Two other missing women that were named
were Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.
One can immediately see the similarity between Polly
and Paula.
NOTES:
Sadly, I did not have the foresight to archive the 2000 series and deleted most of the files.
To see the 2001 series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 1 and then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 2. The summary appears on Archives 2.
To see the 2002 series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 3 and then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 4. The summary appears on Archives 4.
To see the 2003 series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 5 and Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 6 then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 7. The summary appears on Archives 7.
To see the 2004 series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 8 and Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 9 then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 10. The summary appears on Archives 10.
To see the 2005 series and summary, go first to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 11 and Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 12 then visit Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 13. The summary appears on Archives 13.
NOTE ABOUT BLUE ALERT SYSTEM (3/11/03): Some of you may recall a few years back when I used "name blends" -- rhyming sounds and off-rhyme clues from part of one name to determine what the next name in the sequence might be (or later in the year). An example was the death of Layne Stahley and how "Layne" led to "Lynne" then "Linda" and the car crash death of Linda Lovelace which followed. I surmised that "Lace" in "Lovelace" might lead to a "Leese" then "Lisa" tragedy. The next day, Lisa Lopes of TLC was killed in a car crash.
Rather than create a whole other section on this page for name blends, I will instead highlight certain names in the lists below in light blue that I feel may be influenced by celebrity deaths that have occurred this year.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON EXCLUSIONS (1/23/04): We acknowledge the passing of dancer and actress Ann Miller, age 81, and note with great regret the passing of Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), age 76. However, it is no longer the mission of this website to address the deaths of celebrities who are of advanced age or those who have had a long term health problem and are in their early elderly years. Such deaths are largely inevitable and often beyond any purposeful prediction. Also, the one and only applicable sound in Mr Keeshan's name ("eeeee") we now consider to be far too common to be remarkable or in any way useful for predictive purposes. Ergo, save for certain celebrities of advanced or elderly age who may appear on the prediction lists, we will no longer be publishing their obituaries and including comments.
It is, after all, premature death that we are most concerned about.
Prominent name sounds must also be present. "Ray", for example, is a prominent sound, "Ay", on the other hand, is not. This distinction will become more clear as we progress through the year.
The summary will remain on this page until the end of January 2007. Then it can be accessed on Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 14, where it will be located from then on.
UPDATE (1/4/07): I note with some amusement that I left the last summary, the one for 2005, on this page throughout 2006 instead of removing it at the end of January 2006. I also note that I failed to change "2005 Sounds" to "2006 Sounds" in the header below. Thus, all through 2006 the title was "2005 Sounds" (instead of "2006 Sounds"). I have finally made the correction, although it will hardly matter after a few days or so when this page is set up for 2007. Oh well, it might have been nice if someone had drawn my attention to these oversights during 2006.
2006 was the first year I have seen the number of female deaths and mishaps to be so much greater than the males. The ratio was 34:22. This is not counting celebrities who had more than one mishap. Counting every incident, the ratio of females to male would be 39:22. This does not include one mishap involving Lindsay Lohan I forgot to post at the start of the year (Lohan falling down a flight of stairs after emerging from a shower with slippery body lotion all over her) and the death theats Madonna was receiving from Russia over her crucifixion act (which occurred before I listed her name). That would bring the ratio to 41:22. And if not for certain other celebrities whose name sounds were not a match for any on this page, the ratio might well have reached 48:25.
What is more, this is the first year where the names I got right from the prediction lists were almost exclusively female. The one exception was the death of actor Jack Palance, the only male celebrity "death or mishap" I correctly anticipated ... and it was a death. The other two deaths I correctly projected were those of actresses Shelley Winters and June Allyson.
Despite a large number of correct "hits" (deaths and mishaps) on my part, most of these were "mishaps." The tragic deaths of 2006 that conformed to the name sounds, but not to a prediction list, were profoundly disturbing as was the case with the hanging murder of independent films actress Adrienne Shelly, the controversial hanging suicide of porn model and actress Angela Devi (it took seven months to confirm that she was actually dead and not just pretending), the chest-piercing death of Australian docu-celeb Steve Irwin, the terrifying plane crash death in a New York City skyscraper of Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, and the tragic sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel.
On the prediction pages for 2005 Part Three and 2006 Part Three, I predicted the circumstances of Angela Devi's and Adrienne Shelly's deaths almost to the letter. I also anticipated on the 2006 Part One page a shocking male death that would cause people to recall JFK Jr.'s fall from the sky: that ended up being Cory Lidle. I said a well-loved male star would die suddenly on the same prediction and it turned out to be Steve Irwin. I also warned there might be a total of four tragedies in 2006. Including Anna Nicole Smith's son, this was true (unless one considered Devi's death as tragic too, then it would be five).
Something else of interest regarding name sounds I actually worked out on the Second Home page and now appears on 2007 Part Two. I discovered a close match between all five of the victims of the Suffolk Strangler and the victims of Jack the Ripper! I actually predicted the Ipswich Ripper murders on the Second Home page on October 31 ... over a month before the first body was discovered.
The first Jack the Ripper victim, murdered in August 1888, was Martha Tabram (also known as Emma Turner, maiden name Martha White). Note the name sound match between her and the first Suffolk victim discovered, Gemma Adams: (Emma - Gemma for first names and Tabram - Adams for last).
More eerie, the second Ripper victim: Mary Ann Nichols, alias Mary Ann Walker, and nicknamed "Polly," murdered August 1888. Note striking comparison to the second Suffolk victim's name, Tania Nicol (Nichols - Nicol, almost the same llast name, and Ann and Tania).
It is frightening. The first two victims of this serial killer have nearly the same names as the first two Jack the Ripper victims.
Two other missing women that were named
were Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls.
One can immediately see the similarity between Polly
and Paula.
The Ripper's third victim, Annie Chapman, killed in September 1888, and Mary Ann Nichols again (August 1888), together, are a good match for Annette Nicholls (Annie - Annette are quite similaar first names, and again we have the repeat of the last name Nichols - Nicholls).
Mary Jane Kelly, murdered November 1888, has some dyslexic similarity with the name Clennell (Kelly - Clennell).
I would point out that the name sounds discussed above remain consistent in the case of Anneli Alderton. The third Jack the Ripper victim, Annie Chapman (aka Eliza Ann Smith, nicknamed "Dark Annie"), killed in September 1888, has a match (Annie - Anneli). Personally, I would not be surprised if this serial killer subconsciously selected his victims by name to nearly match the names of Jack the Ripper's victims and slaying them more or less in the same order as in 1888. He clearly dispatched his "Polly" (Paula Clennell).
It is true that this is gloomy and sad stuff. These women did not deserve what happened to them. Everyone who knew them thought the world of them and that they had to make a living on the streets was such a great misfortune.
I demonstrate the name sound principle here, however, because it shows how far and how diverse one can go with the theory. If Scotland Yard had read my piece upon finding the third victim (the initial post was made at that time), they might have saved Paula Clennell.
Now back to the world of the poor, spoiled celebrities ...
There wasn't much that could be done for most: health issues dominated. Many were already ill, unknown to us. Some did not learn, like Cameron Diaz, who managed to almost get into two car accidents or Lindsay Lohan whose air-headed nature got her into a series of troubles, one not posted was very bizarre.
There were more actresses committing suicide by hanging: Kuljeet Randhawa and Chiemi Kai didn't want to live anymore so they found refuge in ceiling fans and Aarti Agarwal ended up as a comatose vegetable. Clearly, when factoring in Angela Devi, the trend from last year got even stronger.
