Les Paul, R.I.P. Age 94

Les Paul, the guitar legend, has  reportedly died., over in White Plains, NY.

Fox News is reporting:

Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died.

McNamara, 93, died at home in his sleep Monday morning, his wife Diana told The Associated Press. She said he had been in failing health for some time.

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Another milestone:

Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and “Charlie’s Angels” stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, has died. She was 62.

So says CNN. Much too soon, but cancer is

You knew this couldn’t be far off. WHAM-TV is reporting:

(New York) — ABC’s Good Morning America has just announced that TV personality Ed McMahon has died at the age of 86.

McMahon is probably best known as Johnny Carson’s

Ricardo Montalban, the suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood and who was best known for his roles as Mr. Roarke on ABC’s “Fantasy Island” and the villainous Khan of

Fox News is reporting:

“Jurassic Park” author and “ER” creator Michael Crichton died Tuesday at age 66, according to a statement from his family.

The novelist passed away in Los Angeles after a private battle with cancer. The family said

Levi Stubbs, Jr, died over a week ago, on the 17th of this month.

Now I feel bad for not having mentioned it. My fault.

Of course I’d written something, which is altogether dated, now, but it never made

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Bernie Mac has died in Chicago, at age 50.  The Chicago Tribune reports:

Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.

Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week

Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich