Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 19

Base 7 System and Name Sound System

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.

To see the 2006 series and summary, go to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 14.

To see the 2007 series and summary, go to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 15.

To see the 2008 series and summary, go to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 16.

To see the 2009 series and summary, go to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 17.

To see the 2010 series and summary, go to Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps Archives 18.

Base 7 Repetitions

TRENDS THUS FAR

Flashback 2004: Neck Injuries and Suicide Attempts Seven Years ago

April 27, 2011: By May of 2004 (7 years ago) one deadly trend was already apparent: the near-strangling of blonde actress Daryl Hannah when her scarf got caught in an elevator door as the car was descending. Luckily, the scarf ripped in two, and she escaped from being hanged and possibly decapitated. The incident left red marks and bruises on her neck.

In late August 2004, blonde actress Charlize Theron nearly broke her neck doing a high wire stunt during the filming of Aeon Flux. Because she herniated a disk in her neck, she was forced to wear a neck brace for well over month. Apparently, dying one's hair dark, as Theron had to for her film character, will not alter the outcome of being someone normally associated with having blonde hair, whether natural or artificial. Indeed, in a year like this one, it may even be dangerous to flirt with a blonde image.

The deadly trend? The horrific accidental death of Isadora Duncan in 1927 ... strangled by her own scarf which was caught in the tire spokes of the car she was riding in. It was a far-reaching trend that would continue two months past 2004 into February 2005 with the hanging suicide of popular South Korean actress Lee Eun-ju and a December 2005 diving injury which actually broke the neck of blonde actress Brooke Burns. A quick-thinking friend happened to be at the house who knew enough paramedical procedures to save her life. If she had been alone that day, she admitted, she would be dead.

The 2004 victim of this 'strangled neck turned broken neck' theme ended up being actor Christopher Reeve, who died of a bacteria-resistant infection while trying to recover from the damage he sustained to his spine after breaking his neck nine years earlier in a horseriding accident in 1995.

Reeve became the fourth male to die on this timeline of monumentally premature death, mostly of blonde-haired female icons, joining James Dean (1955), Sal Mineo (1976), and Jack Cassidy (1976). Dean and Cassidy were both blonde-haired; Mineo and Reeve were the only dark-haired exceptions. Isadora Duncan was the only red-haired female on the timeline. All other females have been blonde.

Interestingly enough, blonde icon Madonna would herself be injured in a horseriding accident in 2005, breaking an arm, shoulderblade, ribs, and her collarbone. She came very close to ending up like Christopher Reeve did in 1995.

Another trend of early 2004 was suicide. British stage actress Fritha Goodey, a blonde, stabbed herself in the chest and bled to death. Later, in November 2004, blonde actress of TV and film Shelley Long attempted suicide by drugs overdose. Had she succeeded she would have been the Ona Munson of 2004 (although Long is far more famous than Munson ever was) and Christopher Reeve would have been the James Dean. The suicide of Shelley Long, however, would have been a rather earthshaking event. In terms of fame, she is much more famous than Carole Landis was, but not nearly as big as Marilyn Monroe. Shelley Long in the 1980s and 1990s was on par with the comedian actress of the 1920s and 1930s, Thelma Todd.

Shelley Long is a major star; Fritha Goodey was not.

So what are the trends, thus far, this year?

Trends 2011: Premature Death from Cancer and Suicide

Flashback 1990

For one thing we are seeing suicide enter the picture along with cancer. This takes us back to 1990 with the premature cancer deaths of blonde actresses Susan Oliver and Jill Ireland (only dying a day apart). Ireland was only 54 and still a very sexy woman until cancer began wasting her way; Oliver was 58 and likewise looked quite young for her age until the cancer progressed. Both were still acting at the time of their deaths. However, it was cancer that killed them, not suicide.

There was a suicide in 1990, however, in March. Actress Capucine, an Italian film star who appeared in some of Federico Fellini's films, including Satyricon, and with a Peter Sellers in a few English-speaking films such as A Shot In The Dark and Pink Panther. She was largely a '60s actress and did not flourish well in the industry in the 1970s and 1980s. She leapt to her death, likely due to depression, from an eighth-storey balcony window at age 59. But to say that any individual female screen legend died tragically in 1990 would be a bit of a stretch. Ireland was perhaps the most famous of the three because she was still such a viable asset to filmmakers, the wife of Charles Bronson, famous for appearing with him in some of his films, including the camp favourite, Death Wish 2 (released in 1982). Ireland was very public about her cancer, appearing on many talk shows, and seemingly beating the disease. Her sudden death was a shock as she seemed to be championing the cause as a cancer survivor stressing the importance of early breast cancer detection. Oliver's best years, on the other hand, had been the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Her cancer had attacked her brain, leaving her face visibly deformed by chemotherapy. She too made public appearances to stress early detection of cancer.

The deaths of these three actresses comprised a collective tragedy, but no one individual could be compared with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Tate, Carole Lombard, Carole Landis, Karen Carpenter, Princess Diana, and others. I will say, however, that I found Jill Ireland's death most disturbing.

Still, Ireland and Oliver lived their lives right up until their cancer killed them. They did not commit suicide.

However, this year, a blonde actress suffering from cancer has committed suicide:

April 14, 2011: Angela Scoular, the wife of Leslie Phillips, has died after drinking chemicals in a suspected suicide. The 65-year-old actress, who starred in two James Bond films, had been suffering from bowel cancer. Police were called to her home in Maida Vale, north-west London, at 1.50pm on Monday after she apparently downed a significant quantity of a toxic liquid.

The actress was rushed to hospital, but doctors were unable to save her and she died at 5.28pm. The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation into her death which was being treated as unexplained last night ...

A talented actress, she played Lady Agatha Shawcross in the TV series You Rang, M’Lord? and Cathy in a 1967 production of Wuthering Heights. Other credits include The Avengers, Penmarric and As Time Goes By. She appeared in two Bond films – as Buttercup in Casino Royale in 1966 and as Ruby Bartlett in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969. Film roles also included A Countess From Hong Kong (1967), featuring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968), and the British comedy Doctor In Trouble, in which Phillips also starred, in 1970 ...

Source: The Daily Mail

One can hardly blame the poor woman: she suffered terribly with the cancer according to the report. And, while I do not like having to use her death as an example, I must, as it may be a trend with the potential of playing out even more tragically this year. If there is another suicide, it may not be triggered by a disease like cancer. It may be something emotional or reckless in natiure, not an escape from a terrible medical illness, and a thing entirely avoidable.

