Celebrity
Deaths and Mishaps Archives 12
New
Sound Systems
NOTES:
Sadly, I did not
have the foresight to archive the 2000 series and deleted most of
the files.
To see the 2001
series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 1 and then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 2. The summary appears on Archives 2.
To see the 2002
series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 3 and then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 4. The summary appears on Archives 4.
To see the 2003
series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 5 and Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 6 then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 7. The summary appears on Archives 7.
To see the 2004
series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
Archives 8 and Celebrity Deaths
and Mishaps Archives 9 then visit Celebrity Deaths
and Mishaps Archives 10. The summary appears on Archives 10.
2005 Sounds
NOTE
ABOUT BLUE ALERT SYSTEM (3/11/03): Some of you
may recall a few years back when I used "name blends"
-- rhyming sounds and off-rhyme clues from part of one name to
determine what the next name in the sequence might be (or later
in the year). An example was the death of Layne Stahley and how
"Layne" led to "Lynne" then "Linda"
and the car crash death of Linda Lovelace which followed. I
surmised that "Lace" in "Lovelace" might lead
to a "Leese" then "Lisa" tragedy. The next
day, Lisa Lopes of TLC was killed in a car crash.
Rather than
create a whole other section on this page for name blends, I will
instead highlight certain names in the lists below in light blue that I feel may be
influenced by celebrity deaths that have occurred this year.
IMPORTANT
NOTE ON EXCLUSIONS (1/23/04): We acknowledge the
passing of dancer and actress Ann Miller, age
81, and note with great regret the passing of Bob Keeshan
(Captain Kangaroo), age 76. However, it is no longer the
mission of this website to address the deaths of celebrities who
are of advanced age or those who have had a long term health
problem and are in their early elderly years. Such deaths are
largely inevitable and often beyond any purposeful prediction.
Also, the one and only applicable sound in Mr Keeshan's name
("eeeee") we now consider to be far too common to be
remarkable or in any way useful for predictive purposes. Ergo,
save for certain celebrities of advanced or elderly age who may
appear on the prediction lists, we will no longer be publishing
their obituaries and including comments.
It is, after
all, premature death that we are most concerned about.
Prominent name
sounds must also be present. "Ray", for example, is a
prominent sound, "Ay", on the other hand, is not. This
distinction will become more clear as we progress through the
year.
NOTE
(3/9/05): "Ay" could be a prominent sound if it
is combined with one or more other sounds. Again, it depends.
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Sonny Bono (d. 1998) - Sonny, Son, Sun, Un,
eeeee, Bo, No, Oh |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Chastity Bono, Bono, Sondra Locke, Alison
Krauss, Allison Parks, Bronson Pinchot, Harrison Ford, Jackson
Browne, Jason Alexander, Jason Biggs, Jason Hervey, Jason Patric, Jason Priestley, Orson Bean, Wilson
Cruz, Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Charles Nelson Reilly, June Allyson, Loni Anderson, Ted Danson, Richard Dawson, Angie Dickinson, Mel Gibson, Kadeem
Hardison, Ernie
Hudson, Kate Hudson, Kate Jackson, La Toya Jackson,
Michael Jackson, Reggie Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson, Magic
Johnson, Twiggy
Lawson, Elle Macpherson, Jackie Mason, Liam
Neeson, Craig T. Nelson, David Nelson, Willie Nelson, Jack Nicholson, Emma Thompson, Tony Blair, Minnie
Driver, Britney Spears, Bonnie Raitt, Courtney Love, Nina
Blackwood, Beau Bridges, Bo Derek, Bo Diddley, David Bowie,
Adrienne Barbeau, Leon Redbone, Noah Wyle, Nolan Ryan, Bruno
Campos, Chelsea Noble, Nick Nolte, Kim Novack, Diana
Canova, David Faustino, Lou Ferrigno, Jay Leno, Alyssa Milano,
Rita Moreno, Yoko Ono, Al Pacino, Mira Sorvino, Paul Sorvino,
Quentin Tarantino. Additional predictions: (0/0/05):
Bulgarian
Actress Mariana Dimitrova Dies in US
"Second Suicide Attempt"
Sofia News
Agency
3 June 2005,
Friday
Bulgarian actress Mariana Dimitrova,
whose sudden death was announced on Thursday, has reportedly
jumped off the eighth floor of a building in San Diego in an
apparent suicide attempt. This is said to be Dimitrova's second
attempt to end her life over the last two years.
Her Bulgarian
friends and colleagues from Bulgaria's Military Theatre were
shocked to hear the sad news on Thursday, describing her as one
of the most optimistic and radiant people they have ever known.
They stressed Mariana Dimitrova has proved to be Bulgaria's most
successful theatre actress abroad and was even cast as Gertrude
in Hamlet in a US production.
Mariana
Dimitrova was born in 1954 in the village of Kozarevets, the
district of Veliko Tarnovo. She has been living in the US since
1997 together with her husband and her two children.
Her best-known
and loved roles in Bulgarian movies include "Doomed
Souls", "Manly Times", "Ladies Choice" ,
films about the beauty of love - exotic and tragic, the maze of
human feelings, life's adventures and ups and down.
The funeral
ceremony will take place in San Diego, Bulgarian consul Georgi
Peychinov said.
Teen
Model's Body Found On Footpath
The Daily Record
27 September
2005
A BUDDING supermodel was
butchered after a night out and found naked in a pool of blood on
the pavement.
Sally Anne Bowman, 18, was due to sign a
contract next week that could have netted her £5million.
Neighbours heard her screaming near her home in Croydon, Surrey,
early on Sunday. A local woman found her body.
Sally bled to
death from multiple stab wounds Friends said last night that the
6ft beauty recently split from her bodybuilder boyfriend. One pal
said: "He was in his mid or early 20s, stocky and really
tanned. "They had been going out for about a year but split
up a few weeks ago. She didn't like him that much."
Sally visited
several Croydon bars with pals on Saturday night and was seen on
town centre CCTV at around 2am. Her body was found on the
pavement near her home at about 6.30am. June Brown, who plays Dot
Cotton in EastEnders, was one of Sally's neighbours.
Three men, aged
20, 25 and 26 have been arrested in connection with Sally's
murder. The two older men have been given police bail.
Talking about
her future plans recently, Sally said: "I'm the happiest
girl in the world."
But friends had
begun to worry about her because she had stopped answering her
phone. She failed to turn up last week to a job at London Fashion
Week.
Sally's family
laid flowers yesterday at the murder scene. They left a note
which read: "For our beautiful daughter. She will always be
in our hearts." Vasco Rodriguez of Sally's model agency,
Pulse, said her colleagues were heartbroken. He added: "She
could have earned between £1million and £5million. She was our
top model."
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Tammy Wynette (d. 1998) - Tammy, Tam, Am, eeeee,
Win, In, Et |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, Tammy Parks, Russ Tamblyn, Terence
Stamp, Maryam D'Abo, Cameron Diaz, Pamela Sue Martin, Graham Nash, James Cameron, Mia
Farrow, Amy Yasbeck, Steve Winwood, Winona Ryder, Wynonna Judd, Kate Winslet, Sarah Wynter, Rosanna Arquette, Carol
Burnett, Farah Fawcett, Joanna Pettet, Suzanne Pleshette, Nick
Cassavettes. Additional
predictions: (1/23/05): Demi Moore, Tanya Roberts, Wynton Marsalis.
Cate
Blanchett's son burned in hotel accident
15:41 AEST Tue
May 17 2005
AAP
Australian actor
Cate Blanchett's one-year-old son has
been burned in an accident in a hotel in Morocco. Mother-of-two
Blanchett and son Roman were flown back to
London in a private jet for hospital treatment, London's Daily
Mirror newspaper reported.
"Roman had
an accident and he's being treated for a minor burn,"
publicist Lisa Kasteler told the newspaper. "He's not on a
drip. He's still being treated and Cate is with him."
Roman suffered
burns on Sunday night, the day after his Oscar-winning mother
threw a party to celebrate her 36th birthday at the exclusive La
Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech, in the west of the north African
country. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment but
Blanchett decided she wanted him treated in London.
The Lord of the
Rings star, who lives in Brighton, was loaned a private jet -
believed to belong to King Mohammed VI of Morocco - to race Roman
to London to see burns specialists. "She flew privately,
maybe it was the King's plane but I don't know," Kasteler
told the Mirror. Witnesses said the toddler was carried on to the
jet on a stretcher by medics.
Blanchett was in
Morocco shooting the thriller Babel, together with husband Andrew
Upton and sons Dashiell, three, and Roman.
Blanchett,
winner of this year's Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her
portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, is expected to
return to Morocco in a few days. "She's almost finished
filming," said Kasteler.
Roman was on
Monday night in London's Great Ormond Street hospital, the Sun
newspaper reported.
COMMENTS
(5/17/05): This may tie in with the Fire Tragedy
prediction for December 2004. It's hard to say since the news
reports don't tell what kind of accident at the hotel caused
Blanchett's son's burns. If there was a fire, then Cate Blanchett
would have to be considered as having escaped it unharmed. But
the news wires don't specify what actually happened.
Pamela
Anderson seeks restraining order against stalker
Tuesday,
September 27, 2005 Posted: 1343 GMT (2143 HKT)
LOS ANGELES,
California (AP) -- Actress Pamela Anderson filed a request for a
restraining order against a man she claims has confronted her and
her children, court records show.
