Bruce Jay Friedman, 'Splash' Screenwriter, Dies at 90

Bobby Berk has a history of speaking his truth and shining a light on celebrities who’ve wronged him, including the time he called Aviva Drescher a “con artist” in 2014.The Queer Eye star, 38, shared a cautionary tale involving a Real Housewives of New York City star during an appearance on The Jenny McCarthy Show on Thursday, June 18, years after his run-in with Drescher, 49.

Bobby Berk explained why he is cautious about working with celebrities after a run-in with a Real Housewives of New York City star.“Celebrities can be a pain in the ass sometimes,” the Queer Eye star, 38, admitted during a Thursday, June 18, appearance on The Jenny McCarthy Show. “A lot of times there can be some that expect everything for free.”Berk then recounted a horror story with a Bravo star — whom he never named — from years earlier.

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Workers swept up broken glass outside New York City luxury stores Monday after another night of destruction followed largely peaceful protests against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death. Workers boarded up a Chanel store in Soho, one of many in the historic district known for cobblestone streets and cast iron buildings where people smashed windows and grabbed merchandise overnight.

Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84.

NEW YORK -- Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in history to winning contestant Charles Van Doren, has died age 93.

NEW YORK -- Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84.

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Larry Kramer in 2010 (Photo: David Shankbone)

NEW YORK -- Longtime broadcast news executive William J. Small, who led CBS News' Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate and was later president of NBC News and United Press International, died Sunday, CBS News said. He was 93.

Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday.

NEW YORK -- Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.

Larry Kramer, the pioneering New York AIDS activist who used pamphlets, novels, Broadway plays and ire to spread his lifesaving message, has died. He was 84.