Amy Winehouse dies aged 27;
Amy Winehouse, the singer, has been found dead at her home at the age of 27. ...
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July 23, 2011

Singer Amy Winehouse, who came to fame with her debut album Frank in 2003, was found at her flat in north London this afternoon, the Metropolitan Police have confirmed.

They say that they received a call at 4.05pm calling for help for a woman in Camden. Paramedics were called to the scene, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The death is "unexplained" but not thought to be suspicious, according to police. Sources have told the Sunday Mirror that an overdose of drink and drugs is the suspected cause of death.

Last month, Miss Winehouse cancelled her entire European tour, after an on-stage breakdown in Serbia. A statement on her website said "Amy Winehouse is withdrawing from all scheduled performances. Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen."

Friends of the singer had reportedly voiced fears that she was drinking herself to death, according to the Sun. They said: "Her drinking is totally out of control. Amy is constantly out of control on vodka.

"She is rattling about at home in north London drinking herself into oblivion. Three times this week she has been so drunk she passed out."

Miss Winehouse had several bouts of treatment for drink and drugs, the most recent in May. Her 2006 album Back to Black featured a song called Rehab, which documented her drinking problems and refusal to seek help.

In 2007 she married Blake Fielder-Civil, and the pair had a sometimes violent relationship. Fielder-Civil was imprisoned for conspiring to pervert the course of justice in 2008 and the pair divorced in 2009.


(Variety)- Actress Helen Beverley, who performed in Yiddish theater as well as in the Yiddish films "Green Fields," "The Light Ahead" and "Overture to Glory" and was the first wife of the late actor Lee J. Cobb, died of natural causes July 15 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund hospital in Woodland Hills. She was 94.

"Green Fields" (1937), in which Beverley was the female lead, was an adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play whose arrival, according to the National center of Jewish Cinema, "heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema."

Beverley also starred in "The Light Ahead" (1939), also co-directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, in which a consciousness of the danger looming over European Jewry was painfully apparent even though the film was shot in New Jersey.

The actress had a somewhat smaller role in 1940's "Overture to Glory," about a cantor seduced by secularism.

Thereafter Beverley had some roles in Hollywood films, including the Charlie Chan pic "Black Magic"; 1944's "The Master Race," which envisaged the dangers of Nazism even after after the fall of Germany; and the musical "Stairway for a Star," in which Beverly starred with Cornel Wilde.

In the 1950s she had small roles in "The Robe," "Playgirl" and "The Shrike"; she appeared on the smallscreen in a 1960 episode of "The Rifleman" and made her last bigscreen appearance in the Susan Hayward film "Ada."

Beverley married Cobb in 1940 but they were divorced in the 1950s.

She is survived by a daughter, actress Julie Cobb, who was formerly married to actor James Cromwell, and a granddaughter, actress Rosemary Morgan.

It's with great sadness that I must report the sudden death of one of boxing's last, great characters.

Ronald "Butch" Lewis, known in the fight industry for tenaciously landing his light heavyweight champion Michael Spinks a massive $13.5 million purse for what turned out to be a brutal, one round KO at the hands of Iron Mike Tyson, apprently suffered a massive heart attack.