Tag: RIP

Brittany Murphy dead

News reports say actress/singer Brittany Murphy has died of a cardiac arrest. She was just 32. Her films included 8 Mile and Clueless. ON THE WEB Brittany Murphy dies

RIP James Whitmore

Actor James Whitmore died on Friday. He was 87. He had a long career in Hollywood, with his first movie starring role coming in the 1949 movie Battlefield. The most well-known of his more recent acting exploits would probably be…

RIP John Martyn

British singer-songwriter-guitarist John Martyn — who released more than 20 albums of his own and worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Dave Gilmour and Phil Collins — died on Thursday. He was 60.   ON THE WEB:   Times Online obituary…

RIP Dale Wasserman

Man of La Mancha author Dale Wasserman died of congestive heart failure on December 21. He was 94. Wasserman also penned the stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ever the forward-thinking writer, he gave…

RIP Robert Adler

The man who has made billions of blokes happy and revolutionised the way we watch telly died this week. Robert Adler was one of the two men credited with creating the remote control. Without him we’d still be wearing a…