Touched By An Angel ran for nine seasons on CBS, and while Dye was introduced in the first season, he only became a series regular at the start of the third season. The show focused on a group of Angels who bring messages from God to people at difficult crossroads in their lives. Dye starred with Roma Downey, Della Reese, and Valerie Bertinelli.

His young death is suitably mysterious for the Angel of Death. While doctors believe that it may be due to some kind of heart failure connected to a long-term health condition, there’s no clear explanation for the actor’s passing. The passing occurred earlier this week, with his family deciding to withhold the information as they made arrangements for Dye’s memorial service.

The memorial service for John Dye will be open to the public, and held on January 22 in Dye’s hometown of Amory, Mississippi. The family is asking concerned parties to please give to the Amory Food Pantry or the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in honor of the Actor’s life and work.

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The image shows a notably darker tone than we saw with the sometimes campy Raimi films. With the claw marks on our leading man’s chest, this image likely comes shortly after an encounter with the film’s primary villain, classic Spidey character The Lizard. The tone seems to mimic the most successful superhero franchise of the modern era, the Christopher Nolan Batman series, an intelligent move for young director Marc Webb. Even his choice of The Lizard matches Nolan, with the decision to focus his first film on the main character, and pulling a secondary villain from Spider-Man’s rogues gallery, to prevent the villain from overshadowing the hero. It seems likely that a second film would introduce the classic Spider-Man arch-nemesis, the Green Goblin, especially if Webb continues to follow Nolan’s winning formula.

The as-of-yet untitled Spider-Man reboot (I’d personally wager that producers will go with the name of the monthly comic book series, The Amazing Spider-Man to separate the new series from the previous franchise) continues to impress on all cylinders. The film will showcase Andrew Garfield as the web-slinging Peter Parker, Emma Stone as the original Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy, Martin Sheen as Peter’s Uncle Ben, Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors (The Lizard), Dennis Leary as Gwen Stacy’s father and Police Captain George Stacy, and a similarly star-studded secondary cast.

The Spidey reboot looks like a winner amidst what will likely be the biggest Superhero summer in film history, with the release of The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. Nevertheless, mark your calendars for July 3rd, 2012 for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet went on the air when David was sixteen years old, but he had already been playing the part of himself on the show’s radio predecessor for years, and even earlier he had been portrayed on the radio by other child actors. With so many years in the public spotlight, it shouldn’t be surprising that later in life he chose to stay out of the public eye for the most part. His last major role would be as a part of John Water’s 1990 Johnny Depp vehicle, Cry-Baby, in which he played Depp’s love interest’s father.

David never quite achieved the level of fame the rest of his family did outside the television series, his brother Ricky Nelson having moved on to become an incredibly popular singer and actor, and his parents having been successful even before the television series. And yet he still spent almost two decades of his life on the public stage, fictional though that stage might have been. And with him ends the legacy of the most beloved eras of American Television, and one of its most famous shows.

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• Paris Hilton Sets Sail?

Yes, this picture of Paris Hilton and her boyfriend Cy Waits (is that even a real name?) dressed as a sexy sailor and a sexy Native American, respectively, is deeply unsettling, but wait until you see the photo of Hilton’s parents, Rick  and Kathy, as sexy police officers. Also in attendance were sexy nurse, sexy construction worker, sexy plankton, etc. [x17online.com]

