Ann Ratray Dies: Actress, Drama Coach, Mother Of ‘Home Alone’ Actor Was 81

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterRobert Downey Sr., director of the countercultural satire “Putney Swope” and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died Wednesday in New York. He was 85.Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Sr., father of Robert Downey Jr., has died at age 85.

Robert Downey Sr., the director of the anti-establishment satirical classic Putney Swope and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr., died today in his sleep at home in New York City. He was 85.

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is joining the faculty of Howard University, having rejected a tenured position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

had declined to vote on tenure for Hannah-Jones and later offered her a five-year fixed term contract.

NEW YORK -- TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in a scandal-ridden, cult-like upstate New York group, is facing sentencing Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the group’s spiritual leader.Mack — best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville” — is set to appear Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court.

Actor Ray MacDonnell, who played Dr. Joe Martin on ABC’s All My Children, died of natural causes on June 10, at his home in Chappaqua, New York, according to a report from Michael Fairman TV. He was 93.

Ray MacDonnell has sadly passed away at the age of 93.

Cocktail. Banes at the 52nd New York Film Festival in 2014Starting in 1980, in the off-Broadway play Look Back in Anger, she was perhaps best known for playing Marybeth Elliot, the devastated and furious mother of Rosamund Pike’s missing Amy Dunne in 2014’s Gone Girl.

R. Kelly has been extradited from a prison in Chicago to a federal facility in New York to face a sex-trafficking trial later this summer.

Jordan Moreau Lisa Banes, an actor who appeared in “Gone Girl,” “A Cure for Wellness” and more, died on Monday after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident 10 days earlier in New York. She was 65.On June 4, Banes was hit by a person driving a scooter in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to Variety.

NEW YORK -- "Schitt’s Creek" star Annie Murphy's new AMC series “Kevin Can F Himself" presents itself as one of those traditional multicamera comedies with a laugh track and corny jokes. Viewers will quickly learn it’s actually much darker.Murphy stars as Allison, an overwhelmed wife who does all the work at home and puts up with her husband’s immature antics.

NEW YORK -- “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes died 10 days after being injured in a hit-and-run accident in New York City, police said.The 65-year-old Banes, who was struck by a scooter or motorcycle while crossing a street on June 4, died Monday at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, a police department spokesperson said.Banes appeared in numerous television shows and movies, including “Gone Girl” in 2014 and “Cocktail” with Tom Cruise in 1988.

Cocktail and Gone Girl, has died at the age of 65.Banes was struck by a motorised scooter in a hit-and-run in New York earlier this month.Banes’ friends have now told The New York Post that she passed away yesterday (June 14), with her rep subsequently confirming the news to Entertainment Tonight.“We are heartsick over Lisa’s tragic and senseless passing,” a rep said.

announced in an Instagram post Sunday, which included a headshot of her father and a photo of him walking her own the aisle on her wedding day. “John Gabriel was my hero, my role model, and my champion, but above all, my daddy.