STRAIGHT-FACED COMEDIAN LESLIE NIELSEN DEAD AT 84

Leslie Nielsen, who played deadly serious roles in movies like The Poseidon Adventure and TV series like The Protectors and Bracken’s World until he began playing deadly serious roles in comedies like Airplane and The Naked Gun, has died from complications from pneumonia in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He was 84.

MOM ON LEAVE IT TO BEAVER DIES AT 94

Barbara Billingsley, who embodied the television mom in the classic family show Leave It to Beaver, which aired from 1957-63, has died at the age of 94. Embedded in the minds of her audience as June Cleaver, the perfect American matriarch, she had difficulty finding work after the show was canceled and went 17 years […]