Michael Hastings, most recently of Buzzfeed but well-known and respected for his fearless reporting in Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and elsewhere, has died at the age of 33
Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95. It seems relevant to mention that very recently we were talking about whether women can be funny or not. Of course they can be. Diller was a special example, though.
Helen Gurley Brown has died at the age of 90. Before she started her Cosmopolitan magazine there was her bestselling book, Sex and the Single Girl. Published in 1962, it sold 2 million copies in 3 weeks.
Another death to report today: Film critic Judith Crist has died at the age of 90.
Nora Ephron passed away today. Not only did we lose an amazing writer, thinker, journalist, storyteller, and director; we lost the world’s funniest feminist.
John Demjanjuk, who was discovered living in Ohio in the 1970s and later found guilty of being a Nazi death camp guard, has died at 91.
Spill out a little Red Bull in honor of the Thai businessman who invented it.
Eccentric, flamboyant, provocative, these are just some of the terms used to describe Qaddafi in his obituaries.
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