As if the world needed another Kardashian, Kendall, the family’s youngest, appears in a music video for the pop band One Call alongside Glee’s Kevin McHale. Fourteen-year-old Kendall Jenner was last seen in a bikini making sexyface on a beach. [Daily Mail]
X-Tina is going triple-X: Christina Aguilera, recently divorced and out of the public eye after canceling her music tour this summer (likely due to competition from Lady Gaga’s well-received Monster Ball tour), is getting noticed. Rumor has it that last month she and Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan’s ex-girlfriend, had a ménage-a-trois in Mexico. Question is, who’s the third? [Jezebel]
Also in unlikely couplings, Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift have been seen out and about in New York, first at an SNL cast party, and then getting brunch in Brooklyn. [Grub Street]
Other New York restaurants have also been serving celebrities, but the fare has been a little different: Charlie Sheen was recently found coked-up and naked at a Manhattan restaurant. [Jezebel]
Proving once again that she is the coolest octogenarian in show business, Betty White tells Parade Magazine that everyone should just calm down and let gay people get married: “I don’t care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time — and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones — I think it’s fine if they want to get married. I don’t know how people can get so anti-something.” [Nerve]
Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks, noted as often for her bodacious figure and red hair as for her acting, says she, a natural blonde, initially went for the dye job because she wanted to look like the heroine of Anne of Green Gables, her favorite book growing up. Hendricks is now ruing the decision because she feels like her looks are talked about more than her talent. [showbizspy]
While y’all are waiting for MTV to bring back Punk’d starring Justin Bieber, Fox is offering a new show called My Parents Are Gonna Love You, which features “average people bringing home celebrity love interests to meet their parents in elaborate prank.” And just when you think your parents have gotten over the fact that you’re not bringing home a nice Jewish boy… [Culture Vulture]

Other attractive people are sleeping together, it appears, but the outcome is no better. Taylor Swift’s new song, “Dear John,” seems to indicate – surprise! – that John Mayer, 32, is a bad idea. (Jennifer Aniston could have told her that.) Swift, 19, who is known for writing songs directly from relationships, has said of her newest single “Every single song is like a roadmap to what that relationship stood for, with little markers that maybe everyone won’t know, but there are things that were little nuances of the relationship, little hints..” She was first seen canoodling with Mayer last February, In Touch magazine reported, and sources claimed that she spent the night in his hotel room. Most of us do have to learn at some point how unpleasant it is to spend the night on the John. A sample lyric: Dear John/I see it all now that you’re gone/Don’t you think I was too young/To be messed with/The girl in the dress/Cried the whole way home/I should’ve known. [Jezebel]
Meanwhile, Kristin Stewart of Twilight will be playing a teenage runaway who becomes a stripper in the film Welcome to the Rileys, out November 5. In an effort to understand her character, Stewart went with the film crew to a strip club in New Orleans, where they were filming, “and I was straight-up offered a job,” the actress reports. Maybe the club was looking to tap into the teenage fangirl market? [MTV.com]
Madonna’s new manfriend Rahim Brachiki is 19 years her junior, and almost as jacked as she is. [Socialite Life]

Rapper Jay-Z has decided to release his new book, Decoded, via the interwebz. Unfortunately, he got confused and decided to do it through Bing, the search engine that even Gossip Girl couldn’t make happen. Anyway, there’s some complicated online scavenger hunt, and ten new pages to be found every day from now until publication. [NY Mag]

Speaking of rappers and ill-chosen releases, Kanye West has had his new album, Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, banned from Wal-Mart because of the graphic cover art, which is a painting of a white woman with wings and no arms mounting a black man holding a bottle. Kanye tweets: “”In all honesty…I really don’t be thinking about Walmart when I make my music or album covers #kanyeshrug! I wanna sell albums but not at the expense of my true creativity.” [Nerve]

J-Woww of Jersey Shore actually looked like a normal person before she discovered fake tans. [Popeater]

Justin Bieber Can Rap?