Anderson
contends that William Stansfield, 29, has been "stalking and
harassing me, my sons and other family members for more than a
month," according to court documents obtained by the TV show
"Extra." A hearing is scheduled October 3 in Superior
Court.
There were no
local phone listings for Stansfield and he could not immediately
be located for comment.
In a court
document, Anderson said she saw Stansfield talking to her
7-year-old son at school. She said when she approached him, he
told her he wanted her to stop working on her TV series
"Stacked" and commit to a movie he had written for her.
"I was very uncomfortable and immediately told him to leave
us alone, and my sons and I left the school," the former
"Baywatch" star stated.
She mentioned
three other incidents that "frightened me tremendously"
in which Stansfield allegedly confronted her mother,
sister-in-law and a baby sitter.
COMMENTS
(9/28/05): Pamela Anderson needs to remain cautious. The
doom of the "blonde supreme" from last year could
still, theoretically, claim a victim through December due to a
year-late repetition by actress Thelma Todd in 1935. Madonna came
very close to being "the one" when she fell from a
horse and broke a number of bones. She remains in danger as
predicted, but this trend from 1920 to 1997 could suddenly switch
and extend to any other famous blonde female celebrity. Anderson
was last in danger of dying in a car crash like Jayne Mansfield
in June 2002 -- the year she was diagnosed with hepatitis c.
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Phil Hartman (d. 1998) - Phil, Fil, Il, Hart,
Art, Ar, Men, Min |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Phil Collins, Mackenzie Phillips, Candy
Clark, Susan Clark, Terence Trent D'Arby. Additional
predictions: (1/23/05): Mary Hart.
Actor
Michael Billington dies aged 63
MI6 - Actor News
- 09-06-05
Actor Michael Billington who
played Anya's ill-fated lover Sergei Barsov at the start of
"The Spy Who Loved Me" died on 6th June 2005 aged 63 -
reports Fanderson. He tested for the role of James Bond several
times, and won his role in "Spy" because of his
Bond-like credentials.
Michael
Billington was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, on Christmas Eve
1941, the son of a former factory manager. From school, he went
into the estimating department of a neon sign factory, but was so
keen on amateur theatrics that he left after six months to try to
get into show business. After a stint in distribution at
Warner-Pathé, Mike found work on stage at Soho's famous Windmill
Theatre and subsequently drifted into musicals as a hoofer,
appearing in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying,
Little Me, and the television series Broadway Goes Latin. He also
did cabaret work and played straight man to Danny La Rue.
Realising that
he wanted to turn his talents towards straight acting, Mike took
drama and voice production lessons and landed a small part as a
police guard in the West End production of Incident At Vichy with
Sir Alec Guinness and Anthony Quayle. He also appeared as one of
the Brentwich United footballers in the BBC's United! series and
then worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a small-part
player and understudy.
In 1967, he
appeared in a small role as a thug who tried to beat up Patrick
McGoohan's character in the A Change Of Mind episode of The
Prisoner. From there, he went into the feature film Alfred The
Great (1969) playing Offa, one of the nobles, but UFO's casting
director, Rose Tobias Shaw, remembered him from The Prisoner and
cast him as Colonel Paul Foster. Shortly after UFO was completed,
he guested in two episodes of Yorkshire Television's Hadleigh and
took a leading role as Daniel Fogherty in the BBC historical
drama series The Onedin Line, but he left the programme after the
first series and was replaced by Tom Adams.
Mike then
appeared in the BBC's epic dramatisation of Tolstoy's War And
Peace, toured in a production of Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth as Milo
Tindle (the role played by Michael Caine in the 1972 feature
film), and featured in a small but important role as Barbara
Bach's Russian lover Sergei Barsov in the pre-credits sequence of
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He was subsequently cast in the lead
role of Colonel-Sergeant Jacko Jackson in the first season of
ITV's army drama Spearhead, guested in an episode of The
Professionals and turned his hand to script-writing, penning the
original draft of Silver Dream Racer (1980).
In 1982, he
decided to jump-start his career in Hollywood where he landed
guest roles in episodes of Hart To Hart, Gavilan, The Greatest
American Hero, Fantasy Island, Marlowe - Private Eye and Magnum,
p.i.. He also appeared in a regular role as the villainous Count
Louis Dardinay in ABC's short-lived adventure series The Quest.
On his return to
Britain, he was cast in a leading role as customs officer Tom
Gibbons in the BBC's The Collectors, but the series was not
favourably received by critics or viewers and Mike later
admitted, "This pretty well ended my career in England. I
never worked meaningfully in TV again." However, he did go
on to star in Dwight H. Little's acclaimed spy thriller KGB: The
Secret War (1986) and appeared in Kirk Henderson and Peter
Winograd's satire on matinee movies, Flicks (1987). His last
screen appearance was a guest role in ITV's Maigret in 1993.
Mike tested for
the role of James Bond more times than any other actor - for Live
And Let Die (1973), Moonraker (1979) and Octopussy (1983) and he
was reportedly producer Albert R. Broccoli's first choice for the
part should contract negotiations with Roger Moore have fallen
through on For Your Eyes Only (1981). His theatre work included
roles in productions of The Merchant Of Venice, The Circle and
Death Of A Salesman.
Michael
Billington died on Monday, June 6th, 2005, aged 63. He leaves a
son.
Actress
Nicola Park relives her latest brush with death
31 August, 2005
Newsquest
(Herald & Times) Limited.
ACTRESS Nicola Park can't
believe she's alive. Then again, she hasn't quite come to terms
with the fact she's been knocking on death's door THREE times in
less than two years.
Nicola, 33, is
thanking her lucky stars after she was in a car crash in
Glasgow's Great Western Road. She suffered a broken nose, a
broken wrist and severe whiplash, as revealed in yesterday's
Evening Times.
The accident
follows a bout of pancreatitis last September, which left Nicola
on a life support machine and in a coma for seven weeks. And the
year before Nicola, while seven months pregnant, was hit by the
potentially fatal condition, pre-eclampsia. Again, she was put on
life support equipment. "How unlucky can I be?" said
the Clydebank-born actress. "This time when I realised I was
about to smash into the car in front of me I reckoned I was a
goner. I thought 'My number is up after all. I'm not destined to
live any longer'."
Nicola was
driving her black Renault Clio down Great Western Road on Friday
night on her way to star in the Pavilion's hit show, Bender in
Benidorm. But she was involved in a collision at the junction
with Kirklee Road.
"The air
bags came out and I realised my face had whacked into them. But I
was also hit on the head because my son's baby seat in the back
came flying forward and hit me. I could taste blood in my mouth,
I felt I'd broken every bone in my body and I thought I was going
to die."
Smoke started to
billow from the car - since proclaimed a write-off - and Nicola
feared it would explode with her trapped inside. "A man who
had been walking by yanked the car door open and dragged me free,
just as the fire brigade and the police arrived. It turned out I
knew him. It was Kevin Thomson, who used to be a stage hand at
the Pavilion. I was never so thankful to see anyone in my life.
Anyway, he got me to the side of the road, and from there,
sitting in agony, I watched this surreal sight. The elderly lady,
who had been driving the other car, which wasn't too badly
damaged, was chasing her bag of potatoes which had spilled out on
to the main road."
Nicola was taken
to the Western Infirmary to be checked over but instead of going
home to recover she sought out the old lady who had also been
taken to hospital. "I wanted to see how she was. But she
didn't seem to remember much about the incident. I guess she was
in a state of shock." Back home, the effects of the accident
kicked in and Nicola broke down with the realisation she had
almost never seen her baby son, Jude, again. "I realised it
could all have been so much worse. And I began to think 'Why
me?'. But then I began to feel relieved that I was still
alive."
Nicola isn't
sure when she will drive again - she's still gripped by fear at
the thought. But she is determined she will be back at the
Pavilion on Thursday and Friday for the final two performances.
"I feel so bad for the theatre, the other actors and the
audience. Bender in Benidorm had been my comeback after illness.
I'll be wearing a splint on my arm, which will have to be written
into the script, but my nose doesn't look too bad at the moment.
I'm determined to get through the show." She added:
"Disaster comes in threes. I've had my share. Now, I'll
probably live till I'm 99."
Theatre manager
Iain Gordon is entirely supportive of his ill-fated star. "I
can't believe the bad luck she has had," he said. "But
it says so much about her character that the show will go on, and
I'm sure she will be great."
Actress
Anju Gill Raj kills herself
Mid-Day
Multimedia Ltd.
October 9, 2005
She made her debut 12
years ago as a lead actress in Zakhmi Dil, a film opposite action
hero Akshay Kumar, but disappeared from the Bollywood circuit.
Anjali Mudaliar
alias Anju Gill Raj
(30), set herself ablaze at her apartment at Tulip Cooperative
Society, Oshiwara on the night of October 7 and succumbed to her
injuries the next day.
According to
Oshiwara police, Anjali had a tiff with her husband Damodaran
Mudaliar who also happens to be a hotelier and the producer of
her debut film.
The reason of
the suicide was Damodarans alleged extra-marital
relationship.
As the argument
heightened, she informed her parents and brother of her intention
to commit suicide. She doused herself with kerosene and got
engulfed in flames. The family rushed over and tried to save
Anjali, but instead got caught in the blaze themselves.
