Celebrated actress and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Rowlands’ son, the director and actor Nick Cassavetes, revealed the news while speaking with Entertainment Weekly about the 20th anniversary of his film, The Notebook. In the movie, Rowlands famously played the older version of …
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Tony Bennett, the affable pre-rock standards crooner who came to be newly appreciated and beloved by everyone from the grunge generation to Lady Gaga, died on Friday. He was 96. Bennett’s publicist, Sylvia Weiner, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that he died in his hometown of New …
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Until this past March, Patti LaFleur had spent the past several years as a carepartner for her mother Linda LaTurner. LaTurner, LaFleur says, was “sunshine in human form” and a constant source of joy for her, even through the harder days of managing her dementia diagnosis. The self-described optimist documented …
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