Angela Scoular, like Fritha Goodey in 2004, was not a major star, yet a somewhat more famous star than Goodey.

This bodes much ill for a suicide attempt, if not a successful suicide, by a major star in 2011.

Trends 2011: Very strong Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate nostalgia; Double L Initials

The other trend I notice comes courtesy of actress Lindsay Lohan. Notice anything peculiar about that name? Her initials are double: L.L.

In terms of 2004, Shelley Long and Christopher Reeve were similar to Ona Munson and James Dean in 1955. Long was very lucky she didn't die. If Long and Reeve replayed 1955 in 2004, then we are now in 1962/2011.

James Dean (died in car accident) and Ona Munson (suicide, drugs overdose), died 1955 ... 7 x 7 years later ... Christopher Reeve (died of complications from horseriding accident injury) and Shelley Long (suicide attempt, drugs overdose), died, survived 2004

Again, Lindsay Lohan's initials are L.L. Marilyn Monroe died in August 1962. Her initials were M.M. Monroe's double initials are one letter removed from Lohan's. Note similarity in name sounds: LYN-zee and Mari-LYN | Mun-ROH and LOH-han.

Monroe exhibited behaviour for a few years prior to her suicide that was, to say the least, very quirky and disturbing. So has Lindsay Lohan.

Lohan has suffered from drug abuse and alcoholism. She has done some very bizarre and dangerous things while under the influence. She has also been arrested numerous times, for driving while intoxicated, drug possession, shoplifting, parole violations, and now stealing a necklace.

Add to this another dead giveaway clue as to how important the double initial L.L. may be: the brutal assault and rape of news coorespondant Lara Logan (L.L.) during the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt. Logan, who is also a blonde, was not only raped, but nearly ripped to pieces by the mob. Logan is one letter removed from Lohan.

A lawyer has publically stated that, unlike the other violations that allowed rehab to take the place of prison, there can be no rehab for stealing an expensive piece of jewelry in plain sight. She WILL do time in a prison.

A Sharon Tate Curse? Lohan has also gravitated towards playing the role of blonde actress Sharon Tate in a biopic about the doomed Manson Family victim. Tate was murdered in August 1969 (42 years ago, 6 x 7 years ago). Her death was the most horrific of anyone's on the current timeline. If Lohan spends too much time in prison, she will eventually be in dangerous company ... famous people are more likely to be targeted by violent acts in the current climate, as actor Randy Quaid and his wife have reminded everyone. "Starwhackers" are everywhere, and may well be in general population of a prison. Lindsay's last time in prison won her some enemies because she was catered to ... and she was only confined for less than two weeks.

What happens if she has to spend four or five months in prison? Her trial comes up in June, sentencing may not occur until July. She wlll be in the dangerous August period when she begins jail time.

Then again, the Tate film may be held up because of Lohan's prison sentence. Not true, however, regarding the film about screen and sex symbol legend Marilyn Monroe.

Is this to be a "Marilyn Monroe type year?" If 2004 was like 1955, and if 2011 is like 1962, this may be a critical question. There are two biopics about Marilyn Monroe in the works: My Week With Marilyn is currently in post-production, starring Michelle Williams, and is scheduled to be released in either autumn 2011 or January-February 2012. Production for Blonde, originally slated for January 2011, has been put on hold and remains in development until later this year. It will star Naomi Watts and has a tentative 2012 release date. Lindsay Lohan may have toyed with the image of Marilyn Monroe for photos, but Williams and Watts truly have the right stuff to look like Marilyn (as does Scarlett Johansson, originally cast to play Monroe in My Week With Marilyn before Williams was ultimately chosen).

If instead of a Sharon Tate curse, there is a Marilyn curse affecting anyone who plays her this year of all years, Michelle Williams is at the top of list to come to a tragic end in August. She has already completed playing the role of the doomed sex goddess. Should My Week With Marilyn be released this year and not next, she may be placed in double jeopardy. Naomi Watts is second on the list if production for Blonde begins before the end of the year. If a biopic about Marilyn were shot any other year, this may not be true. But 2011 (7 x 7 years after Marilyn's death) is bad luck, I fear.

Naomi Watts, Michelle Williams, Marilyn Monroe

On another front, I would point out that 14 years ago, Princess Diana died in what may have been a murder by car crash.

I cannot think of a worse year for Prince William and Kate Middleton to have chosen to get married than 2011. They should have married in 2008 or 2009. Radicals and nutters alike have threatened to wreak havoc at the wedding on 29 August, and the royal couple themselves have been threatened with bodily harm.

I sincerely hope that Kate Middleton does not share Princess Diana's place in history as a murder victim this year. Yes, Kate is dark-haired, but, as redhead Isadora Duncan reminds us from her grave, the femme fatale of this year need not always be blonde-haired (despite what I said above about the quality of blondeness ... true 95% of the time).

And the term femme fatale is yet another warning ... this time to Britney Spears. The logo of her Femme Fatale album shows an imcomplete circle (life cycle) that terminates in an upside-down satanic cross that is also a "7." The fourth correction (4 years) after her failed March 2007 suicide may well be a successful suicide in August or September 2011. Britney plays a dangerous game with symbols so powerful and so very dark ... a big mistake in a year ending in 11, the number of duality.

2011 Name Sounds

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 frommm 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.

ANSWER TO POSSIBLE QUESTION: Hey ... why all the chicks on here and hardly no MEN??? (6/9/07):

Sometimes that is the way it works out.

UPDATE (5/12/11): My apologies yet again for a very late debut of the Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps page for the year 2011! My predictions concerning the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the Arab Spring revolutions, the Nato war with Libya, the death Osama bin Laden, and now the Great US Flood of 2011, has been keeping me too busy to attend to much else on this site. I do what I can when I can. Due to my father's death from cancer recently in April 2009, having to balance my time as a caregiver for my mother with running this site, and problems I have had with gout and bursistis last year and on and off again this year, progress on my entire website continues to slowed considerably. Thus, because it is now nearly mid-May 2011, this section will prove useless for prediction purposes for the expired period of January 1, 2011 through May 12, 2011 quite obviously. However, it will still prove invaluable as a predictive guide for the final seven-and-a-half months of 2011 and we can of course look over what has happened in the last five months and see what celebrities have already matched with the name sounds for this year.

To help speed up the creation of this section, I have decided to keep the 2010 name sounds section on this page rather than archive it on a separate page, possibly for the remainder of 2011. Archiving the page would prove to be both tedious and time-consuming, and time is something I have little of. There is also another good reason for doing this: just as with my other predictions, there is a base 7 adjacent influence from 2010 continuing in to 2011. Two examples of this have been the recent deaths of actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor David Nelson who both appeared on the 2010 lists. There may well be others yet to come.

