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Michael Jackson Dies Today at 50
June 26th, 2009
Farrah Fawcett has succumb to cancer and died today as well.
Farrah Fawcett, the multiple Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated
From FoxNews.com:
American actress best known for her role as the vivacious Jill Munroe in the 1970s television series “Charlie’s Angels,” died in a Santa Monica hospital. She was 62.
Actress Farrah Fawcett Dead at 62
Her spokesman, Paul Bloch, confirmed that the iconic actress died Thursday morning at 9:28 a.m. PDT.
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Michael Jackson dies in LA hospital
By LYNN ELBER, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the “King of Pop” and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50.
Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County, confirmed his office had been notified of the death and would handle the investigation.
The circumstances of Jackson’s death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to the hospital, Ruda told the newspaper.
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Nice remembrance–you show respect and a sense of how mysterious death is; offer personal memories, but don’t shy from admitting you might have criticized him while he lived.
I can understand that there’s no good reason to talk ill of Michael Jackson, or recall a man’s terrible confusions that left him open to ridicule. But many people–whom I suspect mocked Michael Jackson for decades (most of us did one way or another)–are now hailing him as a Great Man. He was unbearably gifted and grew up in a world that made him sick. And suddenly without him, that world is flooding his memory with hypocrisy. So who’s sick now?
Well said Kathleen.
I love my 1966 to about 1986 Michael Jackson and have good childhood memories attached to listening to his music, watching his exhilarating performances both live and in videos, and witnessing his cultural impact.
As for the increasingly bizarre and disfigured guy I witnessed over the last decade and half to two decades; who at best exercised incredibly bad judgment in dealing with children, I didn’t have much of an affection for him any more.
And while I don’t think just because someone dies that the bad gets to be swept under the rug; I neither see any need to harp on it at this time. We’re all quite familiar with it all as it has been explored ad nausea; and we’ve all spent years having our say on it, and mocking it as you noted.