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Dana Hill was an American actress and voice actress with a raspy voice whose childlike appearance limited her to playing young adolescent roles into her thirties, She stared in the films Shoot the Moon, Fallen Angel, and National Lampoon's European Vacation. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at a young age. She eventually slipped into a diabetic coma and then suffered a massive stroke. She died July 15, 1996 at the age of 32. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Dana Hill
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Corey Haim was a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films, such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphy's Romance, License to Drive, and Dream a Little Dream. His best-known role was alongside Corey Feldman in The Lost Boys, which made Haim a household name. He turned to drugs when his career basically slowed down, although the official cause of death was from pneumonia, though he notably procured 553 prescription pills from 7 different physician
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Corey Haim
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Christopher Pettiet was an American television and film actor best known for his role as Jesse James in the Western TV series The Young Riders and as Zach Crandell in the cult comedy film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead in 1991. After the cancellation of The Young Riders, his acting career began to wane and he became just about impoverished, living on small residual checks. He went to a few AA meetings but never admitted to a drug problem. Sadly, he died of an accidental drug overdose on Ap
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Christopher Pettiet
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Carl Switzer was an American actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide. He was the extremely popular Alfalfa from the "Our Gang" comedies. He was shot during an altercation with a man who believed owed him money. He died January 21, 1959 at the age of 31. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Carl Switzer
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Bridgette Andersen was an American child actress best known for her part in the title role of the 1982 comedy Savannah Smiles. As a teenager, she became involved with drugs and especially heroin. She died of an accidental overdose of alcohol and drugs. Her death was ruled an accidental drug overdose. She died May 18, 1997 at the age of 21. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Bridgette Andersen
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Brad Renfro was an American actor and musician. He made his film debut at the age of eleven in the lead role of Joel Schumacher's The Client, and went on to play in The Cure in1995, Tom and Huck in 1995, Sleepers in 1996, and Apt Pupil 1998. He won The Hollywood Reporter's Young Star Award in 1995 and was nominated as one of People magazine's "Top 30 Under 30," though addiction problems in his teens and early 20s led to several police arrests and hampered his career that faded rapidly due to alc
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Brad Renfro
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Bobby Driscoll was an American child actor known for a large body of cinema and TV performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of The Walt Disney Company's most popular live-action pictures of that period, such as Song of the South in1946, So Dear to My Heart in1948, and Treasure Island in1950. He served as animation model and provided the voice for the title role in Peter Pan in1953. In 1950, he received an Academy Juvenile Award for outstanding performance in feature films. He had troub
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Bobby Driscoll
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Billy Laughlin was an American child actor. He is best known for playing the character Froggy in the Our Gang short films in its final stretch, from 1940 to 1944. While delivering papers with a friend, he and his friend were hit from behind by a bus, both boys died instantly. He died August 31, 1948 at the age of 16. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Billy Laughlin
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Ashleigh Aston Moore was a Canadian child actress, who played Chrissy in the 1995 film Now and Then, died from an accidental heroin overdose on December 10, 2007 at the age of 26. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Ashleigh Aston Moore
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Anissa Jones was an American child actress best known for her role as Buffy on the CBS sitcom Family Affair. After finally receiving a good amount of royalties from her family, Jones sank into a life of drugs and alcohol. She died from overdose of barbiturates, phencyclidine, cocaine, and methaqualone on August 28, 1976 at the age of 18. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Anissa Jones
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The actress married her boyfriend at her home in Beverly Hills. The celebrity guests included Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Madden's twin brother and band mate Joel Madden and his wife Nicole Richie. Madden and Richie's 5-year-old son, Sparrow, acted as ring bearer, according to Us. Richie, who introduced the couple and Drew Barrymore were two of Diaz's bridesmaids. Diaz, 42, and Madden, 35, began dating in May and got engaged in December. This is the first marriage for both. Watc
- Cameron Diaz Gets Married To Benji Madden
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TLC announced today that Cake Boss has been renewed for two more seasons, which will be the show's seventh and eighth. A total of 40 new episodes have been ordered, which will air in 2015 and 2016. No US premiere date has been announced, but the network has said new episodes will begin airing this summer on TLC internationally and Discovery Networks International’s lifestyle brands. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Cake Boss Renewed For Two More Seasons
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Bill Cosby’s wife just broke her silence and fiercely defended her husband over various sexual assault allegations, saying, "He is a kind man, a generous man, a funny man, and a wonderful husband, father and friend. He is the man you thought you knew." Camilledidn't attack her husband's accusers, but said the media has been way to quick to pass judgment, saying, "A different man has been portrayed in the media over the last two months. It is the portrait of a man I do not know." She then zero
- Bill Cosby’s Wife Defends Her Husband
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The Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation into allegations that Bill Cosby molested a 15-year-old girl. Judy Huth, who is currently suing the comedian for sexual battery and emotional distress, alleges that Cosby forced her to perform a sex act on himself in 1974. LAPD officer Jane Kim said that after meeting with Huth, the department decided to open an investigation on Friday. Cosby and his lawyer continue to deny the allegations. They recently filed a counter-suit against H
- Bill Cosby Is Being Investigated By The LAPD
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Bill Cosby has hired private investigators to dig up dirt on the women who have accused him of rape. Cosby is shelling out six-figure payments for information that can discredit the more than two dozen women who have come forward and accused the comedian of sexually assaulting them, including supermodel Beverly Johnson, since October. He allegedly told his legal and public relations team, "If you're going to say to the world that I did this to you, and then the world needs to know, 'what kind of
- Bill Cosby Hires Private Investigator To Counter Rape Allegations
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Bill Cosby performed Florida State College to a sold out crowd and gets a standing ovation upon entering and leaving the stage. Nothing was said about the sexual allegations that are pending against the super star stand-up comedian. Way to go Bill.