Obviously, I will not be posting all of the pertinent celebrity deaths and mishaps that have occurred so far in 2011 all at one time. They will be posted over the coming days and weeks, in no particular order. Of course, they must relate to the name sounds lists or the conditions in the base 7 section that appear on this page. Any name that is in orange on the predictions list (such as Charlie Sheen and Annette Funicello) relates to the first five months of 2011 and will not be considered a "prediction fulfilled" (since I cannot actually prove the name would have appeared on the list back in January). Meantime, beginning right now, anyone new for the remainder of the year who I feel relates to this page's conditions will be posted and, if the name is listed, will count as a prediction fulfilled.

We note the untimely passing of Mia Amber Davis, Phoebe Snow, and Gerry Rafferty. None of these celebrities appeared on the predictions list for this year (although there may still be a name sounds connexion to check out). Also gone are Jane Russell, Yvette Vickers, Dolores Fuller, and Dana Wynter.

Added Note (6/6/11): As can be deduced I was quite busy readying this page for uploading to my site on May 12, but other things (some having to do with other parts of this website) got in the way until now. Believe me, I have not been following celebrity deaths and mishaps too much in the last month and have had to play "catch up" in the last few days or so to see if any star has fit any of the 2011 lists since May 12. There have been two: James Arness and Mary Tyler Moore. You will have to take my word for it (or not) that I have not tampered with the lists created on May 12 to include their names "after the fact" so as to take false credit.

2011 Name Sounds

Christopher Reeve (d. 2004) - Kris, Ris, Krista, Off, Fer, Ree, Eve

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Lambert, Christopher Guest, Christopher Norris, Christa Campbell, Christa Miller, Christine Lahti, Christina Applegate, Christina Ricci, Kris Kristofferson, Linda Christian, Lena Christenson, Rex Reed, Morgan Freeman, Oprah Winfrey, Ben Vereen, Alice Eve, Eva Longoria, Eva Mendes, Alice Krieg. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Linda Christian, Actress and Tyrone Power’s Wife, Dies at 87

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 25, 2011

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Linda Christian, a Hollywood starlet of the 1940s and '50s who was in Johnny Weissmuller’s last Tarzan movie and the first adaptation of a James Bond novel, but who was probably best known for her marriage to her fellow heartthrob Tyrone Power, died here on Friday. She was 87.

The cause was colon cancer, her daughter Romina Power said.

Born Blanca Rosa Welter (some sources say Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer) in Mexico on Nov. 13, 1923, Ms. Christian pursued an acting career in Los Angeles and eventually signed a contract with MGM. Her stunning figure led Life magazine to nickname her the “anatomic bomb.” She made her film debut alongside Danny Kaye in the 1944 musical comedy “Up in Arms.”

Ms. Christian married Power, one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men, in 1949, a year after appearing in “Tarzan and the Mermaids.” Their wedding was held in the Santa Francesca Romana church in Rome, near the Colosseum, and they were later received by Pope Pius XII. The marriage ended in divorce in 1956. Ms. Christian later married another actor, Edmund Purdom.

In 1954, eight years before the first James Bond movie, “Dr. No,” she starred as James Bond’s love interest in the television adaptation of “Casino Royale.” Barry Nelson played Bond.

In addition to her daughter, Ms. Christian is survived by another daughter, Taryn Power, and eight grandchildren.

COMMENTS (9/8/11): Linda Christian is named in the prediction list above.

Carrie Snodgress (d. 2004) - Care, Air, Ree, Snod, Nod, Odd, Gress, Ress, Ess

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Carrie Fisher, Carrie-Anne Moss, Claire Goose, Mariah Carey, Drew Carey. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Diana Spencer (d. 1997) - Diana, Diane, Di, Anna, Spen, Pen, En, Sir, Er

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Diana Ross, Diana Canova, Diana Rigg, Diana Barton, Diana Hayden, Diana Morgan, Diana Zubiri, Diane Cilento, Diane Farr, Diane Franklin, Diane Keaton, Diane Kruger, Diane Ladd, Diane Lane, Diane McBain, Diane Neal, Diane Sawyer, Diahann Carroll, Dyan Cannon, Anna Bielska, Anna Faris, Anna Friel, Anna Kournikova, Anna Lynn Mccord, Anna Mouglalis, Anna Murray, Anna Paquin, Anna Poppelwell, Vanna White, Joanna Cassidy, Joanna Pettet, Rosanna Arquette, Ivana Trump, Anne Archer, Ann Blyth, Anne Hathaway, Anne Heche, Ann-Margret, Anne Meara, Anne Murray, Annie Lennox, Annie Potts, Annette Funicello, Marianne Faithful, Julianne Moore, Jo Ann Pflug, LeAnn Rimes, Joanne Worley, Amanda Pays, Annie Potts, Lesley-Anne Down, Julianne Margulies, Andy Griffith, Andy Williams, Brandy, Candy Clark, Randy Quaid, Randy Travis, Sean Penn, Nelson Mandela, Joe Montana, Vickie Lawrence, Florence Henderson, Terence Stamp, Terence Trent D'Arby, Laurence Fishburne, Clarence Williams III. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Actress Annette Funicello Hospitalized After House Fire

KTLA News

2:46 p.m. PST, March 10, 2011

ENCINO, Calif. -- Actress Annette Funicello is hospitalized after suffering smoke inhalation in an early-morning fire at her Encino home.

The fire was reported at 7:21 a.m. in the 3100 block of North Fond Drive.

The former Mouseketeer, her husband and Funicello's nurse were transported to the hospital. All were said to be in good condition.

It took firefighters about 25 minutes to knock down the flames.

The fire caused extensive damage to the 3,600-square-foot home.

The 68-year old is best known for her years on "The Mickey Mouse Club," and later as Frankie Avalon's bikini-clad co-star in a series of beach movies in the 1960s.

Funicello is said to be in declining health since being diagnosed in the late 1980's with multiple sclerosis.

COMMENTS (6/6/11): Annette Funicello is named in the prediction list above.

Diane Cilento, Oscar-nominated actress, dies at 78

The Washington Post

October 7, 2011

Diane Cilento, the dusky-voiced stage and film actress whose forthright sensuality was best displayed as the wench Molly in “Tom Jones” and who endured a tempestuous marriage to actor Sean Connery, died Oct. 6 in Queensland, Australia. She was 78. Australian media outlets reported the death but did not reveal a cause.

