Tag: CELEBRITYDEATHS

This has been a tough year to be famous. The wildfire rash of celebrity deaths in 2009 left many fans too disillusioned, despondent, and depressed to consider a future without Michael Jackson or Billy Mays. This Halloween, though, we can all lay off the Prozac or barbituate cocktails for one night and huddle around the warm fire of Twitter, where a psychic will pretend to make contact with our ...

Twitter has limitless possibilities, and with the numerous celebrity deaths this past summer, micro-blogging has been flush with messages of condolences and mourning. DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein, died of an apparent drug overdose on Friday, and his famous friends have taken to expressing their grief via Twitter. Travis Barker, to whom many are looking due to the famous plane crash both survived ...

Although we've had our fair share of actual celebrity deaths over the past weeks, judging by the (false) news making the rounds online, you'd think half of Hollywood had bit the dust. Jeff Goldblum supposedly took a dive off a cliff in New Zealand, and the tale quickly made its way through Twitter and Facebook. The rumor became so widespread, in fact, that Mr. Goldblum released a statement ...

Pop culture was hit hard last week with the deaths of Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and Michael Jackson. If you believe everything you read on Twitter, though, many more well known personalities have died lately. Sadly, the passing of OxiClean pitchman Billy Mays was verified, but the purported deaths of Britney Spears, Jeff Goldblum, Harrison Ford, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, and, most recently, ...