Betty Ann: Last News

"Wizard of Oz" actress and former KTVU reporter Betty Ann Bruno has died, her family confirmed with Fox News Digital. She was 91. "There's a lot I can say about my mom.

passed away at age 98 in 2018 — and the media reported that the the world lost its “last living ‘Wizard of Oz’ munchkin” (he was the last munchkin played by a little person).“I said, ‘Wait a minute, I’m a munchkin and I’m still alive!'” she told The Post after hearing the news.Bruno’s husband Craig Sheiner confirmed the star’s passing this week in a Facebook post, writing: “I am so sorry to have to tell you Betty Ann’s heart left us today.”According to the post, she had just finished dancing the hula at an event in her hometown of Sonoma, California, whereupon she “developed a sudden, splitting headache.” Bruno’s husband subsequently drove her to the hospital, where she made it to the front desk before collapsing on the floor with a “massive heart attack,” per the statement.“We were together 46 years. I am devastated,” Sheiner lamented in the Facebook post.Born Betty Ann Ka’ihilani on October 1, 1931, in Wahiawa, Hawai’i, the ex-thespian’s grew up in Los Angeles Hollywood across the street from the 20th Century Fox studio lot, Deadline reported.

Eddie Vedder performed a cover of The Cure‘s ‘Just Like Heaven’ at a solo show this week – check it out below.On Friday night (October 7), the Pearl Jam frontman played a gig with his band The Earthlings at the Dolby Live at Park MGM venue in Las Vegas.During the gig, Vedder explained how he and his family would host COVID dance parties at home during lockdown, and that ‘Just Like Heaven’ was on the playlist.“I will always have great memories of those incredible dance parties,” he told the crowd. “The kids would come in and check on us and kind of get embarrassed and have to leave, but we had a fuckin’ blast.

Stevie Nicks headlined Eddie Vedder‘s Ohana Fest last night (September 30) – watch them perform ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’ together below.The Pearl Jam frontman has been running his own California-based festival since 2016, and over those years has hosted a series of collaborations on its stage. In 2021, he formed a new band for a covers-filled set after Kings of Leon, who were due to headline the event, pulled out after the death of their mother, Betty Ann.This weekend’s Ohana event is headlined by Stevie Nicks, Jack White and Pink, while Vedder will also play a solo headline set, after topping the bill on all three nights of last year’s event.The festival at Dana Point will also feature Broken Social Scene performing ‘You Forgot It In People’, and other sets by St.

Kings Of Leon‘s Followill brothers have said goodbye to their mother, Betty Ann Murphy, who died overnight.Murphy’s passing comes just a day after the brothers – Caleb, Nathan and Jared – announced they would be cancelling a series of shows to spend time with their mother following a “medical crisis”.Taking to Instagram, the band said: “Our mother, who many of our fans know and love, has been dealing with a medical crisis for the last several weeks and while it has been hard to take the stage each night, it has been the love and energy from you, our fans, that has gotten us through.“Just before taking the stage at The Forum we learned she took a turn for the worse.