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<title>Celebrity Death Trio</title><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/index.html</link><description>Because celebrities always die in threes . . .</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2008 HP Newquist</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-10-01T22:01:20-04:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:46:47 -0400</lastBuildDate><item><title>OctoberFest in Peace</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-10-01T22:01:20-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-129</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Working his way up the entrenched studio system of the 1940s and 50s, he played good-looking guys with significant quirks, and for a while was typecast as part of a new generation of pretty boy, creating a pouty and pompadoured look that would be emulated by James Dean and Elvis Presley.  But his acting skills won out, and he ultimately starred in big movies like "Spartacus," "Some Like It Hot," "The Boston Strangler," and the "The Defiant Ones," a movie about an escaped convict chained to a black escapee (Sidney Poitier, still alive, BTW) and for which Curtis garnered an Oscar nomination.

...Giraldo's shtick was that he was the one comic who just couldn't get famous, but in reality he had a monstrous following (when his death was announced, it was the most twittered event of the night) and had once had his own sitcom, albeit a short-lived one ....  His style was one of barbed insults and scathing observation: he once said of filmmaker Michael Moore that "If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds."...  The world got a little less funny when he died, and his brand of insults will be missed by those of us who write the words here at the Celebrity Death Trio World Headquarters.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sizzling Summer Bummer</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-08-14T20:14:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-128</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-128</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And just when you thought it might never arrive -- like some doomed ice cream truck with a failed transmission -- the CDT shows up with an icy blast that has all the refreshing chill of a morgue at midnight.

...And don't forget to lift that gin and tonic to salute our terminal trio as they seek to protect themselves from the heat of the sun with six feet of freshly shoveled Earth.

...She played a brilliant promoter in "A Face In The Crowd" (one of the greatest movies of all time; rent it tonight!), as well as the housekeeper in "Hud," for which she received an Academy Award....  Many of her own medical problems occurred while she was married to Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" (that's Willie Wonka, to you) and "James & The Giant Peach."

...While in his early 20s, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, and was enlisted by the Democratic Party to help with JFK's run for president.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Oil And Water Remix</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-06-03T18:03:20-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-127</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-127</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For instance, if you live in Louisiana, when it rains it becomes a hurricane, and then it becomes Katrina, and then it becomes a flood, and later it becomes an oil rig disaster, and then it becomes the world's largest oil spill, and then it's only a matter of time until God himself shows up with a fistful of plague in one hand and a river of blood in the other.

...God's been showing up a lot lately in the celebrity world, which is rare for him since those of us at the Celebrity Death Trio&trade; World Headquarters were pretty much convinced he was taking 2010 off to catch up on long-overdue mining disasters, volcanic explosions, earthquakes, sinkholes, and other assorted terrestrial housekeeping matters.

...Since the floodwaters are rising, and time's a-wasting, we're going to dive right in and do a few laps with our soon-to-be-sodden celebs, who are all quite content doing the dead man's float.

...He and Corey Haim (featured in the March 2010 edition of the CDT) are sure to be duking it out in the afterlife over who gets to be the eternal poster boy for the perils of being labeled "a former child actor."

...He had small roles in great movies like "Rebel Without A Cause," "Giant," and "Cool Hand Luke" before he made his star turn in "Easy Rider," a film he directed, co-wrote and starred in with Nicholson (not to mention being featured in a million posters riding a motorcycle with his middle finger extended).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Song&#x2c; Sorcery&#x2c; &#x26; Cemeteries</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-05-21T23:11:11-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-126</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Not that white actresses were treated all that well, but black actresses were all treated with the kind of respect reserved for house maids ands Aunt Jemima stand-ins.

...But real success came in the 1960s when the images he created for the cover of Conan The Barbarian paperback books became the basis for everything from comic books to videogames to sword & sorcery movies, not to mention hard rock album covers (he created the iconic riders for Molly Hatchet's albums).

...Upon quitting Purple, Blackmore hired Dio in 1975 to form Rainbow, a band that set the standard for swords and sorcery imagery that would pervade heavy metal for decades to follow....  Dio's voice, one of the best in the history of rock (and certainly metal) was incredibly distinctive, as was his diminutive stature, and his use of the "devil horns" hand sign....  Ronnie James was considered one of the nicest guys in a not-very-nice business, and he was singing with his band Heaven And Hell just up until he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Swingin&#x27; From The Yard Arm &#x27;60s</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-03-29T07:32:31-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-125</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's kinda groovy, kinda psychedelic, but mostly way out - specifically way out in the cemetery, where these celebs are singing songs of a bygone era ("Got me a ticket for an airplane .

...His main claim to fame was "I Spy," the 1960's spy series in which he played a wise-cracking, suave, know-it-all who also happened to be an international spy disguised as a tennis player....  Culp also appeared in several films, notably "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," and was a frequent guest on TV programs over the course of 50 years, including "Bonanza," "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

...Parker played Crockett in the 1950s series produced by Disney, which was so successful it inspired more than 3,000 different items of branded merchandise, from lunch boxes to fringe jackets to the wildly popular coonskin cap (don't you wonder where they all went?).  After the show ran its course, Parker continued to appear in Disney films, notably the tearjerker "Old Yeller," before pulling the Davy Crockett blueprint out for the 1964 TV show "Daniel Boone."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beyond The Graves</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2010-03-17T14:29:18-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/cdtblog.html#unique-entry-id-124</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Being dead means the end of the celebrity, although paradoxically, it doesn't mean the end to a celebrity's actual celebrity (which is why Michael Jackson is making more now that he's dead than he did in the last years he was alive).

...Born Peter Arness, Graves changed his name so as not to be confused with his older brother, James Arness, who had huge success as Marshall Dillon on the TV series "Gunsmoke."  After appearing on TV in the equine series "Fury" and in movies like "Stalag 17" and "It Conquered The World," Graves became best known as the intrepid Jim Phelps, the man who chose to accept every tape-recorded mission on "Mission Impossible" from 1967 to 1973.

...He was in the process of suing NBC for exposing him to such toxins on the set, and may have had a case: "Little House" costars Michael Landon (CDT Class of 1991) and Victor French both died of cancer as well.

...He and Feldman worked together in a 2007 reality show that followed their current lives, brilliantly titled "The Two Coreys," but it got cancelled when Haim decided that drugs were more important than his career.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Is It Soup Yet?</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-10-23T09:49:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-123</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After a summer of Baby Boomer icons taking their sleigh ride to Satan, the fact that some classic octo- and nonagenarians are able to bring their game to the table - or to the slab - is heart-warming.

...So go find a black and white Zenith or Magnavox television set, adjust the rabbit ears, and hoist a glass in praise of those days when everything in the world really was as simple as black or white.

...One of the first comedians to bring slapstick to television, Sales had a huge TV show in the 1950s, one that inexorably led to him getting hit in the face with a pie.  Born Milton Supman, Sales was a natural performer who was in the right place at the right time when radio and TV were looking for programming six decades ago. He became a radio DJ in the early 1950s and then the host of a kids' show in Detroit.

...While he couldn't parlay it into a leading man film career, it did lead to more than 70 TV show appearances, which by any measure is one of the most impressive runs the CDT has seen in a long time.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Summer Shutdown</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-09-18T14:31:47-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-122</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It has been a summer of Celebrity Death Trios like no other, and just keeping up with the Morbid March to the Eternal Exit has required that we put our staff on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

...We've got a singer who has left on her last jet plane, a dirty dancer who's now dancing in his own grave, and a Laugh-In staple who's had his last laugh.