Devi was not the only porn star to make the news: Anna Hotop-Stout aka Anna Malle died in a car crash.
Male suicides were also visible: Soap actor Benjamin Hendrickson, Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead, and child actor Joe Pichler (whose body still has yet to be found).
The mass slaying of rocker Bryan Harvey and his entire family ushered in 2006 and 2006 almost ended with the fiery death of Evangeline Lilly (had she been in the home with her two friends when the inferno struck). Two other actresses whose names did not match the sounds on ths page also nearly died in a house fire, in one case, and in a hotel fire in the other.
Other female celebs stood in line to reveal to us how depressed they were, how potentially suicidal, how fearful of stalkers and paparazzi, and so forth. Marie Osmond remains in public denial over her drug overdose. Madonna climbed on a cross and played out her own version of the Passion Play, with herself as the object of reverence, then wondered why Rome excommunicated her and placed a divine malediction on her head, Germans wanted to arrest her, and Russians wanted to kill her.
As last year, I am encouraged with the results this year. Even more so, in fact. I may have made a record number of celebrity predictions. I continued to use less names in the prediction lists, and had an increasing number of correct results.
Without question, the main name sound influences of 2006 were Pier Angeli and Anthony Perkins, although actual influences were varied between the likes of John F Kennedy Jr, Pier Angeli, and someone not even mentioned on this page, actress Lois Hamilton. Lois Hamilton and Pier Angeli probably influenced all or nearly all of the female suicides that occurred in 2006.
What a year!
Again, after applying the system to the Ipswich prostitute murders, I feel the potential uses for it are beginning to blossom beyond the realm of celebrity. The clues were there in much greater abundance than in previous years, save 2005, and I did call an amazing number of mishaps and deaths dealing with those celebrities I am familiar with. But there were many who passed this way I had never heard of, but whose name sounds matched nevertheless.
On that note, I am more optimistic that this system can indeed be further refined. I will also be introducing some additional systems for 2007 hopefully.
I still need to hear about the popular young people I am overlooking because I am not familiar with them. After all, I am not in my 20s or even my 30s anymore.
Any celebrity events that occur, if any, until I have the new page set up, will be dealt with retroactively (if necessary).
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Dusty Springfield (d. 1999) - Dust, Tee, Spring, Ring, Feel, Field, eel |
Possible predictions (1/6/06): Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Springsteen, Molly Ringwald, Laura Harring, Laura Herring, Gloria Loring, Sally Field, Barbara Steele, Danielle Steel, Teena Marie, Tina Turner, Katie Couric, Christie McVie, Christina Applegate, Marty Balin, Martie Maguire, Justine Bateman, Connie Stevens, Dorinda Stevens, Stella Stevens, Steve Miner, Steve Winwood, Steve Buscemi, Nancy Stephens, Stephen Baldwin, Stephen Bishop, Stevie Wonder, Mary Steenburgen, Patti D'Arbanville, Patti Davis, Patti Loveless, Patti Smith, Patty Duke, David Faustino, Quentin Tarantino, Cheryl Tiegs. Additional predictions: (0/0/06):
Saturday, January 28, 2006; Posted: 1:45 p.m. EST (18:45 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California
(AP) -- Joaquin Phoenix's
car overturned on a canyon road and collided with another vehicle
after his brakes went out, but there were no reports of injury,
police said.
Phoenix, the 31-year-old star of the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," was driving eastbound above Sunset Strip about 2:50 p.m. when he realized his brakes were not working, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman. Phoenix lost control of his car, which overturned and hit another vehicle also headed eastbound, Lee said.
His publicist, Susan Patricola, said in a statement that Phoenix was wearing his seat belt and walked away from the scene after being helped out of his vehicle by a passer-by.
Earlier this month, Phoenix won a Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy for portraying country legend Cash.
Phoenix is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, which will be handed out Sunday. Patricola told Us Weekly magazine that he will be at the awards ceremony despite the car accident.
COMMENTS (2/1/06): Looks like the Phoenix rose from the ashes this time around. Too bad his porn star passenger below was not so lucky.
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Dana Plato (d. 1999) - Day, Anna, Ayna, Play, Lay, Toe |
Possible predictions (1/6/06): Tuesday Weld, Susan Day George, Susan Dey, Barbara Corday, Geena Davis, Sharon Stone, Dee Wallace-Stone, Tony Blair, Tony Curtis, Tony Orlando. Additional predictions: (9/9/06): Stone Phillips, Madonna. (9/17/06): David Clayton-Thomas.
January 27, 2006
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A retired porn star
still easing into a life outside the adult film business has died
in a car crash on a dangerous stretch of highway south of Las
Vegas.
Anna Hotop-Stout, 38, known to the adult film world as Anna Malle, died Wednesday after the car she was traveling in collided with a pickup truck while making a U-turn. She had not been wearing a seat belt, Nevada Highway Patrol officers said.
In her 15-year career, Hotop-Stout made more than 300 films, about one-third of them with her husband, retired porn actor Hank Armstrong.
She was born near Havana, Ill., raised in Fort Madison, Iowa, and began working in the porn industry in California in the early 1990s, Armstrong said Friday. Her first film "Here Comes Anna Malle" was released in 1994. One of her favorites was 1995's "Naked Desert," her husband said.
Hotop-Stout had retired from the film business a year ago and was working at a Bloomingdale's wedding registry in Las Vegas, Armstrong said. "She didn't want to be known as the old chick that had to work," he said. "She wanted a normal life again."
The Las Vegas resident was a passenger in a 2005 Dodge Stratus that was making a U-turn on state Route 160 when it turned into the path of a 1985 Chevrolet pickup truck, the Nevada Highway Patrol said. She was taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, where she died.
The accident occurred on 50-mile stretch of state Route 160 that runs to Pahrump. Also known as Blue Diamond Road, the mostly two-lane highway has been the scene of 11 accident-related deaths in the past six months.
Pahrump Valley Times
Februrary 1, 2006
A preliminary investigation into the traffic death of prolific adult movie star Anna Hotop-Stout indicates the Las Vegas resident was a passenger in a car that attempted to make a U-turn in traffic on Highway 160 between Rainbow Drive and Durango Street in Las Vegas.
The 38-year old Hotop-Stout was in a 2005 silver Dodge Stratus heading eastbound on Jan. 25 when the Dodge crossed the double yellow lines and entered into oncoming traffic directly in front of a 1986 Chevrolet utility pickup. The front of the pickup struck the right side of the Dodge.
Hotop-Stout, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was transported to University Medical Center where she died from injuries sustained in the crash.
According to
reports, Hotop-Stout retired from the adult film business a year
ago, after making more than 300 films in her 15-year career,
using the screen name Anna Malle. About a third of
her films featured her husband, retired porn actor Hank
Armstrong.
The Associated Press reported Hotop-Stout was working at a Bloomingdale's wedding registry in Las Vegas.
To date, the Southern Command of the Nevada Highway Patrol has investigated 11 fatal crashes in 2006. Trooper Kevin Honea reminds drivers that seatbelts save lives.
No information was available regarding the driver of the Dodge who made the U-turn or the medical status of the other driver.
COMMENTS (2/1/06): 'It's an ill whore who blows nobody good' ... or is that 'an ill wind'? I forgot, but it was a famous line ... by somebody famous.
