Posts with tag "celebrity deaths"

Bob Dylan's 'Freewheelin' Muse Susan Rotolo Dead

Posted Feb 28th 2011 at 10:55 AM by PopEater Staff

Susan "Suze" Rotolo, who inspired several of Bob Dylan's love songs, died Friday night at home in her New York City loft following a long illness. She was 67. When Rotolo was a teenager, she met Dylan backstage after one of his concerts. He described her in his book 'Chronicles' as "the most erotic thing I'd ever seen." The two began dating between 1961 and 1964. She is most known as the woman ...

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Child Stars and Hollywood Icons That Left Us in 2010

Posted Dec 29th 2010 at 01:35 PM by PopEater Staff

While it paled in comparison to the bombshell-filled obits of 2009 (MJ, Swayze), it was still a rough year when it came to losing our beloved stars to the hereafter. True, there were older actors, musicians, artists and Hollywood luminaries whose time had simply come -- not that we won't terribly miss the likes of Barbara Billingsley, Tony Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. But there were also shockers, ...

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Fans Divided While Remembering Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson

Posted Jun 25th 2010 at 04:20 PM by Steven Avalos

When Farrah Fawcett passed away one year ago after an arduous public battle with cancer, no one would have ever expected another high-profile celebrity death -- much less the King of Pop's -- to occur on the same day. Sure, there's the ongoing myth that deaths come in threes, but you never really anticipate it or expect who's next to go. To say media coverage of Fawcett's death on Thursday, June ...

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Fame After Death: Who's Still a Celebrity Post-Mortem?

Posted Nov 13th 2009 at 02:35 PM by Bruce Haring

The recent DirecTV commercial with the image of the late Chris Farley cavorting with David Spade begs the question – which living celebs have that kind of afterlife? Will Jay-Z's relatives have 'Hova sell a Honda? Will Taylor Swift's estate have her pushing a Swiffer when she's pushing up daisies? What about today's reality TV stars? Any post shelf-life prospects? "No," says Amy ...