...Swayze's fight with pancreatic cancer during the last year reminded a lot of people that the actor had some high points in a career that seemed to be on B-Movie autopilot.

...They smoothed off the edges of Bob Dylan with their rendition of "Blowin' In The Wind," made a star of John Denver by recording his "Leaving On A Jet Plane" (and yes, we've forgiven them for that), and created one of the world's most conspiracy-laden children's songs with "Puff The Magic Dragon."

...Noted for his little poems on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" variety show, Gibson was a man who played a variety of quirky supporting roles in movies and TV during a long career career.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Better Off Ted</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-08-28T02:18:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-121</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What can be said about Teddy that hasn't been said elsewhere, except that he was the only Kennedy boy not to be killed by another human being.

...Once Kaplan started offering classes in other cities, the College Board - those fun folks who annually scare the crap out of students with their PSAT and SAT tests - claimed that his courses didn't help test takers.

...Simpson, Claus Von Bulow, Phil Spector, the Menendez Brothers, and Michael Skakel and William Kennedy Smith (the latter two defendants part of the storied Kennedy clan, with William's trial including accusations of binge drinking with now-dead uncle Teddy, above).

...He also invented multi-track recording, which allowed for different parts of a song to be recorded at different times (previously, all songs had to be recorded live and in one take).

...One of the last reputable places to get real news, "60 Minutes" was hatched in Hewitt's brain 41 years ago. His invention, now a staple of television, was the TV newsmagazine - what Hewitt figured a broadcast version of LIFE magazine should be like.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ladies First</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-08-11T06:06:06-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-120</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you're in the business of reporting on dead celebs, this summer has been busier than Bill Clinton explaining to Hillary what he was doing last week with two Asian chicks in a private jet - alone - over North Korea.

...In fact, with his lawyers, family, ex-wives, and advisors piling on his legacy, the only person not digging out from the aftermath of Jackson's death is Michael himself....  Unless it was 50-year old ex-pitchman Billy Mays, who according to the coroner's report this week was doing a lot of shoveling - most of it up his nose.

...Unlike her siblings, she skipped elected office and went straight into social work from college, ultimately developing programs for the mentally retarded (based in part on her experience with sister Rosemarie, who was secretly lobotomized in 1941).

...Most of us forget that Cory was a breath of fresh democratic air in a country previously ruled over by the famed power couple of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Interspecies Internment</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-07-17T16:44:55-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-119</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-119</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&bull; Walter Cronkite: Uncle Walter was once America's most trusted newsman, the person who told Americans what they needed to know.

...&bull; Frank McCourt: popular writer and teacher who found late-in-life fame with the novel &ldquo;Angela's Ashes.&rdquo;  No word on the sequel, &ldquo;Frank's Ashes.&rdquo;

&bull; Gidget: 15-year old Taco Bell spokesmammal and world-famous Chihuahua.  Yes, the CDT has gone to the dogs.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>McDead</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-07-08T08:34:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-118</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A very special McDeath issue of the CDT&trade;, with the focus on the unique elements of these three celebs' family names.

...Later on, he admitted that being in the war was &ldquo;wrong, terribly wrong.&rdquo;

...American football player who played for the Tennessee Titans and the Baltimore Ravens, shot to death.  Used to be that players worried about getting hurt on the field; these days, gunshots seem to be a bigger problem for the NFL.

...Quite honestly, this guy is our hero; he worked up until his death and published an autobiography in 2004 called &ldquo;My First 100 Years.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Pearly Gate Crashers</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-07-03T00:29:16-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-117</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-117</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Either way, the denizens here at the Celebrity Death Trio&trade; World Headquarters were halfway out the door for the 4th of July when yet another terminal triumvirate blew up our vacation plans like the fireworks finale at Disneyland.

...Most of us remember Karl-he of the unusually bulbous proboscis-as the pitchman for American Express ("don't leave home without it") and the good actor on "Streets Of San Francisco" (yeah, we're talking about you, Michael Douglas).  But Malden was a veritable film and theater icon, winning awards for his roles in "On The Waterfront" and "Streetcar Named Desire" where he more than held his own against Marlon Brando.

...He's going to have to be autopsied because no one's quite sure how he died, although it's rumored to have been from a head bump he sustained during an airplane landing .

...Weird fact: he was a guest on the debut episode of Farrah Fawcett's barely-there sitcom, "Good Sports," and he was a repeat guest on "The Tonight Show."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>OMG CDT&#x21;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-06-27T00:01:51-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-115</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In addition to laughing at all of Johnny's jokes, Ed hosted Star Search and numerous game shows, co-hosted both "TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes" and the Jerry Lewis Telethons, and did commercials for everything from Budweiser and Alpo to American Family Publishers sweepstakes.  Ed's later years were marked by the kind of jokes he might have laughed at on The Tonight Show: he kept injuring himself in bizarre ways (falls, household mold, botched surgeries) and he lost his fortune on bad investments, making the potential foreclosure of his mansion a running national gag.

...Because of her one-year stint on "Charlie's Angels," her brief marriage to "Six Million Dollar Man" star Lee Majors, and a series of pathetically bad movies, most of us forget that she could really act, with stellar performances in "The Burning Bed" and "The Apostle."...  Then when she contracted a rare form of cancer that few people had ever heard of, let alone would say out loud (yes, it was anal cancer), Farrah turned her illness into an end-of-life reality show.

...But you know, we think there may be some cosmic-level karma at work here: when Michael idiotically proclaimed himself the "King Of Pop," he probably didn't realize it would refer to the sound his aorta would make during his last moment on Earth.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hanging Around</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-06-12T04:35:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-116</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But we're all about facts here at the CDT, and we don't like to get all hung up on speculation, or roped into one theory or another.  We just want to make sure that every celebrity gets to pass through the velvet rope that marks the entrance to Heaven, or nirvana, or the Forever After Fern Bar & Grill (designed, coincidentally, by one of this week's dead celebrities).

...Beloved as the character Kwai Chang Caine (don't you just love saying that out loud?), Carradine's work on the TV show "Kung Fu" made him a pop culture icon for decades....  A good actor who chose questionable roles in over 100 movies (except for playing Woodie Guthrie in "Bound For Glory"), Carradine turned his martial arts shtick into a career resuscitating role in the sleek gorefest that was "Kill Bill, Parts1 and 2."

...Brinker invented the concepts, for better or worse, of 1) casual dining with serve yourself salad bars, and 2) the fern bar, that place that made happy hours for singles so appealing during our post-college days (oh yeah, you spent a lot of time in those, didn't you?).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dom. Dom&#x2c; Dom&#x2c; Dom. DOM.</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-05-15T23:11:50-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-114</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-114</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dom was a favorite of director Mel Brooks (appearing in &ldquo;The 12 Chairs,&rdquo; &ldquo;Blazing Saddles, &ldquo;Silent Movie,&rdquo; &ldquo;Spaceballs,&rdquo; among others) and a friend of Burt Reynolds, with whom he co-starred in &ldquo;Smokey & The Bandit II,&rdquo; &ldquo;Cannonball Run,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The End.&rdquo;

...Playing for the Boston Red Sox &ndash; the avowed enemies of the Yankees, led by older brother Joe (CDT Class of 1999) &ndash; &ldquo;The Little Professor&rdquo; was a seven-time All Star, batted over .300 in four seasons, and led the American League twice in runs scored.  Dom served in the Navy for three years during World War II, an interruption in his career that many said kept him from the Hall of Fame, a major oversight since his defensive abilities were considered to be superior to Joltin&rsquo; Joe&rsquo;s.  Still ranked as one of the greatest players to ever don a Red Sox uniform, his departure now provides an answer to that unasked Simon & Garfunkel question: &ldquo;Where have you gone, Dom DiMaggio?&rdquo;

...He was respected in both college and pro circles as a coach who could get notoriously difficult players &ndash; like Dennis Rodman, Isaiah Thomas, and former Notre Damer Bill Laimbeer -- to work together for the good of the team.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Loosen That Deathgrip</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-05-05T05:55:33-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-113</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[His fame helped him get elected as Buffalo's congressman, which he followed up with a stint as secretary of housing and urban development for George HW Bush....  Kennedy-esque looks (not to mention the initials attached to Jack French Kemp), he was actually a savvy and progressive politician who took the lead on tax cuts and trying to get the Republican Party to expand its ethnic base beyond entitled whites.