Widow carried on activism after Christopher Reeve's death
Wednesday, March 8, 2006; Posted: 9:47 a.m. EST (14:47 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Dana Reeve, the
widow of the actor Christopher Reeve, has died of lung cancer at
age 44, according to the Christopher Reeve Foundation. In August,
less than a year after her husband's death, Dana Reeve -- a
lifelong nonsmoker -- announced she had cancer. She died Monday
night.
"We are all just so sad," foundation President Kathy Lewis said. Lewis said that she had visited Reeve on Friday and that she was "strong and gracious and courageous."
Reeve had succeeded her husband as the chairwoman of the foundation, which funds research for new treatments for spinal cord injuries and works to improve the quality of life for people suffering from paralysis. Christopher Reeve died in October 2004 at age 52 after falling into a coma. He had been paralyzed since a horseback riding accident in 1995. Reeve was widely admired for the support and love she showed for her husband and for her assistance in his care.
She also was a singer and an actress, appearing on stage and on television in episodes of several dramatic series, including "Oz" and "Law and Order." In January, she sang at the NHL retirement ceremony for Mark Messier's New York Rangers jersey at Madison Square Garden. "She sang beautifully. She looked lovely," said Kathie Lee Gifford, who interviewed Reeve at the event. "She was wearing a wig, of course. She had been through chemo and radiation. She was very thin, which you would expect for somebody going through what she was going through."
Gifford said she was surprised by the news because Reeve had seemed so healthy that night. "I was absolutely stunned because she told me that day that the tumor was shrinking and she was the picture of optimism that night," Gifford said.
Kate Michelman, a member of the foundation's board, remembered Reeve as "a great spirit.""The country suffers because Dana, on a personal level, was one of the most remarkable people I've ever known," Michelman said.
She said Reeve's health had seemed to improve, giving friends and loved ones hope that she might recover from the cancer. "She was improving. You know, her own spirit and her own determination to overcome this plague made us feel she could do it," Michelman said.
"She just recently learned that she was failing and right up [till] the end, I have to tell you, Dana was convinced she was going to overcome this." Michelman said Reeve's death is "a dreadful loss" but that the foundation will "move forward with Christopher and Dana's vision."
Dana and Christopher Reeve married in 1992 after a five-year relationship. The actor was famous for his role as Superman in four movies in the late 1970s and 1980s. He continued to act and direct films after his accident.
Christopher Reeve became a crusader to help find therapies and treatments for paralysis and was an outspoken supporter of stem-cell research. Dana Reeve was credited with carrying on his work through the foundation. "After Christopher's death, Dana was determined to preserve the important work and the legacy of hope that became his life's mission," Lewis said in a statement. "Even in our grief, the foundation must pick up and continue to go forward with this mission.
"At the same time, we commit ourselves to ensuring that the light of grace, courage and hopefulness that Dana embodied continues to shine bright -- bringing comfort and hope to people living with paralysis and their families and caregivers."
Less than two weeks after her husband's death, she made a public appearance to support the presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry.
"I've been grieving privately the past week and a half," she said at a rally in Ohio. "My inclination would be, frankly, to remain private for a good long while." But she added, "I'm here today because John Kerry, like Christopher Reeve, believes in keeping our hope alive."
Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, said Reeve helped generate support for a bill that would expand funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was passed by the House last year, defying President Bush's veto threat. "If it had not been for her, we would not have had the number of signatures on the stem cell bill that we had," Harkin said. "I'm absolutely convinced of that."
Reeve's experience had a special resonance for
Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican who has recently
battled cancer. "President Nixon declared war on cancer in
1970. Had we devoted the resources to that war which we devoted
to other wars, perhaps Dana Reeve's life could have been
saved," he said.
Reeve's efforts have had setbacks, with the Senate yet to act on the stem cell bill. And last month, Lewis said in a statement she was "deeply disappointed" that Bush's proposed budget eliminated funding for the foundation's Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center and other nonprofit groups.
Harkin, a personal friend, said he told Reeve's caregivers on Friday to pass along a promise. "Just whisper one thing in her ear for me. Tell her that we are going to put that money back. I guarantee it," he said.
She is survived by the couple's son, Will, 13; her father; two sisters; and two stepchildren, according to the foundation's statement. The foundation said it is accepting donations in her memory.
COMMENTS (3/16/06): I post this with both great regret and great reluctance. But the name sound was practically shouting out to be seen: "Dana." The problem is, I was never that familiar with Dana Reeve as I was, like millions, familiar with the star Christopher Reeve. Nevertheless, her death makes Christopher Reeve's death in 2004 seem all the more tragic and vice versa.
It is really hard to believe that medical science has been trying to find a cure for lung cancer ever since 1964. That's over forty years. Seems like almost every year we hear about a new breakthrough on the television ... then silence. What happened to all those breakthroughs? Did the government decide it was better to keep people dying from lung cancer than to have a cure?
Like the Reeves I am also an advocate for stem cell research. I received an especially angry email from one viewer for placing the late pope in a poor light in one of my VIEWPOINT articles for his stand against such research. This of course arrived after the pope died and during the period of mourning. The article was still on the website. Too bad. It is still on the website.
I felt sorry for the pope, but not sorry for voicing my opposition to his anti-life stand ... the same stand, I might add, that Pat Robertson also takes. Many diseases we resign ourselves to as being a death sentence or a life sentence in a useless or deteriorating body could be cured. Life spans themselves could be greatly lengthened.
With stem cell research being given top priority, not only might Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve still be among the living and doing what they did best, but so might a lot of other people. People, perhaps, in your family ... or mine.
Claydes Charles Smith co-wrote 'Celebration,' 'Jungle Boogie'
Friday, June 23, 2006
Posted: 1238 GMT (2038 HKT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Claydes Charles Smith, a co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 57.
Smith died Tuesday in Maplewood, New Jersey, after a long illness, his publicist said.
Kool & the Gang grew from jazz roots in the 1960s to become one of the major groups of the 1970s, blending jazz, funk, R&B and pop. After a downturn, the group enjoyed a return to stardom in the '80s.
Smith wrote the hits "Joanna" and "Take My Heart," and was a co-writer of others, including "Celebration," "Hollywood Swinging" and "Jungle Boogie."Smith was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s.
Later in that decade, he was in a group of New Jersey jazz musicians, including Ronald Bell (later Khalis Bayyan), Robert "Kool" Bell, George Brown, Dennis Thomas and Robert "Spike" Mickens, who became Kool & the Gang. Other members would include lead singer James "JT" Taylor.
Actor in hospital after one-car accident
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Posted: 1244 GMT (2044 HKT)
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, California (AP) -- Actor Haley Joel Osment was hospitalized early Thursday after he apparently lost control of his car while heading to his Los Angeles-area home, authorities said.
Osment, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a boy who could see dead people in "The Sixth Sense," was driving a 1995 Saturn about 1 a.m. when the car collided with a brick pillar and flipped, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Greg Sisneros.
The 18-year-old actor was awake and talking following the crash, Sisneros said. He had been alone in the car and was taken to Huntington Hospital in nearby Pasadena. Sisneros had no information on his condition, and an emergency-room receptionist said no one under that name was at the hospital.
Osment is set to appear in the upcoming "Home of the Giants." In the film, he plays a high school journalist covering a basketball team as it heads toward the state championship.
La Canada Flintridge, a suburb of Los Angeles, is about 14 miles northeast of downtown.
