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Brittany Murphy, Actress, 32

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

TMZ is reporting that Brittany Murphy , who had long been said to struggle with drugs, died last night after going into cardiac arrest.

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Oral Roberts Dead at 91

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Oral Roberts has finally been killed by God for not raising enough money . Oral Roberts was a pioneer of televangelism, and he profited handsomely from it. Born into poverty in Oklahoma, he suffered from tuberculosis as a child, thereby learning early on that desperately sick people are willing to part with their money in exchange for some hope

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Bruce Wasserstein, 61

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Billionaire Lazard chairman and New York magazine owner Bruce Wasserstein , who was hospitalized with heart trouble last weekend, has died at the age of 61.

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Jim Carroll, Author

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Jim Carroll , the former drug addict turned prolific poet and writer of The Basketball Diaries , died of a heart attack on Friday at his residence in Manhattan. He was 60.

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Dash Snow’s Basquiat-ization

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Dash Snow is already being branded an “icon.” The downtown sperm-and-whatever-else artist died Monday night of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. And you can already spot the outlines of a Basquiat-esque art world canonization starting to form. As the memorials appear, Dash’s legend is growing.