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Post by meowencrazy on Jun 25, 2009 23:18:50 GMT -5
I still can't believe he's dead...  |
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Post by hutchshottie on Jun 26, 2009 0:20:12 GMT -5
It's 6am over here and I wake up to this news. What a shock. I was never a fan but his earlier music was good and we used to play his albums over the stereo at work.
Despite his last few years, he was a great artist. He will be missed.
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Post by tinalouise on Jun 26, 2009 12:59:08 GMT -5
I have Season One of Charlies Angels on DVD. I loved Farrah! Her style was so unique when she first came around.
Sad about Michael Jackson, but I can't help feel it may be a blessing for those kids now that they get to live with the mom.
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Post by texasgal on Jun 26, 2009 17:28:00 GMT -5
A spokesman for the coroner has just announced the autopsy on Michael Jackson has concluded. But a cause of death has yet to be announced pending additional tests that have been ordered such as toxicology. These tests could take up to 6 weeks to complete; when complete, a subsequent announcement will be made.
No evidence of an external cause or foul play has been found.
RIP Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
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Post by Gage51 on Jun 26, 2009 21:41:24 GMT -5
Sad about Michael Jackson, but I can't help feel it may be a blessing for those kids now that they get to live with the mom. I saw earlier on CNN that the kids are going to Michael's mother, Katherine. Apparently he laid down those terms in his will and made that fact known to those around him for many years. The childrens' mother, Debbie Rowe, gave up her parental rights years ago and has had little or no contact with them over the years---according to a Jackson family lawyer. The lawyer referred to Ms. Rowe as "a stranger" to the children. I guess we'll see what happens. Beth |
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Post by texasgal on Jun 26, 2009 23:05:58 GMT -5
I'd forgotten that Debbie Rowe had given up her parental rights. But I hear she's back on the scene now and trying to reverse that. I assume that the mother, Katherine, would have the stronger case since Michael had specified such in his will. I'd also hope that the children and their grandmother have had a good relationship with each other all along.
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Post by Gage51 on Jun 28, 2009 17:43:20 GMT -5
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Post by texasgal on Jun 28, 2009 18:26:05 GMT -5
Beth, I don't think anything unusual is going on. People die all the time at all ages and from all kinds of causes. We just don't hear about them like we hear about famous people so we get a rather distorted perspective of reality.
I've heard of an alleged "Saturday Night Live Curse" because several cast members from that show have died younger than they should have. But one must remember that SNL has been around for many years and has had many cast members. So out of that many people over that many years, the death rate for SNL cast members is really no greater than that for any other demographic. (Also, some of those cast members led risky lives which automatically set them up for a possible early death).
I see supporting evidence of this in my own life. My 40th high school reunion is coming up in November. I've learned that several of my classmates have already died, meaning that they have died before the age of 57 or 58 - the age at which they would be for a 40th high school reunion. But none of them were famous enough to get their deaths mentioned in the media, leading to the perception that something unusual is "going on" because famous people have died recently.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 1, 2009 16:53:36 GMT -5
Academy Award-winning actor Karl Malden has died. Famous for both stage and screen, he appeared in over 50 films. Among his many film roles was as the minister in Walt Disney's Pollyanna and as Gen. Omar Bradley in Patton. He is best remembered for his role as Lt. Mike Stone in the 1970's TV series, "The Streets Of San Francisco" and, as pitchman for American Express, for his famous line: "Don't leave home without it."
He was well-known for his large, bulbous nose which he said had been broken a few times while playing football. (Hmm....sound familiar?) He once quipped that his nose might qualify him for handicapped parking places.
He died in his Brentwood, Los Angeles home of natural causes at age 97.
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Post by tinalouise on Jul 1, 2009 18:18:06 GMT -5
I think the only thing I have seen him in was Streetcar Named Desire. Love that movie. I am actually surprised that he was still alive up until now.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 1, 2009 23:02:53 GMT -5
He was also in On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando.
Yes, most people don't make it to 97!
Edited to correct which sport he played. He broke his nose playing basketball, not football.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 5, 2009 11:11:32 GMT -5
Music manager, Allen Klein, died Saturday at the age of 77 of Alzheimer's Disease. Mr Klein managed the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Sam Cooke, Bobby Darin, and Herman's Hermits.
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Post by tinalouise on Jul 8, 2009 15:50:58 GMT -5
Oscar Mayer died on Monday.
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Post by texasgal on Jul 17, 2009 22:33:12 GMT -5
I don't know if Walter Cronkite qualifies as a "celebrity," but he was so iconic that he reached celebrity status. He has died today at the age of 92. Mr Cronkite was the face of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. It was Walter Cronkite who broke the news to America that President Kennedy had been assassinated. He is the newscaster to whom the title "anchorman" was first applied. Mr Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." He was famous for signing off his broadcasts by saying: "And that's the way it is."
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Post by texasgal on Jul 20, 2009 6:12:39 GMT -5
Irish-American educator and writer, Frank McCourt, died yesterday at the age of 78 from complications of melanoma at a hospice in Manhattan.
Mr McCourt won a Pulitzer prize for his memoir, Angela's Ashes which was adapted to a movie (1999). He also wrote a sequel, Tis.
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