...She was the title character in "Maude," a 1972 spin-off of "All In The Family" that was one of the first TV shows to embrace the feminist movement and address topics such as abortion and infidelity....  Bea was a big woman with a deep voice, and was the butt of more "manly" jokes than Arnold Schwarzenegger, but she handled it in grand style and caustic wit.

...We've got to admit, this is one of those deaths where it's like the celeb is actually getting to keep his day job.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Downhill Racing</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-03-19T00:05:13-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-112</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-112</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, it's a ghastly economy, and maintaining our world headquarters high atop a New York skyscraper, with bureaus in 27 cities and a full-time research staff of over 300 people--all traveling on the CDT corporate jet--would make the CDT&trade; appear ripe for some bloodletting.

...But as signs have emerged that the economy isn't disappearing into a black hole, some of those celebs have decided that it's time to get back in the game....  And as is so often true when the going gets rough, it's the denizens of Hollywood who are making the headlines this week, helping to brighten up the otherwise skull-crushing news coverage of corporate fraud, incestuous Austrian fathers, and political bickering--you know, really depressing things.

It's nice that we get a brief respite from all the gloom thanks to our terminal troika, who have ceased worrying about their 401ks or whether AIG executives should be boiled alive.

...Silver was one of those actors whose name and face you knew--the scruffy beard was a dead giveaway-but you couldn't always think of what you'd seen him in. Here's a list: Wiseguys, Veronica's Closet, Rhoda, West Wing, Ali, Timecop, and Reversal Of Fortune, to name a few.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy New Tears&#x21;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-01-19T22:31:18-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2009#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Peter&rsquo;s Purgatory Plots, but at least they can sleep soundly (and eternally) knowing they&rsquo;ve started the year off with the kind of publicity that even money can&rsquo;t buy.

...And while they won&rsquo;t be participating in any of the Inaugural Balls, we hail them on their historic journey into the frozen ground (which is probably warmer than it is above ground, given the recent temperatures across the nation).

...Whether you think of him as the mighty Kahn from &ldquo;Star Trek,&rdquo; the grandfather in &ldquo;Spy Kids,&rdquo; or the guy who was always belittling Tattoo on &ldquo;Fantasy Island,&rdquo; Ricardo was first and foremost a guy with an incredibly distinctive accent.  Born in Mexico, Montalban appeared in nearly every TV series you can think of in the 1960s and '70s (The Virginian, Hawaii 5-O, Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Name of The Game, I Spy, Combat!, Dr. Kildare, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., to name but a handful).

...For a time, he was the highest paid TV star in the UK, and his debonair appearance, suave demeanor, and clipped Irish brogue made him an elite figure on American screens, appearing in movies such as &ldquo;Scanners,&rdquo; &ldquo;Ice Station Zebra,&rdquo; and Disney&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Lack-Of-Stimulus Package</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-12-21T13:02:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-110</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-110</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Having Santa and the Grim Reaper show up the same time of the year tends to send mixed messages, so here&rsquo;s a way to avoid potentially embarrassing situations around the Yule log: Santa&rsquo;s got the gift bag, and the Grim Reaper has the toe tag.

...Her face and figure adorned pinups years before Hugh Hefner became a bathrobe-clad household name, and her naughty-but-nice &ldquo;pictorials&rdquo; all but defined a style of peekaboo photography that lives on to this day.

...Deep Throat was played by Hal Holbrook in the movie &ldquo;All The Presidents Men,&rdquo; but his identity remained a secret until 2005 when he outed himself in order to cash in on lucrative book and movie deals in his dotage.

...She&rsquo;s better known as the voice of the computers in just about every iteration of Star Trek ever created; her voice became so well known that Union Pacific had Majel record its railroad track warnings for approaching trains.

...Known for his performances in &ldquo;The Caine Mutiny&rdquo; and &ldquo;Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,&rdquo; he also showed up in classic TV fare such as Nanny & The Professor, Ben Casey, McCloud, McMillan & Wife, and as Batman&rsquo;s adversary &ldquo;The Minstrel.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Casting Lots . . . and Votes</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-11-17T18:55:24-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-109</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-109</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When we got the call to write up this week's Celebrity Death Trio&trade;, we thought it was going to be an all-GOP obituary: a stake through the heart of John McCain's career, the flat-lining of the entire Republican Party, and Sarah Palin's final political appearance before taking that job doing the 1 AM pole dance at "Flashgirls."

...He turned the practice of oral history into a valid literary field with books like "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do," and "The Good War: An Oral History of World War II," the latter winning a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

...Here's one that shouldn't be: During the Vietnam War, John Ripley single-handedly stopped the advance of 20,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and 200 tanks into South Vietnam by risking his life to blow up a bridge.  The bridge was the Viet Cong's only direct route into South Vietnam, and over the course of three hours, Ripley swung hand over hand across its steel girders to wire it with explosives.  The Viet Cong attempted to shoot him down, even resorting to a tank to try and blast him off, but he still managed to put nearly 600 pounds worth of TNT on the bridge's supports.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Labored Pains</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-09-05T06:55:03-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This triumvirate has been silenced forever, but as the CDT&rsquo;s newest Crematory Club members, they are certain to be chatting up other distinguished patrons in the cemetery suite of the Hotter Than Hell Hotel.

...Few of his film fans, though, knew that Reed was an extremely innovative guitar player who developed a method of playing known as &ldquo;claw&rdquo; style that helped earn him the nickname of &ldquo;Guitar Man of Country Music.&rdquo;

...It was Charles Schulz (CDT&trade; Class of 2000) who created the world&rsquo;s most beloved comic strip, Peanuts, but it was Melendez who brought Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Woodstock, and Schroeder to life in TV specials, commercials, and the ubiquitous Christmas extravaganzas.  An animator for Disney and Warner Brothers in their cartoon heyday&mdash;when the Mexican-born Bill was still known as Jos&eacute; Cuauhtemoc Mel&eacute;ndez&mdash;he drew characters ranging from Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to Pinocchio and Dumbo.  Melendez also created the TV versions of the comic strips Garfield and Cathy, but of singular importance to this issue of the CDT is that he provided the voice to the snickering Snoopy in all of the Charlie Brown specials.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Soul To Soul Men</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-08-15T10:12:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-107</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-107</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Okay, it&rsquo;s the end of the week and we&rsquo;ll bet you&rsquo;ve already forgotten about the three most recent celebs who make up this week&rsquo;s Celebrity Death Trio&trade;....  Even though John wants you to forget about him, his love-child, and the way he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, he&rsquo;s still top of the headlines.

