Why is everyone dying

[rozymisty]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

Moose, the feisty Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for 10 years on TV's Frasier, has died, his trainer Mathilde Halberg tells PEOPLE.

"He was 16-and-a-half years old, and he just had an incredible charisma and was a such a free spirit," said Halberg. Moose, considered the Lassie of the '90s, died Thursday night of old age at Halberg's Los Angeles-area home.

Moose retired from showbiz when he was 10, and, although he also played a starring role in the 2000 Frankie Muniz-Kevin Bacon feature My Dog Skip (as the older Skip), he was best known for stealing scenes from Kelsey Grammer on the long-running Emmy-winning NBC sitcom.

"He was always trying to put Frasier in uncomfortable circumstances," said his trainer, who had rescued him in the early 1990s.

"I saved him from the pound. His owners called me as a last resort," Halberg recalled. "He was extremely mischievous, always escaping, chewing up things and running off. When he killed a neighbor's cat and chased some horses, that was it."

Not that anyone who owns a Jack Russell would find such behavior surprising. "But then," remembered his trainer, "he began his career, and he will never be forgotten."

ooohnooo I never watched Fraiser but dog was a cutie!!!

[Gutter Monkey]

RIP West African Black Rhino, one of the four subspecies of the black rhino. Looks like it might've gone extinct.

Oops.

[Leishpod]

oh no not the rhinos

fucking stupid god damn human beings.

*shakes fist again*

[susanjacobs]

Originally Posted by Puppy

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, 60

SBS or ABC recently showed a doco on his life and his "breakdown". I thought it was odd and wondered if he had died. Then a couple of days later, he really did die. Damn it all to hell!

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by susanjacobs

Then a couple of days later, he really did die.

Then the day after he died there were ads on TV for the Pink Floyd DVD. Dammit, the corpse wasn't even cold yet and the vultures were swooping in.

[unfrufru]

that was a coincidence, its been due for release for a while.

[nahemah]

Originally Posted by Gutter Monkey

Then the day after he died there were ads on TV for the Pink Floyd DVD. Dammit, the corpse wasn't even cold yet and the vultures were swooping in.

I started seeing the ads a couple of days before his death. In fact, I thought it was coincidental that I'd started seeing the ads and then he died.

[Gutter Monkey]

ZOMG they killed him just to boost DVD sales!!!!!

[unfrufru]

we've had it on order for a while.

death or sickness does wonders for publicity. it sounds really bad but when kylie announced her cancer sales of our kylie program went through the roof

[susanjacobs]

Originally Posted by Gutter Monkey

Then the day after he died there were ads on TV for the Pink Floyd DVD. Dammit, the corpse wasn't even cold yet and the vultures were swooping in.

Well, someone has to boot in after you die. If someone isn't making money off your death, you didn't die right!

[JD3000]

Red Buttons, aged 87

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/...637872143.html

[Ben]

Robert Palmer

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Musi...mer/index.html

[susanjacobs]

Originally Posted by Ben

Robert Palmer

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Musi...mer/index.html

According to the article, this happened in September 2003. Are you not over it yet, Ben?

[unfrufru]

it's already on this list somewhere. i'm pretty sure i was the one that posted it too.

*edit* i was wrong, it was leish that posted it, it's about halfway down the first page of this thread

[susanjacobs]

Novelist Mickey Spillane dies at 88


I have fond memories of watching Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series in the 80s. The series was probably really crap. However, this saddens me.