Justin Bieber is breaking (popping?) out of the pop-star bubble with his latest video, in which he raps over Cam’ron and Vado’s “Speakin’ Tungs.” Shockingly, Vado was impressed: “I was shocked! He killed it! He sounded like B.I.G.” With comparisons to little lesbians and giant rappers, maybe Justin Bieber is the uniting force of our time. [NY Mag]

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TLC just released the trailer for the new reality miniseries Sarah Palin’s Alaska, in which the former vice-presidential candidate exclaims “This is flippin’ fun! Why can’t we ever just be satisfied with tranquility?” while rowing through rapids. While clutching her husband she declares “I’d rather be here than in some stuffy political office.” Bitter much, Sarah Palin? [Nerve]

Christina Aguilera has split from husband Jordan Bratman and is now reportedly dating Lindsay Lohan’s ex-girlfriend, DJ Samantha Ronson. The two took a trip to Cabo this summer and “have been inseperable” ever since. “Christina doesn’t create the kind of drama Lindsay did,” says a source. Unfortunately, none of these women appear to have created much of anything lately. They are all teetering on the brink of famous-for-having-been-famous. [x17]

Emma Stone, star of the recent film Easy A, just got the coolest tattoo ever. How, you ask? It’s because she loves her mom, and it’s designed by Paul McCartney. Yep, that’s right. The former Beatles member sketched a pair bird feet that Emma and her mother got inked on their wrists. The two women got the tattoos to celebrate Stone’s mother surviving breast cancer, and because they both love the song “Blackbird.” [Popeater]

Neil Patrick Harris wants you to know that he and his partner David Burtka are “happy, healthy, tired, and a little pukey” after the birth of their twins, Gideon Scott and Harper Grace. Aw, we’re pukey too, but only because the whole thing is so damn cute. [The Daily Beast]

Since Lindsay has been out of the papers for all of a week now, Michael Lohan appears to be picking up the family crazy slack, avowing that if Lindsay, who’s currently in treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic, doesn’t start picking up his calls, he’ll renounce his sobriety and get himself a spot in the Betty alongside his daughter. [dlisted]

Taylor Momsen, a role model for sex-positivity, even if she needs to cut back on the eyeliner: “If it’s a good sex tape, I’ll watch it…I like some adult stars. I have a couple favorites.” It’s comforting, at least, to know that the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee tape was not to her liking. [Jezebel]
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Breaking news, thirty years late: it appears that Princess Leia, that is, Carrie Fisher, was on cocaine during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back. Specifically in the ice planet, appropriately enough. [Nerve]

Fleeing rumors of Ashton Kutcher’s infidelity, he and his wife Demi Moore have headed to the Holy Land. In typically grammatical form, Kutcher tweeted “Sharing Love & Light while in Israel. Asking 4 the energy 2 forge bonds with our similarities & find compromise in our differences.” According to the picture at the link, they’re also forging bonds with matching hipster glasses. Buddy Holly would be upset. [Jezebel]

Kim Kardashian steps out in the buff for W Magazine’s annual art issue. Despite being known mostly for reality television shows with too many Ks in the titles, Kardashian strikes quite a lovely figure. And one which is the size a normal person might be! Yes! More healthy, varied bodies in the media, please! [Gawker]

Last seen on Broadway nude and worshiping horses in the avant-garde play Equus, Daniel  Radcliffe is due to return to the stage in the stodgy, sexist 1960s musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, where he knows he’s “got to be single” because of all the chorus girls. A friend warned him “Dude, don’t sleep with anyone in your own show,” but Radcliffe says of the sound advice “I’m not sure I’ll stick to it.” [Huffington Post]

Sascha Baron Cohen can take full credit for provoking the creation of the MPAA’s new and oddly specific warning “Male Nudity.” The sight of Cohen’s schlong in the film Bruno upset a lot of parents, so now all major cinematic penises will be announced. There’s something for his obituary. [Culture Vulture]

In good company with Cohen is Miley Cyrus, who has provoked parental protest over her sexy new video, “Who Owns My Heart,” which features Cyrus rolling around on a bed in her underwear and a sleep mask, and a lot of suggestive lipstick application. So, basically what lots of people do alone in their bathrooms. [Popeater]

Snooki is finally getting around to that community service she was assigned after her drunken arrest. And by “community service,” I mean autograph signing. What community anybody thinks that will serve is beyond me. [TMZ]

We’ve missed her dulcet tones: Fran Drescher of “The Nanny” is slated to host her own talk show on Fox! That woman plays her nose like an instrument. [Popwatch]