Lindsay Lohan
overcome by heat during LA movie shootThursday, July 27, 2006
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was overcome by the heat on a movie set and required hospital treatment, her publicist told The Insider on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old actress was taken by private car Tuesday to a Los Angeles-area hospital where she spent several hours being treated for overheating and dehydration, spokeswoman Leslie Sloan Zelnick told the syndicated entertainment show.
Lohan was filming in 41-degree C weather for 12 hours Tuesday, Zelnick said. The actress was given a vitamin B-12 shot and released.
Zelnick said Lohan will return Thursday to the set of Georgia Rule, which also stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman. Zelnick did not return telephone and e-mail messages.
The star of Freaky Friday and Herbie: Fully Loaded, Lohan was treated at hospitals twice in January - in London for a cut on her leg and in the Miami area for an asthma attack.
In 2005, she was in hospital for exhaustion and lost a noticeable amount of weight.
COMMENTS (8/4/06): What they forgot to mention was that her head was also trepanned to allow some of the air to escape.
© canada.com 2006
Published: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Young star Lindsay Lohan was found unconscious in a hotel room after overdosing on a deadly cocktail of cocaine and painkillers.
That’s that startling allegation in the new issue of the National Enquirer, which claims Lohan was rescued by a doctor after she overdosed on Nov. 12. The Enquirer reports that a friend of the 20-year-old actress found her unconscious in a “drug-filled” room at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood.
According to the tabloid, the physician who revived Lohan found “a stash of cocaine and a pile of prescription drugs” in the room. An Enquirer source claims the doctor allegedly flushed the cocaine down the toilet and collected seven different prescription drugs.
Lohan has been living for about a year at the Chateau Marmont. Last week, the Enquirer reported that she moved out after a dispute with management. Recent reports have also accused the star of self-mutilation after she was photographed with scrapes on her lower arms. Her publicist issued a denial, claiming Lohan “took a tumble into a bush.”
At the World Music Awards in London earlier this month, Lohan reportedly stumbled off stage, flubbed her lines and gave up her hosting duties before the show was over.
Lohan was hospitalized in 2004 for, according to her publicist, “an undiagnosed illness.” In January, the star spent time in the hospital after she reportedly suffered an asthma attack. In July, she was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment of “heat exhaustion.”
COMMENTS (12/5/06): It appears we now have three potential Dana Platos this year, although Marie Osmond's suicide bid is still debated and denied. Joe Pichler remains probably dead, but this may never be resolved. Now the tabloid-fueled speedballing OD of former child star and wild child Lindsay Lohan. Yet another CLOSE CALL.
POSTED: 1226 GMT (2026 HKT), September 18, 2006
TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) -- Teenage actor Pablo Santos, who
starred in the television series "Greetings from
Tucson," died in a small plane crash in central Mexico, a
hospital official said Saturday. He was 19.
Santos and six friends were flying from Monterrey to Acapulco on Friday when their Piper Malibu crashed during an emergency landing at the airport in Toluca, some 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of Mexico City, the Mexico State Security Agency said. The plane was owned by Santos' father. The crash also claimed the life of Santos' friend, 19-year-old Martel Fernandez, who died early Saturday at a hospital. Five others were hospitalized, said Irma Garcia, a spokeswoman for the Social Security Hospital where Santos was taken.
In an interview with the newspaper El Norte, survivor Diego Marcos said the plane had engine trouble near Toluca and began filling with smoke. "The motor coughed and then cut out ... and then we went straight down," he said.
"Everything was too fast."
After the crash, Marcos said, everyone was "covered in blood" and that Santos and Fernandez weren't moving. He said the plane was only supposed to carry six people, but that he and his friends convinced the pilot to take on an extra passenger.
Officials were investigating the cause of the accident.
Santos starred as the son of a Mexican-American family portrayed in "Greetings from Tucson," which ran on the WB network from 2002 to 2003. He had appeared in numerous episodes on other television programs, including "Boston Public," "Law & Order" and "American Family," as well as films such as "Sea of Dreams" and "Party Animalz."
Born in Monterrey, Santos moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 12.
Santos' father was traveling to Toluca to bring his son's body back to Monterrey. Burial plans were not announced.
NEW YORK, AP (November 7,
2006) -- Madonna is sporting a bruise on
her cheek after getting jostled by the paparazzi at Heathrow
airport over the weekend – while she was holding her
adoptive son, David, a source close to the singer tells PEOPLE.
"She had the baby in her arms when it happened," says the source. "When she landed in London, there was a lot of pushing and shoving. She was jostled around. She got hit in the paparazzi's commotion."
David, the 1-year-old she is in the process of adopting from Malawi, was not hurt in the scuffle. "Thank God the baby is OK," says the source.
Over the weekend Madonna returned to London from New York, where she'd spent the week promoting her newest children's book, Too Good to Be True, and her upcoming NBC TV special "Madonna: The Confessions Tour Live from London," as well making several media appearances to respond the controversy surrounding David's adoption.
COMMENTS (11/11/06): Madonna is named in the prediction list above.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. (d. 1999) - John, F., Ken, Dee, Jr. |
Possible predictions (1/6/06): John Aniston, John Cleese, John Cusack, John Davidson, John Carpenter, John Elway, John Fogerty, John Goodman, John Hurt, John Kassir, John Landis, John Lithgow, John Malkovich, John McEnroe, John Stamos, John Travolta, Johnny Crawford, Johnny Depp, Johnny Mathis, Elton John, Jill St John, Olivia Newton-John, Artie Johnson, Don Johnson, Magic Johnson, Ted Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Patsy Kensit, Eddie Kendricks, Gisele MacKenzie, Ken Russell, Mackenzie Astin, Mackenzie Phillips, Woody Allen, Billy Dee Williams, Cat Deeley, David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy. Additional predictions: (0/0/06):
Heatwave founder Johnnie Wilder Jr. dead at 56
Band scored 1976's 'Always and Forever,' 'Boogie Nights'
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Posted: 1116 GMT
(1916 HKT)
CLAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Johnnie Wilder Jr., the soulful lead singer of the R&B band Heatwave who continued singing after being paralyzed in a car accident, died Saturday, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 56.
Wilder founded Heatwave, which produced "Always and Forever" and other hits, with his brother, Keith Wilder. The band was nominated twice for Grammys.
In 1976, the group soared to the top of the R&B and pop charts with "Boogie Nights" and "Always and Forever," among other hits off the "Too Hot To Handle" album.
In February 1979, a van struck Wilder's car, paralyzing him from the neck down and hospitalizing him for a year. He went on to record other albums with the group and later began a gospel career, singing a cappella on the albums "My Goal" and "One More Day."
Sep 2, 8:50 AM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ellen DeGeneres walked
away from a three-vehicle collision caused by a suspected drunken
driver, police said. "She had a little neck and back pain,
but it doesn't look like it was anything serious," said Sgt.
Ken Buscarino of the Los Angeles police said after Friday's
accident.
The collision occurred just before 4 p.m. on Sunset Boulevard, Buscarino said. The talk-show host stopped her 2006 Porsche Carrera at a light, followed by a 2002 Buick Le Sabre with two men in their 20s.
A 2002 Porsche Carrera driven by a 52-year-old woman slammed into the back of the Buick and caused a chain reaction, police said.
The woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and had minor cuts on her leg, police said. The two men in the Buick suffered scratches.
DeGeneres' passenger, a woman in her mid-30s, complained of minor back pain. DeGeneres' car sustained moderate damage. No one required medical attention at the scene, Buscarino said. Messages left for DeGeneres' representatives early Saturday were not returned.
