Best-selling writer Michael Crichton has passed away at the age of 66 according to the Associated Press. Crichton had been privately battling cancer according to his family.
Crichton wrote a string of New York Times best-selling novels including “Jurassic Park,” “The Andromeda Strain,” “Sphere,” and “Timeline.”   Many of Crichton’s novels were turned into movies with several […]

House Peters Jr., film and TV actor, cowboy and SF enthusiast, has died at the age of 92 from complications brought on from pneumonia. He was born in 1916 to a father (Robert House Peters Sr.) who was already a famous silent movie star with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Don’t […]

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media News Director)
Paul Newman, (a.k.a “PL” by friends) one of Hollywood’s originals, a maverick, a rebel and one helluva fine actor has died at the age of 83 after his quiet battle with cancer.
Newman, a World War II Navy veteran with those penetrating, startling, crisp blue eyes, burst on […]

For 70 years Bill Melendez brought a great amount of joy to young and old alike with his animated presentations, especially his most famous, bringing Charles Schultz’ Peanuts characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown to life. Bill died on Tuesday from natural causes at the age of 91.
Melendez began his animation career in 1938 working […]

If it was a voice over job, then Don LaFontaine, the voice-over king, was probably the little-know face behind that familiar booming voice. LaFontaine, most recognized for his signature tag “In a world …” phrase on movie trailers, has died at the age of 68, ironically, from complications of a collapsed lung.
They say the […]

Isaac Hayes, a prolific genius singer and songwriter, as well as much loved actor, has died at the age of 65. Cause of death isn’t known at this time, but Hayes was known to have suffered from high blood pressure for several years and preliminary findings are pointing to a possible stroke. Full […]

Comedian Bernie Mac has passed away according to reports in the Los Angeles Times. Mac is best known for his work on the “Ocean’s 11″ series of movies and his work on the Peabody-award winning situation comedy, “The Bernie Mac Show.”  Mac was 50.
“Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia […]

Actress Evelyn Keyes has died at the illustrious age of 91 in her home at Montecito, California from uterine cancer.
Discovered by the famed Cecile B. DeMille, Keyes will always be remembered for her famous role as the younger sister of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivian Leigh) in the classic film “Gone With the Wind,” however she did […]

When one of our beloved older stars die after a long fruitful life, even though we are saddened by their passing, we know that they had a long, productive and exciting life. However, when one who is so creative is cut-off in the prime of life, at the point of when they are really […]

Veteran character actor Don S. Davis passed away on June 29th according to reports from Gateworld. 
Davis, who was 65, is best-known to genre fans as Major General George Hammond on the first seven seasons of Stargate SG-1.  Davis also played Scully’s father on The X-Files and was featured on Twin Peaks.  Davis had a long, […]

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
The name George Carlin should be known by just about everyone on this planet. Only the newly born and those living under a rock for the last six decades won’t know who Mr. Carlin is. Well, sadly George died last night of a massive […]

One of the masters of visual effects and makeup, Stan Winston, has died at the age of 62 after battling with a form of cancer known as multiple myeloma for several years.
Some of his films are a who’s who in genre-related movie history. “Galaxy Quest,” “Artificial Intelligence: AI,” “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire […]

Actor Bruce Purchase passed away at his home, according to reports. Purchase was 69 years old.
Purchase was was a founder member of Sir Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre and a regular performer with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Purchase is best-known to sci-fi audiences for his memorable performance as the villainous Captain in 1978’s four part story, […]

Probably one of the last things one thinks about in relationship to Mel Ferrer is sci-fi/fantasy/horror or any of the genre-related arms of the business. Afterall, he was the son of a Cuban-born surgeon and a Manhattan socialite who, at the woes of his parents dropped out of his sophomore year at Princeton University […]

Robert H. Justman, one of the major creative geniuses behind the original “Star Trek” television series of the 1960s as well as the 1980s-era “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. He was 81.
This past 30 days have been tough ones for Star Trek and its millions of fans. Also passing over the last […]