Anjalis
father Shyam Kumar Raj (57), mother Gajnabai (50) and brother
Kunal Raj (22) also received minor burns but managed to rush
Anjali to the Belle Vue nursing home at Andheri.
Anjali sustained
60 per cent burns and was critical. After first aid, she and her
family were rushed to Saifee Hospital at Marine Lines for
intensive care. The actress succumbed at 12.40 am on October 8.
The family is out of danger, but is still hospitalised.
Anjalis body has been sent for a postmortem at Cooper
Hospital.
Anjali who
married Damodaran Mudaliar 16 years ago, is survived by two
daughters aged 10 and 12 years. According to sources, Anjali was
staging a comeback in a film, which was 70 per cent complete.
After her debut film, she worked in several C grade films, among
which 1998 sex film Jungle Beauty was a grosser in the northern
territory.
COMMENTS
(10/28/05): Her star burned so briefly, but oh so
brightly ...
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Lee Remick (d. 1991) - Lee, eeeee, Rem, Em, Ick |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Sheryl Lee, LeAnn Rimes, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lee Majors, Lee Trevino, Lisa Kudrow, Beverly
Garland, Cicely
Tyson, Emily Robinson, Holly Hunter, Kylie
Minogue, Lesley-Anne
Down,
Lesley
Ann Warren, Lily Tomlin, Molly Ringwald, Natalie Maine, Sally Struthers, Sally
Field, Shelley Duvall, Shelley Long, Shelley Winters, Talia
Shire, Yasmine Bleeth, Lauren Holly, Season Hubley, Carol Lynley,
Mary
Ann Mobley, Joanne Worley, Cloris Leachman, Erika
Remberg, Steve Buscemi, Grace Slick, Stevie Nicks. Additional
predictions: (0/0/05):
Richard
Whiteley dead at 61
telegraph.co.uk
28/06/2005
Richard Whiteley, who died on Sunday aged
61, was best known as the host of Countdown, the popular teatime
television quiz devoted to anagrams and arithmetic.
The programme
was the first to appear when Channel 4 began broadcasting on
November 2 1982, and the bespectacled Whiteley greeted viewers
with the words: "As the countdown to the launch of a new
channel ends, a new Countdown begins." Thereafter, his
mildly eccentric brand of humour and thoroughly individual dress
sense became inextricably linked with the show, and he eventually
proved as popular as its characteristic numbers and letters
games.
The loud,
stripey suits and large colourful ties (he was said to have more
than 500) which were his trademarks had been known to viewers of
Yorkshire Television's news output for several years.
But when his
bumbling charm and inability to refrain from feeble wordplay were
unleashed on national television he developed a substantial, if
ironic, personal following, particularly among students and
pensioners. The Queen was also said to be a fan of Countdown, a
detail which Whiteley said was revealed to him by Princess
Margaret.
John Richard
Whiteley, always known as Richard, was born in Bradford on
December 28 1943. He had one sister. His father was the third and
last generation to own and run the family mill ...
Eminem
hospitalized for sleeping pill addiction
Japan Today
Saturday, August
20, 2005 at 07:34 JST
NEW YORK Rap star Eminem has been hospitalized
for addiction to sleeping pills, his publicist revealed Friday,
just days after the singer canceled the European leg of his
current world tour. "Eminem is in the hospital under
doctors' care," Interscope Records publicist, Dennis
Dennehy, said. "He's being treated for dependency on sleep
medication."
The 33-year-old
rapper announced on Tuesday that he was cancelling his Sept 1-17
European tour dates. The reason given at the time was exhaustion,
"complicated by other medical issues."
Eminem, whose
2000 album "The Marshall Mathers LP" sold 9.8 million
copies, has now made eight albums since 1999. He had three top 10
releases in 2002. Many of his songs have been blasted for their
explicit lyrics but the rapper, whose real name is Marshall
Mathers, still has an international army of followers.
Recent press
reports suggested Eminem's latest tour was intended to be his
last, with the singer looking to forsake performing and make a
permanent move into production. (Wire reports)
COMMENTS
(8/22/05): Currently three major rock/pop personalities
have been involved in potentially deadly mishaps in this year
that is on a timeline that has seen the premature deaths of Elvis
Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury, Marc Bolan,
Patsy Cline, and members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd: Eminem
(drugs), Courtney Love (drugs and emotional instability), and
Madonna (serious injuries from falling from a horse).
|
Dottie West (d. 1991) - Dottie, Dot, Ot, eeeee,
West, Est |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Dolly Parton, Annie Potts, Teena Marie,
Tina Turner, Chandra West, Karen Westwood. Additional
predictions: (1/23/05): Adam West.
|
Freddie Mercury (d. 1991) - Freddie, Fred, Red,
Ed, Murc, Mur, Cure, Reee, eeeee |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Freda Payne, Rebecca DeMornay, Lynn Redgrave, Val
Kilmer, Reese Witherspoon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Carrie-Anne Moss,
Carrie Fisher, Gloria Estefan, Rex Reed, Al Green, Morgan
Freeman, Ben Vereen, Sean Connery, Oprah Winfrey, Marie Osmond,
Mary McCormack, Mary Quant, Mary Tyler Moore, Maria Ford, Maria
Schneider, Mariel Hemingway, Marianne Faithful, Marion Ross, Tori
Amos, Valerie Perrine, Valerie Curtin. Additional
predictions: (3/2/05): Ed Norton, Edward Bear.
Corin
Redgrave suffers heart attack
Friday, June 10,
2005 Posted: 2002 GMT (0402 HKT)
LONDON, England
(AP) -- Actor Corin Redgrave, the
brother of actresses Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, was in critical
condition Friday after suffering a heart attack, the hospital
treating him said.
Redgrave, 65,
had a heart attack Wednesday at a meeting on the rights of
travelers, or people who move from town to town in Britain and
live in encampments.
His screen
credits include 2004's "Enduring Love" and 1994's
"Four Weddings and a Funeral."
In addition to
his acting career, he is also a political activist who has been
outspoken against the detention of terrorist suspects without
charge in Britain and at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
Basildon
Hospital in Essex, outside London, said Redgrave had improved
slightly from Thursday night to Friday morning but remained in
intensive care. "The Redgrave family would like to thank the
media for respecting their privacy at this extremely difficult
time," the hospital said in a statement.
Corin and
Vanessa Redgrave last year founded a political party called Peace
and Progress to advocate for human rights.
Tamil
actress Mayuri hangs herself
17th June 2005
17.55 IST
By AKC Bureau
Tamil actress Mayuri ended her life at her
residence in Chennai on Wednesday, police sources say.
The 22-year-old actress
was found hanging from the ceiling fan of a room of her house
yesterday. Police believe that the incident happened on Wednesday
when her family members were not at home.
According to the
police, a suicide note found in the room says that nobody was
responsible for her death. I have lost faith in life,
the note said.
Mayuri (also
known as Shalini) has acted in Tamil
films like 7G Rainbow Colony, Manmadhan and Kana Kandein.
She has also
acted in some Malayalam and Kannada films.
Country
singer McCready overdoses -- 'Guys Do It All the Time'
singer hospitalized in Florida
Tuesday, July
26, 2005 Posted: 1527 GMT (2327 HKT)
NASHVILLE,
Tennessee (AP) -- Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has been hospitalized in
Florida after an overdose, according to authorities. McCready,
28, was found unconscious Friday in a hotel lobby, according to
authorities in Pinellas County, Florida. An incident report did
not list the nature of the overdose.
Last week,
McCready was charged in Arizona with identity theft and other
counts. Within the past two years, she has also faced allegations
of driving under the influence and a drug violation.
Dennis Tomlin,
who had been her attorney until midday Monday, declined comment
on the singer's situation Monday night except to say the singer
has retained another lawyer. Tomlin said earlier Monday that
McCready had gone to Florida "to visit her mother when she
found out about the potential charges in Arizona. The stress got
to her and she ended up in the hospital." He said then that
she was in intensive care.
Details
concerning the charges filed last week in Mohave County, Arizona,
were not immediately available. Besides identity theft, charges
against McCready included attempted fraudulent scheme and
artifices, unlawful imprisonment and hindering prosecution.
Tomlin said last week that the singer was helping Arizona
authorities apprehend a con artist who had bilked her and other
celebrities out of large sums of money. He did not elaborate on
the details and declined to discuss them Monday night.
In May, McCready
was charged in Tennessee with driving under the influence and
driving with a suspended license. She also told of abuse she had
allegedly received from an ex-boyfriend at a hearing. McCready
had been severely beaten May 8.
Last year, she
pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin
at a pharmacy. She was fined $4,000, sentenced to three years of
probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
She was
scheduled to be in a Williamson County court Monday for a
probation violation hearing. A judge ordered Tomlin to produce an
affidavit from her doctor by Wednesday.
McCready had a
No. 1 hit in 1996, "Guys Do It All the Time."
Singer Mindy
McCready found with suicide note
July 26, 2005,
5:38PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Associated Press)
Mindy McCready apparently attempted
suicide, and a man charged last spring with trying to kill her
was with the country singer when police found her unconscious in
a Florida hotel lobby, authorities said Tuesday.
William
McKnight, 39, had been charged with attempted criminal homicide
and aggravated burglary in an attack on the 28-year-old
entertainer earlier this year. The couple had broken up about two
weeks before the attack, which occurred at McCready's Nashville
home.
