Year: 2009

Andy Hallett (August 4, 1975 – March 29, 2009) was an American singer and actor best known for playing the part of Lorne ("The Host") in the television series Angel. He appeared as Lorne in 76 episodes.

Death of Andy Hallett
After a five-year battle with heart disease and at least three additional hospitalizations, Hallett died on March 29, 2009 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, with his father Dave Hallett by his side.
Andy Hallet was 33 years old at the time of his death.

According to a 2005 interview, about a month after filming the last episode of Angel Hallett suffered a tooth infection which led to a case of cardiomyopathy, for which he spent five days in the hospital. He did not return to acting afterward (except for a voice acting part in Geppetto’s Secret), but pursued his music career and frequently appeared at Angel- or science fiction/fantasy-related conventions.

Danny Wayland Seals (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) was an American musician. In the 1970s, he was the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, who are best known for their hit single "I’d Really Love to See You Tonight". He was also the younger brother of Jim Seals (from the duo Seals & Crofts).

After departing the duo, Seals began a solo career in country music. In his solo career, he released sixteen studio albums and charted more than twenty singles on the country charts. Eleven of his singles reached Number One: "Meet Me in Montana" (with Marie Osmond), "Bop" (also a #42 pop hit), "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)", "You Still Move Me", "I Will Be There", "Three Time Loser", "One Friend", "Addicted", "Big Wheels in the Moonlight", "Love on Arrival", and a cover of Sam Cooke’s "Good Times". Four more of Seals’ singles also reached Top Ten on the country charts.

Death of Dan Seals
In 2008, Seals completed radiation treatments for lymphoma at Vanderbilt in Nashville and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and received a stem cell transplant in late 2008 at NIH in Maryland. Seals died on March 25, 2009 at his daughter’s home, following treatment for mantle cell lymphoma.  Dan Seals was 61 years old at the time of his death.

I’d Really Love to See You Tonight (Dan Seals with guitar, left handed)

Natasha Jane Richardson (May, 11 1963 – March 18, 2009) was a British actress known for her performances on stage and screen. She was a member of the Redgrave family and the daughter of the actress Vanessa Redgrave and the director/producer Tony Richardson. Richardson rose to international stardom with her Tony award-winning performance as Sally Bowles in the musical play Cabaret in New York City on Broadway in 1998.

Death of Natasha Richardson
Natasha Richardson died after skiing accident. Her life-support equipment had been disconnected a day after the accident.
Natasha Richardson was 45 years old at the time of her death.

At approximately 7:00 pm, New York time, Liam Neeson’s publicist issued this statement to the press:

Liam Neeson, his sons, and the entire family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.

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Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.

Jessica Lange fell from the stairs and bruised ribs, broke collarbone and received a small cut on her forehead.

She was hospitalized on Tuesday and is expected to be released completely fine.

Tony award winning actress (wife of Liam Neeson)  Natasha Jane Richardson was injured in a skiing accident while in Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada. She was taken to Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal after reportedly suffering a serious head injury. She seemed OK for the first few hours.  Then

Natasha Richardson is now transferred to New York.  Some news say she is brain dead, that they will eventually disconnect her life support.

Natasha Richardson was in the movie ‘Maid in Manhattan’ as Jeniffer Lopez’s opposition.

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Filmography
Gothic (1986) – Mary Shelley
A Month in the Country (1987) – Alice Keach
Patty Hearst (1988) – Patricia Hearst
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) – Jean Tatlock
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) – Kate/Offred
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) – Mary
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991) – Sybil
Past Midnight (1992) – Laura Mathews
Nell (1994) – Dr. Paula Olsen
Widows’ Peak (1994) – Mrs Edwina Broome
The Parent Trap (1998) – Elizabeth James
Haven (2001) – Ruth Gruber
Blow Dry (2001) – Shelley Allen
Waking Up In Reno (2002) – Darlene Dodd
Maid in Manhattan (2002) – Caroline Lane
The White Countess (2005) – Countess Sofia Belinskya
Asylum (2005) – Stella Raphael
Evening (2007) – Constance Lord
Wild Child (2008) – Mrs. Kingsley 

Stage
On the Razzle (1983)
Top Girls (1983)
Charley’s Aunt (1983)
The Seagull (1985) – Nina
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1985) – Helena
Hamlet (1985) – Ophelia
High Society (1987) – Tracey
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) – Jean Tatlock
Anna Christie (1993) – Anna
Cabaret (1998) – Sally
Closer (1999) – Anna
The Lady from the Sea (2003)
A Streetcar Named Desire (2005) – Blanche 

Imus, 68, known for his controversial and outspoken opinions on everything from sports to politics, offered no word on his prognosis but said that he had full confidence "his doctors will beat it."

