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‘Tonight Show’ Straight Man Ed McMahon Dies At 86
Longtime television personality, game show host and Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon died in a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday. He was 86.
Perhaps best known as Johnny Carson’s straight man, whose bellowing “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” opened NBC’s Tonight Show, McMahon had dreamed of being a radio announcer since he was a child.
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Farrah Fawcett: the crime-fighting sex symbol who lived and died on screen
She epitomised the glamour and what was quaintly known as the sex-appeal of 1970s California: the buoyant golden curls, the pearl-white teeth, the sun-kissed curves. As the standout heroine of an improbable detective series, Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett shot to stardom on our television screens and, thanks to a poster that sold a record 12m copies, lodged herself in the minds of teenage boys everywhere.
She died yesterday aged 62, after chronicling her two-and-a-half year battle with cancer in a video diary. With appearances from her partner, Ryan O’Neal, and her Charlie’s Angels co-stars, the two-hour show was broadcast last month in America with the aim, Fawcett said, of fulfilling “a certain responsibility to those who are fighting their own fights and may be able to benefit from learning about mine”.
Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Fawcett dropped out of college after being voted one of the 10 most attractive women on campus, then turned success in toothpaste and shampoo adverts into an acting career. As Jill Munroe in Charlie’s Angels, and as herself – in a 1,000-watt red swimsuit – in that poster, she personified an era in which sex was suddenly out there.
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(CNN) — Entertainer Michael Jackson died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, CNN confirmed.
Lt. Fred Corral, the Los Angeles County Coroner said Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. Thursday.
He also said Jackson was unresponsive when he arrived at the hospital.
Brian Oxman, a Jackson family attorney, said he was told by brother Randy Jackson that Michael Jackson collapsed at his home in west Los Angeles, California, Thursday morning.
Family members were told of the situation and were either at the hospital or en route, Oxman said.
“I can only tell you that the family members are crying,” Oxman said.
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Monty_inBC Says:
Obit on McMahon at Blackfive.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/col-ed-mcmahon-dies.html
Posted on June 25th, 2009 at 10:04 pm