Wally Amos, 88, founder of the Famous Amos cookie empire, has died. He parlayed a $25,000 loan into a fortune.
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Amos, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, opened the first Famous Amos cookie shop in Hollywood, California on the famed Sunset Blvd. in 1975. Amos' cookie brand exploded in popularity over the years, becoming known for its signature beige packaging and blue lettering.
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Actress Gena Rowlands, 94, has died. She had suffered from dementia in recent years. Her late husband was the noted director John Cassavetes, who had passed away in 1989 from cirrhosis of the liver. He was just 59 years old. She had worked in collaboration with him for years. They had been married for 35 years, long before they were famous. In 2012, she had married businessman Robert Forrest
When Nick revealed that Rowlands had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he told Entertainment Weekly it was "crazy" that in The Notebook his mother had played a character with the same disease.
"I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's," he explained. "She's in full dementia. And it's so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it's on us."
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Peter Marshall, famous as a game show host of the long running Hollywood Squares, also died. He was the brother of actress Joanne Dru. His real name was Ralph Pierre LaCock, which is reason enough to change it, at least professionally. One of his sons, Pete LaCock, was famous as a professional baseball player.
Born Ralph Pierre LaCock in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Marshall would move around the state as a child, living in Wheeling and Huntington.
His father died when Marshall was 10, and he would live with his grandparents as his mother and sister, the actress Joanne Dru, moved to New York to pursue her career in show business. Marshall would soon join them.
At 15, he toured as a singer with the Bob Chester Orchestra. He also worked as an NBC Radio page and an usher at the Paramount Theater. He was drafted during World War II and stationed in Italy, where he made his first forays onto the airways as a DJ for Armed Forces Radio. In 1949 he formed a comedy duo with Tommy Noonan, appearing in nightclubs, in theaters and on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
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Musician Jack Russell, 63, has died.
The announcement of his passing was shared on social media Thursday evening.
“Jack is loved and remembered for his sense of humor, exceptional zest for life, and unshakeable contribution to rock and roll where his legacy will forever thrive,” the announcement reads.
His cause of death has not been made public.
Russell retired from touring back in July after being diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia and Multiple System Atrophy.
That is a terrible way to spend your final years, and he wasn't old at all.
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Singer-songwriter Greg Kihn, 75, known for his hits "Jeopardy," and "The Breakup Song," died on Tuesday. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Before moving to San Francisco in 1972, Kihn grew up in Baltimore, and won a talent contest sponsored by a local radio station while still in high school. He signed with Beserkley in 1973, though it would not be till 1976 that he released his first album, “Greg Kihn.”
Eventually he established a pattern of pun-fueled titles, with album releases that included “Next of Kihn” (1978), “RocKihnRoll” (1981), “Kihntinued” (1982), “Kihntagious” 1984) and “Rekihndled” (2017).
Kihn also published six novels, starting with “Horror Show” in 1996.
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