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| In Sickness and In Health |
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| Weddings, Engagements, Births, Sicknesses, Injuries, Deaths, and Funerals of the Stars |
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Johnny Cash, the music world's Man in Black and the first to be inducted into the Rock, Country and Songwriters Halls of Fame, died of complications from diabetes early September 12 in Nashville. He had just been released from the hospital September 10 after two weeks for a stomach ailment. Cash's most recent single, "Hurt," a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song, was honored with several MTV Video Music Award nominations. His wife, June Carter Cash, passed away this May. |
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TV icon John Ritter, star of Three's Company and ABC's smash hit 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, died unexpectedly early September 12. He was only 54. Ritter's publicist says the actor had a previously undiagnosed heart defect. |
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| Charles Bronson died August 30 of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles the Associated Press reports. The Pennsylvania coal miner-turned-actor was best known for his tough guy role in the Death Wish franchise. He was 81. |
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Warren Zevon, who wrote and sang the '70s hit "Werewolves in London," died September 7. Zevon, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2002, spent his last year recording Wind, which was released two weeks ago and the subject of a VH1 special. He was 56. |
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Beatle offspring and fashion designer Stella McCartney tied the knot August 31 with publisher Alasdhair Willis on a remote Scottish island, the Associated Press reports. Guests included her father Paul, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Madonna and Chrissie Hynde. |
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| Rush Limbaugh has admitted he's addicted to prescription painkillers. He checked himself into a rehab facility October 10 for a month, while a rotation of guest hosts take over the legendary Republican's radio show. |
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Gregory Hines, the tapdancing actor who won a Best Actor Tony for Jelly's Last Jam, starred in his own sitcom and, most recently, had a recurring role on Will & Grace died of cancer in L.A. August 9. He was 57. |
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Luther Vandross is singing and talking again, continuing his recovery from an April stroke. Patti LaBelle, who recently sang a duet with the soulful legend, told People "his voice is the same as it ever was." |
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Doctors have given Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy fame) a 95 to 98 percent chance of surviving his recent on-stage tiger attack, casino mogul Steve Wynn told Reuters. He also said Horn had been breathing hours at a time without the aid of a respirator. Wynn also told TV station KLAS-TV the tiger that mauled Horn was distracted by a woman with a big 'do sitting in the front. Meanwhile, animal experts are disputing claims that the tiger mauling was an accident. "That was a typical killing bite," Jonathan Kraft, who runs the Arizona-based nonprofit Keepers of the Wild, told the Associated Press. |
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