McKnight, who
described himself as McCready's fiance, told authorities at the
Holiday Inn Harborside in Indian Rocks Beach that she had taken a
large amount of two substances and drank a lot of alcohol,
according to a Pinellas County Sheriff's Department report.
Sgt. Jim Bordner
refused to identify the substances, citing McCready's medical
confidentiality rights. Bordner also refused to release
McCready's condition or the hospital where she was taken. He said
only that she was "recovering at a local hospital."
According to the
report, McKnight told authorities that he "had been having
some relationship problems" with McCready and gave them a
four-page suicide note he said she had written. The note wasn't
released.
McCready had
testified in May that McKnight punched her in the face and choked
her after he said she wasn't going to make a fool out of him by
seeing other men. He posted $130,000 bail last month. A few days
before the attack, McCready who had a hit in 1996 with
Guys Do It All the Time was arrested and charged with
driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license.
Last year, she
pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin
at a suburban Nashville pharmacy and was fined $4,000, sentenced
to three years of supervised probation and ordered to perform 200
hours of community service.
COMMENTS
(7/27/05): Now we have a famous female singer
(country) who has both overdosed on drugs and left a
suicide note. So now there is an actress (Shelley Long) and a
singer (Mindy McCready) who have both come close to fulfilling
the Famous
Actress/Singer Dies from Drugs Overdose prediction. The timing
is still premature, but only by about three months, making this a
second CLOSE CALL. I suppose you could call
it a case of Close Call Overkill.
Amazingly, every
letter in the name Mindy McCready but the "M"
in "McC" (M + "ick")
appears in a name sound. "Min" from Phil
Hartman and Tammy Wynette, "Dy"
("dee") from Andy Kaufman,
"Ick" from Lee Remick,
"Read" ("red")
from Freddie Mercury, and "Dy"
("dee") again from John F.
Kennedy. It may be a miracle that she is still alive.
Country
Star Mindy McCready Survives Second Suicide Attempt
Soul Shine Magazine
2005-09-29
Country singer Mindy McCready was taken to hospital
late last week after overdosing on antidepressants in an apparent
suicide attempt, just two weeks after being released from jail.
McCready, who is pregnant, took approximately 30 antidepressant
pills after becoming involved in a heated phone argument with her
boyfriend, fellow country singer William McKnight, who is also
the father of her unborn child. McKnight called emergency
services after receiving no answer when trying to call McCready
back.
This is the
second such attempt in three months for McCready, who was found
unconscious in a hotel in Fort Myers, FL in July after another
attempted overdose. The Nashville star has had a troubled year,
to say the least. The aforementioned McKnight was charged with
attempted murder earlier this year after breaking into
McCreadys home and physically assaulting her. McCready, 29,
has also been charged with identity theft, hindering prosecution,
driving under the influence and illegally obtaining prescription
drugs in the past couple of years alone.
McCready became
a Nashville sensation with her 1996 No. 1 hit, "Guys Do It
All The Time. Bizarrely, McCreadys latest single,
released around the time of her first suicide attempt, is a duet
with McKnight, entitled Sweeter.
COMMENTS
(10/5/05): Deeper and deeper we go into the year 2005,
beyond the Elvis Presley August 1977 morbidity influence, which
did witness the potentially deadly horse riding accident of
pop/rock icon Madonna, beyond country singer Patsy Cline's fatal
March 1963 plane crash, beyond T-Rex frontman Marc Bolan's
untimely September 1977 car crash death, and beyond the September
1970 drug-related death of rock guitar legend Jimi Hendrix. Now
we find ourselves at the 35th anniversary of blues rock singer
Janis Joplin's death from drugs overdose.
And, as I have
only learned today, country singer Mindy McCready made yet another
suicide attempt approximately a week ago by taking over 30
antidepressant pills. It was her second bid to commit suicide by
drugs overdose in two months. This scenario was predicted by me
some time ago on the 2005 (Part Three) page. If she tries such a
stunt again before this year comes to an end, I think she will
finally succeed.
|
Marvin Gaye (d. 1984) - Marvin, Mar, Vin, In,
Gay |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Marvin Hamlisch, Martin Sheen, Marty
Balin, Mariah Carey, Marlo Thomas, Martha Hyer, Martin Landau,
Martie Maguire, Martha Stewart, Julianne Margulies, Penny
Marshall, Steve Martin, Barbara Corday, Barbara Eden, Barbra
Streisand, Carmen Electra, Carlos Santana, James Arness, Vikki Carr, Claudia Cardinale, George Carlin, Judy Carne, Kim Carnes, Richard
Carpenter, Scott Carpenter, Carlene Carter, Angela Cartwright, Veronica
Cartwright, Yvonne DeCarlo, Terri Garr, James
Garner, Andrew
McCarthy, Jenny McCarthy, Paul McCartney, Vince Vaughn,
Vincent D'Onofrio, Linda Lavin, Rebecca Gayheart, Susan Day
George, Susan Dey, Geena Davis, Carroll Baker, Mary
Chapin-Carpenter, Carol Kane. Additional predictions: (0/0/05):
Shaima
Rezayee: The woman killed for pop music
The Times Online
May 20, 2005
Bright and
modern, she hosted a music show in Afghanistan. It drove
extremists to murder her.
SHAIMA REZAYEE was the face of a new
generation of young Afghan women: she discarded her shalwar
kameez and burkha for Western clothes and a glamorous job as a
television presenter on Kabuls answer to MTV. But two
months ago her bosses were forced to dismiss Ms Rezayee, 24,
under pressure from conservative mullahs who were disgusted by
the unIslamic values of her music show.
This week she
paid for her unconventional choices with her life: she was shot
dead in her home by an unknown assailant.
Police said that
they believed the killing was linked to her former job as a
veejay video journalist on Hop, which
was broadcast by Tolo TV, one of a number of private stations set
up since the fall of the Taleban. Ms Rezayee was the only female
presenter on the show, which won as many young urban fans as it
did enemies among the mullahs. Her murder raises the stakes in
the battle for the soul of Afghanistans young people.
Like other young
women, Ms Rezayee was denied five years of schooling while the
Taleban were in control and like them was forced to wear the
burkha whenever she ventured out of the house. When the Taleban
were driven from power, she was one of the first to drop the
veil. Then in October she burst on to Kabul television screens
presenting an hour-long music and chat show airing videos of
Western singers such as Madonna, as well as Turkish and Iranian
pop stars.
Tolo TV was the
latest private station to test the boundaries of acceptability in
an Islamic republic and the most controversial. The
station was the brainchild of an Afghan who returned from
Australia and who already owned Arman, a wildly popular youth
radio station. Tolo quickly became the most watched station in
the city with a reported 81 per cent audience share and Hop was
its No 1 programme. But it drew the ire of the countrys
mullahs and members of the Supreme Court, who were still incensed
after losing a battle last year to have women removed from the
nations television screens.
In March the
national Ulema Council, a government panel of religious scholars,
issued a statement accusing the station of broadcasting
music, naked dance and foreign films, which are against Islam and
other national values of Afghanistan. Hop was at the top of
their hitlist. The information ministry asked the station to tone
down the show, objecting specifically to the raciness of the pop
videos and the casual chat between male and female
presenters. In Afghanistan even conversation between men and
women who are not related is regarded as suspect.
S.A.H.
Sancharaky, the Deputy Minister for Information and Culture, told
a foreign interviewer that the Government prided itself on not
censoring the show but was compelled to ask for changes. One
particularly offensive incident, he noted, was when a male
presenter had complimented Ms Rezayee on her shoes. He
says, Can you hold up your legs so everybody can see how
good your shoes are? the official recalled.
Hold up your legs has a very bad meaning in our
language.
It was to be Ms
Rezayee and not the male presenter who would pay for this
exchange.
As they prepared
to go national with satellite broadcasting, the station dropped
her. Young viewers expressed disappointment but not surprise. In
an interview three months ago Ms Reyazee noted that the split in
attitudes towards women on television was generational, pitting
the urban young, who delight in their freedom to watch satellite
television and foreign movies, against their conservative elders.
She acknowledged
that she was pushing boundaries that other young Afghan women
were afraid to challenge. She hoped others would follow.
Porno
queen's mysterious death -- murder or suicide?
MSN-Mainichi
Daily News: WaiWai
July 11, 2005
Mystery surrounds the
recent untimely death of Yumika Hayashi, star of over 400 blue
movies and a woman referred to as Japan's Original Adult Video
Queen, according to Friday (7/22). Fans of the veteran porn
starlet who passed away aged just 34 have not hidden their shock
at her late June demise, with many doubts remaining about whether
she was a victim of her own hand or something more sinister.
Hayashi started
working in the water business -- Japan's ever-flowing
entertainment trade -- before making her debut as a videotape
vixen in 1989, the heyday of the Japanese AV industry. Over the
following 16 years, she made flick after flick doing what the
Germans call fick. And it wasn't just dirty movies, Hayashi also
starred in the documentary "Yumika" and
"Tamamono," a full-length feature good enough to earn
invitations to a number of international film festivals.
Hayashi's body
was found in her Tokyo apartment early on the morning of June 28.
An autopsy revealed she had died two days earlier, the day before
she would have turned 35.
"About 11
o'clock that night, all this noise suddenly broke out. I looked
out the window and saw all these cop cars outside the apartment
block. I wondered what had happened and later learned she'd died
in there," a neighbor of the late actress tells Friday.
