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Sad news for ’90s nostalgists: Rapper Chris Kelly, best known as one half of the rap duo Kris Kross, has died at the age of 34.

TILDA!! Shine on, you crazy, crazy diamond.

The grand irony of Roger Ebert’s career is that he became an icon of the thumb, of bite-sized opinions presented as a consumer service, yet on the essential matter of voice, you couldn’t find a critic who spoke (or wrote) more urgently, more eloquently, more passionately, or with a more fascinating thrust of personality.

Must-read: Owen Gleiberman on Roger Ebert.

This is the saddest, guys.

brooklynmutt:

@BryanAGraham: Prince’s 58-word obit of Dick Clark is my favorite thing to appear in @EW this year.

Yeah, it’s 2 good 2 B 4-gotten. (He insisted we use his original spelling.)

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He left, in May, when the moon was full, and my life admits an absence shaped like a grumpy, maniacal genius. Maurice Sendak was my friend for 35 years, and he remains my muse despite the distance insisted upon by death.

Another reason to pick up EW this week: 12 pages of moving tributes to 2012’s late greats, including Wicked author Gregory Maguire’s celebration of Maurice Sendak.

RIP, gentle giant Michael Clarke Duncan. Here’s a moving tribute from Michael Bay, of all people, who gave Duncan his big break by casting him inArmageddon. A taste:

His first day on Armageddon he sucked. I remember looking to Ben Affleck and thinking we might need to fire him. But I told him “Mike, I hired you for you, I want the sweet, Mr Clarke Duncan I met in that room.” I said, “the audience is going to fall in love with you.”

He looked and smiled with deep voice and said “Ok.”

Incredibly sad news this morning — beloved children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died today at the age of 83. He suffered complications after a recent stroke.

We’ll always remember Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and his amazing, hilarious appearance on The Colbert Report this past January.

Today, we say goodbye to Adam Yauch — a.k.a. The Beastie Boys’ MCA. The Brooklyn-born musician died today of cancer at the age of 47; he’s survived by his wife, Dechen Wengdu, and their daughter Losel.

Guess this means they broke it?

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