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Anthony Perkins (d. 1992) - Ann, Thon, Nee, Per, Kin |
Possible predictions (1/6/06): Anthony Hopkins, Andy Griffith, Andy Williams, Anne Rice, Annie Potts, Anna Nicole Smith, Brandy, Randy Quaid, Randy Travis, Sandy Duncan, Sandahl Bergman, Sue Ane Langdon, Anna Kournikova, Diahann Carroll, Diane Ladd, Diane Lane, Diane Keaton, Diane Sawyer, Diane McBain, Ivana Trump, Joanna Cassidy, Susannah York, Suzanne Somers, Suzanne Vega, Vanna White, Lance Bass, Dyan Cannon, Jackie Chan, Rue McClanahan, Jack Palance, Susan Sarandon, Jackie Shannon, LeAnn Rimes, Rosanna Arquette, Joanna Pettet, Suzanne Pleshette, Chandra West, Carrie-Anne Moss, Barbara Anne Klein, Lesley-Anne Down, Lesley Ann Warren, Mary Ann Mobley, Marianne Faithful, Joanne Worley, Carlos Santana, Neil Diamond, Minnie Driver, Britney Spears, Bonnie Raitt, Courtney Love, Liam Neeson, Valerie Perrine, Alice Cooper. Additional predictions: (4/11/06): Whitney Houston. (9/17/06): Nicole Kidman.
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 Posted: 1519 GMT (2319 HKT)
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Gene Pitney, the singer and
songwriter known for 1960s hits such as "Town Without
Pity" and "24 Hours from Tulsa," has died while on
a UK concert tour, his agent said. Pitney, 65, was found dead
just after 10 a.m. Wednesday (0500 ET) at the Hilton Hotel in
Cardiff, Wales.
His agent, Jene Levy, told Reuters Pitney died on Wednesday morning after given a concert in the Welsh capital the previous day.
There was no immediate word on the cause of death. Friends said he was in apparent good health and his death came as a shock. "We don't have a cause of death at the moment but looks like it was a very peaceful passing," said Pitney's tour manager, James Kelly, according to The Associated Press. "He was found fully clothed, on his back, as if he had gone for a lie down. It looks as if there was no pain whatsoever."
South Wales police said they had been called to a hotel at 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday morning and that the death was not being treated as suspicious. Pitney was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 17, 1941.
His 40-year career included hits such as "It Hurts to Be in Love," "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance," "Every Breath I Take," "Town Without Pity," "Only Love Can Break a Heart" and the operatic "I'm Gonna Be Strong." His last U.S. hit was "She's a Heartbreaker" in 1968.
Pitney was also a highly regarded songwriter -- he wrote the Crystals' No. 1 hit, "He's a Rebel," Rick Nelson's smash "Hello Mary Lou" and Bobby Vee's "Rubber Ball." Some of his own hits, though -- "Only Love," "Liberty Valance" and "Tulsa" -- were written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
He was an early subject of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound -- Spector produced Pitney's version of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Every Breath I Take" as well as the Crystals' "He's a Rebel" -- and an early supporter of British bands such as the Rolling Stones.
Pitney recorded Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday" and attended the session at which the Stones recorded "Not Fade Away," according to Allmusic.com.
Pitney was introduced to a new generation of fans in 1989 when he recorded "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart" as a duet with Marc Almond, the UK's Press Association reported. The single gave Pitney his first UK No. 1 -- 22 years after its first release, PA added.
In 2002 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Pitney's agent told Reuters that his wife, Lynne, had been told of his death. Pitney also leaves three sons, David, Todd and Chris.
COMMENTS (4/11/06): I was quite saddened when I read about this. It would seem from the report that he wasn't expecting to die and never knew what happened. It makes one a bit afraid to go to sleep though, doesn't it?
One thing about the name Gene Pitney is that appears to foreshadow what will be a prominent name sound next year in 2007: "Gene," "Jean," or "Gina" (which is why I have highlighted "Gene" in red). This could mean trouble for certain actresses and models named (and unnamed) that are linked to that sound, discussed on my Actress or Supermodel Tragedy prediction on page 2007.
The Himalayan Times
May 1, 2006
Outspoken Hollywood star Susan Sarandon is terrified and lonely
after receiving a string of horrifying death threats.
The actress, who has been a political activist for years, has been branded an '(Osama) Bin Laden lover' by press and public alike after declaring her opposition to the war in Iraq.
She has also slammed President George W. Bush as irresponsible for using the 9/11 terror attacks to justify his Middle East conflict.
And the reaction to her views has been so fierce at times, it has left the Dead Man Walking star hurt and afraid.
She says, "I don't think that I ever thought someone would ever really kill me, although there were some people who said 'I'd like someone to knock her off' on the radio and stuff like that.
"And I don't think that I thought that I'd really never work again, but when there is nobody else, when you look out on the field and everybody is quiet and they're all looking away and nobody's saying anything, it's a really scary place to be."
COMMENTS (5/3/06): Susan Sarandon is named in the prediction list above.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Posted: 1233 GMT (2033 HKT)
LOS ANGELES, California
(AP) -- LeAnn
Rimes canceled three concerts this week because she is
to undergo surgery for a leg infection, her publicist said
Monday.
The 23-year-old country singer is scheduled for surgery Tuesday in Los Angeles. She suffered a "tear in the tissue" of one of her legs, according to a statement from publicist Diana Baron. "It's a minor surgery, but because of the infection it was urgent that she takes care of it right away," Baron said.
Rimes canceled Thursday's scheduled performance in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and Friday and Saturday concerts in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. She was expected to play the remaining dates of her "This Woman" tour after a three- to four-day recovery, Baron said.
Rimes is best known for the hit songs "How Do I Live" and "Can't Fight the Moonlight." She won two Grammy awards in 1996 for best new artist and best female country vocal performance for the song "Blue."
COMMENTS (6/20/06): LeAnn Rimes is named in the prediction list above.
Tonight & Independent Online
June 26, 2006
Dannii Minogue was left desperately gasping for breath after being strangled by a python. The deadly snake was co-starring with the beautiful Australian singer in the video for her latest single So Under Pressure.
Dannii wanted to make her most sensual promo to date and thought that having a python wrapped seductively around her would send pulses racing.
Dannii said: "The python was on its best behaviour for most of the shoot and was curling around me beautifully. Everyone was thrilled.
"But then things started getting out of hand. It constricted itself really tightly around my waist and I couldn't breathe.
"I started gesticulating wildly to the director to let him know I was in trouble but he thought I was just moving around more passionately."
Luckily, the python released his grip and stopped putting Dannii under pressure. The python used by Dannii was the most unusual white one.
Dannii said: "We went deliberated about what colour snake we should have for a long time. I thought a white one would match the outfits I wore best."
Agent Says Cancer
Caught Early
TurnTo10
POSTED: 11:35 am EDT August 14, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- Actress Suzanne Pleshette is undergoing treatment for lung cancer.
Pleshette's agent, Joel Dean, said the cancer, discovered during a routine X-ray, is the size of "a grain of sand and was caught very much in time." Dean said Pleshette "feels very lucky ... She's not concerned and in great spirits."
He said Pleshette is receiving chemotherapy as an outpatient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The actress is best known for her role in "The Bob Newhart Show," the 1970s Newhart comedy in which she played his sardonic wife, Emily.
