific producer and former top film and top executive Leonard Goldberg, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 85, never slowed down. At the time of his death, he was still working as executive producer on the hit CBS cop family drama Blue Bloods starring Tom Selleck. Blue Bloods originated more than a decade ago…

The cast of Blue Bloods, where Leonard Goldberg was an executive producer for one of television’s top-rated shows, has begun sharing their grief online after hearing of his death today at age 85. Tom Selleck, who plays Frank Reagan, the New York Police Commissioner and patriarch of the Reagan clan, a…

Leonard Goldberg, a former president of 20th Century Fox and Head of Programming at ABC whose numerous producer credits include creating Charlie’s Angels and Blue Bloods, along with such shows as T.J. Hooker, Family and Fantasy Island and many other TV show and movies, has died. He was 85. The Emmy winner died from…

South Korea's entertainment industry was rocked again Tuesday by the news that Cha In-ha, a 27-year-old actor whose work includes the series The Banker and Love With Flaws, was found dead at his home today. Multiple sources reported the news, including the English-language entertainment website soompi, which cited two…

Joe Smith, a record executive who epitomized L.A. cool while heading up three major labels during some of the most fruitful moments in music business history, has died. He was 91. Smith was the head of Warner Bros. Records in the 1960s and into the 1970s, then moved to Elektra in the later 1970s and 1980s, before…

Soon after news of the death of Will & Grace star Shelley Morrison was made, there was an outpouring of condolences and tributes from her co-stars from the NBC sitcom, members of the TV community in Hollywood as well as fans. One fan wrote “RIP to a lady who put in 52 years (!) of TV work and always did the job and…