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Originally posted by sethkonigsbergrn:
Did anyone mention
What an embarrasing way to die.

Did he ever hang(oops, just about to post & saw an unintended pun! ) out with Michael Hutchinson(from INXS), died the same way. What's wrong with people???

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Originally posted by pipedreamsandbabies:
Ed McMahon was the ultimate wingman. You beat me to it GWG.

Ed was veteran of WW2 and Korea.

Agree 100%. Long before Brigadier General Ed McMahon died we saluted him on the Hack's Place topic Veterans. Here is a brief on his USMC history:
During World War II, Ed McMahon was a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps serving as a flight instructor and test pilot. He was a decorated pilot with six Air Medals in addition to other medals and awards, He was discharged in 1946, remaining in the USMC Reserves.

After college, Ed McMahon returned to active duty. He met his first girlfriend, Jenifer P. Smith, on his first tour. He stated she was the one to motivate him to become a better person. He was sent to Korea in February 1952. He flew unarmed OE-1 Bird Dogs on 85 tactical air control and artillery spotting missions. He remained in the Marine Corps Reserve, retiring with the rank of Colonel in 1966 and was then commissioned as a Brigadier General in the California Air National Guard.

Since his last duty serving this nation was Brigadier General in the California Air National Guard, he gets that title in this post.

Sure, his commercials annoyed the heck out of me but still....

RIP Mr. Mays.



Don

Don't overlook the fact that Gail Storm also died. She was a tv star, movie star and a singer. She played My Little Margie on TV. A couple of her famous songs were: Ivory Tower and Dark Moon. She was 87 when she died yesterday.

Add Gogi Grant to the list - a singer from the '50s and early '60s - her best known song was "Wayward Wind [Is A Westward Wind]."

RIP to all

I'll be glad when my time comes. I just hope that many of you will say something nice about me. You don't have to go over board though.

RIP, Marine.

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Originally posted by Vicdude:
Let's see, first it was Ed McMahon then Farrah Fawcett closely followed by Michael Jackson. I've just read that Billy Mays was found dead.

In case anyone here has been at the bottom of a mine for the last few years, Billy Mays was the bearded shouting pitchman for all those "As seen on TV" products.

I certainly wouldn't wish him dead but to me, listening to him was like listening to fingernails being dragged across a blackboard.

I wonder if they'll continue running his commercials?

Saw one last night on TV, he was advertising the ding removel.

Weard to say the least.

TV NEW: Jackson was spending as much as $48,000.00 a month on prescription drugs under several different names, Omar Adams being one - -

Pop cultural

Pop music

Pop pills

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Originally posted by Duster6:
I'll be glad when my time comes. I just hope that many of you will say something nice about me. You don't have to go over board though.

I'll start Duster, just in case I miss your passing:
To my knowledge Duster never abused gerbils!

----- Yes, Gail Storm, "My Little Margie" was one of my favorites... I also remember well, Gogi Grant`s "Wayward Wind"... The days when gas stations had "wars"...

I liked Billy Mays' informericals. I feel I could trust his product. It is this greaser selling "Sham Wow" He's like a sore tooth!

Billy's post mortem results state a cardiac arrest from severe heart disease. Most likely from the sound of it, coronary artery disease (plaque build up ) That almost killed me back in 99.

Too bad though he was a good guy......

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Natasha Richardson
David Carradine
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Dom Delouise
Voice over guy that Rich Little discovered
Billy Mays
Gail Storm
This is from the last month or so..... Wow.

Just heard on the radio, Carl Malden is dead at age 97.
RIP

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...You can add Karl Malden, sp, streets of San Francisco to the list today,...

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His acting career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served as a noncommissioned officer in the 8th Air Force. While in the service, he was given a small role in the U.S. Army Air Forces play and film Winged Victory.

He did a good Catholic Priest in On the Waterfront - -

Yet another today, actor Carl Malden dead at 97.

>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070102607.html?hpid=artslot

Karl Malden -

He would often sneak his real name, Mladen Sekulovich, into movie dialogue by calling some walk-on by it to move, or hand him a hat, etc. - -

He was Serbian - - -