Pleshette's extensive television credits include "Eight Simple Rules" and "Will and Grace." Her voice also has been heard in "Spirited Away" and other recent animated films.
Pleshette is married to actor Tom Poston.
COMMENTS (8/15/06): Suzanne Pleshette is named in the prediction list above.
POSTED: 2057 GMT (0457 HKT), September 4, 2006
SYDNEY, Australia (CNN)
-- Steve Irwin, the enthusiastic
"Crocodile Hunter" who enthralled audiences around the
world with his wildlife adventures, died Monday morning after
being stung by a stingray while shooting a TV program off
Australia's north coast.
Media reports say Irwin was snorkeling at Batt Reef, a part of the Great Barrier Reef about 9 miles (about 15 kilometers) from the town of Port Douglas, when the incident happened.
Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray barb that pierced his chest, according to Cairns police sources.
Irwin was in the area to film pieces for a show called "The Ocean's Deadliest" with Philippe Cousteau, grandson of Jacques, according to Irwin's manager and friend John Stainton. But weather had prevented the crew from doing work for that program, Stainton said, so Irwin decided to do some softer features for a new children's TV show he was doing with his daughter, Bindi.
"He came over the top of a stingray that was buried in the sand, and the barb came up and hit him in the chest," Stainton said.
Wildlife documentary maker Ben Cropp, citing a colleague who saw footage of the attack, told Time.com that Irwin had accidentally boxed the animal in. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest," said Cropp. "It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger."
Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality Monday morning off Port Douglas, according to Australian media. Queensland Police Services also confirmed Irwin's death and said his family had been notified.
Irwin was director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland. He is survived by his American-born wife, Terri, and their two children, Bindi Sue, born 1998, and Robert (Bob), born December 2003. "The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns, according to The Associated Press. "He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, 'Crocs Rule!' "
"Steve was a larger-than-life force. He brought joy and learning about the natural world to millions and millions of people across the globe," said Discovery Communications founder and chairman John Hendricks in a statement. "We extend our thoughts and prayers to Terri, Bindi and Bob Irwin as well as to the incredible staff and many friends Steve leaves behind."
Irwin's "Crocodile Hunter" show aired on the company's Animal Planet network.
Cousteau's office issued a statement that he is "still in Australia with the family of his friend, Steve Irwin. It was a tragic ordeal for everyone on the boat that morning. All of our thoughts are now with Steve's family."
Discovery Communications said it will rename the garden space in front of Discovery's world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, the "Steve Irwin Memorial Sensory Garden. "The company also is looking at the creation of a Steve Irwin Crocodile Hunter Fund. The fund will support wildlife protection, education and conservation, as well as aid Irwin's Australia Zoo and provide educational support for Bindi and Bob Irwin, the company said.
Australia Prime Minister John Howard said he was "shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, untimely and freakish death," according to AP. "It's a huge loss to Australia."
Irwin became a popular figure on Australian and international television through Irwin's close handling of wildlife, most notably the capture and relocation of crocodiles.
Irwin's enthusiastic approach to nature conservation and the environment won him a global following. He was known for his exuberance and use of the catch phrase "Crikey!"
"His message is really about conservation: He really wants to leave the world a better place for everybody," Animal Planet's Maureen Smith told CNN.com in April.
"It's unbelievable, really," Jack Hanna, the host of "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventure" and director emeritus of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo, told CNN. "You think about Steve Irwin and you think of people who are invincible."
Hanna, a friend of Irwin's, noted that Irwin's persona of the Crocodile Hunter was no act. Irwin grew up around crocodiles, snakes and other animals at his parents' Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park and had been handling such creatures since he was a child.
"Steve really knew what he was doing. He was one of the finest reptile people in the world. He knew more about reptiles than anybody did. He was raised that way," said Hanna.
Though stingrays can be threatening, their sting -- usually prompted by self-defense -- is not often fatal. The bull ray that apparently stung Irwin was "a one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Time.com. "I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that to me."
"A wild animal is like a loaded gun -- it can go off at any time," Hanna said. "You have to be careful of that." But, he added, it's not the animals who are inherently dangerous, but the way they may react around humans. "People use the word 'dangerous,' and that sometimes is a word that's not fair to that animal, because that animal is only using the defenses that God gave it," said Hanna ...
COMMENTS (9/8/06): The passing of Steve Irwin has shocked millions of fans across the world. Indeed, I can't say I have seen quite this much reaction to anyone's death since Christopher Reeve died two years ago. Internet websites are being literally clogged with queries regarding Irwin, his career, and his unfortunate and untimely demise.
There is no question now in my mind that he was the famous male celebrity whose sudden death would come around July 2006 (see prediction on page 2006 (Part One). Even so, there remains a possibility that, like 1997, there could be an even larger shock to come.
POSTED: 2218 GMT (0618 HKT), September 11, 2006
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) --
The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died while visiting his
mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former
Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police
official said Monday.
Daniel Wayne Smith was visiting his mother in her room at Doctors Hospital in Nassau when he died Sunday, Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, told The Associated Press. He said an autopsy was under way.
Smith arrived Saturday night in the Bahamas, and apparently went directly to the hospital where he spent the night in his mother's room, Ferguson said. "It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep," he said. "She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive, and she sounded the alarm."
Medical personnel arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, Ferguson said.
Anna Nicole Smith, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce girl at the hospital Thursday, her Web site said.
"Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being," a statement on the site said.
It said that drugs or alcohol were not believed to
be a factor.
Her son had traveled to the Caribbean country "to share in the joy of his baby sister," the statement said. "Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace."
Daniel Smith was the product of Smith's 1985 marriage to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, divorced in 1987. Daniel Smith had small roles in his mother's movies "Skyscraper" and "To the Limit."
Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for Trimspa, the diet products company that has been endorsed by Smith, said she did not know the name of the baby girl's father.
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year.
She then feuded with Marshall's son, Pierce Marshall, over her entitlement to the tycoon's estate before he died in June at the age of 67.
In the long-running dispute, Smith had won a $474 million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million and eventually reduced to zero. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Smith could continue to pursue the fortune in federal courts in California despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir.
COMMENTS (9/13/06): Although I haven't been a big Anna Nicole Smith fan, I have to say that this is a terrible thing to happen to her .. and to a son so young. I truly feel sorry for her and can't help noting that her name was just recently coded blue in the above list. I don't think that anyone could have specifically foreseen so bizarre an event involving her. Then I re-evaluated the situation.
In 2004, the year that a blonde female celebrity was likely to die tragically (like Diana, Sharon Tate, Marilyn Monroe, etc), and despite a number of close calls involving blonde actresses and singers, it ended up being a rarer male celebrity tragedy year (like James Dean in 1955 or Sal Mineo in 1976) with the unexpected death of actor Christopher Reeve. It was indeed tragic because Reeve had made much progress since 2002 and, it was widely believed, would continue to champion the cause of brain stem cell research until it was legalised and then applied to his case, likely quickly facilitating the remainder of his recovery.
During the middle of that year, Anna Nicole Smith was added at the bottom of a short list of famous blondes I believed were in danger. I now note that the Jayne Mansfield scenario comes up again in June 2009 (the last time was in 2002 and I had applied it to Madonna or Pamela Anderson). I had passed over Anna Nicole as a potential candidate in 2002 because she was so overweight and her career seemed to be bogged down in court litigation and going nowhere. However, after she slimmed down, I realised that she had the potential of becoming a modern version of the 1960s Jayne Mansfield. Indeed, similarities in character and behaviour abound.
