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Make The Dying Stop!

By Michael Musto, Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 9:00AM
Comments (17)
Categories: Bea Arthur, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, celebs, goodbyes

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2009 will surely go down as the dyingest year in celebrity history, when the only gossip about stars was that they'd suddenly stopped breathing. It's only July, and so far we've already lost the lustrous likes of:

Bea Arthur

Betsy Blair

Altovise Davis

David Carradine

Billy Mays

Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson

Karl Malden

John Updike

Gale Storm

Ed McMahon

Dom DeLuise

Ricardo Montalban

Natasha Riichardson

Jett Travolta

Kenny Rankin

James Whitmore

Marilyn Chambers

Mollie Sugden

Ron Silver

Sydney Chaplin

And so many more! Like Olga San Juan!

While other, more macabre sites are asking "Who's next?" I'm more realistically wondering "Who's left?"

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Comments (17)

jonesy says:

And now Robert McNamara!

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 9:08AM
patches says:

Add Fred Travalena.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 9:09AM
jimbo says:

Add Sarah Palin's career.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 9:10AM
Ty Hard-don says:

Alan Freed...oop...Allen Klein....or is it Cousin Brucie?

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 10:16AM
Steve says:

I don't really think Jett Travolta qualifies as a celebrity.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 11:19AM
Cha Cha Walters says:

No, this is just the year that celebrity and "celebrity" (Billy Mays? Jett Travolta?) death watching has become a morbid fad.

I've always thought 1977 to be the biggest year for celebrity deaths - Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Groucho AND Gummo Marx, Freddie Prinze and Elvis Presley - off the top of my head. Those are all legends.

Not that Altovise Davis and Betsey Blair won't be role models for generations to come or anything....

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 12:42PM
CMG says:

November 22, 1963 had JFK, Robert Frost, and Aldous Huxley.

Oh and I know you are not a sports aficionado Musto, but the murder of Steve McNair has absolutely dominated the sports headlines.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 12:52PM
cjay says:

I was so pleased to see that you mentioned Mollie Sugden on your list!!!!

Her pussy would be pleased, and I am unanimous in that!

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 1:16PM
GiorgioNYC says:

Who's Steve McNair? Any relation to Barbara?

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 1:16PM
miranda says:

and just think how Updike's dying was repeated by all those in Michael's list who have also been "up a dyke" !!!!

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 1:30PM
Paul says:

What about Harve Presnel? Karl Malden?

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 4:09PM
nostradavid says:

let Doris Day take your cares away ...

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 4:27PM
toyota says:

Karl Malden is on the list. But yeah, where's Harve Presnell from Unsinkable Molly Brown? I guess he was sinkable.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 8:53PM
CMG says:

Steve McNair former the former Most Valuable Player of the NFL. He played for the Tennessee Titans primarily and ran a business network back in Nashville where apparently his mistress shot him in some kind of Fatal Attraction ordeal, supposedly. He was just 36 and the father of 4 boys.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 9:08PM
Jonster says:

I have to admit I thought Gale Storm died years ago!

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 10:30PM
little edie says:

let me ask you this.....who can predict who will go next? i have a rotten feeling that it's gonna be somebody big, but i haven't a clue who.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jul. 7 2009 @ 11:59PM
Jonster says:

We shouldn't forget the luvverly ingenue from "Are You Being Served," Miss Brahms (Wendy Richard), who also passed away earlier in the year.

Posted On: Wednesday, Jul. 8 2009 @ 9:51AM

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