Hayashi's body was found by her mother, AV director Katsuyuki
Hirano and an AV production associate. The director was upset
that Hayashi had failed to turn up for work for a couple of days
and contacted her mother to go up and check on the actress, but
instead made the ghastly find of her body.
"Yumika was
lying in her bed and the three people who found her thought she
was sleeping. When they realized she wasn't breathing, they
quickly called for an ambulance, but it was already too
late," a pal of the actress says. "Yumika's mom was
shattered, screaming, crying and going half crazy."
Nothing appeared
to have been disturbed in the home and police have yet to
determine the cause of the actress's death, with neither suicide
nor murder ruled out. "She had no particular health worries,
so it's hard to tell whether she was killed or killed
herself," an AV production company associate says.
"What sticks in my mind, though, is the massive amount of
sleeping pills found in her room. She'd also packed down quite a
bit of the booze she loved before she went to sleep."
Yumika's friends
deny any possibility that she took her own life. "She was a
really bright kid. She'd told me that she'd just found a new
boyfriend and was really happy. I cannot believe she could
possibly have committed suicide," Yumi Yoshiyuki, director
of what turned out to be Hayashi's final movie, tells Friday.
Others aren't so
sure, pointing to Hayashi's busy love life that left a long trail
in its wake and past reactions to failed relationships.
"About three months before she died, Yumika broke up with
the considerably younger porno production company worker she'd
been dating," another AV company worker says. "They'd
lived together for a while. She seemed to have been pretty
shocked when the relationship came to an end."
Hayashi's
neighbor adds: "About three months ago, she had a huge fight
with a guy that forced the cops to be called to our apartment
block. A pile of men's photos and underpants came flying out of
the window of her eighth floor apartment and landed on
passers-by."
COMMENTS
(8/22/05): This could be related to my prediction of a porn actress
committing suicide this fall. However, the MO does
not follow my suspicion that it will be a hanging like
that of porn star Nancee Kellee in 1991. Indeed, it isn't even
certain, although likely, that Yumika committed suicide.
'Walking
in Memphis' singer Marc Cohn shot in head,
survives
Tuesday, August
9, 2005 Posted: 1218 GMT (2018 HKT)
(CNN) -- Singer Marc Cohn, known for the 1991
smash hit "Walking in Memphis," was shot in the head
Sunday during an attempted carjacking in Denver but survived, his
manager said Monday. Cohn has been treated and released from
Denver Health Medical Center, his manager, Karen Malluk, said in
a written statement.
Police said Cohn
had performed at the Denver Botanical Gardens on Sunday night and
was driving back to his hotel with band members when a man who
was fleeing security officers tried to carjack their van. The
van's driver tried to drive around the gunman, who then fired,
striking Cohn, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.
"Marc Cohn
was shot in the head above his right temple. The bullet was
lodged in his head but has since been taken out," Malluk
said. Cohn's road manager, Tom Dube, was injured in the attack by
flying glass that hit him in the face and eye, said Malluk. Dube
has also been released from the hospital.
Police
interviewed Cohn and the other band members Monday morning,
Jackson said.
The suspect,
identified as wanted felon Joseph Yacten, remains on the loose.
Jackson said Yacten had been arrested in late June on possession
of a controlled substance and possession of a weapon by a
previous felon. The man, who was out on $25,000 bond, was to have
appeared in court July 15 but failed to show up, Jackson said.
He said that
before the shooting, the gunman had tried to use a credit card at
a nearby hotel but then immediately ran from the building. He
tried to carjack another vehicle as security guards pursued him,
and then came across Cohn's vehicle. He was last seen driving a
2005 gold Subaru Forester, with Colorado license plate 207 KUM.
Cohn has been
co-headlining a tour with Suzanne Vega at sites across the
nation. The tour has been postponed, but Malluk said, "Marc
will do his best to reschedule the concerts after he has fully
recovered from this incident. Suzanne has agreed to join him for
the rescheduled dates." Cohn won the 1991 Grammy for Best
New Artist, the same year his "Walking in Memphis" was
a chart-topper. He is married to ABC News correspondent and 20/20
co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas.
COMMENTS
(8/22/05): Country music stars are having their problems
now: a suicide attempt and this attempted murder. I predicted a
plane crash would kill a female country star this year. It hasn't
happened yet, and maybe it won't. But these ominous events
involving Mindy McCready and Marc Cohn ae not good.
|
Andy Kaufman (d. 1984) - Andy, Ann, Dee, eeeee,
Cough, Men |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Andy Griffith, Andy Williams, Brandy, Mandy Moore, Randy Quaid, Randy Travis, Sandy Duncan, Sandahl Bergman, Tony Orlando, Anne
Rice, Sue Ane Langdon, Anna Kournikova, Diana Rigg, Diahann
Carroll, Diane Ladd, Diane Lane, Diane Keaton, Diane Sawyer, Diane McBain, Ivana Trump, Joanna Cassidy, Susannah York, Suzanne Somers, Suzanne Vega, Vanna White, Amanda Pays, Lance Bass, Laurie
Anderson, Dyan
Cannon, Jackie Chan, Rue McClanahan, Jack Palance, Susan
Sarandon, Jackie Shannon, Dido, Dee Wallace-Stone, Dee Dee Sharp, Goldie Hawn, Mindy
Sterling, Cindy Williams, Woody Allen, Claudine Longet, Billy Dee
Williams, Kiki Dee, Sandra Dee, Cat Deeley, David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy, Dustin
Hoffman, Justine Bateman, Honor Blackman, Joan Blackman, Tracy
Chapman, Gene Hackman, Sally Kellerman, Jack Klugman, Dennis
Rodman, Tracy Ullman. Additional predictions: (0/0/05):
Luther
Vandross dead at 54
Friday, July 1,
2005; Posted: 8:15 p.m. EDT (00:15 GMT)
(CNN) -- Legendary
R&B artist Luther Vandross,
whose smooth, silky voice gave soul to songs about life, love and
relationships, died Friday. He was 54 years old.
The popular
crooner suffered a debilitating stroke in April 2003. Even so,
his album "Dance With My Father," co-written with
Richard Marx, sold nearly a million copies in its first month of
release that June. The following year, that album won three
Grammy Awards, including song of the year.
His eighth and
final Grammy came for best R&B performance by a duo -- the
remake of "The Closer I Get to You," sung with Beyonce
Knowles. Vandross died at JFK Medical Center in Edison, New
Jersey at 1:47 p.m. ET, surrounded by family, friends and a
medical support team, a statement from the hospital said.
Alluding to the
stroke, "which he never fully recovered from," hospital
spokesman Rob Cavanaugh said, "Throughout his illness,
Luther received excellent medical care and attention from his
medical team. Luther was deeply touched by all the thoughts and
wishes from his fans."
Vandross' songs
and emotionally charged ballads carry a signature sound. During
his four-decade career, Vandross sold more than 25 million
copies, each one of his 14 albums achieving either platinum or
multi-platinum status.
Luther Ronzoni
Vandross was born into a New York City family steeped in the
traditions of gospel and soul. He began his career writing and
performing jingles for television commercials. He even appeared
on "Sesame Street" in October 1969.
It was after a
chance meeting with David Bowie at a recording studio in 1975
that Vandross was asked to sing backup on Bowie's hit album,
"Young Americans." Later, Vandross served as Bowie's
opening act. Vandross also sang backup for Bette Midler and
Barbra Streisand.
When record
companies rejected him, Vandross used his own money to produce
his 1981 debut album, "Never Too Much."It went on to
top the R&B charts and sold 2 million copies.
By the end of the 1980s
Vandross had nearly two dozen smash singles, including "Give
Me the Reason," "Stop to Love" and "There's
Nothing Better Than Love," made with Gregory Hines. Arguably
his most memorable hit was the 1989 classic, "Here and
Now," which has become a wedding staple. The momentum
carried into the 1990s, with Vandross recording "The Best
Things In Life Are Free," a pop duet with Janet Jackson that
hit the Top 10 and No. 1 on the R&B charts. He followed that
in 1994 with "Endless Love," a duet with Mariah Carey
that reached No. 2 on the pop charts.
"I was
Luther from day one, from the day I began, and I think that's a
very important thing," he once said. "I think that's
what sustained my career for so long is that when I start, you
know it's me."
Vandross
struggled with health and image problems, claiming that he lost
100 pounds -- 13 times. He suffered from hypertension and
diabetes, which killed two siblings and his father, but refused
to slow down until his stroke two years ago.
Of "Dance
With My Father," he once said that title song "was very
emotional for me and, yes, it is based on my own experience.
"It's not just about losing one's father, but about missing
someone who is gone -- for whatever reason -- and the longing you
feel for that moment in the past when you were together," he
said.
COMMENTS
(7/11/05): Yep, Luther & George. Can't think of one
without thinking of the other.
Jennifer Aniston
collapses
Sydney Morning
Herald
July 12, 2005
Jennifer Aniston
has collapsed on a movie set and wags are putting it down to the
strain of seeing one too many photos of Brad Pitt alongside
Angelina Jolie. Aniston passed out on the set of her new movie,
unfortunately titled The Break Up, in Chicago.
Though the
official cause of her collapse was given as heatstroke, it comes
as no surprise that sources on the set insisted she was overcome
with emotion. Her fainting spell came after it was reported that
Pitt was in Ethiopia with Jolie, where the actress was adopting
an AIDS orphan.
