The Globe bids farewell to the stars we lost in 2010.

Publication: Globe
Date: 3 January 2010

The Globe often has a story in contention for Meanest Story of the Week, but not this time around. They take up most of the cover in tribute to people who died this year, and all they have is pictures with no teaser headlines about tragic secrets or the like. The list includes several people whose deaths wer not mentioned in the Globe before this issue. In no particular order, the names are:

• Tony Curtis
• Dennis Hopper
• John Forsythe
• Rue McLanahan
• Elizabeth Edwards
• Barbara Billingsley
• Leslie Nielsen
• Gary Coleman

And the only person on the list who I will print a picture of here, not out of any disrespect for the others but out of special respect for her. 'Cos she's purdy.

• Miss Lena Horne

Best wishes to the family and friends of all the people on this list, from a fan.

Secrets taken to the grave alert:Leslie Nielsen

Publication: Globe
Date: 20 December 2010

Last week, only People gave Leslie Nielsen a sendoff. I wrote that I was glad none of the Three Wicked Step Sisters decided to tell us about a secret he took to the grave.

Obviously, I spoke too soon.

It's taken me long enough, but I am just now creating a "Secrets taken to the grave alert" label, and I'll probably spend about an hour this morning searching through old posts adding this label to stories about Robert Culp and Tony Curtis and others.

It's the least I can do.

Farewell Leslie Nielsen, 1926-2010

Publication: People
Date: 13 December 2010

Leslie Nielsen died last Monday, which means the supermarket gossip magazines would have time to put his picture on the cover and give him a nice send-off. The only one that did it is the biggest one of all, People, and, and as usual, their cover headline is simple and respectful.

I'm actually glad the Three Wicked Step Sisters didn't stoop to tell us about his sad last days or the secret he took to the grave.

Best wishes to the family and friends of Leslie Nielsen, the dashing leading man who became a comedy legend when he was in his fifties, from a fan.

Breaking news:Leslie Nielsen dead at 84

Publication: Associated Press (via the Sydney Morning Herald)
Date: 28 November 2010

Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian actor who started as a leading man in movies like Forbidden Planet and went on to a successful career in TV dramas, all of that nearly forgotten because of his even bigger successes late in his career in zany madcap comedies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 84 of complications from pneumonia. Surely, the supermarket gossip magazines will have cover story tributes to him in next week's editions.

Best wishes to the family and friends of Leslie Neilsen, from a fan.

And don't call him Shirley.