- Bill Cosby gets a standing ovation
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Bill Cosby is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and activist, and he is one of the world's most well-known entertainers and comedians. He has filed legal papers calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case. He made the filing in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia in opposition to recent motions by Andrea Constand, a former Temple Univers
- Bill Cosby Fights Back Against ‘Drugs & Sex’ Allegations
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Bill Cosby admits, in a 2005 deposition, that he obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women in order to have sex, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman. The Associated Press went to court to compel the release of the documents, which have since been made public. Lawyer Dolores M. Troiani asked in September 2005, "When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" Cosby
- Bill Cosby Admits To Using Drugs To Have Sex With Women
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Yet another woman has come forward to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Chloe Goins claims that she was drugged and awoke to find Cosby licking her toes during a party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008. Goins says she attended the party at the invitation of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. She claims that Hefner introduced her to Cosby and then offered her a drink. She was just 18 years old at the time. "I wasn't really supposed to drink because of my age," Goins tells the Daily Mail. "Everything k
- Bill Cosby Accuser Claims He Licked Her Toes
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Being Mary Jane is an American drama television series created by Mara Brock Akil and starring Gabrielle Union. This is the number one drama cable series in key demographics for the first season and the season two premiere topped the list for the second time. BET has ordered a third season. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here
- Being Mary Jane Gets A Third Season
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He died in a New York City hospital of complications after minor surgery, according to a CBS statement released on Saturday. Rooney was 92. In a 2010 interview with USA TODAY, he was asked about retiring and shot back his own question: "Retire? From what? Life?" He allowed that "I suppose the time may come." It did on Oct. 2, when he delivered his 1,097th and final essay, telling his viewers, "I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain abou
- Andy Rooney, television's most celebrated curmudgeon, died Friday night, about one month after ending his 33-year run as the closing essayist on CBS' top-rated newsmagazine 60 Minutes.
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Another Bachelor couple is calling it quits. Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray have ended their engagement eight months after he popped the question on The Bachelorette season finale. "After several months of being engaged and working on our relationship, we have decided that it's best for both of us to go our separate ways," the couple said in a joint statement. "We are very sad that it has come to this point, but this is what's best for both of us individually. We will continue to be good friends a
- Andi Dorfan & Josh Murray, Bachelorette, Call It Quits
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Amy Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and producer. She is the screenwriter and star of the movie “Trainwreck” and has joined her cousin, Sen. Charles Schumer, calling for increased gun control. The pair's joint appearance in New York marked the first time Amy Schumer has spoken out about gun violence since police say John Houser killed two women and then himself at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater on July 23, using a gun he was able to purchase legally even though
- Amy Schumer Wants To Make It Harder For You To Get A Gun
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Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. She is revising her reaction to accusations that she has a "blind spot" when it comes to race. Last week, an editorial criticized her work as racially insensitive. "For such a keen observer of social norms and an effective satirist of the ways gender is complicated by them, Schumer has a shockingly large blind spot around race," the piece read. This week, she responded to a question on Twitter about one of the jokes from a
- Amy Schumer Responds To Allegations Of Racism
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Actor Dimitri Diatchenko was recently arrested and charged with allegedly killing and eating his ex-girlfriend's pet rabbit and threatening to do the same to her. Diatchenko, 46, faces one felony count of cruelty to an animal with the use of a knife and another felony count for allegedly making criminal threats, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement to the site Thursday. He is due to be arraigned on Dec. 30. In the famous 1987 film, Glenn Close's character brea
- Actor From Sons of Anarchy Eats Rabbit
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It was a long-anticipated episode that proved to be one of the best of the season, and left many fans wondering about how long it would take for Gaiman to come back to the show with another episode. The answer is, apparently, sooner than you'd think. According to some new spoilers released from DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman will be penning an episode of the season's second half. And while "The Doctor's Wife" was a quirky one-off story featuring an all-new villain, it appears Gaiman's next entry will fe
- Acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman contributed an episode to Doctor Who's sixth series last year with "The Doctor's Wife."
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Kirstie Alley has debuted a new body, again. The actress says she's dropped 50 pounds! Alley revealed her weight loss on Today, telling Matt Lauer that she kept her promise that she'd dropped the weight by the New Year. Back in April, Alley, who's a paid spokesperson for Jenny Craig, said she planned to drop 30 pounds. Although she said she has an easy time losing weight, she struggles with keeping it off, but "this time it's different, my goal is to keep this and maintain this throughout my li
- 50 Pound Weight Loss For Kirstie Alley
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