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John Donald Imus, Jr. (born July 23, 1940) is an American radio host, humorist, writer, and philanthropist. His nationally-syndicated talk show, Imus in the Morning, airs throughout the United States on ABC Radio Networks and is simulcast on RFD-TV.

Ronald Silver (July 2, 1946  – March 15, 2009) was an American actor, director, producer and political activist.

Death of Ron Silver
Ron Silver died of esophageal cancer,  after battling the disease for two years
Ron Silver was 62 years old at the time of his death.

Silver made his film debut in Tunnel Vision in 1976. Additional screen roles include Lovesick (1983), the devoted son of Anne Bancroft in Garbo Talks (1984), an incompetent detective in Eat and Run (1986), and the lead in Paul Mazursky’s Oscar-nominated Enemies: A Love Story (1989). He also portrayed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune (1990), based on the trial of Claus von Bülow.

Silver has been featured in such diverse films as Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night (1992), Timecop (1994) with Jean-Claude Van Damme, and as Muhammad Ali’s boxing cornerman Angelo Dundee in Michael Mann’s Ali. From 2001 to 2002 and 2005 to 2006, Silver portrayed presidential campaign advisor Bruno Gianelli on The West Wing.

From 1991 to 2000, Silver served as president of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Jack Lawrence (April 7, 1912 – March 15, 2009) was an American Academy Award-nominated songwriter who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Death of Jack Lawrence
Lawrence died following a fall in his home in Redding, Connecticut on March 16, 2009

One of the first major songs he wrote upon getting out of the service was "Yes, My Darling Daughter", introduced by Dinah Shore on Eddie Cantor’s radio program, which was Shore’s first record. Another Jack Lawrence song that introduced a new artist was "If I Didn’t Care", which introduced the world to The Ink Spots. And, although Frank Sinatra was already a well-known big band singer, Lawrence’s "All or Nothing at All" was Sinatra’s first solo hit.

"Linda", a popular song, was written by Jack Lawrence and published in 1946. The song was actually written when Lawrence was in the service during World War II, taking its name from the then five-year-old daughter of his attorney, Lee Eastman. (His daughter was Linda Eastman, future first wife of the Beatle Paul McCartney.)

Lawrence wrote the lyrics for "Tenderly", Rosemary Clooney’s trademark song (in collaboration with composer Walter Lloyd Gross), as well as the English language lyric to "Beyond the Sea" (based on Charles Trenet’s French language song "La mer"), the trademark song for Bobby Darin. Another French song for which Lawrence wrote an English lyric was "La goualante de pauvre Jean", becoming "The Poor People of Paris".

Together with Richard Myers he wrote "Hold My Hand", which was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Song.

Rosemary Clooney – Tenderly – Written by Jack Lawrence
Yes, Rosemary was George Clooney’s Aunt

Betsy Blair (December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.

Born as Elizabeth Winifred Boger, Blair pursued a career in entertainment from the age of eight, and as a child worked as an amateur dancer, performed on radio, and worked as a model, before joining the chorus of Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe in 1940. There she met Gene Kelly; they were married the following year, when she was 17 years old; they divorced 16 years later in 1957.

Death of Batsy Blair
Batsy Blair died in London after a bout with cancer. Batsh Blair was 85 years old at the time of her death. She is survived by a daughter, three stepchildren and several grandchildren.

After work in the theatre, Blair began her film career playing supporting roles in films such as A Double Life (1947) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). Her interest in Marxism led to an investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee and Blair was blacklisted for some time, but resumed her career with a critically acclaimed performance in Marty (1955), winning a BAFTA Award and a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She continued her career with regular theatre, film and television work until the mid 1990s.

Batsy Blair as Clara – "Marty" with Ernest Borgnine
(Ernest Borgnine is still alive)

On March 11, 2009 Charles "Mask" Lewis was killed in his Ferrari in a high-speed automobile collision. A female companion was ejected from the car and taken for medical treatment but Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of a second car, a white Porsche, which was believed to have been traveling alongside Lewis’s car, was arrested on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

TapouT is an American business enterprise specializing in producing clothing and miscellaneous gear targeted at the mixed martial arts community, as well as a magazine devoted to mixed martial arts fighting (formerly Bodyguard Magazine). Charles Lewis, Jr. (also known as "Mask") and Dan Caldwell (also known as "Punkass") founded the company in 1997 in San Bernardino, California. The company is currently based in Grand Terrace.

In 2007, TapouT launched a reality television series, also called TapouT, on Versus. Each episode follows Mask, Punkass and their third partner, "Skyskrape", as they scout fighters to add to their sponsorship roster.