A source was
quoted in British newspaper the Daily Mail as saying: "She's
been walking around with a sad look on her face and has not been
her usual self.
"While her
collapse was blamed on heatstroke, everyone thinks it's more down
to stress than anything else. She can't have escaped all the
stories about Brad and Angelina and it looks like the situation
has taken its toll on her."
Or maybe it was
just heat exhaustion.
Scarlett
Johansson In A Car Accident With A Paparazzi
SOFTPEDIA NEWS
22nd of August
2005
Actress Scarlett Johansson was involved in a car
accident just outside Disneyland when her Mercedes hit another
car as she was trying to escape chasing paparazzi.
According to
witnesses, Scarlett, 21, was driving her car, accompanied by two
pals, near the entrance, when she band away to get rid of the
chasing paparazzi and hit another vehicle containing a woman and
her two young daughters.
An onlooker
says: "The front of Scarlett's Mercedes damaged the side of
the other car pretty badly.
Scarlett looked
really shaken up and when both cars pulled over in a safe spot,
she apologised profusely to the other woman. After that, they
spent around 40 minutes on their phones, sorting out all of their
insurance and legal paperwork."
Soon after the
incident, a Mercedes representative showed up with a new car for
the actress, so she can go home safely.
Johansson's
publicist Marcel Parideau states: "The fender bender was
induced by the paparazzi, which chased her for 45 minutes."
D'Angelo
critically injured in SUV crash
Monday,
September 26, 2005 Posted: 1931 GMT (0331 HKT)
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP)
-- R&B crooner D'Angelo, who won over America
with his '90s soul ballads only to fade after bouts with the law
and drugs, was critically injured in a car wreck outside his
hometown of Richmond.
D'Angelo, 31,
born Michael Eugene Archer, was in a 2003 Hummer sport utility
vehicle on September 19 when it crossed the roadway and struck a
fence, ejecting the singer, State Police Sgt. Kevin Barrick said
Monday. Archer wasn't wearing a seat restraint, Barrick
said.Barrick said Archer was initially listed in critical
condition.
The singer's
attorney and business adviser, L. Londell McMillan, Monday
released a statement about D'Angelo. "D'Angelo is home and
doing well. ... His spirit is very positive and he is blessed
that the accident was not fatal," said the statement.
Officials at
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, where the
Grammy-winning artist was flown after the wreck, said the family
had asked that his condition not be released. Another person,
Lynne Sellers, also was injured in the wreck. Police couldn't say
which of the two had been driving.
The accident
occurred in Powhatan County, a bedroom community west of the
city. Archer lives in Midlothian, just outside Richmond. The
cause of the crash is under investigation, Barrick said.
Known for hits
such as "Brown Sugar" and a cover of Smokey Robinson's
"Cruisin'," Archer rode a wave of popularity that
culminated with a Grammy in 2001 for best male R&B vocal
performance for "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" from the
album "Voodoo," which won a Grammy for best R&B
album. In April, the singer was fined $250 and given a 90-day
suspended jail term on a driving under the influence of alcohol
conviction. His driver's license was suspended for one year.
On a marijuana
charge, Archer was fined $50 and given a 10-day suspended jail
term. His driver's license was suspended for an additional six
months. Earlier this month, he received a suspended prison
sentence after being convicted of cocaine possession. Archer had
faced three years in prison.
|
Elvis Presley (d. 1977) - Elvis, El, Vis, Iss,
Pres, Res, Es, Lee, eeeee |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Elvis Costello, Elton John, Alvin Lee, Alice Cooper, Ellen
Burstyn, Elias Koteas, Helen Hunt, Kelly Packard, Stella Stevens,
Dawn Wells, Tuesday Weld, Maria Bello, Lori Spelling, James
Belushi, Kate Nelligan, Dean Stockwell, Geri Halliwell, Liza
Minnelli, Valerie Bertinelli, Priscilla Presley, Jaime Pressly,
Billy Preston. Additional predictions: (0/0/05):
|
Inger Stevens (d. 1970) - Inger, Ing, Gur, Stee,
eeeee, vens |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Ingrid Pitt, Laura Harring, Laura
Herring, Gloria Loring, Connie Stevens, Dorinda Stevens, Stella
Stevens, Oakley
Stevenson, Steve Miller, Steve Miner, Garn Stephens, Nancy
Stephens, Stephen Baldwin, Stephen Bishop, Stevie Wonder, Barbara
Steele, Danielle Steel, Mary Steenburgen, Bruce Springsteen, Christina
Applegate, Seymour Cassel. Additional predictions: (3/2/05):
Tony
Curtis.
Taryn
Manning: Emergency landing 'surreal'
Friday,
September 23, 2005 Posted: 0911 GMT (1711 HKT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actress Taryn Manning says
flying in an airliner that was the subject of a breaking news
story she sat watching on inflight TV was the most "out of
body experience I ever had."
Manning, who has
appeared in such films as "Hustle and Flow,"
"Crossroads" and "8 Mile," was among 140
passengers on the JetBlue airliner that had to make an emergency
landing Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport after its
front landing gear became stuck in a sideways position. No one
was hurt.
JetBlue
airliners have satellite television monitors installed in the
backs of the seats so passengers can watch TV during their
flights. "When we saw our plane on TV as 'breaking news' ...
it was the most surreal, out of body experience I ever had,"
Manning told talk-show host Craig Ferguson during a taping of
"The Late Late Show" on Thursday.
While the plane
circled Southern California for three hours to burn off excess
fuel before landing, Manning said she, like other passengers,
wrote a note to her family. "I just composed a little
something so that if anything happened they would know that our
last goodbye wasn't on the phone," she said. The passengers
displayed a range of emotions during the ordeal, according to the
actress. "A lot of the women of course were crying,"
she said. "There was a gentleman across the way who was
writing in his journal and crying, and seeing that isn't
easy."
When the plane
finally touched down safely amid a shower of sparks and smoke as
its front tire disintegrated, Manning said passengers burst into
a deafening round of cheers and applause. "It sounded like
Dodger Stadium in there," she said.
COMMENTS
(9/28/05): There is a small chance of a an actress dying
in a plane crash this year -- but it would likely be someone more
famous and established than Manning. This would be someone of the
stature of Carole Lombard, who was killed in a plane crash in
January 1941. The odds are greater that a crash victim this year
will be a female country singer or several members of a country
rock band.
|
Jimi Hendrix (d. 1970) - Jimi, Jim, Me, eeeee,
Hen, Dricks, Ricks |
Possible
predictions (1/7/05): Jimmy Dean, Jim Nabors, Eddie Kendricks, Jason Gedrick, Katie Couric, Florence
Henderson, Gisele MacKenzie, Mackenzie Astin. Additional
predictions: (1/11/05): Jimmy Page.
Bob
Denver, TV's 'Gilligan,' dies at 70
Tuesday,
September 6, 2005 Posted: 2019 GMT (0419 HKT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Bob Denver, whose portrayal of
goofy castaway Gilligan on
the 1960s TV show "Gilligan's Island" made him an
iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died. He was 70.
He died Friday
at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina of
complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer, his
agent, Mike Eisenstadt, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
His wife,
Dreama, and children Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin were with
Denver, who also had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery
earlier this year. "He was my everything and I will love him
forever," Dreama Denver said in a statement.
Denver's
signature role was Gilligan, but when he took the role in 1964 he
was already widely known to TV audiences for another iconic
character, Maynard G. Krebs, the bearded beatnik friend of Dwayne
Hickman's Dobie in the "The Many Loves of Dobie
Gillis," which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. Krebs, whose
only desire was to play the bongos and hang out at coffee houses,
would shriek every time the word "work" was mentioned
in his presence.
Gilligan, on the
other hand, was industrious but inept. And his character was as
lovable as he was inept. Viewers embraced the skinny kid in the
Buster Brown haircut and white sailor hat. So did the Minnow's
skipper, Jonas Grumby, who was played by Alan Hale Jr., and who
always referred to his first mate affectionately as "little
buddy."
"As silly
as it seems to all of us, it has made a difference in a lot of
children's lives," Dawn Wells, who played castaway Mary Ann
Summers, once said. "Gilligan is a buffoon that makes
mistakes and I cannot tell you how many kids come up and say,
'But you loved him anyway.' "
TV critics were
less kind, dismissing the show as inane. But after it was
canceled by CBS in 1967, it found new audiences over and over in
syndicated reruns and reunion films, including 1981's "The
Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island." (It also led to
the recent TBS reality series "The Real Gilligan's
Island.")
One of the most
recent of those films was 2001's "Surviving Gilligan's
Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three-Hour Tour
in History," in which other actors portrayed the original
seven-member cast while three of the four surviving original
members, including Denver, narrated and reminisced.
"Gilligan's
Island" writer-creator Sherwood Schwartz insisted that the
show had social meaning along with the laughs: "I knew that
by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live
together, the show would have great philosophical
implications."
Denver went on
to star in other TV series, including "The Good Guys"
and "Dusty's Trail," as well as to make numerous
appearances in films and TV shows. But he never escaped the role
of Gilligan, so much so that in one of his top 10 lists --
"the top 10 things that will make you stand up and
cheer" -- "Late Show" host David Letterman once
simply shouted out Denver's name to raucous applause.
"It was the
mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air,"
Denver told The Associated Press in 2001, noting then that he
enjoyed checking eBay each day to keep up on the prices
"Gilligan's Island" memorabilia were fetching. "I
certainly didn't set out to have a series rerun forever, but it's
not a bad experience at all," he added.
