Every year, the Academy Awards honor the members of the filmmaking community that passed away over the course of the year. This year's memoriam reminded viewers of some of the most prominent deaths over the year including Patrick Swayze, David Carradine and Michael Jackson -- but there were more than a few curious absences as well.

After the jump, we've remembered five of the motion picture professionals that died in 2009 but were absent from the Oscar's memoriam segment. Read More...

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Jon FavreauFarrah Fawcett still has scores of fans both inside and outside of Hollywood, and stars from Emma Roberts to Paris Hilton tweeted condolences today in the Twitter-Wood feed. There were also plenty of Shaq fans busy reacting to the NBA star's trade to Cleveland today, including Jeremy Piven and Danny Masterson.

Meanwhile, an exhausted Jon Favreau proved that a full day filming "Iron Man 2" wasn't enough to dampen his sense of humor, as he tweeted a completely legit shot from the movie's set. Click onward for all of this and yet another celeb reaction to "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in the Twitter-Wood report for June, 25, 2009. Read More...

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FROM MTV.COM: Farrah Fawcett, the actress who rose to fame in 1976 on the TV series "Charlie's Angels," has died at 62, according to multiple reports.

Fawcett had waged an almost three-year battle with cancer, which she was diagnosed with in September 2006. After recently checking in to the hospital, she died Thursday morning (June 25) in the intensive care unit of St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

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