Posted on Thursday, 25th June 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
Three iconic entertainment figures have died in the past few days.
Ed McMahon, best known as Johnny Carson’s sidekick, died Tuesday morning at the age of 86.
Farrah Fawcett, the fantasy girl of every teenage boy of the late 70′s & early 80′s has succumbed to the cancer that she has bravely battled for many years. She died this morning at the age of 62.
Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” a true musical icon that had the world at his fingertips, unfortunately, also had several little boys at his fingertips, died this afternoon at the age of 50.
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June 25th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
In honor of the collective deceased, this evening, I popped open a can of Alpo for dinner, cranked up “You Are Not Alone,” and fapped several times to an old Farrah Fawcett poster.
The celebrity death triumvirate. It never fails.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Anyone else waiting to see how long it takes Obama to acknowledge the death of MJ vs. the days it took for him to acknowledge Pvt. William Long?
June 25th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Jesus Christ. Give it a rest…not everything is political.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Anon, no, you’re right, not everything is political, but when our POTUS thinks he is a rock star, then he has been the one that mixes the entertainment world with the political world, along with all of the ridiculous “stars” that are so freakin liberal, like Springsteen and Sheryl Crow, etc.
Anyways, I took a nap today when my daughter did, and upon waking up, turned on Fox news and see Michael Jackson is dead, I was in complete shock!!! I don’t have much time to keep up with the news during the day with a 3 1/2 year old
so I did not even know he was rushed to the hospital! I grew up with his music, I loved him! I grew up in the 80′s, so “Thriller” and “Billie Jean” were part of me. I pray for his family and fans, as well as Ed’s and Farrah’s, my dad had a poster of her in the garage as I was growing up, he loved her. May they all R.I.P.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Not acknowledging Pvt. Long until he’d been called out about it was most certainly political.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Thomas Mann: “Everything is politics.”
June 25th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
You’re forgetting that David Carradine passed away a week or so ago.
So we’ve actually surpassed the trifecta (and they always come in threes, so don’t accuse me of being insensitive).
The creepy thing is, about an hour before the news about Jackson broke, I (forgetting about Carradine, too) asked my mom who she thought would be the third death. We both agreed it would be Patrick Swayze, since I’ve heard he’s not doing well, either.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:20 am
There have been many more celebrity deaths- Danny Gans of Vegas, David Carridine, Bea Arthur plus the three. The reality is that our icons are getting older and they are not being replaced with newer icons.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Anon-unfortunately, everything in the current times is politics. Everything the POTUS does is calculated to obtain the best personal and party benefit(more emphasis on the personal in BO’s case). This is true on both sides, but stronger on the left of course….you know the true compassionates.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I cherish my lot as an American because of our truly patriotic heroes who have made sacrifices on our behalf. Sadly, our tattered, gasping first amendment grants America’s media open season to create a nauseating oversaturation of shallow drivel - including the endless, omnipresent yammering over the “great loss” of self-obsessed, shallow entertainers, endless scandals of narcissistic polititians and overpaid sports figures, aka: role models(?). If you’ve been outside of our country you’ll immediately be aware that America is the laughing stock of the world. Feigning a foreign accent may be able to spare some awkward encounters. Are we really the greatest country on the planet when our own greed has bankrupted our nation? Would we even realize we’ve been attacked by North Korea unless we just happen to spot a one-inch column on the back page of our “newspapers.” The skewed, twisted values of many of our country’s leaders, journalists, and so-called social icons should be cause for great embarassment to us - privileged, yet sometimes naive living in a darkening, spiritual void. If you’re thinking I’n unpatriotic and should leave if I don’t like it, well - the thought has crossed my mind - what about yours?
June 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Did someone say everything shouldn’t be political?
June 26th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
heather is right..
and yes anon, everything IS political.
purposely ignoring the story is censorship via omission.
June 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Hmmm. Haven’t seen Christ post here for some time, anon.
patio sez: “… you’ll immediately be aware that America is the laughing stock of the world.”
Funny how so many of the outer “world” end up finding their greatest success on this patch of the Earth. You know, the Greg Normans, the Sophia Laurens, the Jackie Chans’, The Beatles.
Yes, we Yanks idolize the puffery much too much, but not any more or less than those on the other parts the globe, many who tend march around with giant photos of those they are in love with (or are compelled to, rather than lose life or limb).
And what of the worldly pols? Better than our crop?
What shall we examine first? The insider dealings of former French prez Chirac or the tax funded private moat cleanings of nearly the entire British Parliament? Maybe an in-depth look at the EU or UN payolla scams are in order. Perhaps Putin, or Chavez, or Quadaffi, or Berlusconi, or Kim Jong-il, or al-Assad, or Ali Khamenei is more your idea of ideal governance.
If it has crossed your mind to move to some other country because of a (false) perception that the outer world is pristine and less hollywood, you are a simpleton of the n-th degree; you actually believe what our the “skewed, twisted” (I agree) journalist have presented the outer word to be (i.e., socialist health care in the UK is peachy!)
Let them laugh. It may be their only entertainment in their otherwise dreary lives.
btw, I hear Tijuana is a nice place to plant roots.
Just step over the bodies.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Well, Billy Mays, the pitchman and one of the stars of the TV show, the “Pitchmen” died today, Sunday. While he wasn’t the biggest celebrity, nonetheless, he was on TV and I did enjoy his show.
Bad week.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
RIP Billy.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I have never, not once, ordered anything off of a television commercial. I may have purchased a RONCO “Inside the Egg Shell Egg Scrambler” once, but I’m pretty sure mom drove me to the store to buy it.
I only know who Billy Mays was because I found him so annoying. But 50 is too young to go, no matter who you are.
I had some time in my wife’s car today, and (one of my favorite things in this world to do) had a few hours to scan her Sirius channels. I was astonished by the amount of airtime given by a wide variety of sources, even four days after his surprising death, to Michael Jackson.
I did walk away with one good listen, from start to finish, of a song I played until I wore the diamond off the needle on my turntable (yikes) nearly three decades ago… “Beat It.”
Eddie Van Halen was the absolutely perfect choice to lay down the guitar solo on that song, it literally made the song; the solo was perfectly phrased for the track, I can’t imagine anyone else playing it, or anyone else playing it more perfectly.
Say what you will about the little dude’s freakishness and alleged sexual proclivities, that song worked. And it became his signature.
This may be harsh, but I fear that it took the finality of Jackson not being able to shock, offend, or harm anyone else in order for a bunch of people to take a listen to his music with a fresh ear.
On the “not so great” side of Jackson’s catalog? “State of Shock,” the Jackson family revival-duet with Mick Jagger. Listen to the lyrics, it’s a song about nothing, set to a drum machine, a sterile funk-guitar riff, and a crappy bass line. It belongs in the “Top 100 Worst Songs of All Time.”
June 29th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
The Michael Jackson idolization (the pedophilia has been forgotten I guess) continues tonight as FOX plays a repeat of the episode of American Idol where the finalists sang Michael Jackson songs.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am
I BEG TO DIFFER.
THE ALL PITCHMAN TRIFECTA IS COMPLETE: MCMAHON, MAYS, MALDEN
THE INCREDIBLY POPULAR 70S POSTER TIRFECTA AWAITS A THRID PARTY.. LET’S SEE, I HAD POSTERS ON MY WALL OF FELIX THE CAT, THE WHO, THE DEAD, LED ZEP AND pINK fLOYD…