...While Edwards&rsquo; career may have hit the wall with more force than an Earnhardt family member, the news was even less pleasant for our three celebrities, who are probably kicking themselves for dying before Michael Phelps made Olympic history.

...He later became the male version of Queen Latifah as he played the requisite funny black guy in a host of comedies and capers such as Ocean&rsquo;s 11, Charlie&rsquo;s Angels, Bad Santa, and Transformers.

...Hayes will forever be known as the man with the oh-so-smooth voice who sang the 1970s hit Shaft (&ldquo;Who is the cat that won&rsquo;t walk out/When there&rsquo;s danger all about/SHAFT!/John Shaft .]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Quit Clowning Around</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-07-15T16:18:07-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-105</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-105</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In a bit of irony that probably made someone like George Steinbrenner laugh, Murcer died just days before the last All-Star Game to be played at Yankee Stadium.

...By all accounts, Tony Snow was a pretty good guy, considering he fronted for the Bush Administration and worked as a Fox News reporter&mdash;both of which are jobs not necessarily associated with being a good guy (let alone telling the truth).

...Elected to the Senate in 1972, his Elmer Fudd-with-spectacles shtick was continually brought to bear on America as he fought against everything from civil rights and gay rights on to the Martin Luther King holiday.  The amazing thing was that he kept getting elected, which proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that certain parts of the U.S. still use outhouses, marry their sisters, and worship the Confederate flag that&rsquo;s hanging in the living room of their double-wide trailers.

...PS. Comedian George Carlin died just over two weeks ago. When he died, many loyal readers suggested that the CDT&trade; do whatever it took to get Carlin into the CDT&trade;&mdash;including repeated suggestions that the CDT&trade; itself &ldquo;off&rdquo; two other celebrities in order to make it happen.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beat The Press</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-06-20T16:21:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-104</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So join us in raising a glass to mark the passing of these three as they get ready for summer vacation in a place where you don&rsquo;t need curbside check-in, or extra luggage fees, to wing your way into the sky.

...Talk about death as a career move: on Amazon, his books went from 24,000 and 26,000 respectively on the day of his death to #1 and #2 on Father&rsquo;s Day.

...Besides all that, we at the CDT have to admit a certain fondness for any babe who ended up with the stage name Cyd after being born Tula Ellice Finklea.

...One of the classic special effects guys, Winston is probably responsible for more of the cool stuff you see on the screen than any other person, living or dead....  However, Winston is probably getting a lot of grief from the other dead special effects legends due to his design for the Mr. Roboto character in the worst concept album of all time, Kilroy Was Here, by the rock group Styx.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ain&#x27;t Got Diddley</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-06-09T12:16:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-103</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-103</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Not only did Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s campaign go down faster than the crew of the Hindenburg&mdash;and with more flames&mdash;but three celebrities boarded that Last Train to Darksville, where the answer to &ldquo;Will you meet me at the station?&rdquo;

...It&rsquo;s hard to spell it out here on paper (da duh da duh da, duh-da-duh), but everything from U2&rsquo;s &ldquo;Desire&rdquo; and George Michael&rsquo;s &ldquo;Faith&rdquo; on to Buddy Holly&rsquo;s &ldquo;Not Fade Away&rdquo; and David Bowie&rsquo;s &ldquo;Panic In Detroit&rdquo; appropriated the beat....  Diddley&rsquo;s trademark rectangular guitar and black hat made him one of the most recognizable bluesmen to ever pick up a six-string, but we&rsquo;ll always remember him for not only keeping the beat, but inventing it.

...His YSL logo was ubiquitous during the &lsquo;80s and &lsquo;90s, and his influence was so pervasive that he was the first living fashion designer to get a solo show at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The French named him a Commander of the Legion Of Honor before he retired in 2002.

...It seemed there wasn&rsquo;t a single weekend during our lives where his voice didn&rsquo;t come wafting out from the TV set (even back when most of those sets were of the black and white variety).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hellbound From Hollywood</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-05-30T10:58:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-102</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-102</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But we brought every single employee and intern back to their desks to cover the biggest story of the week: three celebrities checking into the Marriott Morgue within a seven day period.  As you well know, the CDT is built on the premise that celebrities die in threes, but it was disconcerting to us that celebs were dying less frequently than normal.  Obviously, the rich and famous have been cutting back like the rest of us, even if it means they&rsquo;ve had to delay that long-awaited trip to Forest Lawn.

...From 1968 to 1973, Laugh-In changed the face of both TV and pop culture, featuring hippie references, counter-culture jokes, bikini-clad go-go dancers (including Goldie Hawn), and frenetic pacing that predated MTV and &ldquo;24&rdquo; by years....  Now that Dick has had it socked to him, courtesy of respiratory failure, you can bet your sweet bippy that he&rsquo;s making them laugh day and night at Lucifer&rsquo;s Lounge.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Musical Memories Lapse</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-03-27T23:43:46-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-101</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With so many of our celebs coming from the world of entertainment, there are quite a few legacies here&mdash;people who will be remembered long after the last half-eaten chocolate bunny and moldy marshmallow Peep have settled deep into the crematorium carpet.

...Whatever his personal peccadilloes, Clarke&rsquo;s greatest notion may have been one that went from science fiction to science fact: in the 1940s, he was the first writer to suggest putting stationary satellites in position over Earth to enable global communications .

...But Ivan was more than just Sgt. Kinchloe&mdash;&ldquo;Kinch&rdquo; to his buddies&mdash;as he appeared in episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, and starred in groundbreaking movies like &ldquo;A Raisin In The Sun&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Patch Of Blue&rdquo; that addressed issues of race years before the civil rights movement took up the cause.

...Herb created the quasi-tasty breakfast food in 1972 while he was a McDonald&rsquo;s franchise owner as part of an effort to get people to eat their first meal of the day at Mickey D&rsquo;s.

...Referred to as the &ldquo;fifth Beatle&rdquo;&mdash;a title he shared with producer George Martin&mdash;Neil handled much of the business end of the Beatles&rsquo; affairs, running their Apple record company and protecting their image and music worldwide.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Best Performance By A Corpse</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-01-25T10:22:09-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-100</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After last week&rsquo;s incredible six-shooter performance, the Reaper was back with some high-profile terminations that tugged at the heartstrings of young and old, male and female.

...As a solo artist, Stewart had significant success in the late 70s and early 80s, most notably with his hit 1979 single &ldquo;Gold,&rdquo; a duet with Fleetwood Mac&rsquo;s Stevie Nicks.

...Long before she melted our hearts and stirred our hormones as Emily Hartley on the Bob Newhart show, she had established herself as a hugely talented actress on Broadway and in movies like &ldquo;The Birds,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin,&rdquo; &ldquo;Fate Is The Hunter,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Support Your Local Gunfighter.&rdquo;...  Renowned for her husky voice&mdash;let&rsquo;s just call it sexy, shall we?&mdash;and her portrayal of strong women, Pleshette worked nearly up until her death with recurring roles on Will & Grace and 8 Simple Rules, receiving four Emmy nominations along the way.  In a bizarre twist of fate, she married fellow actor Tom Poston (who starred in the Newhart sequel to The Bob Newhart Show) in 2001, although the two had dated some 40 years earlier.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A New Year&#x27;s Six Shooter</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2008-01-18T09:02:23-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-99</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2008#unique-entry-id-99</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A lifelong explorer, Hillary also crossed Antarctica overland and flew to the North Pole in a twin engine plane with astronaut Neil Armstrong, then led an expedition that searched for the Abominable Snowman.