Now comes the distressing
event that has just occurred: the death of her son. She is the
only famous blonde actress and model in our time
to experience such a traumatic experience. The last time anything
like this occurred was in November 1966. It was
at that time that Jayne Mansfield's son, Zoltan Hargitay, was
almost mauled to death by a lion. He was in a coma and later
recovered, but it took a long time.
This is a circumstantial comparison, since the proper base 7 dating for a similar occurrence should have been November 2008 and not September 2006. Still, Anna Nicole's traumatic loss of her only son is the closest thing to this event and it now becomes a part of her overwhelmingly sad profile.
I also find it more than a coincidence that on the very day that Madonna, another kindred spirit of Jayne Mansfield's, entered Moscow and became a target for Russian mafia which had recently made death threats against her, that Anna Nicole instead suffered such a devastating loss. I had been warning of the incredible danger awaiting Madonna in September 2006 simply because, one month after the Israeli air and ground campaign in Lebanon ended, she was in the same exact base 7 position as was John F Kennedy Jr in July 1999, one month after the war in Kosovo ended. It is almost as though all the negative energy surrounding Madonna because of her blasphemous crucifixion perfomances suddenly got re-channeled from her and zeroed in on poor Anna Nicole and her son. Even so, despite surviving her first Russian concert, Madonna, whore of Babylon that she is, remains in danger through December (thanks to the adjacent base 7 influence of Thelma Todd).
Because of the death of her only son, Daniel, now I am concerned about another potential tragedy on the horizon: Anna Nicole Smith, now more like Jayne Mansfield than any other female celebrity, becoming involved in a deadly car crash in June 2009. I hope it will not happen.
ninemsn
Thursday
November 2, 2006
Ex-Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith is recovering from pneumonia and a collapsed lung, her lawyer lover Howard Stern has revealed. Smith, 38, was rushed to the The Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas on Monday in severe pain to undergo emergency surgery.
The medical centre is the same one in which baby daughter Danielynn was born and 20-year-old son Daniel died less than two months ago.
In an e-mail to US TV shows The Insider and Entertainment Tonight, Stern said Smith was on antibiotics, but still in a great deal of discomfort.
He explained how the former playmate was rushed to hospital on Monday with fluid in the lower lobe of her right lung, which had caused it to partially collapse. Stern said Smith began feeling pains in the right side of her chest and back.Smith underwent surgery to drain her lung and a CT scab revealed she was also suffering pneumonia.
She was later released with a dose of antibiotics. "We are hoping for a quick recovery," Stern's e-mail added.
Smith gave birth to daughter Danielynn in The Doctors Hospital on September 7 this year. But just three days later 20-year-old son Daniel died suddenly while visiting his mother and new baby sister. He was buried on Nassau Island on October 19. Smith has remained in hiding for the last two months, looking after Danielynn and mourning the loss of her son.
After Danielynn's birth, photographer Larry Birkhead announced he was the father and claimed Smith had fled to the Bahamas to make it more difficult for him to get paternity rights. But in an interview with CNN's Larry King, the new mum's long-term personal lawyer Howard K. Stern came forward to announce he loved Smith and was in fact the baby's dad.
On September 28, Smith and Stern exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony, but, still insisting he is the father, Birkhead went on to file a lawsuit to challenge paternity.
Authorities in the Bahamas are currently debating whether the former model is a legal resident of the paradise islands. If she is thrown out of the country she may have to face Birkhead's challenge in court.
COMMENTS (11/6/06): Again, Anna Nicole Smith is named in the prediction list above. This is her second serious mishap.
POSTED: 1213 GMT (2013 HKT), September 14, 2006
LONDON, England (Reuters)
-- British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has been diagnosed with
breast cancer but expects to make a full recovery, her publicist
said. Doctors in France who diagnosed the disease said the cancer
was in its earliest stages.
The 59-year-old Faithfull, a former girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, has postponed a world tour that she was due to start next month.
The singer with the distinctive gravelly voice said in a statement: "I have absolute faith and confidence in my fantastic medical team and of course I will be well again, if not better than ever. "Next year's tour, I want to assure fans, will be one big celebration," she added.
Her spokesman Rob Partridge said: "The disease has been quickly discovered by doctors in France -- where Marianne stays when not at home in Ireland -- and the prognosis for a return to full health is excellent. "Indeed, Marianne Faithfull is looking forward to playing the re-scheduled tour in 2007."
COMMENTS (9/17/06): Marianne Faithfull is named in the prediction list above. It is misspelled as "Faithful", missing the second "l."
POSTED: 0322 GMT (1122 HKT), November 10, 2006
LOS ANGELES, California
(CNN) -- Actor Jack Palance, who won an Oscar with
his comedic self-parody in 1991's "City Slickers," died
Friday. He was 87, said spokesman Dick Guttman, and died of
natural causes in his home in Montecito, California, surrounded
by his family.
Known for hard, grizzled roles in numerous Westerns during his six-decade career, Palance gained a second wind of fame when he won the best supporting actor Oscar for playing Curly in "City Slickers."
The actor clutched his Oscar in one hand and dropped to the ground for a round of vigorous one-handed push-ups. The Academy Awards crowd laughed and applauded as he said, "That's nothing, really. As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn't make a difference whether she's there or not." It was a magic moment that epitomized the actor's 40 years in films.
Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles. "Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too. "Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic," he said.
Palance was born Vladimir Palaniuk in Pennsylvania. His family was Ukrainian and his father was a coal miner. He was a professional heavyweight boxer in the early 1940s, but his career in the ring was halted by a stint in the military. Palance was wounded in World War II and received a Purple Heart.
His acting break came after the war as Marlon Brando's understudy in "Streetcar Named Desire." He replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski, a working class construction worker with a fierce temper in Tennessee Williams' classic play.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Brando asked the actor if he would work with him on a punching bag but wound up with a sore nose when Palance missed the bag and hit the superstar. Palance's portrayal of Kowalski earned him a contract with 20th Century Fox, the IMDB says.
He went on to positive reviews in a film career that included "Young Guns" in 1988 and "Batman" in 1989. Palance also made guest appearances on numerous television shows, such as "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," "Playhouse 90" and "Your Show of Shows."
Palance was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 after portraying the ardent lover who stalks a terrified Joan Crawford in "Sudden Fear." In 1953, the Academy nominated him again for his role as Jack Wilson, the swaggering gunslinger who bullies peace-loving Alan Ladd into a barroom duel in the Western classic "Shane."
Palance also won an Emmy Award, for a role on "Playhouse 90," in 1957. He is survived by his wife, Elaine Rogers; two children by his first wife, Holly Palance and Brook Palance Wilding; his brother, John; sister, Anne Despiva; and three grandchildren.
COMMENTS (11/11/06): Jack Palance is named in the prediction list above.