The Australian-born Ms. Cilento was a rising star in the 1950s and 1960s — a wide-eyed, striking blonde with a beckoning, throaty voice that she proudly said was “an octave lower than Paul Robeson’s.”

On Broadway, she made a strong impression as Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux’s “Tiger at the Gates” (1955) opposite Michael Redgrave. Writing in the New York Herald-Tribune, theater critic Walter Kerr said Ms. Cilento’s Helen was a “marvel of insolence.”

“With her antennae-like eyelashes sweeping nations into the dustbin,” he wrote, “her one dainty hoof pawing the ground before her impatiently, and her detached nasal voice slicing reason into ribbons, she is a creature from the moon — a terrifying one.”

Ms. Cilento gained wider exposure in leading British film and television dramas. On TV, she played Eugene O’Neill’s waterfront tramp in “Anna Christie” (1957) opposite her future husband, Connery. That same year, she appeared as a ladies’ maid opposite butler Kenneth More in “Paradise Lagoon,” based on J.M. Barrie’s play “The Admirable Crichton.” The oft-told story was about a shipwreck that tears down class boundaries.

Ms. Cilento was perhaps best remembered for her Oscar-nominated role as the unquenchably lusty Molly, the voluptuous daughter of a gameskeeper, in “Tom Jones” (1963). Tony Richardson’s bawdy version of the Henry Fielding novel starred Albert Finney as a dashing rake.

Ms. Cilento went on to co-star as the sexually assertive noblewoman Contessina de’Medici opposite Charlton Heston’s Michelangelo in “The Agony and the Ecstasy” (1965); a none-too mournful widow in the brutal western “Hombre” (1967) opposite Paul Newman; and as a teacher with a dark secret in “The Wicker Man” (1973), an eerie mystery about a missing girl and a Scottish paganist cult.

A minor film at the time of its release, “The Wicker Man” found a devoted following over the years. The journal Cinefantastique once called it “the Citizen Kane of horror films.” The screenplay was by the celebrated playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Sleuth”), whom Ms. Cilento married in 1985.

Diane Cilento was born Oct. 5, 1933, in Mooloolaba, Australia, to an eminent medical family and was educated in Brisbane. Her father, Raphael “Ray” Cilento, was a leading authority in tropical medicine. Her mother, Phyllis, was a gynecologist.

An interest in dance led Ms. Cilento to study ballet in New York. She later switched to acting and graduated from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making her screen and professional stage debuts in the early 1950s.

By the time she met Connery in 1957 during the premiere of “Paradise Lagoon,” her first marriage to playboy-aristocrat Andrea Volpe had disintegrated.

She said she was “footloose and fancy-free, but pregnant by my Italian husband” when she saw Connery: “He walked with the forward-leaning, slightly pigeon-toed gait of a body builder, and his thick eyebrows met between his eyes. He looked dangerous, but fun.”

They wed in 1962 just as he was on the cusp of greater fame after playing James Bond in “Dr. No.” In her 2006 memoir, “My Nine Lives,” she offered a brutal portrait of their marriage, describing him as a jealous misogynist who was psychologically and often physically threatening. She said he grew angry at her independent spirit when she would not give up her career to support his.

She also accused him of beating her during the marriage. Connery issued a denial and said his comments in 1965 to Playboy magazine that hitting a woman was justified under certain conditions were taken out of context.

After their messy divorce in the early 1970s, Ms. Cilento returned to Australia and spent a period exploring mysticism and other forms of spirituality. She founded an open-air theater in far north Queensland, the Karnak Playhouse.

Her third husband, Shaffer, died in 2001. Survivors include a daughter from her first marriage, Giovanna Volpe; and a son from her second marriage, actor Jason Connery.

Before her memoir appeared, Ms. Cilento said she was often asked what it was like to be wed to Connery, considered one of the sexiest men alive.

“One of my favorite memories is when Sean and I were living in a house in London, where we’d been burgled 17 times,” she told an Australian newspaper in 2004. “It was after the incredible success of ‘Dr. No’ and the James Bond thing. One morning, Sean heard someone trying to steal his car. He jumped out of bed and chased him down the road naked. Even now, when I think of his bare bottom jiggling up the road, it makes me laugh.”

COMMENTS (11/21/11): Diane Cilento is named in the prediction list above.

Singer Andy Williams has cancer

November 6, 2011 -- Updated 2150 GMT (0550 HKT)

(CNN) -- Singer Andy Williams has bladder cancer, is undergoing treatment and plans to return to performing in 2012, he said. "You may have read or heard that I have bladder cancer. It's true and I'm currently undergoing treatment to deal with it," Williams said in a statement.

The singer also told fans at a concert in Branson, Missouri, Saturday night that he has cancer, a reporter who attended the concert told CNN on Sunday. "But that is no longer a death sentence. People with cancer are getting through this thing," Williams said, according to Tyler Francke with the Branson Tri-Lakes News. "They're kicking it, and they're winning more and more every year. And I'm going to be one of them," Francke quoted the singer as saying.

Williams, 83, shared the news during his Christmas Show at the Moon River Theater, which he founded in 1992, according to the theater's website. "Moon River" was one of Williams' most popular songs. The description of Williams' Christmas Show on his website lists several guest stars, and notes that "due to health reasons, Andy may not make a live appearance in his Christmas Show."

In his statement, the singer said he plans to return to performing in 2012.

Attempts by CNN to contact the Moon River Theater for comment were not immediately successful.

Williams began his singing career as a child in a quartet with his three older brothers. He later got a regular gig on Steve Allen's "Tonight" show and then his own variety program, "The Andy Williams Show," in the 1960s.

COMMENTS (11/21/11): Andy Williams is named in the prediction list above.

Andrea True, Porn Star and Singer, Dies at 68 ABC News Nov 22, 2011 3:51pm Andrea Marie Truden, lead singer of the ’70s disco act Andrea True Connection, died Nov. 7 in Kingston, New York, according to the Daily Freeman. She was 68. A cause of death was not released. Truden started her career as an adult film actress, appearing in approximately 60 hardcore porn films as Andrea True, but caught the disco wave with the 1976 smash hit “More More More,” which reached #4 on the Billboard chart. True returned to porn for a short time after she was unable to match the success of “More More More” — her follow-up singles “What’s Your Name What’s Your Number” and “N.Y. You Got Me Dancing” were nowhere near as popular. She later retreated from the spotlight completely. In 1999, the alt-rock group Len sampled “More More More” in their hit “Steal My Sunshine,” briefly reviving interest in the singer.