Michelle Williams is slated to appear in an upcoming biopic as Marilyn Monroe, and the first pictures of the actress in costume have been released. For my money, they’ve got nothing on the shoot Lindsay Lohan did as Monroe for Vanity Fair two years ago. [The Daily What]

Speaking of damaged, iconic actresses, Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab, this time at the Betty Ford Center, where in addition to narcotics and alcohol, she is being required to swear off Twitter and the telephone. [Popeater]

Standup comic and author of Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler, recently went to the interwebz to deny rumors that is going out with rapper 50 Cent, tweeting “Everyone, calm down. I met with mr. Cent about a potential project. There’s nothing to report yet, ill let you know if there is.” Meanwhile, good ol’ print media in the form of Us Weekly has this quote from an anonymous source: “It’smore of a hookup thing — whenever they are in the same town.” [Huffington Post]

Speaking of Us Weekly, that fine publication wants to let us know that comic Jason Sudeikis of SNL is on the absurd BluePrint Cleanse diet, consisting of six bottles of juice a day, so that he can measure up (or down) to his slim new girlfriend, January Jones of Mad Men. An anonymous source tells the magazine “January is so gorgeous and thin, it’s hard to look good next to her.” New relationships! Hollywood! Disordered eating! How charming. [Us Weekly]

Equally charming is the apparent proclivity of fellow Mad Men star Jon Hamm, who plays Don Draper, the ex-husband of January Jones’ Betty, to appear at pubic, er, public events without underwear. Many red carpet photos indicate that the dashing actor is packing heat. View the photos at the link for a very good or a slightly upsetting time (maybe both). [Gawker]

While you used to have to seek out Gwyneth Paltrow’s patronizing advice by subscribing to GOOP, her abstemious, self-righteous lifestyle newsletter, you can now find it right in the pages of Elle magazine, where she pities those weak, silly struggling actors who might think “‘My career will be ruined if I don’t give this guy a blow job.” [NY Mag]

Kim Kardashian and her sisters Khloe and Kourtney were just trying to have a quiet Thursday night at the bar when a drunk man approached Kim and asked her for an autograph. The man’s jealous girlfriend threw a drink at Kim, who says she’s “totally fine.” I would be too if going out for the evening got me free advertising for my upcoming reality show. Stay tuned for the premiere of Kim and Kourtney Take New York, if you must. [People]

Speaking of reality TV, all those years with Nicole Richie on The Simple Life, and the reality show after their subsequent falling out, My New BFF, meant nothing to heiress Paris Hilton, who says she’s found “a new BFF” in the 7-year-old daughter of her boyfriend, Cy Waits. Finally, Paris, someone age-appropriate! [Jezebel]

Mariah Carey gets photoshopped by Saudi censors

Saudi Arabia has a notoriously strict censorship policy, so it’s no surprise that the reliably scantily clad Mariah Carey has been a target for censors, but no amount of plunging cleavage or bare thigh is deserving of the unintentionally hilarious photoshopping that’s been done to her album covers. Cat fur to her neck? Oh yes. Click the link for photos. [E! Online]

Maybe it’s because he’s been called the Great American Novelist, but Jonathan Franzen got no love from London when he was there last weekend for a party celebrating the launch of his new book, Freedom (which, incidentally, has been called the Great American Novel in a few reviews). Some party crashers made off with Franzen’s glasses, leaving behind a $100,000 ransom note, but were apprehended by a HarperCollins staffperson who chased them down. [Gawker]

Someone at MTV appears to think that the American public has been deprived, because they’ve decided to revive Punk’d, the celebrity prank show hosted by Ashton Kutcher until he retired it in 2007. It’s rumored that they’re replacing one annoying, omnipresent and floppy-haired celebrity with another: Justin Bieber. I am so worried that this will result in the Biebs wooing older woman and posting creepy pictures of her on his twitter. [NY Mag]

