Suzanne Pleshette of "Newhart" fame dies at 70
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Actress Suzanne Pleshette, best  known as the feisty but level-headed wife of Bob Newhart on  television's 1970's hit "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age  of 70, friends said on Sunday.
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Suzanne Pleshette is very much alive, and ever her saucy self. In a rare public appearance Wednesday night for a 35th-anniversary tribute to "The Bob Newhart Show" (1972-78), her most enduring work, the veteran actress showed that a year of serious personal and health matters hasn't dampened her spitfire personality.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress and first wife of former US President Ronald Reagan, dies at 93.
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Suzanne Pleshette got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, less than two weeks after she died of respiratory failure.
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Janet Leigh, the star of Hitchcock thriller Psycho, and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, has died at the age of 77. (Pic: Universal Studios).
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Suzanne Pleshette was the husky-voiced actress who redefined the television sitcom wife in the 1970s, playing the smart, sardonic Emily Hartley on âThe Bob Newhart Show.â
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said.
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Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.
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Laura Branigan, who had a slew of hits in the 80s, passed away suddenly on Thursday night at the age of 47. The cause of death was described as a brain aneurysm.
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Frances Lewine, who covered the White House for the Associated Press during the administrations of six presidents and spent nearly three decades as a CNN assignment editor and field producer, died Saturday of an apparent stroke. She was 86.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, best known for his long-running role as New York police detective Lennie Briscoe on &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; has died.
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The actor Janet Leigh, most famous for her role in Hitchcock&#39;s Psycho, has died aged 77, her daughter&#39;s publicist said today.
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British actress Pat Kirkwood, a star of stage and screen since the 1930s, dies at the age of 86.
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"She came to the conclusion that the more she spoke the truth, the more she was disbelieved"  Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals written by Noel Coward and Cole Porter. But Kirkwood was dogged her whole life by rumors of a romantic liaison with Prince Philip _ which she always denied _ after the two were spotted dancing at a London nightclub.Kirkwood died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Ilkley, northern England, author and royal biographer Michael Thornton, said in a statement. She had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and a chest infection, he said. Read more
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Playbill - Robert Lantz, the Berlin-born, New York-based talent agent whose clients included such theatre and film greats as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, Al Hirschfeld, Alfred Drake and Mike Nichols, and who retained his status as an independent until the end, died on Oct. 18 in Manhattan. He was 93.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.