COMMENTS
(9/8/05): I had no idea Gilligan was that old. I thought
he was getting a bit rough looking (generally a clue that someone
is aging). Like Mick Jagged and the Rolling Bones. Another part
of the friendly past, now gone forever. Makes one feel like swiss
cheese, with less cheese and more holes as time goes by.
|
"Hey, skipper ... this must be
Paradise Island. Think we can talk Mary Ann into joining
us?" "Definitely needs a woman's touch,
itty-bitty buddy..."
So
this is the tale of our castaways,
they're here for a long, long time.
They'll have to make the best of things,
it's an uphill climb.
The
first mate and his skipper too,
will do their very best,
to make the others comfortable,
in their tropic island nest ...
|
|
Janis Joplin (d. 1970) - Janis, Jan, Ann, Iss,
Jop, Op, Lin, In |
Possible
predictions (1/8/05): Janis Ian, Janis Kelly, Janice Page, Janet Jackson, Janet McTeer, Janine Turner, Jan Michael-Vincent,
Iggy Pop, Dennis Hopper, Ewa Aulin, James Brolin, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Franklin, Loretta Lynn, Marilyn
McCoo, Marilyn Chambers, Marilyn Beck, Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Anderson, Lynda Carter, Linda
Blair, Linda Hamilton, Linda Gray, Linda Harrison, Linda Hunt,
Linda Ronstadt, Belinda Carlisle. Additional predictions: (0/0/05):
Actress
Lindsay Lohan slightly hurt in car crash
Wed Jun 1, 2005
06:31 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan and a passenger in her
Mercedes suffered minor injuries when a photographer crashed his
car into hers after pursuing her through the streets of Los
Angeles, police said on Wednesday.
Police arrested
Galo Cesar Ramirez who they said followed Lohan, 18, and her
19-year-old passenger on Tuesday and tried to snap a photograph
of the "Mean Girls" actress. Lohan stars in the
upcoming Walt Disney film "Herbie: Fully Loaded."
A spokeswoman
for Lohan said the actress knew Ramirez had been arrested, but
had no comment on the criminal investigation pending against him.
"Lindsay is shaken up and extremely upset from the incident
caused by the aggressive paparazzi," Lohan spokeswoman
Leslie Sloane said in a statement.
After Lohan made
a U-turn to evade Ramirez, he intentionally crashed his minivan
into the driver's side door of Lohan's Mercedes-Benz coupe,
police said. The crash occurred just outside the Beverly Hills
city limits, police said.
Lohan suffered a
cut to her ankle and complained of pain in her neck and ankle,
police said. Her passenger, whom police did not identify,
complained of pain in her head and wrist.
Lohan had called
police from her cell phone to complain that she was being chased
by paparazzi shortly before the crash, police said. Ramirez, 24,
was booked on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon and
on an outstanding warrant for misdemeanor marijuana possession,
police said. He was released on Wednesday on $35,000 bail. He is
scheduled to appear in court on June 22.
Lindsay
Lohan in another car crash -- Witnesses say actress was trying to
avoid paparazzi
Wednesday,
October 5, 2005 Posted: 0524 GMT (1324 HKT)
LOS ANGELES, California
(AP) -- Lindsay Lohan and two other people
were taken to a hospital Tuesday after the actress' black
Mercedes-Benz convertible collided with a van in West Hollywood,
authorities said. Witnesses said Lohan was trying to avoid
paparazzi photographers when the crash occurred.
Lohan and a
female passenger in her car suffered minor injuries, said Los
Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Diane Hecht. The driver of the van,
which was knocked into a parked vehicle, suffered moderate
injuries, Hecht said. The identities of Lohan's passenger and the
male driver of the van were not immediately released.
The accident was
witnessed by a number of people, including a reporter for the
syndicated television show "The Insider."
"Insider" reporter Victoria Recano told The Associated
Press she saw Lohan and a passenger run into an antique store
immediately after the collision. Javier Ramirez, who works at the
store, said he recognized Lohan. "She was very upset,"
Ramirez told the AP. "She kept saying, 'Oh my God, oh my
God, I can't believe it."' Ramirez said Lohan and her
passenger left after a few minutes and although both were shaken
up, neither appeared badly hurt.
Television news
footage showed a badly damaged black Mercedes outside the store
with both its driver- and passenger-side air bags inflated. The
sheriff's department said the driver of the van appeared to be
turning in front of Lohan's car when the vehicles collided. There
was no evidence alcohol was involved in the crash, Hecht said in
a news release.
Witnesses said
dozens of paparazzi photographers had been following Lohan
through the area before the crash. At one point, according to
Lori Satzberg, 43, several photographers tried to take pictures
of Lohan as she shopped at a clothing store. The photographers
then followed her outside to her car. "She got into her
black Mercedes across the street and they literally were like
sitting on her car, trying to take pictures of her, she was like
yelling at them to get off," Satzberg said.
The crash was
the second one Lohan, 19, has been involved in recent months.
Police said the star of such films as "Mean Girls" and
"Herbie: Fully Loaded" was attempting to evade a
paparazzi photographer in June when the photographer crashed his
car into her Mercedes. She suffered cuts and bruises in that
crash but did not seek medical attention.
The photographer
was arrested for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon.
Police said it appeared he deliberately crashed into the actress'
vehicle. A new state law signed Friday allows victims of
paparazzi assaults to file lawsuits seeking up to three times the
damages they suffered. The law goes into effect Jan. 1.
|
Sylvia Plath (d. 1963) - Sylvia, Sil, Il, Vee,
eeeee, Plath, Ath |
Possible
predictions (1/8/05): Celine Dion, Cybill Shepherd, Olivia
Cole, Olivia D'Abo, Olivia Burnette, Olivia Hussey, Olivia
Newton-John, Billie Piper, Gillian Anderson, Jill St John, Jill
Sobule, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Cheryl Tiegs, Faith
Hill, Lauryn Hill, Paris Hilton, Genevieve Bujold, Christie McVie, Tim Matheson, Kathy
Bates, Kathy Ireland, Kathy Mattea, Kathleen Beller, Kathleen Turner, Catherine Deneuve,
Catherine McCormack, Catherine Mary Stewart, Catherine
Zeta-Jones. Additional
predictions: (3/3/05): Jennifer Tilly, Meg Tilly.
|
Patsy Cline (d. 1963) - Patsy, At, See, eeeee,
Cly, Ly, Line, Ine |
Possible
predictions (1/8/05): Patsy Pease, Patsy Kensit, Patti
D'Arbanville, Patti Davis, Patti Loveless, Patti Smith, Patty
Duke, Pat Benatar, Pat Boone, Pat Priest, Patricia Wettig, Nancy
Allen, Nancy Kovak, Nancy Loomis, Lucy Lawless, Barbara Anne
Klein, Kevin Kline, Tania Kline, Sue Lyon. Additional
predictions: (0/0/05):
"America
Pie" actress Natasha Lyonne fights for life in New York
hospital
August 23, 2005
New York (AP)--"American Pie"
star Natasha Lyonne is
reportedly fighting for her life in a New York City hospital,
after being found with hepatitis C, a heart infection and a
collapsed lung.
Her dad Aaron
Braunstein believes she may have picked up the liver virus while
shooting a movie abroad three years ago.
Although it has
been rumoured that she's also fighting a battle with heroin - the
primary mode of transmission of hepatitis C is via contaminated
blood--through needles shared by drug users or through blood
transfusions.
The 26 year old
actress, whose credits also include "Slums of Beverly
Hills," "Die Mommy, Die" and last year's
"Blade: Trinity," has not had a publicist or Hollywood
representation for the past several months.
She was charged
in December 2004 with criminal mischief, harassment and
trespassing after she allegedly exploded in a temper tantrum on
her New York neighbor, ripping a mirror off the woman's wall and
threatening to sexually molest her dog.
Lyonne had been
due in court April 19th to answer the charges but left the
courthouse early, prompting Manhattan Criminal Court Judge
Abraham Clott to put out an arrest warrant.
|
John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) - John, On, F., Ken,
En, Dee, eeeee |
Possible
predictions (1/8/05): John Aniston, John Cleese, John Cusack, John Davidson, John Carpenter, John Elway, John Fogerty, John
Goodman, John Hurt, John Kassir, John Landis, John Lithgow, John
Malkovich, John McEnroe, Pope John Paul II, John Stamos, John
Travolta, Johnny Carson, Johnny Crawford, Johnny Depp, Johnny Mathis. Additional
predictions: (0/0/05):
Peter
Jennings has lung cancer
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Posted: 1641 GMT (0041 HKT)
(CNN) -- ABC
news anchor Peter Jennings has
been diagnosed with lung cancer, his colleagues were told
Tuesday.
ABC News
President David Westin informed the staff of ABC News in a memo
saying Jennings, 66, would begin outpatient treatment and expects
to continue to anchor "World News Tonight."
"There will
be good days and bad, which means some days I may be cranky and
some days really cranky," Jennings told ABC News employees
in an e-mail, according to The Associated Press.
The text of the
memo from Westin is as follows:
"This
morning, Peter Jennings told his senior staff at World News
Tonight that yesterday afternoon he was diagnosed with lung
cancer. ... He will begin outpatient treatment next week here in
New York.
