Celebrity Deathwatch

[PsycoJoe]

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been done yet. This thread is for announcing celebrity deaths.

Dom De Luise, August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009

[American Patriot]

Generally, they show up in "threes".....

I'm expecting to hear something any day about Patrick Swazy (sad... he's a good actor).

[American Patriot]

Here's the numbers and names from May.... already.

May 2009

[edit] 7

* Frank Melton, 60, American politician, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. [1]
* Andras Nagy, 23, Hungarian boxer, brain haemorrhage. [2]

[edit] 6

* Aline Besley, 110, French supercentenarian. [3]
* Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness. [4]
* Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician. [5]
* Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer. [6]
* Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver. [7]
* Lev Losev, 71, Russian poet and literary critic. [8] (Russian)
* Carlo Marcelletti, 64, Italian cardiac surgeon, heart attack. [9]
* Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general. [10] (Russian)

[edit] 5

* Benjamin Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match. [11]
* Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music). [12]
* Manuel Capetillo Villaseñor, 83, Mexican torero and actor, respiratory arrest. [13] (Spanish).

[edit] 4

* Bobby Campbell, 86, British footballer and manager. [14]
* Beatrice Cooper, 112, American supercentenarian. [15]
* Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH), writer, chef and cookbook author, kidney failure. [16]
* Vasco Granja, 83, Portuguese TV show host, journalist, animation critic, and comic book publisher. [17] (Portuguese)
* Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness. [18]
* Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor. [19] (German)
* Gisela Stein, 73, German actress.

[edit] 3

* Lawrence Carrington, 63, American editor (TV Guide), complications from liver disease. [20]
* John Elsworthy, 77, British footballer. [21]
* Hui Ki On, 65, Hong Kong law enforcement official, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer. [22]
* Ram Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest. [23]

[edit] 2

* Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure. [24] (Portuguese)
* Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure. [25]
* Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician. [26] (Japanese)
* Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer. [27]
* Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for U.S. President (1988) and Vice President (1996), cancer. [28]
* Vernon King, 48, American pastor, civil rights proponent, nephew of Martin Luther King. [29]
* Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist. [30]
* Fyodor Shmakov, 92, Russian actor. [31] (Russian)
* Fatmir Xhindi, 49, Albanian politician, shot. [32] (German)

[edit] 1

* Ralph J. Cappy, 65, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (2003–2008). [33]
* Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging. [34]
* Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia. [35] (German)
* Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer. [36]
* Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman. [37]
* George Hannan, 98, Australian politician. [38]
* Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer. [39] (Finnish)
* Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, Mayor of San Leandro, California. [40]
* Erika Roman, 31, American radio personality (Power95.3), drowned following automobile accident. [41]
* Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized. [42]
* Karst Tates, 38, Dutch killer, responsible for car attack on the Dutch royal family, brain injury. [43]
* John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer. [44]

[American Patriot]

So much for the "Threes" idea. huh?

[PsycoJoe]

Probably missed one....

[eversman]

I can't WAIT to add ted kennedy and john F'n kerry to the list. i am gonna throw a dang party. And maybe Murtha, the fat pig, will die of a heart attack.


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[MTStringer]

David Carradine has been found dead in his Bangkok hotel room, rumored to be a suicide

[American Patriot]

Fox stated that it was "natural causes".

[Toad]

I've seen multiple reportsof suicide by hanging.

[American Patriot]

Yeah, me too, now. Fox even said something about it now.

Who knows?

[American Patriot]

Well, the police there released an official statement, hanging in a closet, nude.

Sad.

[Toad]

It is sad, and I don't get it. His career had been resurected, new marriage, young kids, good money flow from the new movies he'd been making... he should have been in a good place.

But I guess to follow through with suicide, something isn't quite working right upstairs anyway. My heart goes out to his young kids, who now have to live with and process what happened to daddy.

[MTStringer]

I've read several reports indicating he was hard up for cash. He went through alcohol detox again in '08, he had a reputation as a big spender and reportedly had recently been looking up old acquaintences in an effort to prop up his bank account, and he was going from one project to another, no matter the quality of the script. Hardly a noble passage for one so many of us grew up watching.

[Malsua]

tying a rope to your junk, your neck and punching the clown while looking at porn sounds auto erotic to me.

[American Patriot]

He's been doing shows on Discovery... he wasn't hard up for cash. Just signed for a movie according to his agent.

The Agent is up in arms about this, things it was murder.

[Ryan Ruck]

Pitchman Billy Mays Had Enlarged Heart

Popular product pusher Billy Mays had an enlarged heart and likely died over the weekend of a pulmonary embolism, or blocked artery, a medical examiner told reporters on Monday. There was no sign of head trauma. He was 50.

Dr. Vernard Adams told reports that Mays' heart weighed 500 grams, or about 17.6 ounces. A typical male heart weighs about 10-12 ounces. The "heart disease that was found was certainly capable of causing the sudden death that he experienced."

There was no indication of drug abuse, prescription or otherwise. Further test need to be made and the official ruling of cause of death won't be available for several weeks, Adams said.

Mays told his wife, Deborah, he didn't feel well when he went to bed Saturday night. In the morning she found the booming-voiced OxiClean pitchman unconscious. Earlier in the day, he said he was hit on the head when the airplane he was riding in had a rough landing at Tampa Bay's airport.

However, doctors found no evidence of head trauma during the autopsy.

The airline, U.S. Airways, said no passengers reported any serious injuries, and Mays himself cheerfully recounted the landing for a local TV station. The bumpy landing occurred because the plane blew its front tires.

Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said linking Mays' death to the landing would "purely be speculation." She said Mays' family members didn't report any health issues with the pitchman, but said he was due to have hip replacement surgery in coming weeks.

"Although Billy lived a public life, we don't anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days. Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times," Deborah Mays says in a statement.

Police do not suspect any foul play.

Born William Mays in McKees Rocks, Pa., on July 20, 1958, Mays developed his style demonstrating knives, mops and other "As Seen on TV" gadgets on Atlantic City's boardwalk. For years he worked as a hired gun on the state fair and home show circuits, attracting crowds with his booming voice and genial manner.

AJ Khubani, founder and CEO of "As Seen on TV," said he first met Mays in the early 1990s when Mays was still pitching one of his early products, the Shammy absorbent cloth, at a trade fair. He said he most recently worked with Mays on the reality TV show 'Pitchmen' on the Discovery Channel, which follows Mays and Anthony Sullivan in their marketing jobs.

[American Patriot]

I never really liked Mays... on the other hand, I feel sad for his wife and his fans.

I watched the discovery show exactly once... and turned it off part way through.

[Ryan Ruck]

Saw him on Conan O'Brien's show just a couple days ago. Seemed like a decent enough guy. He was entertaining to say the least!

[American Patriot]

Fred Travalena - add him to the list.

[Phil Fiord]

The loss of notables is a media blind for real world events the affect the living. So, while I do respect the dead, their family, and friends who lost a close family member or friend, to me its like that old phrase, "Get a room".

I mean, this Michael Jackson death is obscuring even the scant real news on major newscasts on standard TV channels.

I know that sounds harsh, but last Friday the news was largely on MJ and not the Cap and Tax bill vote. Seems valid for me to say, report on what affects the living more than the dead. They don't vote anymore except if in Chicago.