Andrea True Dies at 68 - ‘More, More, More’ Singer

By PAUL VITELLO
NYTimes.com

November 24, 2011

Andrea Truden arrived in New York from Nashville in 1968 with a yearning for stardom and no fixed idea about how to achieve it. She landed bit parts in a slew of movies, including “The Way We Were.” She sang in nightclubs, wrote music for television commercials and, for a while, found steady work as an actress in the city’s burgeoning pornographic film industry.

Ms. Truden, who died on Nov. 7 at 68 in Kingston, N.Y., finally did win her stardom, if fleetingly, by writing and recording a song about the life she had known in the world of sex films. Produced under her stage name, Andrea True, the song, “More, More, More,” is now widely considered a classic of the disco genre, recognizable to many for the lyric “How do you like it?” repeated over a simple beat.

Her death was confirmed by a longtime friend, Louise Marsello, who said the cause was heart failure. No immediate family members survive. “More, More, More,” recorded in 1976 with a studio ensemble called the Andrea True Connection, reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart. Its hypnotically faux-girlish lyric delivered in a whispery, world-weary voice — “But if you want to know how I really feel, just get the cameras rolling, get the action going” — became the rage of the New York disco scene. It also started Ms. True on a music career that produced one other, though lesser, hit in 1977, “New York, You Got Me Dancing.”

She would never have the lasting stardom she hoped her. After recording three albums she moved to Florida, where she sang in clubs until complications of throat surgery made singing difficult.

She then tried a variety of jobs, including counseling drug and alcohol abusers, telemarketing and real estate management.

In a 1999 interview with Billboard, Ms. True said the fickleness of American fans made sustaining a music career impossible for anyone but the superstars. “Europeans will support and respect an artist for the lifetime,” she said. “That just won’t happen in America.”

Ms. Marsello, who met Ms. True in the early 1970s, said of her: “She was a free spirit, but driven, too. She never stopped wanting to make it.”

Andrea Marie Truden was born on July 26, 1943, in Nashville, the only child of Frank and Ann Truden. Her father was an engineer. A year after graduating from a Roman Catholic girls’ school, she left for New York.

In a 2002 interview for a VH1 documentary, she described the unlikely events that led to the making of “More, More, More.” Preparing to return to New York after recording a commercial in Jamaica in 1976, she found that a government ban on asset transfers barred her from taking her earnings home. (The ban was a response to United States sanctions imposed on Jamaica after the election of Michael Manley, a Castro sympathizer.)

Unable to leave with her cash, Ms. True hit on the idea of investing it in a studio demonstration record of a song she made up. The Jamaican authorities let her take it home to New York, where friends in the record industry helped her develop the idea into “More, More, More,” which was released by Buddah Records.

The song produced royalties for Ms. True throughout her life, most recently as the soundtrack for a TV commercial for Honey Bunches of Oats cereal.

COMMENTS (11/27/11): A song such as "More, More, More" is still so full of life, of the act of living, it is hard to imagine the singer of such a tasty, sexy, romantic dish is now dead at the age of 68 ... hard to believe 35 years have actually passed by. Before the invention of audiotape and videotape, and later, digital CD and DVD recording, people who had to look back 35 years were left with faded photographs, scratchy 78 rpm platter recordings, poorly preserved movie film ... there was no life to the past, it was indeed as dead as it looked and sounded. Now, when you look back, and from now on into the indefinite future, the past is as real a place to see and hear as the current moment. How unbearable that can be for some: to continue to behold something so near and dear from the past as though it happened just last week, and yet be as far away from it as though you were living on Pluto. The dead have never been so full of life. So sad.

John Denver (d. 1997) - John, Den, En, Ver, Er

Possible predictions (5/12/11): John Fogerty, Elton John, Johnny Mathis, Dennis Rodman, Dennis Leary.

Laura Nyro (d. 1997) - Laura, Lor, Or, Aura, Near, Ear, Ohhh

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Laurie Anderson, Laurie Metcalf, Lori Singer, Lori Spelling, Laura Dern, Laura Harring, Laura Herring, Laura Bush, Lauren Holly, Lauren Bacall, Lauren Hutton, Joey Lauren Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Estefan, Gloria Loring, Cloris Leachman, Britney Spears. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Stevie Ray Vaughan (d. 1990) - Stevie, Steve, Vee, Ray, Aw, Awn

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Steve Martin, Steve Winwood, Steve Miller, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Baldwin, Stephen Bishop, Genevieve Bujold, Christie McVie, Ray Parker, Jr., Ray Manzarek, Grace Slick, Jim Nabors, Robert Vaughn, Vince Vaughn, Jude Law, Lucy Lawless, Twiggy Lawson, Goldie Hawn, Dawn Wells, Sean 'Puffy' Combs, Sean Connery, Sean Young. Connie Stevens, Stella Stevens, Rachel Ward, Tracy Chapman, Graham Nash, Tracy Ullman. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Susan Oliver (d. 1990) - Susan, Sue, ooooo, San, Ann, I'll, Live, Er

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Susan Sarandon, Susan Clark, Susan Dey, Susan Lucci, Susan Day George, Susan St James, Pamela Sue Martin, Sue Lyon, Sue Ane Langdon, Susannah York, Suzanne Somers, Suzanne Vega, Tuesday Weld, Lulu, Drew Barrymore, Oliver North, Oliver Stone, Olivia D'Abo, Olivia Cole, Olivia Hussey, Olivia Newton-John, Lauren Holly, Michael J. Pollard, Gary Collins, Joan Collins, Phil Collins, Molly Ringwald, Dolly Parton, Marty Balin. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Jill Ireland (d. 1990) - Jill, Ill, Ire, Lan, Ann, And

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Jill St John, Jill Sobule, Gillian Anderson, Cybill Shepherd, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Billy Preston, Billie Piper, Lily Tomlin, Phil Collins, Kathy Ireland, Talia Shire, Martha Hyer, Anne Rice, Winona Ryder, John Landis, Martin Landau, Beverly Garland, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Tony Orlando, Priscilla Presley, Elias Koteas. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

'Deliverance' actor Bill McKinney dies

CNN's Jennifer Wolfe contributed to this report

December 2nd, 2011 06:34 PM ET

Actor Bill McKinney, perhaps best known for his role in 1972's "Deliverance," died on Thursday, CNN has confirmed.

His stepson Richard Booth tells CNN that the actor, who was 80 at the time, had esophageal cancer.

Booth called his stepfather a "strong, compassionate, motivated individual."

