Monday, March 23, 2009

George Webber

George Weber was found stabbed to death in his Brooklyn apartment Sunday morning, cops said. The bloody body of Weber, a passionate fan of the city who spent a decade doing local news on WABC morning radio, was found just after 9 a.m. when he didn't show up for work.
"I used to hear his voice in the top and the bottom of the hour. It's a voice New Yorkers know. Now that voice has been silenced," said Aaron Katersky, 33, an ABC colleague who found himself covering a friend's murder. Weber, 47, was freelancing at ABC's national radio network after being laid off last year.
George Weber, a reporter whose voice had been a steady presence on ABC radio for more than a dozen years, was found dead in his apartment in Brooklyn on Sunday, the police said. The death has been ruled a homicide. He had been stabbed, but no weapon was found, the police said. Cops believe Weber was killed Friday evening. He was found in bed with stab wounds in the neck and chest, cops said.

Emma Heming

Emma Heming and boyfriend Bruce Willis married in Parrot Cay, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Saturday. Willis exchanged vows in a ceremony attended by his children, ex-wife Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher. Madonna is also believed to have been among the guests. The wedding coincided with Willis’ birthday: he turned 54 on Thursday, Heming is 32. The pair been together for more than a year and will have a civil ceremony to confirm the marriage under US law when they return home.
Bruce Willis, 54, got hitched to girlfriend Emma Heming, a model, 30, at his home in the Turks & Caicos on Saturday. His rep tells Us Willis' daughters, Rumor, 20, Scout, 17, and Tallulah Belle, 14, and their mother, Willis' ex Demi Moore, were present, as was Moore's current husband, Ashton Kutcher. A source tells Us that Madonna was also among the guests. "The couple will be having a civil ceremony when they return to California," Willis' rep tells Us.
While on the island, Ashton Kutcher took a snapshot of Demi Moore in her bikini bending over while steaming his suit and put it on twitter Saturday afternoon. He made no mention of the wedding in his tweet, writing, "watching my wife steam my suit while wearing a bikini. I love God!"

Nicholas Hughes

Nicholas Hughes, a marine biologist and academic, hanged himself at home 46 years after the suicide of his mother, the poet Sylvia Plath. He was 47. Plath gassed herself at home in 1963, after sealing Nicholas and his sister Freida Hughes off in the room next door. Her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, had recently left her for Assia Wevill, another poet's wife, and Plath was struggling to make ends meet amid a harsh winter. Writes the Times of London in its excellent obituary.
Ted Hughes was hounded for the rest of his life by feminists and Plath devotees who accused him of driving her to her death by his infidelity. In March 1969, six years after Plath's death, Wevill gassed herself and her four-year-old daughter in a suicide apparently modeled on Plath's. Nicholas Hughes has recently left his post at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks to make pottery in his home studio. The evolutionary ecologist had been battling depression "for some time," according to his sister Freida Hughes. From her statement.
His lifelong fascination with fish and fishing was a strong and shared bond with our father (many of whose poems were about the natural world). He was a loving brother, a loyal friend to those who knew him and, despite the vagaries that life threw at him, he maintained an almost childlike innocence and enthusiasm for the next project or plan. Hughes reached the age of 47 and became a professor, having clearly found at least some of the emotional shelter his mother wished on him.
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