Jimmy Crum (80) longtime Columbus TV sportscaster, known for both his loud sport coats and his charitable work. Crum joined WCMH-TV in Columbus shortly after its launch in 1949 and retired in '94. He was sports director for much of that time and helped to raise millions of dollars for charitie...

  Paul M. Weyrich (66) conservative activist who coined the phrase "moral majority" and helped to turn social conservatives into a powerful force in the Republican Party. Weyrich had many health problems, including diabetes. His legs were amputated at the knee in 2005, and he had broken his back in...

newVideoPlayer("willbear_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); Die-hard Will Ferrell fans who endured Semi-Pro will recall a set-piece in which Will's farm-league basketball team owner Jackie Moon wrestles a......

Stanley Kamel died. He was a character actor, started out on Days of Our Lives in the 1970s, has done Melrose Place, Murder One (for which I actually remember him), and most recently has played Dr. Kroger, the therapist on Monk. Heart attack at home, age 65. NOW I'm on the road. (Shows me to check e...

newVideoPlayer("marlee1_defamer.flv", 463, 387,"");· "Fabian is my music," Marlee Matlin said, just moments after playing grab-ass with her mambo-champion Dancing with the Stars partner. This......

Illustrator Dave Stevens, whose classic "good girl" art helped revive awareness of Bettie Page and who created The Rocketeer -- the comic that inspired my favorite superhero movie of all time -- has died at age 52 of leukemia. I think the subject line says it all. ... DAMN. ("Thanks" to options3000 ...

Canadian blues-rock singer and guitarist Jeff Healey died yesterday of cancer ... he lost his sight at age 1 due to a rare eye cancer. He hadn't released a hit song in years but was still working, and for those of us of a certain age, his cover of John Hiatt's tune "Angel Eyes" will be forever etche...

I checked my e-mail on the cell phone sometime in the night, saw the news of George Carlin's death, thought, "I should get up and post a link to the story using only the 7 words you can't say on television." Then I fell back asleep. Woke up this morning, and sure enough, about 2589046808360980394534...