A post on his Facebook page adds that the actor was "an avid smoker for 25 years of his younger life." At 80, he was "still strong enough to have filmed a Doritos commercial two weeks prior to his passing, and he continued to work on his biography with his writing partner. Hopefully 2012 will bring a publisher for the wild ride his life was.

He is survived by son Clinton, along with several ex-wives."

McKinney's chilling mountain man in "Deliverance" is one of his most memorable roles, particularly the "squeal like a pig" line he utters in the scene in which he assaults Ned Beatty. Entertainment Weekly calls it "one of the most unsettling scenes ever put on film."

McKinney is credited in more than 100 films, including a number of Clint Eastwood projects, such as 1976's "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

COMMENTS (12/3/11): One should not think ill of Bill's hillbilly character ... an archetype for many other fine films to come after. It is clear he really had to get his knee into grinding action in his physically demanding scene with veteran actor Ned Beatty. Indeed, there are many tribute videos memorialising this legendary, unforgettable sequence from one of the greatest film adaptations of a novel written by an American poet (who appeared in a cameo role near the end of the film as the town sheriff) ever made in Hollywood. Here is one of them:

Karen Carpenter (d. 1983) - Karen, Care, Air, Wren, En, Car, Ar, Pen, Tur, Er

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Karen Allen, Karen Black, Karen Mulder, Jennifer Karen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Blair Brown, Donna Air, Debbie Harry, Tony Blair, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, John Carpenter, Richard Carpenter, Scott Carpenter, Vikki Carr, Carlene Carter, Angela Cartwright, Veronica Cartwright, Judy Carne, Kim Carnes, Andrew McCarthy, Jenny McCarthy, Paul McCartney, Carmen Electra, Carlos Santana, Penny Marshall, Claudia Cardinal. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Jack Cassidy (d. 1976) - Jack, Ack, Cass, Ass, Syd, Dee, Eeee

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Jack Klugman, Jack Nicholson, Jack Nicklaus, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Jackie Chan, Jackie Mason, Jackie Shannon, Jackson Browne, Jacqueline Bisset, Janet Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Reggie Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Mackenzie Phillips, Roberta Flack, Gene Hackman, Honor Blackman, Joan Blackman, Nina Blackwood, Kelly Packard, Gisele MacKenzie, Kim Novack, Joan Cusack, Catherine McCormack, David Cassidy, Joanna Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy, Nick Cassavettes, Seymour Cassel, Lance Bass, Mackenzie Astin, Amy Yasbeck. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

‘Dr. Death’ Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83

The Washington Post

June 5, 2011

Jack Kevorkian, 83, the zealous, straight-talking pathologist known as “Dr. Death” for his crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide, died June 3 at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. He had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems, close friend and attorney Mayer Morganroth told the Associated Press.

Dr. Kevorkian spent decades campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia. He served eight years in prison and was arrested numerous times for helping more than 130 patients commit suicide from 1990 to 2000, using injections, carbon monoxide and his infamous suicide machine, built from scraps for $30. Those he aided had terminal conditions such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and malignant brain tumors.

When asked in a 2010 interview by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about how it felt to take a patient’s life, Dr. Kevorkian said, “I didn’t do it to end a life. I did it to end the suffering the patient’s going through. The patient’s obviously suffering — what’s a doctor supposed to do, turn his back?”

Dying, he believed, should be an intimate and dignified process, something that many terminally ill people are denied, he said.

He garnered a fair amount of support from other medical practitioners, although most thought he was an extremist. In 1995, a group of doctors in Michigan publicly voiced their support for Dr. Kevorkian’s philosophy, stating that they supported a “merciful, dignified, medically assisted termination of life.” Shortly after, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that many doctors in Oregon and Michigan supported some form of physician-assisted suicide in certain cases.

One of his greatest victories occurred in March 1996 when a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled that mentally competent, terminally ill adults have a constitutional right to die with the aid of medical experts and family members. It was the first federal endorsement of its kind.

But ultimately, Dr. Kevorkian’s impact was not in the U.S. legal system but in raising public awareness about euthanasia and the suffering of the terminally ill. In the 1990s, the peak of his time in the limelight, he notoriously tried publicity stunts of all sorts to draw attention to his cause. In one instance, he showed up at trial dressed in Colonial attire. He also taped one of his patient’s deaths and gave the video to CBS’ s “60 Minutes” for broadcast.

During this period, his face was frequently on television and in newspapers, and he gladly agreed to a barrage of news media interviews so he could share his views. His crusade and antics were documented last year in an HBO movie, “You Don’t Know Jack,” in which Al Pacino portrayed him as a passionate, but intolerably single-minded crusader. “He was involved in this because he thought it was right, and whatever anyone wants to say about him, I think that’s the truth,” said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. “He didn’t do it for the money, he didn’t do it for the publicity, he wasn’t living a luxurious life – he wanted change."

COMMENTS (6/20/11): Dr. Jack Kevorkian is named in the prediction list above. Here are some of the art world's favourites from Dr. Jack's Art Gallery:

Sal Mineo (d. 1976) - Sal, Al, Min, In, Nee, Eeee, Ohhhh

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Sally Struthers, Sally Field, Sally Kellerman, Al Green, Al Pacino, Al Gore, Val Kilmer, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie Curtin, Valerie Perrine, Ali MacGraw, Alice Cooper, Alice Walker, Alyssa Milano, Alison Krause, Allison Parks, Alan Arkin, Alan Alda, Mary Alice, Mohammad Ali, Woody Allen, Debbie Allen, Nancy Allen, Minnie Driver, Liza Minnelli, Kylie Minogue, Mindy Sterling, Yasmine Bleeth, Cindy Williams. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Sharon Tate (d. 1969) - Sharon, Shar, Air, Run, Tay, Ay, Ate

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Sharon Stone, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Lee, Cher, Charo, Cheryl Tiegs, Paris Hilton, Tatum O'Neill, Bonnie Raitt, Phoebe Cates, Justine Bateman, Christina Applegate, Kathy Bates, Tom Waits, Kate Hudson, Kate Jackson, Kate Bush, Kate Capshaw, Kate Nelligan, Kate Beckinsale, Kate Winslet, Katie Couric, Barbara Corday, Doris Day, Rebecca DeMornay, Rebecca Gayheart, Leigh Taylor-Young, Faith Hill, Tori Amos. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

KATE WINSLET'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEADLY FIRE:
FIRST REAL CLOSE CALL FOR A FAMOUS BLONDE ACTRESS IN 2011

COMMENTS (8/26/11): This apparently was a very close call; reports indicate all of those inside could have easily died if not for one alert family member. Kate Winslet, whose name appears in the prediction list above, saved Richard Branson's mother, but could have easily ended up like another famous actress heroine who was not so lucky: Linda Darnell, who died in 1965 from a fire at the house where she was staying as a guest. It has always been rumoured that she attempted to rescue a child from the blaze, and, after finding the child had already jumped from a second-storey window, ran back downstairs and was overcome by a huge gust of flames that burned 90% of her body as she attempted to exit through the front door (which would not open). Darnell was literally burned to death. This 1965 precedent has never again been repeated in 1972, 1979, 1986, 1993, 2000, or 2007 ... although there have been a few close calls. Next vector will be in 2014.