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Rock Hudson (d. 1985) - Rock, Ock, Hud, Ud, Son |
Possible predictions (1/6/06): Ernie Hudson, Kate Hudson, Dean Stockwell, Sondra Locke, Oakley Stevenson, Kadeem Hardison, Laurie Anderson, Emily Robinson, June Allyson, Loni Anderson, Gillian Anderson, Lynn Anderson, Linda Harrison, Ted Danson, Richard Dawson, Mel Gibson, Kate Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Reggie Jackson, Elle Macpherson, Florence Henderson, Jackie Mason, Lisa Nicole Carson, Tim Matheson, Jack Nicholson, Emma Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bronson Pinchot, Alison Krauss, Allison Parks, Harrison Ford, Jackson Browne, Jason Alexander, Jason Hervey, Jason Patric, Jason Priestley, Orson Bean, Wilson Cruz. Additional predictions: (0/0/06):
By Leila Cobo
Reuters
Friday, March 31, 2006; 9:03 PM
MIAMI (Billboard) - The
passing of Rocio Durcal, the
grand dame of Latin pop and Mexican song, is among the first
deaths in a generation of singers who defined a golden,
international era in Latin music. Durcal died March 25 in her
home city of Madrid. She was 61.
Durcal's signature, throaty rasp straddled multiple genres and social classes. The singer's career spanned more than 40 years and 30 albums, with sales topping the 30 million mark, according to her label, Sony BMG.
Although Durcal's popularity peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, she remained a consistent seller -- even after she dropped out of the spotlight in the past year due to her struggle with cancer. Indeed, her last release, the greatest-hits album "Amor Eterno, Los Exitos," peaked at No. 8 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart in February.
Durcal was born in Spain and had success as a musical actress and ballad singer before trying her luck in Mexico in 1977. There, she radically switched styles, recording an album of rancheras by a then new composer named Juan Gabriel. His songs proved the perfect complement for her voice, and Durcal's renditions of tracks like "Tarde" and "Jamas me Cansare de Ti" became radio hits throughout Latin America, the United States and Spain.
Durcal would subsequently record music by top composers, including Rafael Perez Botija (who wrote her signature "La Gata Bajo la Lluvia"), Marco Antonio Solis, Bebu Silvetti and Roberto Livi, alternating between international pop and Mexican rancheras and garnering equal levels of success in both.
"She had a timeless, classic sound," says Kevin Lawrie, Sony BMG's president for the Latin region. "Being a Spaniard who embraced mariachi music and recorded with many of the biggest all-time Mexican stars puts her in a unique place in the hearts of Latin-Americans."
Durcal's string of early hits came at a time when a slew of artists, including Raphael, Jose Jose, Rocio Jurado and Juan Gabriel himself found pan-regional success. As with many of these singers, Durcal's acclaim and popularity carried on. During her career she performed alongside stars such as Julio Iglesias, Joan Manuel Serrat, Luis Miguel, Ricky Martin and Alejandro Sanz.
"Today is the beginning of the story, the legend of Rocio Durcal," Juan Gabriel said in a statement. "Thank you for having sung and recorded so many songs that I wrote for you with so much love."
Durcal is survived by her husband, Antonio Morales; three children, Carmen, Antonio and Shaila de los Angeles; and one grandchild.
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Posted: 1221 GMT (2021 HKT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ashley Judd says she spent 47 days
in a Texas treatment facility for depression and other emotional
problems, in an interview in Glamour magazine.
"I needed help," the 38-year-old actress tells the magazine in its August issue. "I was in so much pain."
Judd, the daughter of country music star Naomi Judd, says she entered the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap in February for "codependence in my relationships; depression, blaming, raging, numbing, denying and minimizing my feelings."
"But because my addictions were behavioral, not chemical, I wouldn't have known to seek treatment. At Shades of Hope, my behaviors were treated like addictions. And those behaviors were killing me spiritually, the same as someone who is sitting on a corner with a bottle in a brown paper bag."
Judd says she was visiting her sister, singer Wynonna Judd, who was being treated for food addictions. "When (the counselors) approached me about treatment, they said, 'No one ever does an intervention on people like you. You look too good; you're too smart and together. But you (and Wynonna) come from the same family -- so you come from the same wound.' No one had ever validated my pain before. It was so profound," she says.
Judd says her childhood was a time of "complete and total chaos." She attended 13 schools in 12 years and lived alternately with her mother, grandmother and father. As a result, Judd says, she became "a hypervigilant child," striving to be perfect.
"A wonderful pastor once told me, 'Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse,"' she tells the magazine. "So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period."
Judd says her relationships, including her marriage to race-car driver Dario Franchitti, have improved. "It's so simple really: I was unhappy and now I'm happy," she says. "Now, even when I'm having a rough day, it's better than my best day before treatment."
Judd starred in 2002's "Frida" and 2004's "De-Lovely." Her upcoming films include "Bug," directed by William Friedkin and co-starring Harry Connick Jr.
COMMENTS (7/6/06): And isn't she just De-Lovely? Amazing how quickly rehab works. As can be seen from the above photo, Ashley is feeling much better now ... as long as her steady supply of Ecstasy remains uninterrupted, that is. Which brings to mind a story I once read regarding a certain nursery nurse discovered in a somewhat "elevated" state in a children's playground one late afternoon in winter ...
Monday, July 10, 2006 Posted: 2224 GMT (0624 HKT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- June Allyson, the sunny on-screen
"perfect wife" of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other
movie leading men, has died, her daughter, Pamela Allyson Powell,
said Monday. She was 88.
Allyson died Saturday at her home in Ojai, with her husband of nearly 30 years, David Ashrow, at her side, Powell said in a telephone interview. She died of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness, Powell said.
With typical wonderment, Allyson expressed surprise in a 1986 interview that she had ever become a movie star: "I have big teeth. I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse," she said. "But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they'd take me home to meet Mom."
During World War II, American GIs pinned up photos of Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable, but June Allyson was the girl they wanted to come home to. Petite and blonde with fresh-faced optimism, she had the image of an ideal sweetheart and wife.
"I had the most wonderful last meeting with June at her house in Ojai. We had gotten lost in the car. She told me: 'I could wait for you forever,'" lifelong friend Esther Williams said. "We were such dear friends. I will miss her."
Allyson's real life belied the sunshiny image she presented in films of the '40s and '50s. As she revealed in her 1982 autobiography, she had an alcoholic father and was raised by a single mother in the Bronx. Her "ideal marriage" to actor-director Dick Powell was beset with frustrations. After Powell's cancer death in 1963, she battled breakdowns, alcoholism and a disastrous second marriage. She credited her recovery to Ashrow, her third husband, a pediatric dentist who became a nutrition expert.
Childhood accident
Born Eleanor Geisman in the Bronx on October 7, 1917, she was raised mostly by her mother. Ella was 6 when her alcoholic father left. Her mother worked as a telephone operator and restaurant cashier. At 8, a dead tree branch fell on her while she was bicycling.
Several bones were broken, and doctors said she would never walk again. She underwent months of swimming exercises and regained her health. "After the accident and the extensive therapy, we were desperate," Allyson wrote in her autobiography. "Sometimes Mother would not eat dinner, and I'd ask her why. She would say she wasn't hungry, but later I realized there was only enough food for one."
Broadway and beyond
After graduating from a wheelchair to
crutches to braces, Ella was inspired by Ginger Rogers' dancing
with Fred Astaire. Fully recovered, she tried out for a chorus
job in the Broadway show "Sing out the News." The
choreographer gave her a job and a new name: Allyson, a family
name, and June, for the month.
As June Allyson, she danced on stage in "Very Warm for May" and "Higher and Higher." For "Panama Hattie," she understudied Betty Hutton and subbed for her when Hutton got the measles. Her performance led to a role in "Best Foot Forward" in 1941. She made her feature film debut by repeating her role in the MGM musical, which starred Lucille Ball.
MGM signed her to a contract, and she appeared in small roles in "Thousands Cheer" and "Girl Crazy." In "Two Girl