All posts tagged "Obituariesandfunerals"

CHICAGO — Mike Nussbaum, acknowledged by the Actor’s Equity union as the oldest professional actor in America and a dynamic and yet steadying influence in Chicago theater for decades, died Saturday at home at the age of 99. He was days short of his 100th birthday. And until his final week, he had been participating in dramatic readings and other projects with his friend B.J. Jones, the artistic director of Northlight Theatre in Skokie. Most notably, Nussbaum and Jones had worked recently on a two-character, 15-minute playlet called “Pilot’s Lounge,” written in tribute to Nussbaum by David Mame......

NEW YORK — The world is mourning Jimmy Buffett, but the “Margaritaville” singer kept his spirits up until the very end. Buffett died in Sag Harbor last Thursday, following a yearslong battle with Merkel cell skin cancer. He was 76. His sister Laurie Buffett McGuane and brother-in-law, novelist and decadeslong friend Tom McGuane, spoke to People about the beloved musician’s final days. “He was always high-spirited, fun-loving, hard working and creative,” McGuane, 83, told the outlet. “It is remarkable to be able to say that he remained the same during the last month of this life. His sense of h......

Professional wrestler and WWE star Bray Wyatt has died at the age of 36. The news was announced on social media by Triple H (real name Paul Michael Levesque), the company’s chief content officer. “Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who informed us of the tragic news that our WWE family member for life Windham Rotunda — also known as Bray Wyatt — unexpectedly passed earlier today,” Triple H wrote on Thursday evening. “Our thoughts are with his family and we ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time.” Wyatt’s cause of death was not immediately made known. Born in......

Adobe co-founder John Warnock, one of the titans of the Silicon Valley tech industry, has died at the age of 82. “It is with profound sadness that Adobe shares the passing of the company’s beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock,” Adobe announced in a news release on Sunday. “Dr. Warnock passed away on Saturday surrounded by his family.” No cause of death was mentioned. Warnock will be remembered for co-founding Photoshop-maker Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke. In a classic Silicon Valley tale, the two visionaries, who had first met while working at Xerox, reportedly started the company in the g......

Bo Goldman, an Oscar winner known for penning the screen adaptation novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” has died at age 90. The two-time Academy Award winner passed away Tuesday in Helendale, California, son-in-law and Oscar-nominated “Tár” director Todd Field confirmed to The New York Times. Field did not specify a cause of death for the New York City-born scribe, who also took home an Academy Award for 1980′s “Melvin and Howard.” “People call him the screenwriter’s screenwriter,” said Martin Brest, who directed “Scent of a Woman” and “Meet Joe Black” — both written by Goldman. “I called......

Carrie Fisher fans haven’t seen the last of the “Star Wars” icon, whose last film ‘Wonderwell’ is heading to theaters nearly a decade after her sudden death. Vlad Marsavin’s fantasy flick, which the late “Postcards from the Edge” author finished filming just weeks before her 2016 death, will hit theaters in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland next week, Deadline reports. “The journey we have taken as filmmakers with this movie, has been as perilous as that of the movie itself,” Marsavin told the outlet Wednesday. “From filming to screen it has taken us seven years.” The film, which c......