We pay tribute to two Star Trek veterans who have away in May. Veteran television and film director Joseph Pevney and music composer and director Alexander Courage.
Joseph Pevney has passed away at the age of 96.
Pevney directed fourteen episodes of the original Star Trek, tying him with Marc Daniels as one of the series […]

(AP) The creator of the popular religious children’s television show “Davey and Goliath” has died. A memorial service will be held May 31 at St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas for Richard Towne “Dick” Sutcliffe. He died May 11 in Dallas from complications of a stroke. He was 90.
Sutcliffe created “Davey and Goliath,” a […]

Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu is ready to walk down the aisle with long-time partner. Actor George Takei will marry Brad Altman now that the California Supreme Court has overturned that State’s ban on gay marriage.
Takei, now age 71 and Altman (54) have been a couple for 21 years and can now make official plans […]

“The members of The 501st Legion, a group of ‘Star Wars’ costume enthusiasts, might be the bad guys but that doesn’t mean they can’t partake in charity work.” (Micah Mertes)

Source: CNN News
John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” died Tuesday. He was 70.
Law died at his Los Angeles home, his former wife, Shawn Ryan, told the Los Angeles Times. The […]

Source: L’Osservatore Romano
The Vatican stated today through the Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes, the pontiff’s chief astronomer, that it is acceptable for Catholics to believe in alien life outside the planet Earth and that such belief in no way contradicts the Church’s teachings on faith in God.
In his official statement Rev. Funes, the Jesuit director of […]

Hazel Court, an English actress who co-starred with horror legends Boris Karloff and Vincent Price for fright-fest films of the 1950’s and 60’s has died of a heart attack at the age of 82.
Court had a very successful career acting in the U.K. and U.S. in film and television, however she is best known for […]

Computer programmer Bernie Peng wanted a way to make his proposal to sweetheart Tammy Liu special and memorable.   So, Peng spent a month working on a special reprogramming of Liu’s favorite videogame “Bejeweled” to pop the question.
According to Yahoo! News, the game was programmed to display a ring and a proposal when Liu reached a certain score.  
“I […]

We lost one of the giants of the entertainment industry yesterday. Charlton Heston died with his wife of 64 years, Lydia, close by his side in their Beverly Hills home at the age of 84.
Mr. Heston was an Oscar winning actor, World War II veteran, president of the National Rifle Association, political advocate, a […]

Written by: Deb Neufell

Fans of the Lifetime original series “Blood Ties” have worked tirelessly in campaigning to save the show they love, but they have also used the campaign to help raise money for charity at the same time.
A total of $900 was raised to benefit The Best Friends Animal Society. This donation was […]

Paul Scofield, the Academy Award winning actor from the U.K. has died at the age of 86, loosing his battle with leukemia.
A long time member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater, Scofield, who was as much comfortable before the cameras as he was on the stage, won his Oscar in 1967 for […]

One of the staples of 1960’s & 70’s television has died. Ivan Dixon, the actor-turned-director most noted for his role as the cool, laid-back cigar smoking POW Sgt. James ‘Kinch’ Kinchloe in the TV hit show “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Sunday after complications from a hemorrhage and kidney failure. His family made the announcement […]

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
The world mourns the loss of one of its greatest and most gentle humans with the death of Arthur C. Clarke. He passed away late last night in his home in Sri Lanka at the ripe old age of 90.
If I had to point to […]

Source: Yahoo News
Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as “The English Patient,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Cold Mountain” into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.
Minghella’s death was confirmed Tuesday by his agent, Judy Daish. No other details were not immediately available.
“The English Patient,” the 1996 World War II drama, […]

Melissa “Fiver” Kern has been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien since she read “The Hobbit” as a child, and has always loved books. Her heart leaped when she saw the preview for Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of “The Lord of the Rings,” and she has been involved in organizing like-minded “Ringers” in the Southeast for […]

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