Anyway, returning to THIS TIMELINE (1906 - 2011), at first I was surprised to see fire introduced as a potential cause of death ... until I realised there was one celebrity who did in fact die in a house fire on this line. It must be remembered that although this is a largely female-dominated pattern, there have been several famous males who have died on this base 7 configuration. They also appear on this page as name sound influences for 2011. They are, again, James Dean (1955), Sal Mineo (1976), Jack Cassidy (also 1976), and Christopher Reeve (2004).

On December 12, 1976, blond-haired actor Jack Cassidy, who had recently completed his last villainous role in Columbo as 'The Great Santini,' fell asleep on the couch in his apartment with a lit cigarette following a night of partying. After the resulting inferno was finally put out by firefighters, they found his charred, partly skeletal remains on the floor of the living room. He was 49 years old.

It would appear that actress Kate Winslet much more narrowly escaped death than she may realise. Burning to death is an ugly, horrible, and most painful way to die. This leads me to remain concerned that this CLOSE CALL may also be a RED ALERT since December 2011 is still four months away, if it is applicable as a vector, and can yet claim a victim this month or in September.

Stalker arrested outside Sharon Stone's home

Actress’ home hit by “yelling and banging” nut

Musicrooms.net

August 18, 2011

A man was arrested outside the home of Hollywood superstar Sharon Stone and detained for mental evaluation. The man - who has not been named but is in his 50s - was found “yelling and banging” at the gate of the Basic Instinct star.

A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed: “Today at around 10:30am the LAPD West unit responded to actress Sharon Stone’s house for a man yelling and banging at the gate. He was detained for mental evaluation.”

Although no-one was hurt in the incident, it is not known if 53-year-old Sharon was at home at the time. She has been in New York recently filming ‘Gods Behaving Badly’ alongside Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Walken.

It is not the first time Sharon has been the subject of unwanted attention from a stalker.

Earlier this year she obtained a permanent restraining order against “mentally ill” Bradley Gooden, who entered her home claiming it was his house. He has also claimed he is the son of US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and believed she had purchased the home for him to live in.

COMMENTS (9/8/11): Sharon Stone is named in the prediction list above.

Jeffrey Hunter (d. 1969) - Jeff, Free, Reee, Hunt, Hun, Un, Ter, Er

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Jeff Goldblum, Jeff Bridges, Freda Payne, Reese Witherspoon, Holly Hunter, Kim Hunter, Tab Hunter, Helen Hunt, Linda Hunt, Lauren Hutton, Griffin Dunn, Neil Diamond. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Reese Witherspooon hit by car in LA

Sky News

7:22am UK, Thursday September 08, 2011

Actress Reese Witherspoon is recovering after being hit by a car while out jogging.

The 35-year-old Oscar winner was rushed to hospital after being struck in the upmarket Santa Monica area of Los Angeles.

Officers were called to a pedestrian crossing and discovered Witherspoon injured at the scene. It is understood the star is now recovering at home.

The 84-year-old driver of the vehicle was interviewed and released after being reprimanded for failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing. Police said that the car was travelling at about 20mph.

Witherspoon, whose career took off after starring in the movie Legally Blonde, won an Oscar for her role in Walk The Line. She played Johnny Cash's wide June Carter in the bio-pic.

The actress married actor Jim Toth in March. She was previously married to Ryan Phillippe for nine years and has two children with him.

COMMENTS (9/8/11): Reese Witherspoon is named in the prediction list above.

Marilyn Monroe (d. 1962) - Mare, Air, Uh, Lin, In, Mun, Un, Ro, Ohhhh

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Marilyn Beck, Marilyn McCoo, Marilyn Manson, Sherilyn Fenn, Mary Steenburgen, Mary Tyler Moore, Marie Osmond, Mariel Hemingway, Marion Ross, Marianne Faithful, Geri Halliwell, Terri Garr, Barry Manilow, Morgan Fairchild, Lynn Anderson, Linda Carlson, Lynda Carter, Linda Blair, Linda Hamilton, Linda Harrison, Linda Gray, Linda Lavin, Lindsay Lohan, Linda Thompson, Belinda Carlisle, Lauryn Hill, Joan Lunden, Sandy Duncan, Faye Dunaway, Kirsten Dunst, Connie Chung, Gena Rowlands, Lisa Kudrow, Mia Farrow, Janeane Garofalo, Tom Brokaw, Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro, Marlo Thomas. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Mary Tyler Moore to have brain surgery for tumor

Los Angeles Times

May 13, 2011

Mary Tyler Moore, the actress best remembered for her roles on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Mary Tyler Moore," will have surgery to remove a benign brain tumor called a meningioma, her publicist said Thursday. Moore's physicians have been monitoring the tumor for several years; it is not life-threatening and the iconic actress is expected to make a full recovery after the surgery at an undisclosed hospital.

Mary Tyler Moore ‘recovering nicely’ from brain surgery for benign tumor

Associated Press

Friday, May 13, 8:42 PM

NEW YORK — A representative for Mary Tyler Moore says the veteran sitcom star is “recovering nicely” after surgery to remove a benign tumor on the lining of her brain.

Spokeswoman Erica Tarin says Moore will require no additional treatment after the four-hour procedure. Tarin would not specify when the surgery took place or where.

The procedure was to remove a meningioma (meh-NIN’-jee-OH’-muh), a slow-growing tumor in the membranes that cover the brain. Meningiomas usually occur in older adults and are mostly benign.

The 74-year-old Moore won fame as housewife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke” show in the 1960s, then went on to even greater success starring in her own long-running sitcom.

COMMENTS (6/6/11): Mary Tyler Moore is named in the prediction list above.

Marie-France Pisier, French actress, dies at 66

Los Angeles Times

May 02, 2011

Marie-France Pisier, a French actress who was discovered as a teenager by New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut and went on to star in such movies as "Cousin, Cousine" and Truffaut's "Love on the Run," has died. She was 66.

