Legendary “Tonight Show” sidekick Ed McMahon has passed away at the age of 86. TMZ reports

He died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in California this morning. McMahon was fighting a multitude of health problems, including cancer.

He is best known as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show” and for his infamous catchphrase, “Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!”

With Carson and MacMahon reunited again, heaven just got a whole lot funnier! Unless, of course, Johnny Carson went to hell. Then it’s just sad again.

David Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand.  Conflicting reports make it unclear who discovered his body, or whether he passed away this morning or on Wednesday.  Carradine’s manager told People he passed away on Wednesday and was discovered by a film producer:

Oscar-nominated actor David Carradine, best known for his leading role of Kwai Chang Caine on TV’s Kung Fu in the 1970s, died Wednesday in Bangkok, where he was shooting a film, his manager confirmed Thursday. The star was 72.

According to manager Chuck Binder, the movie’s producer went to Carradine’s hotel room and found that he had passed away. Binder told Fox News the death is “shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work … a great person.”

In a conflicting report from the BBC which implies suicide, Thai police stated Carradine was found this morning, not by a film producer but instead by a hotel maid:

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body.

The US star was in Thailand filming his latest film, Stretch, according to his personal manager Chuck Binder.

A US embassy official confirmed the actor’s death, but added that the cause of death had not yet been established.

However, Thai newspaper The Nation reported that police believe the actor took his own life, and preliminary investigations found that he hanged himself.

It’s unusual that the normally impeccably reputable BBC would run with as-yet-unconfirmed reports from Thailand stating that the circumstances of Carradine’s death do not match up with those described by his manager.  Perhaps there’s been some misunderstanding on the manager’s part, or some miscommunication with Thai police.

In any case, regardless of the circumstances of Carradine’s death, his passing is tragic and he will certainly be missed.

Lucy Gordon, the British actress and model best-known for her role as reporter Jennifer Dugan in Spider-Man 3, committed suicide in her Paris apartment yesterday. According to the AP

Lucy Gordon was found dead two days before her 29th birthday. Police in the French capital said Miss Gordon’s body was hanging from the ceiling of her mansion block apartment.

It has emerged that one of Miss Gordon’s male friends was in the flat when her body was found. He told police he had been sleeping when the 28-year-old hanged herself.

The model… was being touted as the new Jane Birkin.

Geez, Spiderman 3 sucked, but it didn’t suck that bad. If anyone was going to hang themselves for it, it really should have been the director.

Before you start your all-day-long in memorandum “Roadhouse” and “Point Break” marathons, let me be the first to tell you that Patrick Swayze is NOT Dead. His rep told Us Weekly

“This is to confirm that Patrick Swayze did not pass away this morning contrary to severely reckless reports stemming from a radio station in Jacksonville, Florida. Patrick Swayze is alive, well and is enjoying his life and he continues to respond to treatment.”

That’s great news. Really, who among us doesn’t love Patrick Swayze? And besides, having to talk about death today would have been a real downer, unless you’re an emo 14-year old with a faggy MySpace or a virgin-hungry jihadist-in-training. So instead of death, here are some pictures of super-hot Victoria’s Secret model Bar Rafaeli in next month’s Elle magazine. IL-Hamdu-Allah, baby!

Former UFC fighter Justin Levens and his wife Sarah McLean Evans were found shot to death in their Southern California home yesterday. TMZ reports

Sources say cops are investigating their deaths as a possible murder/suicide. Levens had a career record of 9-8 and fought in several different MMA leagues, including the IFL, WEC and UFC. In a morbid twist, Levens once lost to Evan Tanner — the UFC fighter who was found dead in the desert back in September.

This might be a little “out there,” but perhaps those who elect to beat the living fuck out of each other for a living aren’t as psychologically stable as one might suspect. And if that’s true, it could also stand to reason that strippers might not be the paragons of emotionally-healthy sexuality that I always believed. Wow. Just take that all in. If you need a minute to sit down and exhale noisily with your hands behind your head, I’ll understand. It’s not every day you get suckerpunched with a renegade theory like this. Who knows what the truth really is, man.

And to cover the “boobs” part of that story, model Aggiolina Karkampouna in this month’s Greek Maxim Magazine: