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NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD PEOPLE TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!

EARLIER IN THE WEEK, JOHNNY CARSON'S SIDEKICK, ED MC MAHON, DIED SUDDENLY AFTER MUCH SUFFERING.

24 HOURS LATER IN LOS ANGELES, we have lost both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.

EVEN IN A HUGE CITY LIKE LOS ANGELES WITH NO BOUNDARIES AND UNCONNECTED COMMUNITIES, WE WERE IN AFTER SHOCK AFTER ED MC MAHON DIED JUST A FEW DAYS AGO.

WE ARE STUNNED AND VERY SAD, NOW.

THESE THREE PEOPLE WERE ONCE YOUNG AND VIBRANT: ED MC MAHON MADE US LAUGH AND FARRAH FAWCETT'S BEAUTY TURNED OUR HEADS AND HER SUFFERING WITH CANCER WAS PERSONALLY DEVASTATING TO US AND MICHAEL JACKSON'S MUSIC/DANCING ON STAGE MADE OUR BODIES AND OUR LIPS MOVE AND ALSO MADE US QUESTION HOW THIS VERY YOUNG AND TALENTED CHILD COULD BE SO THOROUGHLY MANIPULATED AND DISTORTED BY THE DEMANDS OF HOLLYWOOD AND THE GREED OF HIS FATHER'S AMBITIONS...

TODAY, WE ARE LOOKING AT ONE ANOTHER AND ASKING EACH OTHER, "WHO IS NEXT?"

THEIR DEATHS AWAKEN THE REALIZATION OF OUR OWN MORTALITY.

Wayne Dennis Kurtz.

Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50

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By BROOKS BARNES

Published: June 25, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, the fallen King of Pop, is dead. The singer, songwriter and dancer whose career reached unprecedented peaks of sales and attention, died Thursday. He was 50.n)]

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A rare cancer claims the 1970s pinup beauty. First known for her looks and hairstyle, she captivated critics with 'The Burning Bed' and other serious roles. Later, she chronicled her illness.

By Valerie J. Nelson

June 26, 2009

Farrah Fawcett, who soared to fame as a national sex symbol in the late 1970s on television's campy "Charlie's Angels" and in a swimsuit poster that showcased her feathery mane and made her a generation's favorite pinup, died Thursday. She was 62.

Fawcett, whose celebrity overshadowed her ability as a serious actress, was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2006. She died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said Paul Bloch, her publicist.

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Three months after she was declared cancer-free in 2007, doctors at UCLA Medical Center told her the cancer had returned and spread to her liver, and she repeatedly sought experimental treatment in Germany.

Actor Ryan O'Neal, her longtime companion, called her cancer fight "long and brave" and said her family and friends took comfort in "the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world."

Kate Jackson called her "Charlie's Angels" costar "an inspiration" who "showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness."

"When I think of Farrah, I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile," Jackson said in a statement.

Another "Charlie's Angels" costar, Jaclyn Smith, said in a statement, "Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels."

As an actress, Fawcett was initially dismissed for her role as Jill Munroe in "Charlie's Angels," one of the "jiggle" series on ABC-TV in the late 1970s.

But she transformed her career and some popular perceptions in 1984 with "The Burning Bed," a television movie about a battered wife that brought her the first of three Emmy nominations. She further established herself as an actress in the play and later feature film “Extremities,” about a rape victim who takes revenge on her attacker.

Robert Greenwald, who directed "The Burning Bed," told The Times on Thursday, "She was incredibly gutsy, courageous and a risk-taker. She had this wonderful beauty, this very successful career and, unlike many people, she used it to open doors and take big chances."

Yet for many, the poster of her wearing a wet, one-piece swimsuit and a blinding smile endured.

"If you were to list 10 images that are evocative of American pop culture, Farrah Fawcett would be one of them," Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, told The Times. "That poster became one of the defining images of the 1970s."

Fawcett was part of a new generation of celebrities whose fame was fueled by heightened coverage of their ongoing personal dramas, Thompson said.

She had many: a failed marriage to actor Lee Majors; a stormy, long-term relationship with O'Neal; a son who fought drug addiction; a writer-director boyfriend, James Orr, who was convicted of assaulting her; a Playboy video that featured her using her naked body as a paintbrush; and a spacey 1997 appearance on David Letterman's late-night TV show that caused critics to question her mental state.

For her part, Fawcett once said all she had to do to get on the cover of People was to "have a new boyfriend or even a new dog," Texas Monthly reported in 1997.

At first, her mane nearly eclipsed her fame.

"Charlie's Angels" showcased the long, feathered tresses that framed her face, launching a national fad of copycat haircuts. Many Fawcettphiles believed the hair had as much to do with the poster's sales as anything, The Times reported in 1977.

Within six months, the poster sold five million copies, outstripping the records of such previous sex symbols as Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. It wound up selling a reported 12 million copies.

"You were a real man if you had her poster. She was our pinup girl," Mike O'Meara, a radio show host who was in high school when it came out, told the Baltimore Sun in 2006.

Fawcett quit the series that brought her initial fame in 1977 after a single season, saying producers were preventing her from growing as an actress. With Jackson and Smith, Fawcett had played a private investigator whose main talent seemed to be the ability to wield a gun while going braless and shouting, "Freeze, turkey!"

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