Pisier's body was discovered April 24 by her husband, Thierry Funck-Brentano, in the swimming pool of their home in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France, according to the French news agency Agence France-Presse.

The cause of death is not known but foul play is not suspected, authorities said.

Truffaut directed Pisier in her first film, "Antoine and Colette," with Jean-Pierre Leaud, a short film that is part of 1962's "Love at Twenty." Pisier and Leaud played the same characters in the 1979 film "Love on the Run."

"A friend sent him my picture and he came at the end of the school term and said, 'Would you like to work in a film with me?' " she told the New York Times in 1981 about meeting Truffaut. "He was shy in front of a schoolgirl. It was very funny."

Her career also included roles with renowned filmmakers including Luis Bunuel in 1974's "The Phantom of Liberty" and Andre Techine in 1976's "Barocco." She also wrote and directed.

Pisier was born May 10, 1944, in Dalat in what was then French Indochina, where her father was colonial governor. At 12, her family moved to Paris. The success in the United States of filmmaker Jean-Charles Tacchella's 1975 film "Cousin, Cousine" led to opportunities in Hollywood, but most of the roles did not measure up to the quality of her work in France.

"I know there were bad reviews but I liked very much the part I had," she told the New York Times in 1981 about "The Other Side of Midnight," the poorly received 1977 film based on a Sidney Sheldon novel. "I had been working in France in the family of the avant-garde. After a while you want to break away from your family. Anyway I discovered you can learn as an actress, even in bad movies."

COMMENTS (6/6/11): Oh là là, another French hottie passes by the Anglo radar undetected. A nasty case of swimmer's ear it would appear, as a ghostly voice was heard saying, 'J'ai eu l'oreille du nageur, j'ai donc décidé, ce qui la baise, pourrait ainsi se noyer!' Nonetheless, Ms Monroe will be most pleased with the company of Marie-France Pisier.

James Dean (d. 1955) - James, Ames, Ay, Dee, Dean, Eeeee

Possible predictions (5/12/11): James Belushi, James Brolin, James Caan, James Cameron, James Garner, James Arness, James Taylor, James Wood, Ed Ames, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jayne Meadows, Jane Curtain, Jane Fonda, Jane Seymour, Jay Leno, Dean Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton, Kiki Dee, Billy Dee Williams, Dee Wallace-Stone, Dee Dee Sharp, Cat Deeley, Cameron Diaz, Celine Dion, Dion DiMucci, Liam Neeson, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Bruce Springsteen, Sheena Easton, Geena Davis, Kathleen Beller, Kathleen Turner, Tina Turner. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

Rep: Hernia causes Charlie Sheen's medical emergency

January 28, 2011 -- Updated 0148 GMT (0948 HKT)

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actor Charlie Sheen was in "stable" condition after being taken by ambulance from his home to a Los Angeles hospital for severe pain, related to a hernia Thursday morning, his representative said. "Charlie has had a hernia condition for some time," representative Stan Rosenfield said. "I was told by the person who made the 911 call that it was hernia-related."

Reporters and paparazzi converged on Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after reports hit the internet that Sheen was at the emergency room there Thursday morning. The hospital refused to give any information about the actor, giving rising to rampant media speculation about Sheen's condition.

Tensions eased later in the day when Rosenfield announced that his client was in stable condition and was being treated for the hernia.

A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman confirmed that an emergency medical unit was called to an address off Mulholland Drive, believed to be Sheen's home, at 6:35 a.m. Thursday. A federal privacy law prohibits the release of more information, he said.

This is the second emergency trip to a hospital for Sheen in three months. He spent several hours in a New York hospital in October after police responded to an early morning call about "an emotionally disturbed person" at The Plaza Hotel, a law enforcement source said at the time. Sheen's representative blamed an "adverse allergic reaction" to a medication for the hospitalization.

Sheen, the son of actor Martin Sheen, is the star of the hit CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men."

COMMENTS (6/6/11): Charlie Sheen is named in the prediction list above.

'Gunsmoke' actor James Arness dies at age 88

June 3, 2011 -- Updated 2206 GMT (0606 HKT)

(CNN) -- Former "Gunsmoke" actor James Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon in the western TV series for 20 years, died Friday from natural causes, according to his website. He was 88. Over the two decades of "Gunsmoke" episodes from 1955 to 1975, Arness worked with hundreds of actors, some of them just up-and-comers such as Harrison Ford, Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson. He also worked with Bette Davis.

Arness left behind a letter to his fans, which was posted on his website after his death: "I had a wonderful life and was blessed with some many loving people and great friends. The best part of my life was my family, especially my wife, Janet. Many of you met her at Dodge City so you understand what a special person she is," Arness wrote. "I wanted to take this time to thank all of you for the many years of being a fan of 'Gunsmoke,' 'The Thing,' 'How the West Was Won' and all the other fun projects I was lucky enough to have been allowed to be a part of. I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

"I was honored to have served in the army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII and it makes you realize how very precious life is," Arness wrote. "Thank you again for all the many letters, cards, emails and gifts we received from you over the years. You are and always have been truly appreciated," he concluded.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 26, 1923, Arness later served in the Army and was sent in 1944 to Anzio, the Italian beach that the Army said was the setting for the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind.

Arness was wounded in his right leg and received the Purple Heart. According to an Army website, during the four months of the Anzio Campaign, the Allied VI Corps experienced more than over 29,200 combat casualties (4,400 killed, 18,000 wounded, and 6,800 prisoners or missing) and 37,000 noncombat casualties. German combat losses were estimated at 27,500 (5,500 killed, 17,500 wounded, and 4,500 prisoners or missing), according to the Army.

Arness' acting debut was in a movie called "The Farmer's Daughter" opposite Loretta Young. He worked for John Wayne's film production company Batjac and made movies with Wayne including "Islands in the Sky," "Hondo," "The Sea Chase" and "Big Jim McLain." Arness also acted in the 1951 sci-fi classic "The Thing," and his 6-foot-7 height made the creature more believable, according to his website. After "Gunsmoke," Arness continued acting in television in the mini-series "How the West Was Won" in 1978-79 and "McLain's Law" in 1981-82.

In addition to his wife, Arness is survived by two sons and six grandchildren. The services will be private.

COMMENTS (6/5/11): James Arness is named in the prediction list above.

Carole Landis (d. 1948) - Carol, Care, Air, Ole, Lan, Ann, Dis

Possible predictions (5/12/11): Carole King, Carol Kane, Carol Lynley, Carroll Baker, Carol Potter, Carol Campbell, Carol Burnett, Carol Connors. Additional predictions: (0/0/11):

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