...If you&rsquo;ve ever eaten at a Carl&rsquo;s Jr or a Hardee&rsquo;s burger joint, you have entered the world as envisioned by Carl Karcher....  After taking his company public, Carl and his family were accused of insider trader, which ended up costing Carl half a million bucks in fines, or roughly 250,000 Double Western Bacon Cheeseburgers.

...Everyone, not just the chess geeks or the math club, was glued to their TVs for an entire month while Fischer made chess look like a bloodsport.

...Here&rsquo;s a short list of the products that Knerr introduced to America, all of which contributed to our misspent youths: the Hula Hoop, the Frisbee, SuperBalls, the Slip N&rsquo; Slide, the Water Wiggly sprinkler, and perhaps most importantly, Silly String.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Three Deceased Men</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-12-21T16:03:06-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-98</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Fogelberg ushered in the era of &ldquo;soft rock&rdquo; with contemporaries James Taylor and the Eagles in the mid-70s (unfortunately, none of the Eagles have been featured as members of the CDT&mdash;we&rsquo;re still hoping!)....  His tune &ldquo;Longer&rdquo; has been a wedding standard for baby boomers who feel the need to usher in their vows with a sappy lite-rock song that sets the mood.

...On the other hand, many non-fans consider him to be little more than the guy who beat up his wife Anna Mae Bullock&mdash;better known as Tina Turner....  He was even sitting in a jail cell on the day that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him (although jail is currently a much more noble institution than the R&R Hall of Shame).

...As Harding&rsquo;s bodyguard, big Shawn made sure that Kerrigan was &ldquo;taken care of&rdquo; just prior to the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but Nancy recovered to garner a silver in that year&rsquo;s Olympics.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Holiday Dropping</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-11-30T14:00:06-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-97</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-97</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The week after Thanksgiving is typically the time for easing back into work after too much turkey and tequila, or for showing up at Wal-Mart at 5 AM to score the really great holiday shopping deals.

...No stranger to criminal behavior himself&mdash;Taylor was busted for felony assault charges two years ago&mdash;he is nonetheless missed by his teammates and fans who universally praised his playing skills.  We here at the CDT think this might be part of a lethal football trend: in the last two years, NFL players have been taking more bullets than the runner-up at a Michael Vick dog show.

...Most of you will remember Hyde as the white-haired crusader who led the impeachment proceedings against then-President Bill Clinton (you know, the guy who said &ldquo;It depends on what the meaning of &lsquo;is&rsquo; is&rdquo; and &ldquo;I did not have sex with that woman&rdquo;)....  Much of his carefully crafted holier-than-thou image came crashing down when he attacked Clinton during the Lewinsky affair, only to have his own extra-marital fling revealed in the process.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tricks Or Treats</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-11-02T15:56:30-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Great costumes were found on nearly every doorstep, but the newest CDT members didn&rsquo;t need any makeup or even a bag full of Reese&rsquo;s Cups to top our list for &ldquo;Best Dead Celebrity Disguise.&rdquo;...  They kept that promise, so in this season of (Almond) Joy, where Death has tapped each of our Three Musketeers with its (Butter) Finger of finality, gaze up at the Milky Way and blow a (Hershey&rsquo;s) Kiss to our recent Starbursts.

...He&rsquo;d has his share of strange events: he famously forgot the words to the &ldquo;Star Spangled banner&rdquo; before a boxing match (like any of us would remember those lyrics) and appeared lately in commercials for Emerald Nuts and ESPN.

...The big-breasted one rose to fame on the show&mdash;some claim she also rose to fame in Wagoner&rsquo;s bed&mdash;and for many years Porter and Dolly were country western&rsquo;s favorite duo.  In addition to racking up 29 Top Ten hits, Wagoner&mdash;who died of lung cancer&mdash;had 81 singles that reached the country charts, averaging more than one a year for every year of his life.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Falling Around</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-10-05T22:14:34-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But at least we're delivering this news to you while it's still warm, which is more than we can say about the body temperature of our featured guests.

...In any other movie, Maxwell would have been the hot babe, but in 007's world, she was little more than a frump and a longshot for Bond's affections.

...Considered a long shot every time he showed up due to injuries and high blood pressure, Oerter still managed to beat all competitors, and was the only athlete in history to set four consecutive Olympic records.  He actually had his best recorded throw ever at age 43 while practicing for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but sports wimp Jimmy Carter prohibited U.S. athletes from competing in that event.  At age 47, during filming for a TV show, Oerter threw 245 feet, which would still be the all-time world record if it had happened during competition.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>End Of Summer Siesta</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-23T09:36:42-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The way this summer has been going, you&rsquo;d think that celebrities were competing with Barry Bonds to see who could rack up the highest numbers before getting shut down by the powers that be.

...After his White House stint, Deaver sought the really big and really criminal bucks in Washington DC, which led to a conviction for lying about his influence peddling&mdash;making him a trendsetter for today&rsquo;s scandal-ridden lobbyists.

...A master of improvisation, Roach was so adept that his solo percussion pieces were like listening to entire bands&mdash;hardly the bashing and wanking that so many drummers have embraced in his wake.  He also spoke out on behalf of civil rights at a time when he was still likely to be lynched, and many of his compositions reflected his perspective on the experience of modern African Americans.

...An aggressive go-getter who married her way to the top of New York&rsquo;s real estate pyramid, Helmsley was reviled as a penny-pinching, foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, hotel-owner who terrorized her staff and skirted the law in order to save a few bucks here and there.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>They Lost On Jeopardy</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-08-15T12:25:24-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After last week&rsquo;s trifecta, we thought that most celebs would be on vacation or too busy to reserve a seat at the coroner&rsquo;s table&mdash;at least until Labor Day.

...Long one of New York City&rsquo;s most notable philanthropists, Brooke spent a good portion of her life donating her husband&rsquo;s fortune to New York institutions like the Public Library and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unlike modern-day socialites, she was eager to spread the money around to help those less fortunate than her (which was just about everybody)....  It&rsquo;s too bad that in her final years, her good name was besmirched by her son, who apparently kept her locked away from the world and made her sleep on a couch so he could spend her money.

...Short of stature, but fast on the field, Rizzuto was considered by many to be one of the best shortstops to ever play the game....  was his trademark phrase&mdash;but the CDT&trade; loves him best as the announcer calling the play by play for Meat Loaf&rsquo;s impassioned fumbling in the rock classic &ldquo;Paradise By The Dashboard Light.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Terminal Trifecta&#x21;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-07-31T17:26:15-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Here it is, Celebrity Death Trio&trade; watchers, the day you've been waiting for all summer long. Yes, we bring you the mortuary equivalent of a Kentucky Derby trifecta: three stunning celebrity deaths in one 24 hour period.  It's made for a frenetic and full day down here at CDT Central&trade;, where celebrity deaths over the past few months have been harder to find than Lindsay Lohan's designated driver.

...Bergman was considered one of the greatest movie directors of all time, having taken the medium from its early black and white days to its existential and color-saturated heights.

