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[payaso]

It was a helluva day, that's for sure. Goldblum is fake. He's still kickin like a chicken.


He will be missed. He's probably happier, as he had a really hard life to live, money or not. Sure he had a lot of fans, but it seems like all the others just picked on him and poked fun.

Dude was a fuggin Legend.










silla

[BilboBaggins]

p.s. can anyone confirm that jeff goldblum is gone too? if so, what a day! here's hoping madonna drops off too!

Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford (the two biggest rumors) are alive and kicking.

[sidewinder]

I don't get the "musical genius" stuff, but most of his music was pretty good. I just hope it wasn't drug induced, I don't think I could take two solid moths of nonstop coverage like the Anna Nichole circus a while back.

BTW, no one mentioned Ed McMahon. Of the three I think he was my favorite. I mean who else has made a real carer out of drinking Bud and saying Hey-Yo?

[cj]

'Tonight' sidekick Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_ ... it_mcmahon" target="_blank

LOS ANGELES – Ed McMahon, the loyal "Tonight" show sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" for 30 years, died early Tuesday. He was 86. McMahon died shortly after midnight at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his wife, Pam, and other family members, said his publicist, Howard Bragman.

Bragman didn't give a cause of death, saying only that McMahon had a "multitude of health problems the last few months."

McMahon broke his neck in a fall in March 2007, and battled a series of financial problems as his injuries prevented him from working.

[45tr0]

my facebook status sums up my views on Jackson:

"Michael Jackson was an epic musician who probably should have died like James Dean, a shooting star that burned too bright. Instead he became music's Marlon Brando, a grotesque perversion of everything he once was."

i always felt bad for the guy, but i feel worse for his poor kids that have to grow up in the detritus of his fame.

[crazydave]

I was just telling the younger kids at work the other day that they don't have the same perspective on Micheal that people my age do. When Thriller hit, it was huge. It's like the stoners got their own music, the trendies got their music, the Latinos had their music, etc., but when Thriller hit everyone loved it. Even the rockers thought he was cool, because Van Halen played a guitar solo on it. Personally I felt it was right after that he got creepy, and it was obvious to me that something was horribly wrong. Then when everything came out, all of a sudden everyone turned against him, when instead I felt someone should've realized he needed help years ago.

Then yesterday, we were out and about, and the minute he died the news was everywhere, my wife's phone rang off the hook, the lady in the car next to me, yells over, "Hey did you hear Micheal Jackson died", every person you walked past had to mention it, car stereos blasting his music at every stop light, and all I could think is, "Oh I see how you guys are"

I was never a fan of his, but I always felt kind of bad for him.

[evil3]

EVH was mainly on Beat it, or at lease that is the one where everyone knows about him playing on.

[Murdoch]

After reading the posts on the various bb's I go to, i'm convinced that even if MJ was exonerated and all families shown as frauds, people still would demonize him and celebrate his death based on accusations and heresy only.

Those people make me sick and angry. they couldn't even put aside their prejudice for one moment to show a little respect.

a living legend died and all these people could do is post death and molestation jokes.

what happened to this world?

[sidewinder]

Just tell them to Beat It... OK sorry, sometimes I can't help myself.


Anyways, I wasn't a fan of his solo music, but I do have to admit to loving the Jackson 5.

The problem with Michael was all of the plastic surgery made him look monstrous and the weird obsession with the manikins didn't help. The child molestation charges came after the earlier weirdness. There's no denying that Michael was an odd man, and if he hadn't become famous he would have just been the strange man that lived up the street. But Michael was famous and as a famous person he became the object of public attention... whatever else Jackson was, most of all he was a victim of his own fame.

I wouldn't have left kids with him just because you can't be sure if the charges were true or not, that doesn't mean I believe he was a molester, it just means I wouldn't put kids at risk no matter who the accused was. But none of that mattes now. Now it's time to let the weirdness pass, now it's time to let the music speak for him, and even though I'm not a fan, I suspect his music will live on for a long time.

Screw the people who are piling on mocking the death of a tragic person, who lived a tragic life. I hope he's at peace.


God Damn it Murdoch, now you've got me expressing real emotions instead of just making smart-ass comments.

[crazydave]

Screw the people who are piling on mocking the death of a tragic person, who lived a tragic life. I hope he's at peace.

Amen. That's what I was trying to say, but in two short sentences.

[Murdoch]

I wouldn't have left kids with him just because you can't be sure if the charges were true or not, that doesn't mean I believe he was a molester, it just means I wouldn't put kids at risk no matter who the accused was. But none of that mattes now. Now it's time to let the weirdness pass, now it's time to let the music speak for him, and even though I'm not a fan, I suspect his music will live on for a long time.

From what i've read, the lead prosecutor actually knew he was innocent, which makes me twice pissed off at the morons who think he was a molester, regardless of the fact he was found not guilty

God Damn it Murdoch, now you've got me expressing real emotions instead of just making smart-ass comments.

heh.. yeah I do that. Sometimes that's known as 'making someone's brain explode'.

[sidewinder]

Well, they're dropping like flies, here's the latest.

Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

I don't really have any attachment to this one, but it's till kind of sad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays

[BilboBaggins]

Damn.

It seems that 50-year-old celebrities have to be careful for the immediate future.

[sidewinder]

I wonder how Jerry Mathers is doing? I think he's around 60, so he's on borrowed time.

[PimpFloyd]

Wow...I kinda liked Billy...he has a reality show called "Pitch Men"...or did anyway.

That's really sad being so young and all

What a crappy-ass year...