You know you’re highbrow when Dame Helen Mirren approves. And apparently the titled lady is very fond of Nintendo’s Wii Fit, which she uses to keep herself in such spectacular shape that the 60-year-old actress posed topless for New York Magazine this summer. So grab your remotes, everyone, and remember, pinkies out! [Popeater]
Caught canoodling at a bar in New Orleans: rapper 50 Cent and scathing comic Chelsea Handler. No one is joking, everyone is nonplussed. The best part? Apparently they’d been flirting via twitter for months. [Jezebel]

At least unreasonable demands on models’ bodies don’t discriminate by gender? That’s the only upside I can see to the case of the recent sacking of Abercrombie & Fitch model Florian Van Bael, who was kicked off a photoshoot after ingesting a croissant off-schedule. [Daily Mail]

Watch Conan O’Brien writhe seductively on a wet and soapy desk. I mean, um, check out the promotional trailer for his new TV show on TBS. [Nerve]
Ellen DeGeneres and Sarah Silverman are two of the latest celebrities to make videos for sex columnist Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Campaign. The campaign aims to reach out to LGBTQ youth and let them that just because high school sucks doesn’t mean things will suck forever, and that help is available. After the recent spate of suicides by gay teens resulting from bullying, these things need to be said. [Entertainment Weekly]

Jenny McCarthy

Jenny McCarthy Shares Her Vast Wisdom in New Book

With all the wisdom of her 37 years behind her, Jenny McCarthy has decided to release a book entitled “Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, And True Romance.” Women reach their sexual peaks later than men, and McCarthy currently rates herself a 9.8 out of 10 on the horninness scale. Yet despite that, and her well-known breast implants, McCarthy claims that to her size doesn’t matter: “Size definitely helps, but the thing is, you don’t need big. Average is awesome! Standard issue is awesome!” Normal people everywhere, there is still hope! [Huffington Post]

Director Baz Luhrmann is rumored to be working on his most ambitious project yet: a film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, and Amanda Seyfried as Daisy Buchanan. Here’s hoping the project gets a green light! [Culture Vulture]

In other book news, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling told Oprah Winfrey “I’m not gonna say I won’t” write any more books in the series. Now if only someone had a time turner so we could all stop waiting. [Gawker]

Apparently unaware that Justin Timberlake has fulfilled the entertainment industry’s demand for former ‘NSYNC members (and is a great deal more talented) Joey Fatone has launched a campaign for an ‘NSYNC-themed episode of Glee, tweeting after the much-heralded Britney Spears episode “Glee was good but I think my ass needs to get on that show to be a teacher.” Let’s hope the producers of the FOX show are smart enough to say “Bye Bye Bye” to Fatone. [Popeater]

Underage pop star Miley Cyrus was spotted with friends in a 21+ Hollywood nightclub on Thursday, where she “danced seductively while shaking her hips.” Girlfriend knew her limits, though, and didn’t go near any alcohol with the paparazzi around. Lindsay Lohan, take note! [Us! Weekly]

Glee star Lea Michele sheds her clothing and the buttoned-up schoolgirl image she cultivates on the show in the most recent issue of British Marie Claire, which finds her posed semi-topless and seductive. She credits Glee’s message of self-acceptance with helping her find the courage to do the shoot. [People]

CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez was fired after a radio interview in which he called Daily Show host Jon Stewart  a “bigot,” and accused him and other Jews of controlling the media. [MSNBC]

Sheryl Shabani, jewelry designer to the stars, recently filed for divorce from her husband, claiming that he tried to run soccer star David Beckham off the highway after (baselessly) accusing Shabani of having an affair with Beckham. Shabani is good friends with Beckham’s wife, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham, and attributes the whole affair to her husband’s “craziness.” [Radar]

Mariah Carey’s new Christmas song was just released, and depending who you are, either the holiday season started two months early, or you’ll need to find a paper bag to vomit into. [Jezebel]