...Snyder was a New York anchorman for years before nailing the late night spot on "Tomorrow" in 1973 in the hours after Johnny Carson had been tucked in to bed....  Immortalized by Dan Ackroyd in early SNL skits who parodied his confrontational style and onset jokes with offstage crew, Snyder had great guests who ranged from Marlon Brando to Ayn Rand to Truman Capote to the last TV interview with John Lennon.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Drought Is Dead</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-07-09T08:40:47-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe it was anticipation of Fourth of July fireworks, or the fear of an impending Friday the 13th, but three celebs jumped deep enough into the cemetery swimming pool to splash up a few goodbye waves.

...After all, the hotline hadn&rsquo;t rung since April, so we can be excused for slipping out of the office for a few days at a time to catch maybe up on some sleep, maybe file some paperwork, or maybe hit an early happy hour.

...One of the great ironies in her life was that of all the people in the world who lined up to listen to Sills, her daughter Meredith never heard Beverly sing. Meredith was born deaf.

...Liz left the day-to-day business in 1989, but the CDT&trade; has to give her credit for a inspired innovation: the company directory was always printed up in alphabetical order, not by corporate rank.

...Not to be confused with his crosstown rival&mdash;the creepy Groucho Marx-styled freak show that goes by the name of Gene Shalit&mdash;Siegel spent more than two decades reviewing films for Good Morning America.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Wicked&#x2c; Weary&#x2c; and Withered</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-27T18:41:18-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We were still getting caught up on our sleep and enjoying a brief few hours of springtime in the wakes of our last trio (Vonnegut, Ho, and Hart) when Cold Weather ushered in Cold Bodies of Cold Warriors from the Cold War Era.

Not only was it like being dropped into a black and white documentary of the 1960s, with tanks and assassinations and battles, but for a few moments the world became Acronym Central: JFK, LBJ, MPAA, MGM, DMZ, and the USSR.

...After serving as an assistant and best friend to Lyndon Johnson for decades&mdash;Valenti even named his kid John Lyndon&mdash;he went to Hollywood where he helped the industry stave off criticism of its targeting its increasingly violent and blatantly sexual films to younger audiences.

...UPDATE: In our last CDT, we featured cartoonist Johnny Hart, who created the comic strips &ldquo;B.C.&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Wizard of Id.&rdquo; His co-creator of &ldquo;Id,&rdquo; Brant Parker, died exactly eight days after Hart did.  Eight days made 86-year old Parker ineligible for the &ldquo;three deaths in one week&rdquo; rule that we use hear at the CDT; a rule that is considered by many in journalism to be among the most strenuously enforced of any news organization on the planet.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>So It Went</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-16T19:20:43-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While we were digging out, there were three special celebrities who won&rsquo;t be digging anything anytime soon, unless it&rsquo;s from the inside of a pine box at six feet below ground level.

...This week&rsquo;s three are all from the world of the arts, and you can bet the heavenly hordes will be gathered around this veritable eternal entertainment center for millions of years to come.

...Vonnegut&rsquo;s novels came to the define the sardonic angst of the Vietnam generation with his written forays into science fiction worlds where Nazis and malevolent ice chips threatened to undermine our stable little lives.

...Sure, it was kitschy, but the guy invented the entire genre, and to this day we doubt anyone can create a mental image of a Hawaiian lounge singer that isn&rsquo;t derived from Ho&rsquo;s ubiquitous&mdash;and yes, innovative&mdash;stage act.

...Hart created two of the most popular post-&ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; comic strips of all-time with &ldquo;B.C.&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Wizard of Id.&rdquo; Taking the travails and idiocy of modern life and transporting them back to the Stone Age as well as medieval times, Hart&rsquo;s cartoons were a 10 second respite from the horrors of the daily newspapers every day for the last 43 years.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Less Than A Feeling</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-14T23:18:23-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just when we thought we&rsquo;d get some peace of mind after last week&rsquo;s tally of Nixon-era deadheads, the Terminal Ticker Tape started spitting out the names of celebs faster than you can say &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Look Back.&rdquo;

The CDT is dismayed that there seems to have been some strange suicide pact amongst this weeks guests, two of whom decided to book their own flights to the Forever Farm.

...Delp was found dead last week in his home, with friends expressing how excited he had been about an imminent Boston tour and a wedding planned for the summer....  Well, it appeared the nicest guy in rock and roll was tired of putting up such a brave face, because he was found in a locked bathroom with two &ldquo;smokin&rsquo;&rdquo; charcoal grilles that caused him to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

...We disliked Kuhn so much during his time as baseball&rsquo;s most tight-assed commissioner that he was the only one on this week&rsquo;s list we thought had a possible justification for taking his own life.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>No Whine Before Its Time</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-07T21:38:15-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We&rsquo;ll be testing your memory of days gone by because this week&rsquo;s merry band of mortuary marchers all achieved their moments of great fame several years ago. Okay, several decades ago. Okay, so it was during the Nixon era.

...As new members, our terminal troika is sure to be having the time of their (after)lives as they sit down for a non-stop meal at Beelzebub&rsquo;s banquet, one of the few places left where smoking is still allowed .

...They really struck gold with the introduction of &ldquo;Thunderbird,&rdquo; a cheap fruity wine aimed at the &ldquo;misery market&rdquo; and still favored by winos and penny-pinching frat boys alike....  Ernest was apparently a very dour human&mdash;paternal murder-suicides will do that&mdash;and for a man who would sell no wine before his time, this week it was obviously time.

...The release of &ldquo;Children Of The Sun&rdquo; in 1979 made Thorpe one of American rock&rsquo;s strangest one-hit wonders, as the song mixed sci-fi with psychedelia and a childlike longing for the Woodstock era.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Sporting (After) Life</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-28T01:19:04-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the all-time greats of professional basketball, DJ made his name in the NBA before the league became a refuge for illiterate punks and street thugs....  Johnson completed one of the most famous plays in NBA history during the 1987 conference finals when Bird stole an inbound pass and tossed to DJ, who laid up the final point to beat Detroit at the buzzer.

...During the 1960s, as the NFL was gaining popularity, Lundy was a member of the original &ldquo;Fearsome Foursome,&rdquo; arguably one of the most infamous lines in sports, featuring fellow huge humans and future actors Rosie Grier, Deacon Jones, and Merlin Olsen.  The 6&rsquo;7&rdquo; Lundy played pro ball from 1957 to 1969, played in the Pro Bowl, and spent his later years broadcasting for local teams in his hometown of Richmond, IN. He&rsquo;d been in poor health for quite some time, suffering from heart problems and myasthenia gravis.

...His death, which occurred while playing basketball, might not have made the headlines except for two things: 1) he was a young professional athlete and 2) he&rsquo;s the second Bronco to join the Purgatory Parade in just over a month.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Unsung</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-20T14:06:30-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[That&rsquo;s why you see so many celebs on cheesy infomercials: it may be bad TV, but it&rsquo;s a real camera and it goes out into real people&rsquo;s home.

...That way, we wouldn&rsquo;t have to be subjected to the daily headcount of who is checking into the local detox clinic because of &ldquo;an addiction to prescription painkillers.&rdquo;

...The best tribute we can give him is to list a few of our favorites: the theme to &ldquo;Mr. Ed&rdquo; (a horse is a horse, of course, of course), the theme to &ldquo;Bonanza,&rdquo; &ldquo;Que Sera Sera,&rdquo; &ldquo;Buttons And Bows, &ldquo;Mona Lisa,&rdquo; and &ldquo;To Each His Own.&rdquo;

...Trained as a physicist in Austria before WWII, he came to America to work at Zenith (an iconic TV maker, for those of you too young to remember)....  Adler was brought in help design a remote that didn&rsquo;t plug in to the TV and didn&rsquo;t affect every other TV on the block.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Train Wrecks In Slow Motion</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-12T05:59:35-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Those of us who man the phones here at the Celebrity Death Trio&trade; international headquarters can&rsquo;t quite remember a day like we had this past week.

