NYE COUNTY CORONER FINALLY RELEASES REPORT ON HOW ART BELL DIED

An autopsy found the 72-year-old Bell’s death April 13 at home in rural Pahrump was from “multiple drug intoxication from his own lawfully prescribed prescriptions,” Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly’s office said in a brief Facebook announcement . It called the death an accidental overdose…


Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg, whose office in Las Vegas handled the medical examination, said Bell had the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone, the sedative diazepam and the muscle-relaxant carisoprodol in his system.

High blood pressure and the lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder were additional “significant conditions” in Bell’s death, Fudenberg said .. The coroner said there was no indication of foul play..


Dead on Friday the 13th. And missed forever since, and well beyond these years.

It's official: STRANGER THINGS 3 to hit summer 2019

Stranger Things eight-episode third season will be released  Summer 2019. This is a little later than some had hoped or expected..

Explaining the reason for the delay, Netflix’s VP or original content, Cindy Holland, told reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Assococation summer press tour, “It’s a handcrafted show. [Exec producers] The Duffer brothers and Shawn Levy have worked really hard, and they understand the stakes are high. They want to deliver something bigger and better than what they did last year. And so they really want to take the time to get it right.”

Earlier this month the show released its first official trailer.. it features Hawkins' mall grand opening. It featured Steve at the AHOY ice cream location.. it features nostalgia galore. And it makes me hope that the battle takes place within the shopping mall. What an homage to the 80s it would be! And what a great location now that the kids, in their 80s way, are growing up and hanging out at the best place that existed at that time: The brick and mortar of the famed shopping mall.

LIFESTYLES OF THE ROYAL AND PASTA-LESS! Now Markle can't talk to her dad?

Last week we found out that the Duchess of Sussex was not permitted to have pasta anymore now that she is a Royal..

Apparently she's also not permitted to talk to her father, either.

The gossip FTP rags are going wild with this conjecture:

74-year-old Thomas Markle told London's Daily Mail on Sunday that his 36-year-old daughter has removed him from her life entirely as punishment for staging fake paparazzi pictures before the royal wedding and speaking critically of the royal family...

“I'm really hurt that she's cut me off completely,” he told the Daily Mail during a nine-hour interview over three days. “I have no way of contacting my daughter.”

He said he hasn't spoken to the Duchess of Sussex in 10 weeks.

Markle claims that the phone number for her personal aides at the palace have been disconnected.

Josip Nikolai Peruzović -- or Nikolai Volkoff -- dead at 70

Pro wrestling Hall of Famer Nikolai Volkoff has died at the age of 70.. His villainous Soviet ring persona made him a heel Cold War-era crowds loved to hate..

World Wrestling Entertainment released the news on Sunday.

Volkoff — born Josip Nikolai Peruzović in the former Yugoslavia — rose to prominence in the ring during the 1980s, relentlessly taunting American audiences with his scarlet-and-gold outfits and Soviet flag-waving antics.

He mattered greatly to our pop culture.. 

And as an example, here is this:

Brian Christopher Lawler dead after trying to hang himself in jail

Brian Christopher Lawler, who went by Grandmaster Sexay in the WWE and the son of wrestling legend Jerry Lawler, is not dead after trying to kill himself in jail Saturday night, TMZ Sports reported.

According to various reports, the 46-year-old Brian Christopher attempted to hang himself in his cell outside Memphis. He was found by guards and rushed to a local hospital.

Brian Christopher had been arrested in Tennessee earlier this month for DUI after allegedly leading cops on a chase. They tried to pull him over, but he continued driving. When he did stop, cops say, he smelled of alcohol.

Lawler's mother, Kay, tells TMZ Sports Brian passed away Sunday surrounded by family and friends after being placed on life support Saturday night following a suicide attempt in jail. 

He was surrounded by his father, Jerry Lawler, his brother, Kevin, and other family. 

MISSION: POSSIBLE: TOM CRUISE A HIT

IT'S BEEN A WHILE.. BUT TOM CRUISE HAS A HIT! IT MAKES HIS ON-SET INJURY ALL THE MORE WORTH IT

Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout is opening to a franchise record of $61.5M (the same as we spotted yesterday), beating the previous series high from Mission: Impossible II ($57.8M) and 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ($55.5M) !!

Fallout also stands as Cruise’s second best opening at the B.O. after War of the Worlds’ 3-day of $64.8M...

MOMMA MIA part 2 took second place.. but dropped 57% from last week. The movie appears to be a stinker above all others..

And finally, a film I thought would do better,  TEEN TITANS, didn't fair so well.

The movie opened to only $10 mil at 5th place. It cost $10 mil to make. So at this point it broke even.. I suppose okay.

We will see Tuesday when I take my seven-year-old son to see it. Will the NIGHT BEGIN TO SHINE or did it fade away with aging kids?