It's both
Peter's and my expectation that he will anchor World News Tonight
during the period of treatment to the extent he can do so
comfortably; but, we should also expect him to be off the
broadcast from time to time, depending on how he feels.
"Charlie
Gibson, Elizabeth Vargas, and others will be substituting for
Peter as necessary and when their other responsibilities permit.
"All of us
at ABC News have watched over the years as Peter has led us on
various assignments with strength and with courage. We've done
our best to support him in these endeavors. Now, Peter's been
given a tough assignment. He's already bringing to this new
challenge the courage and strength we've seen so often in his
reporting from the field and in anchoring ABC News.
"I know
that all of us will give him every bit of support that he needs
and asks for. Peter will once again lead the way, but we will
stand with him at every turn."
Jennings has
been the sole anchor of "World News Tonight" since
1983. He was part of a group of anchors, with Frank Reynolds and
Max Robinson, for several years before that. He also anchored
ABC's evening news show in the 1960s, when he was in his late
20s.
Peter
Jennings dies of lung cancer -- Longtime ABC News anchor was 67
Monday, August
8, 2005 Posted: 2323 GMT (0723 HKT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Veteran
newsman Peter Jennings was
remembered Monday as an outstanding journalist, a hard worker and
"a man of conscience and integrity." The longtime
anchor of ABC "World News Tonight" died Sunday, some
four months after he announced on the air that he had been
diagnosed with lung cancer. Jennings was 67.
"Good
Morning America" co-host Charles Gibson announced late
Sunday that Jennings had died in his New York City apartment. His
wife, Kayce, his children Elizabeth and Christopher, and his
sister were at his side, Gibson said. He read a statement from
the family that said: "Peter died with his family around
him, without pain and in peace. He knew he had lived a good
life."
ABC News
President David Westin told reporters Monday that it was a sad
day at the network where Jennings had worked for more than 40
years. "Peter, in addition to being an outstanding
journalist, an outstanding leader, was also a very warm and
decent man and a great friend and colleague to so many of
us," Westin said. "We all got to see how professional
he was on the air, and sometimes his urbanity could be mistaken
for a certain distance. But in fact he was a very sensitive,
warm, decent man who cared passionately for what he did, for what
all of us do -- for reporting the news every day of the
year."
In a written
statement to his staff, Westin wrote on Sunday that "we will
have many opportunities in the coming hours and days to remember
Peter for all that he meant to us all. ... But for the moment,
the finest tribute we can give is to continue to do the work he
loved so much and inspired us to do."
Anchor Barbara
Walters described Jennings as a stickler for details, adding that
"if I knew the name of the person in the parade, he knew the
name of the horse. He pushed himself, he pushed us, he made us
better. One of the things that I think was very interesting about
Peter is that he didn't graduate from high school, and this gave
him a kind of insecurity that made him want to work harder, and
learn more," Walters said. "He wrote like a dream. You
would think that he was reading a script, and it was all ad-lib.
He was an anchor in every true sense of the word."
President Bush
remembered Jennings as a distinguished journalist. "A lot of
Americans relied upon Peter Jennings for their news. He became a
part of the life of a lot of our fellow citizens, and he will be
missed," Bush said as he prepared to board Air Force One.
"May God bless his soul."
Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement that she was saddened
by the death of her "close, personal friend."
"Peter Jennings represented all that was best in journalism
and public service. A man of conscience and integrity, his
reporting was a guide to all of us who aspire to better the world
around us. I learned from him and was inspired by him," she
wrote.
Determined
fight
Since April 5,
when Jennings announced his diagnosis on the news program, he
kept his public comments positive. Even during the initial
announcement, he said he would be undergoing chemotherapy and
joked about losing his hair. "I wonder if other men and
women ask their doctors right away, 'OK, doc, when does the hair
go?' " he said.
Jennings said he
was determined to fight the disease, citing National Cancer
Institute statistics that nearly 10 million Americans are living
with cancer. "I have a lot to learn from them, and 'living'
is the key word," he said.
The network's
"World News Tonight" Web site has maintained an online
forum where viewers could post expressions of support and good
wishes for Jennings. It has also posted statements from Jennings
thanking viewers for their support and his thoughts on topics
such as the recent terrorist bombings in London.
In an April 29
letter posted on the site, Jennings said he had been
"spoiled rotten" by well-wishers and added, "I
assume there are a few others out there who, like me, are going
with the flow until the day gets better."
His last posting
came on July 29, Jennings' birthday. "Many thanks to all of
you for your birthday wishes," the statement from Jennings
said. "Your words -- as always -- are a great source of
strength. I am celebrating today with my family -- we are all
grateful."
Network
anchor at age 26
Jennings was
born in Toronto, Canada, in 1938. His father, Charles, was the
first voice of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation when it was
established in the mid-1930s. At age 9, Jennings hosted
"Peter's Program," a short-lived Saturday morning
children's show on the CBC.
A high school
dropout, Jennings worked as a bank teller for several years
before moving into radio and then into television in 1961. He was
hired by ABC in 1964.
The following
year, when he was 26, Jennings was picked to anchor "The ABC
Evening News." But two years later, he told his bosses he
needed more seasoning and returned to field reporting, CNN
correspondent Jeff Greenfield, a former ABC News employee, has
said.
Jennings became
a foreign correspondent for the network, covering such stories as
the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, when members of
the Arab terrorist group Black September seized the Israeli
compound and took athletes hostage and later killed them.
Since he began
anchoring the program in 1983, Jennings has won numerous awards,
including a National Headliner Award, a George Foster Peabody
Award and several Overseas Press Club Awards. He also won some 16
Emmys, according to the ABC News Web site.
Asked how it
felt after anchoring ABC's evening news program for 20 years,
Jennings told CNN's Larry King on September 8, 2003: "Seems
like yesterday; seems like forever -- all at the same time. It's
sort of, how do you measure it? Do you measure the fact that I'm
20 years older? No. I think I measure it by the events. You know,
I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end. When you think
about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the
Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at
the end of that, of that scope, what extraordinary changes there
have been."
COMMENTS
(8/22/05): This is one of many late posts. My computer
crashed in early August and it took a week to find a replacement.
What I have is much more powerful, but takes some getting used to
since the operating system is the most up-to-date. Unfortunately,
I had not backed-up this website since May when the computer
crashed, so I have been busy updating pages to what they should
be and not what they were over three months ago. That has
required downloading pages directly from my website on the
Internet to get the newer text I wrote and newer images (that
never got backed up) saved to my pages and website folder on my
computer. It is a tedious and lengthy process.
Peter Jennings
died while I was in a state of limbo between the old computer and
the newer one I now have. It was a sad event for me personally.
He seemed like a nice guy and I was always used to his presence
on the news since the days when the Iranian Revolution and the
rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini were happening in 1979. His career
as ABC anchor until his death marks an era that has taken up
nearly half of my life. That's a long time to see a familiar face
suddenly extinguished. Nowadays, 67 years old, the age which
Peter Jennings was, is not what it was 30 years ago ... he was a young
67. He was a superstar as far as TV journalists are concerned and
will be greatly missed.
Blues
star Long John Baldry dies
BBC NEWS
Friday, 22 July,
2005, 23:22 GMT 00:22 UK
British-born
blues singer "Long John" Baldry has died aged 64 after
fighting a chest infection for four months. Born John William
Baldry, he passed away at Vancouver General Hospital in British
Columbia, Canada.
Baldry - whose
only UK number one came in 1967 with Let The Heartaches Begin -
was a friend of Paul McCartney and inspired Eric Clapton to play
guitar. He also performed with Rod Stewart and Elton John before
a Grammy nomination in 1998 for narration work with Disney.
Baldry - who
leaves behind siblings Margaret and Roger, as well as long-time
friend and partner Felix "Oz" Rexach - started his
career playing folk and jazz in the 1950s. He became one of the
founding fathers of British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1960s and
appeared at The Cavern in Liverpool, becoming friends with
McCartney.
Baldry was
invited to perform on the Beatles' internationally televised
special "Around the Beatles" in 1964, along with P J
Proby and Cilla Black. He performed with influential British
bands Blues Incorporated, and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars in
the 60s.
Later, he
fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, which included Rod Stewart, who
later joined Baldry in Steam Packet, also featuring keyboardist
Brian Auger and singer Julie Driscoll. After a brief period with
Bluesology, which featured Elton John on keyboards, Baldry went
solo.
With production
assistance from Rod Stewart and Elton John, he recorded the
album, It Ain't Easy, for Warner Bros. featuring his signature
song "Don't try to Lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock
n' Roll."
After emigrating
to Canada in the early 1980s, he recorded for EMI Music Canada,
and since 1991 recorded five albums for Stony Plain Records in
Edmonton, Alberta. The label is set to re-release Baldry's Warner
Bros. albums, It Ain't Easy and Everything Stops for Tea, in the
autumn.
Since the early
1990s, he was also known in Canada for his extensive voice work
in commercials. He also narrated on Winnie The Pooh recordings
for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the popular Sonic
The Hedgehog computer game.
COMMENTS
(7/27/05): When this story broke, "Long
John" made me think of "Shelley Long"
who attempted suicide by drugs overdose late last year. I thought
it might be apt to warn of another attempt, but it appears the
country singer Mindy McCready, name sounds
cousin of Tammy Wynette, Andy Kaufman, Lee Remick, and Freddie
Mercury, has suddenly filled the spot ... for now.
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