...That said, let&rsquo;s wave goodbye, toss a black rose, and bow our heads in memory of those who now and forever will be hanging out at the Terminated Trio Tavern, where the drinks are free---but you never ask where the hors d&rsquo;oeuvres come from.

...In all honesty, there&rsquo;s nothing the CDT&trade; can add to the commentary on this woman&rsquo;s life that every news outlet on the planet hasn&rsquo;t already trotted out.

...Nothing else had ever so perfectly captured the whole mythos of the wranglers of the Wild West&mdash;-until &ldquo;Brokeback Mountain&rdquo; came along&mdash;-and it won him an Oscar nomination for best song when Mel Brooks reused it for &ldquo;Blazing Saddles.&rdquo;...  He was the first artist to hold the Number 1 and Number 2 positions on the record charts, and had hits with "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "That&rsquo;s My Desire," and "Dream a Little Dream of Me."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Pen vs. The Sword&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-05T15:36:20-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We here at the Celebrity Death Trio&trade; headquarters are big fans of the writing lifestyle, but even we know that there are only so many things you can write your way out of.

...Love them or loathe them, they got people to read, which is quite an accomplishment in an era where many celebrities can barely spell their own names or read their own arrest warrants.

...But he was successful even as a youngster: Sid won an Academy Award for his script for The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer back in 1947, when he was a mere 30-year old.

...Syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, it could be hokey and full of cornpone, but it was also barbed and occasionally spot on. Her biggest target was President Bush, with whom she went to high school.

...But Charles will not be involved in the day-to-day business anymore, as more pressing matters are waiting for him in that world where deadlines have absolutely nothing to do with getting papers out on time.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Horse Is A Horse&#x2c; Of Course&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-29T00:57:28-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We have to admit that this is an inauspicious occasion: it&rsquo;s the first time that the Celebrity Death Trio&trade; has led with an animal death since Mr. Ed huffed the hay back in 1970.  And honestly, we weren&rsquo;t going to lead with it but since all the major networks did, we figured it was up to us, in the name of journalistic integrity, to make it unanimous.

Not that there wasn&rsquo;t lot of other headline-worthy news, such as Hillary Clinton taking human form just long enough to show up in Iowa, or the Bush Administration spinning like an Indonesian airliner as it tried to dodge the Scooter Libby debacle.

...Most horses are put down immediately after breaking their legs (even with surgery, their skittish nature makes recovery from such injuries almost unbearable for the horse), but Barbaro&rsquo;s owners spent more money to save him than most insurance companies spend on cancer patients.

...Despite warnings from the Vatican, Drinan ran for Congress in 1970 believing that public service was part of his calling (many other Boston priests from the same era apparently misinterpreted this calling as &ldquo;pubic&rdquo; service).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>California Dreamsicles&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-22T04:54:22-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-90</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-90</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Not that we have a phalanx of big-time actors auditioning for their Final Act, but each of our celebs has a unique connection to the land of dreams and cuddly casting couches....  And for that, we give them one last round of applause as they make their way towards Beelzebub&rsquo;s Backstage Bar, where the drinks are always chilled and so are the patrons.

...Once upon a time, back in the 50s and 60s, Art was the most popular writer in America, a syndicated columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize and was syndicated in 500 papers around the world.  Today, he might best be remembered for successfully suing a major motion picture studio---Paramount---for stealing his ideas when he claimed to have written the original treatment for Eddie Murphy&rsquo;s last starring vehicle &ldquo;Coming To America.&rdquo;

...He enjoyed quite a bit of success later in life as the Harbor Master on Canada&rsquo;s wildly popular &ldquo;Theodore Tugboat&rdquo; kiddie show (think Thomas The Train Engine with characters that say &ldquo;eh?&rdquo;).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Munster Mash&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-15T17:28:14-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-89</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-89</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But the chill of frozen ground is never quite far away when you consider that celebrities don&rsquo;t die according to the Farmer&rsquo;s Almanac or any kind of seed planting schedule---except when the local funeral home is doing the planting.

...Interesting trivia fact for CDT aficionados: In real life, DeCarlo was actually a year older than Al Lewis, who played Grandpa on The Munsters (and joined us on the CDT Honor Roll almost exactly a year ago).

...Ponti was one of Italy&rsquo;s greatest film directors, but for most of his long life the world knew him as &ldquo;the guy married to Sophia Loren.&rdquo;

...But once it was revealed that Larry had given $1.3 million of his own money anonymously to needy people in and around his hometown, the media made him a star overnight....  And while he gave cash to various charities&mdash;he made a small fortune in the cable TV business&mdash;he regularly opted to hand out hundred dollar bills surreptitiously to people he&rsquo;d encounter on the street or in restaurants.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Icon Incineration&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-08T07:51:42-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-88</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-88</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After a New Year&rsquo;s blast that left the Celebrity Death Trio&trade; staff trying to catch its breath and twisting in the wind, it&rsquo;s nice to sit back and take stock of things.

...What that means is up for question, but he is leaving a cabinet-level position to take a job where he essentially handles the things that Condi doesn&rsquo;t want to be bothered with.

...Bishop Wielgus was one hour away from taking over as head of the Catholic Church in Poland when he realized that he&rsquo;d forgotten to take &ldquo;stooge for the Communist secret police&rdquo; off of his resum&eacute;.  We&rsquo;re wondering if that really bothered Pope Benedict, who had been supportive of Wielgus as evidence about his long ago agreement to spy on fellow citizens arose last month.

...The CDT knows very little about Kazakhstan---we even had to look it up three times to make sure we spelled it correctly---but we&rsquo;re wondering if the movie &ldquo;Borat&rdquo; and its portrayal of the Kazakhstanis as lovers of wine made from horse urine didn&rsquo;t help speed up Akhmetov&rsquo;s departure.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Auld Lang&#x27;s Dyin&#x27;&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-01-01T01:01:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-87</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2007#unique-entry-id-87</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While doing the zombie stomp and monster mash underneath the dried-out mistletoe and black-light Christmas tree, we have to admit we were left speechless at the tremendous trio the Grim Reaper stuffed in our stockings as the bells tolled the demise of another year.

...Having been convicted of crimes against humanity, he was fitted with a custom-made &ldquo;necrophiliac's necktie&rdquo; and swung his way to the great beyond.  The list of this psychopath's offenses are too numerous to list here; suffice it to say that not even his daughters are going to miss him....  In the &ldquo;every cloud has a silver lining&rdquo; department, Saddam's execution gives the U.S. at least one thing to feel good about after years of immersion in a war that has become a sand-based version of Vietnam.

...Ford may have been the most reluctant president in the history of the U.S. Due to that weird rule of presidential succession you learned about in junior high, he went from Speaker of the House to Vice President (when Spiro Agnew resigned) to President of the United States (when Tricky Dick resigned during Watergate).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Holidays Outside Are Frightening&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-25T01:48:17-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-86</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-86</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Most of us probably remember Buck as one of the two guys from "Hee Haw" (the other being banjo player Roy Clark, a surely soon-to-be member of the Celebrity Death Trio&trade;).

