People we said goodbye to in 2007

Some of the internationally notable people we said goodbye to in 2007:


Antonioni, Michelangelo, director
Astor, Brooke, socialite
Avis, Warren, businessman
Barbaro, racehorse
Bauer, Hank, baseball player


Bergman, Ingmar, Swedish filmaker
Bhutto, Benazir, Pakistani politician
Bo Yibo, Chinese politician
Bracken, Peg, cookbook writer
Brecker, Michael, jazz musician
Buchwald, Art, columnist
Burdette, Lew, pitcher
Carlo, Yvonne de, actress
Claiborne, Liz, fashion designer
Clark, Bob, director
Deaver, Michael, White House aide
DeDomenico, Vincent, food inventor
Delp, brad, singer and guitarist
Denard, Bob, French mercenary
Doherty, Denny, musician
Drinan, Robert, politician
Eagleton, Thomas, former U.S. senator
Ellis, Albert, psychologist
Evans, Ray, songwriter
Falwell, Jerry, clergyman
Feigner, Eddie, softball player
Gallo, Ernest, vintner
Ghostley, Alice, actress
Gillmor, Paul, politician
Gittings, Barbara, activist
Goulet, Robert, entertainer
Halberstam, David, journalist and author
Hart, Johnny, cartoonist
Hart, Kitty Carlisle, actress
Hazlewood, Lee, songwriter
Helmsley, Leona, hotelier
Henebry, John P., combat pilot
Herbert, Don, actor
Herbert, Sir Wally, explorer
Ho, Don, entertainer
Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit, scientist
Hunt, Howard E., spy
Hutton, Betty, actress
Hunter, Joe, Motown musician
Ivins, Molly, journalist
Johnson, Dennis, basketball player
Johnson, Lady Bird, former First Lady


Kerr, Deborah, actress
King, Yolanda, social activist
Kollek, Teddy, Israeli politician
Kornberg, Arthur, biochemist
Kristal, Hilly, nightclub owner
Kuhn, Bowie, former baseball commissioner
Laine, Frankie, singer
Lauterbur, Paul, inventor
L'Engle, Madeleine, author
MacDiarmid, Alan, chemist
Mailer, Norman, writer
Maiman, Theodore Harold, inventor
Marceau, Marcel, mime
Menotti, Gian-Carlo, Italian composer
Messner, Tammy Faye, TV evangelist
Metzger, Bruce, Biblical scholar
Mitchell, Parren, former member of Congress
Miyazawa, Kiichi, Japanese politician
Muschamp, Herbert, architecture critic
Norwood, Charlie, U.S. representative
O'Brien, Parry, shot-putter
Odell, Jack, engineer
Oerter, Al, discus thrower
Olsen, Tillie, feminist writer
Paley, Grace, writer
Parsons, Benny, auto racer
Pavarotti, Luciano, operatic tenor
Peet, Alfred, coffee guru
Pickett, Bobby, singer
Ponti, Carlo, film producer
Poston, Tom, actor
Reilly, Charles Nelson, actor, comedian
Richardson, Ian, actor
Rizzuto, Phil, baseball player
Roach, Max, jazz musician
Robinson, Eddie, football coach
Romary, Janice-Lee, foil fencer
Rorty, Richard, philosopher
Rostropovich, Mstislav, cellist and conductor
Rothman, Lorraine, women's rights advocate
Rothschild, Baron Guy de, French banker
Sa, Khun, drug lord
Sardi, Vincent, Jr., restaurateur
Schirra, Walter, astronaut
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr., American historian and public official
Sheldon, Sidney, novelist and screenwriter
Siegel, Joel, film critic and television host
Sills, Beverly, operatic soprano
Smathers, George, senator


Smith, Anna Nicole, model, reality TV personality
Snyder, Tom, radio and television personality
Somers, Brett, television personality
Takamoto, Iwao, animator who designed Scooby-Doo
Thomas, Craig, politician
Tibbets, Paul, pilot
Traisman, Edwin, iconic food creator
Valenti, Jack, head of MPAA
Vonnegut, Kurt, writer
Waldheim, Kurt, Austrian diplomat
Walsh, Bill, football coach
Washburn, Bradford, cartographer and explorer
Wegner, Hans, furniture designer
White, Willye B., long jumper
Win, Soe, Prime minister
Woods, Harriett, feminist political leader


Wyman, Jane, actress
Yeltsin, Boris, Russian politician

Larry Birkhead named the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby girl, Dannilynn Hope

So Larry Birkhead was just named the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby girl, Dannilynn Hope. I saw him on TV, whooping and cheering. You do know that this story is never going to go away. We've got a whole lifetime of little Dannilynn's growing up to look forward to..

Medical Examiner confirms that Anna Nicole Smith died from an accidental overdose

Dr. Joshua Perper, the medical examiner for Broward County, announced during a press conference in Dania Beach, Fla. Mo said this week that the former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith died from an accidental sleeping medication overdose,

No shit, Sherlock.

The New York Times most searched subjects: sex, immigration and Anna Nicole Smith!

I was having a browse of the New York Times and there's a section where you can looked at their most popular stories, searches, blog links etc. Out of interest, I looked at the most popular searches on the website last week and here it is:

1. sex
2. immigration
3. anna nicole smith
4. china
5. global warming
6. iraq
7. health
8. india
9. obama
10. iran

Who'd've thought the NYTimes readership was so interested in sex and Anna Nicole Smith? And I thought it was such a serious newspaper..

Just when you thought the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's baby couldn't get any weirder...

This one will make your day. You might have thought that you'd heard everything there was to hear about the ongoing saga of the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dayielynn, but reports are emerging that O.J. Simpson, of all people, has revealed he could be the father of Anna Nicole-Smith's youngest daughter Danielynn!

O.J. Simpsons claims that he was on good terms with the Anna Nicole Smith, and has told his friend Norman Pardo, who filmed Simpson for five years as part of a documentary, that he is a likely contender as the mystery over the child's paternity goes on and on and on...

"(He) said he was throwing his hat into the ring," said Pardo, "He said he knew Anna Nicole pretty well, and he said he had slow-moving sperm, and he might be the father."



But it seems that good ol' O.J. is worried about the possible consequences of being named as Danielynn's father, as he is still in a legal wrangle with Fred Goldman, who won a civil suit concerning the murder of his son Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.

Nardo quotes Simpson as saying: "I hope they don't do a DNA test on Anna Nicole's baby. If they find out Danielynn is mine, I don't want Fred Goldman trying to seize her money - or the baby herself."

And I thought Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, "Prince" Von Anhalt, claiming paternity was weird but O.J.?? Wait a second, O.J. wasn't Hard Rock Casino in Florida in last month was he?

"You know, you’re interrupting Judge Judy"

I was saddened this week to hear that Kathy Griffin's Dad passed away. Kathy is a very funny lady and I love listening to her comedy stand up where she skewers ridiculous celebrities in her inimitable manner. Gawd knows what she's currently saying about Britney and Anna Nicole!

On her webpage Kathy says: "Thank you for all of your lovely comments and inquiries about my Dad. He passed away last Saturday, February 17th at 2pm here in L.A. He had a very far reach in this world and is already missed by so many.

His ascerbic, rapier wit and true heart of gold made for a wonderful combination in a great man. He died from complications due to congestive heart failure AND multiple myeloma. Please keep my mom and my siblings in your thoughts and prayers. What can I say? I just loved him so much."

Here's a picture of Kathy and her Dad, from her hilarious Emmy nominated TV show, "My Life on the D-List".