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Tag Archives: Death
Brittany Murphy Died From Drugs [Death]
The L.A. coroner says Brittany Murphy died from”drug intake”—”multiple drug intoxication.”
Real Life Even More Horrific Than a Dalton Trumbo Novel [Science]
A new study shows that rare patients in a “vegetative state” may still be conscious and thinking, although trapped in a totally immobile, unresponsive body. So, anyone could be living out the plot of…
David Brown, Producer [And Now He's Dead]
David Brown, film producer, magazine editor, short story author, and husband of Helen Gurley Brown, died in New York yesterday. He was 93.
Brown, described as “a bon vivant,” “an unusually courtly…
Because of Freedom [Cute Things]
Nelson Mandela’s prison site, Robben Island, is now home to bunnies. They must be slaughtered.
Motivational Speaker Successfully Convinced Random Guy to Murder Him [Bizarre]
Police now believe that Jeff Locker, a distraught motivational speaker beset by debt, drove to East Harlem last July, bought condoms at a bodega, then asked a man named Kenneth Minor to kill him, for…
Howard Zinn, Radical Historian [And Now He's Dead]
Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People’s History of the United States, has died of a heart attack. He was 87.
Zinn was born in New York and worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yards and served as a…
Brittany Murphy’s Husband Speaks, Loopily [Messes]
Simon Monjack, the mysterious husband of dead actress Brittany Murphy, is planning to sue Warner Bros., claiming that when the studio fired Murphy from a movie, it caused her heart attack two weeks…
Davos Security Head Dead [Suspicious Things]
Markus Reinhardt, the police commander in charge of security at the earth-controlling Davos World Economic Forum (which starts tomorrow), was found dead in his hotel room this morning. Police say he…
Science Offers Little Hope for Facebook, Anything Else [Science]
Science: Your brain’s too small to grasp more than 150 Facebook friends, unless you’re very old in which case you’ll remember every useless thing, but you’ll never be old if you’re a NYC minority,…