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Abe Vigoda, ‘Godfather’ and ‘Barney Miller’ Star, Dies at 94
1 hours ago | The Wrap
Abe Vigoda has died at the age of 94, his daughter told the Associated Press. Vigoda’s daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, said that Vigoda died Tuesday morning in his sleep at her home in New Jersey. The cause of death was old age, with Fuchs saying, “This man was never sick.” Vigoda was born in 1921
1 hours ago | The Wrap
Abe Vigoda has died at the age of 94, his daughter told the Associated Press. Vigoda’s daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, said that Vigoda died Tuesday morning in his sleep at her home in New Jersey. The cause of death was old age, with Fuchs saying, “This man was never sick.” Vigoda was born in 1921
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This week's highlights include the series premeire of "Lanterns"; new seasons of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "Average Joe", "Love Is Blind UK", and "Conana O'Brien Must Go", the final season of "Outer Banks"; a new cocktail-themed reality competition series; documentaries about Novak Djokovic and the UConn Huskies; "The Run for A Million" horse competition (which might be of...
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I recently heard a great 2007 song the other day, "Falling Slowly" because it popped up in my newsfeed, accompanied by the sad news that the male singer, Glen Hansard, just died in a motorcycle accident. I learned that the song won an award and was featured in an indie movie called Once. I just watched it, and it's really good. They made it in 3 weeks on a $100,000 budget. It's streaming on...
Is it wrong that my best memories of him are his many appearances on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"? Probably just shows my age.
Celebrities sure do seem to be dropping like flies these days... I mean, it's probably no greater a rate than any other year, but it just seems like we've lost a lot of pretty big names in a short period of time. I once noted that in January there is always one shocking celebrity (or in some cases "celebrity") death but this year we've had several. While I wouldn't consider Abe Vigoda's death shocking given his age and well, the fact that he was once the subject of perhaps the first famed celebrity death hoax, but still... January's just been packed with celebrity deaths. And the month isn't even over yet...