Jane Kean ‘Honeymooners’ Star Dies At 90 age R.I.P

Jane Kean, who gained notoriety in the 1960s for starring in the revival TV series The Honeymooners alongside Jackie Gleeson and Art Carney, died on Nov. 26 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif.

Jane Kean: Actress Dies At 90

The 90-year-old actress passed away after suffering complications from a fall, according to the Los Angeles Times. Her niece, Deidre Wolpert, confirmed her death.

Most will remember Jane as Trixie, the long-suffering wife of Ed Norton on The Honeymooners. “There’s something about the show — people relate to it,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1991. “People believed the show was real, and that we really were the characters we played.”

But Jane was not a one-role actress. She played many different characters over the span of four decades, including a successful run on Broadway. Prior to The Honeymooners, she appeared in Broadway shows like The Pajama Game and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. Most recently she starred in a two-woman musical that she wrote called We, which also featured Barbara Perry.

Jane’s first marriage to Richard Linkroum ended in divorce. Afterwards, she wed her manager, Joe Hecht. They were together until he died in 2006.

Jane is survived by her niece, her niece’s husband and their two children, as well as her stepson, Joe Hecht Jr., and his son.

The legendary performer will truly be missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family in this difficult time.

Rick Warren's Son Dies of Suicide

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Rick Warren, the well-known pastor at Saddleback Valley Community Church, relayed a tragic  message to his congregation tonight:

His youngest son Matthew committed suicide on Friday at the age of 27, killing himself via self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Warren passed along the sad news this evening at his church in Lake Forest, California.

"Matthew was an incredibly kind, gentle and compassionate young man whose sweet spirit was encouragement and comfort to many," the church said in a statement. "Unfortunately, he also suffered from mental illness resulting in deep depression and suicidal thoughts.”

Warren is the author of many Christian books, most notably "The Purpose Driven Life."

He founded the eighth largest church in the nation in 1980.

"No words can express the anguished grief we feel right now," the pastor said in a statement.

"You who watched Matthew grow up knew he was an incredibly kind, gentle, and compassionate man. He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He'd then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them.

"But only those closest knew that he struggled from birth with mental illness, dark holes of depression, and even suicidal thoughts. In spite of America's best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided."