Articles tagged with: death
In the years following Beethoven's death the world's chief regret was that nobody had pried out his brain and attached it to a bunch of wires and electric pencils. Why, had that been the case, perhaps we'd have just one more brilliant symphony. Yes, if that were the case perhaps Ludwig's genius could have added some much needed atmosphere to all those Pat Boone albums. But that was a different time, and the accepted ethics of yester-year likely wouldn't have allowed for zombification of any sort. Lucky for Michael Jackson's removed brain, we're no longer confined by such primitive notions.
Seldom does a subject come to the fore which requires us to be sincere; yet the sad news of Patrick McGoohan’s death is undeniably one of them. The American-born actor is undoubtedly one of the greatest masters of his craft to grace our screens. Perhaps best known as the enigmatic Number 6 in the brilliant cult 60s series The Prisoner, he was also a talented writer, director, and producer for this as well as other series. He would often use a pseudonym for his off-screen roles; such was the level of his modesty.
Of all the terrible ways to start a new year, losing your 16-year-old son on New Year's Day has to rank among the worst. So there can't be a person on the planet who'd want to trade places with John Travolta at the moment. As you've probably already heard, John Travolta's 16-year-old son Jett died at some point between January 1 and 2 from a seizure brought on by his Kawasaki syndrome. And now John Travolta has released a statement about Jett's death, thanking the public for its support and describing how 'heartbroken' he and his wife are. Horrible news.
We can all say that we've had visions where Jennifer Garner gets beaten by an angry mob due to her belief in Jesus, can't we? No? Most of us? No, not most of us either? Some of us have had visions of Jennifer Garner being persecuted by a mob for believing in Jesus? No? Not even some of us? Just Jennifer Garner's psychiatric patient stalker Steven Burky, then? Oh. Well, it's just a shame that Steven Burky won't get to warn Jennifer Garner of his vision, then, because Garner has just taken out a court order claiming that she's living in mortal fear of him. So let's just hope that Jennifer Garner doesn't end up being assaulted by a violent mob because of her faith in Jesus Christ, because if she does, Jennifer Garner is going to end up looking pretty bloody stupid.
Nicole Kidman isn't a traditional Hollywood star - for instance, rather than make one film that everyone loves, she'll make ten films that everyone hates. And this fierce sense of anti-establishment also includes the way she raises her daughter. When most moviestars have children, for example, they'll sell pictures of the baby to a magazine for millions of dollars. But not that's not how Nicole Kidman rolls. Similarly when most moviestars have children, they'll give interviews about how great it feels to be a mother and how wonderful their child is. But, again, Nicole Kidman doesn't roll that way - which is why in her first big interview since the birth of her child, Nicole Kidman didn't seem to do much except for shriek about how she doesn't want to die and how she can't stop crying. Attagirl, Nicole.
As Amy Winehouse so memorably put it in her famous hit "They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said 'wheeze gargle hurrrrrrp."
That's right - it appears that hoofing down crack and cigarettes all the time like a stinky old tramp hasn't done Amy Winehouse's lungs any good at all. According to her dad Mitch, in fact, Amy Winehouse has been diagnosed with the early stages of emphysema - a disease that'll kill her if she doesn't quit drugs immediately.
Now, obviously this isn't news because it's been discovered that Amy Winehouse is close to death - any fool has been able to see that for the last year or so - but because her contraction of emphysema has helped us complete our Amy Winehouse Disease Bingo card! Hooray! Now we just have to decide whether we go double or quits with weaponised Marburg. She doesn't already have that, does she?
Marilyn Monroe was tricked into killing herself by Bobby Kennedy. So says Dr Jack Hattem, who, backed up by secret FBI files, says the Hollywood bombshell was somehow fooled into believing she would be revived in time as part of a plot involving Senator Robert Kennedy, the brother of JFK, who was gunned down 40 years ago this week. Instead, Monroe, who staged many fake suicide attempts throughout her life to gain sympathy, was left to die by staff and friends. It's all in Hattem's new book Marilyn Monroe: Murder By Consent. Certainly, Marilyn Monroe may have been dead for 46 years, but that doesn't mean that people have stopped speculating about the circumstances of her death. We spoke to Dr Hattem and listened to some of his more compelling claims, including where Kennedy was on the night of Marilyn Monroe's death and why the recently unearthed Marilyn Monroe sex tape might not be the only one knocking about.
Gloria Daniel, the former girlfriend of former alive funk legend, James Brown, has been talking to GQ magazine about their unbelievably strange sex life.
According to Daniel, “Motherfucker was crazy,” and, “It was the drugs.”
“He tried like hell, though,” she says. “He’d wear you out. That man died trying to come.”
Well, this is joyous news. Nobody likes a drugged-up 70-year-old trying to come more than hecklerspray. And if anybody tries to tell you different, it’s a goddamn lie.
