Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Politics on Aug 21st, 2008
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm while driving her car. She was 58.
The congresswoman died at 6:12 p.m. after suffering a brain hemorrhage that caused an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, spokeswoman Eileen Sheil said.
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Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 20th, 2008
Dave Matthews stood in front of a sold out crowd on Tuesday night to pay tribute to his fellow bandmember and co-founder, LeRoi Moore, who died at the age of 46.
“It’s always easier to leave than be left,” Matthews said. “We appreciate you all being here.”
LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 18th, 2008
What would you say if you were flying into Memphis and they said you are about to land at Isaac Hayes International Airport,” U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen asked, drawing a huge burst of applause during a four-hour service of music, speakers and video clips.
Cohen, who represented Hayes’ area of Memphis, said the city should celebrate [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 18th, 2008
Today’s scheduled memorial for Isaac Hayes has the unfortunate making of an ugly showdown between members of Hayes’ Scientology faith, and Christian members of Hope Presbyterian Church in Memphis, where the service is to be held.
According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, critics of Scientology bombarded the newspaper with “scathing e-mails and phone calls” to [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 17th, 2008
As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago’s South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was “still the hottest ticket in town.”
Fans, friends and fellow celebrities descended on the House of Hope megachurch to bid their farewells to a man who never [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Music Video on Aug 16th, 2008
Large crowds of people are gathering in Chicago to attend a public memorial for actor and comedian Bernie Mac.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson and Mayor Richard Daley are among the speakers expected to pay tribute to Mac at the large House of Hope church on the city’s South Side.
Also expected to speak at the Saturday afternoon [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 15th, 2008
Services are scheduled for noon Saturday in the 10,000-seat House of Hope, 752 E. 114th St., Chicago, said Danica Smith, Mac’s publicist. Donations in Mac’s honor may be sent to the Bernie Mac Foundation for Sarcoidosis, 40 E. 9th St., Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60605, Smith said.
Note: This is just a memorial service and not [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 15th, 2008
With a vote of 37 to 1, the California Senate passed a bill Wednesday that makes it mandatory for patients seeking cosmetic surgery procedures to first undergo a physical exam.
The measure, known as AB 2968, was crafted in response to the death of Kanye West’s mother Donda West. The former educator/author died last year [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 14th, 2008
In the continuing soap opera that is the marriage of actress LisaRaye and Turks and Caicos president Michael Misick, the two reportedly came to blows in the mansion Wednesday night, resulting in both receiving emergency medical attention for bites.
The Misicks have each filed a police report against the other, according to Caribbean Net [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 13th, 2008
Darren “Bo” Taylor, a former member of the Crips who brokered a truce between warring inner-city gangs after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has died. He was 46.
Taylor died Monday of cancer in San Diego, his sister, Adrienne Galloway, said Wednesday.
He was a member of the Crips gang as a teenager but became a gang [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 13th, 2008
“The entire cast and I are still somewhat in shock about the whole thing,” she told EUR’s Lee Bailey Tuesday. “It hasn’t quite set in for me that he’s not with us anymore. But his spirit lives on through us, through the show and all of his work.”
The 18-year-old actress said [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten, Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2008
When one of his final flicks, Soul Men, is released, Bernie Mac will not only be remembered for his comedic acting chops, but also his great singing voice.
Yes, his singing voice.
“He definitely can carry a tune,” the movie’s director Malcolm D. Lee told me this morning. “He does a great falsetto in the movie, [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 12th, 2008
Je’niece Childress, the 30-year-old daughter and only child of late comedian Bernie Mac, said she and her mother believed he would make a full recovery from the pneumonia that sent him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital last month.
“Initially when he was hospitalized we expected him to come back home, but as the [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 12th, 2008
Tributes for the late Isaac Hayes have been pouring in following his sudden death on Sunday.
The music icon, 65, was found unconscious near a treadmill at his Memphis home. He died an hour later at the Baptist East Hospital.
Listed below are statements issued from some of Hayes’ friends and colleagues regarding his passing. [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 11th, 2008
With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar play and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes’ theme song for the 1971 movie “Shaft” not only became one of pop music’s iconic songs, but also the defining work of Hayes’ career.
Yet the “Theme from Shaft,” which would earn both Grammys and an Oscar, was just a snippet of [...]
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