...One of the benefits of being a vampire on TV was that Al already had a pretty good idea of what sleeping in a coffin would be like.

...As the incredibly grating Australian host of his own wildlife TV show, Irwin was famous for sticking his hands in crocodile&rsquo;s mouths and doing things that most people would classify as &ldquo;idiotic.&rdquo;  This includes holding his newborn baby over the open jaws of a crocodile a couple of years ago&mdash;a feat that was captured on film for the world to see.

...Annemarie Campbell, Judy Cooper, and Yovy Suarez Jimenez have all become part of the revered circle of life, and Florida authorities are gutting the suspects to ascertain whether the gators are on some kind of human-protein South Beach Diet.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Holiday Spree&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-18T00:59:55-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-85</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-85</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For anyone who&rsquo;s already done their Christmas shopping---and we&rsquo;re guessing that&rsquo;s not many of you---it&rsquo;s the time of year when 2-for-1 deals make the season a joy to behold.

...Other than that, Augusto&rsquo;s passing due to poor health simply means that nature got to do what the international community has long wanted to: pull the plug on one of the nastiest humans of the last half century.

...Sid was born Raymond Silverstein almost a century ago, and in that time, he not only did voice work for cartoons ranging from Katnip and Casper to Popeye, but showed up as a real human in The Honeymooners, The Hustler, The Ed Sullivan Show, Schlitz commercials, and even The O.C.

...In the &lsquo;60s, sensing something big going on with British white boys, Ahmet signed The Rolling Stones, Cream, and Led Zeppelin, all of whom ensured that Atlantic would be the preeminent record label of the late 20th century.

...Lamar was an all-around sports fanatic, as evidence by the fact that he was also a founder of Major League Soccer, World Championship Tennis (the first pro tennis tour) and one of the first investors in the Chicago Bulls.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Femme Fatalities&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-04T11:13:21-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-84</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-84</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[These celebutantes are not women whose names you would immediately recognize, or who you&rsquo;d like to visit in the graveyard (unlike say, Hillary Clinton or Barbara Streisand), but they&rsquo;ve nonetheless gained fame and celebrity status for what they&rsquo;ve done with their lives.

...Rosalie first got her name in lights by being the heaviest woman in history of the world&mdash;weighing in at over 1200 pounds, or almost as much as a Mini Cooper....  She was an advocate for numerous weight loss programs, yet blamed her weight gain on &ldquo;food addiction&rdquo; brought about by abandonment and emotional abuse as a child.

...It was a made up name, but it sure made people pay big bucks for ice cream after years of being quite happy with Sealtest, Hood&rsquo;s and the local Safeway brand.

...You won&rsquo;t recognize this woman&rsquo;s name, but your brain can conjure her voice every time you hear the words &ldquo;I&rsquo;m your Venus, I&rsquo;m your fire .]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Infernal Affairs&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-11-27T04:43:46-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-83</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-83</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yet, even those of us at the CDT&trade; have a soft spot for love affairs, whether entered into by two humans, two corporations, two politicians, two communities, or two crass commercialists.  This week, we got a little taste of all of them in mortuary mode, allowing us to watch love fade like a charbroiled rose in the final days of November.

...In fact, it has proved to be a path to riches for many blacks, making entertainers like Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, and Michael Jackson (still technically black) some of the richest people in the United States....  In the aftermath of Seinfeld alum Michael Richards&rsquo; infamous club rant, the black community decided Richards hasn&rsquo;t done enough apologizing (apparently public apologies on radio, TV and in print aren&rsquo;t humbling enough), so it is going after the sitcom itself&mdash;one of the most lucrative Hollywood properties of all time.

...Sure, Pammy has a history of hopping into more beds than the Tooth Fairy, but this time it looked like she was going to sleep in that &ldquo;just right&rdquo; bed forever with the former Mr. Robert Ritchie.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dually Departed&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-11-20T06:11:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-82</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And there were only three of them, so it wasn&rsquo;t the kind of alien onslaught that it might have been if this were the 1950s and we were scared shitless about UFOs, Martians, and the specter of dying planets coming to invade us.

...His ideas may not seem radical now, but Friedman&rsquo;s research into things like inflation, exchange rates, and unemployment were groundbreaking to the point that Friedman was showered with almost every honor that can be heaped on economists, including the Nobel Prize.

...Atlantic Records, operating like every other record company, had screwed Ruth out of lots of money&mdash;even though her huge string of was instrumental to the company&rsquo;s success (some wags called the record company &ldquo;The House That Ruth Built&rdquo;)....  Ruth was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as The Queen Mother Of the Blues, and it&rsquo;s been said that R&B didn&rsquo;t mean &ldquo;rhythm and blues,&rdquo; it meant &ldquo;Ruth Brown.&rdquo;

...He cut his teeth covering the fall of Saigon, was wounded in Cambodia, became CBS&rsquo;s first black White House correspondent, and them headed to 60 Minutes for the next quarter of a century.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>No More Chances&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-11-06T00:34:33-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-81</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-81</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[They had great hopes for their futures, right up until the demonic Dealer turned up a perfect Black Jack that wiped the very last smile off our player&rsquo;s faces.

...He preached that gays are evil and drugs are evil, and used his position to get politically cozy with religious nuts in The White House....  After denying that he ever met the gay prostitute who blew his cover, Ted tried to worm out of it by professing his love for his wife and five kids....  They won&rsquo;t forgive the people who are honest about their lives, but this little weasel gets a pass for &ldquo;fighting his demons.&rdquo;

...When told this week that the first order of new business on Capitol Hill after the elections would be to have him evicted, Ney resigned and checked himself into an alcohol abuse center.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>All Souls On Deck&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-30T00:32:41-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-80</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-80</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s Halloween, All Hallow&rsquo;s Eve, All Soul&rsquo;s Day, Cabbage Night, Devil&rsquo;s Night, Day Of The Dead, and every other variation of pagan festival all crammed into that last week before the retail trade starts celebrating the Virgin Mary&rsquo;s pregnancy.

...Famed for chomping cigars every minute of his life, Arnold Jacob Auerbach created the Boston Celtics basketball dynasty that won 16 national championships back when coaches were actually tougher than the guys on the court.

...Berbick went on to take the world heavyweight crown but almost immediately got his clock cleaned and reset by Mike Tyson, who became the youngest heavyweight champion in history after beating the crap out of Berbich.

...Known to most of us as &ldquo;Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law,&rdquo; Hill&rsquo;s character was a lawyer in the 1970s whose main interest was in helping his clients, back when people still believed in the ideals of justice, honest lawyers, and the Easter Bunny....  In more than 100 different roles, Hill showed up on almost every TV series in the 60s and 70s you can name: &ldquo;The Fugitive,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Invaders,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Untouchables,&rdquo; &ldquo;Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea,&rdquo; and all those other shows that now have an incredible retro cool.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Filmstar FrightFest&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-23T14:30:59-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-79</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-79</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Not the front-of-brain, &ldquo;Tom-Cruise-humping-Oprah&rsquo;s-furniture&rdquo; kind of celebrity subconscious, it was more like the &ldquo;we-know-we&rsquo;ve-seen-that-person&rsquo;s-name-but-we-have-no-friggin&rsquo;-idea-where&rdquo; kind of below the radar subconscious.

...Nonetheless, this week we have a scary mom, a dwarf, and a 3-D screamer, all of whom add up to one serious FrightFest when we cram them into the same room.

...For a whole generation of CDT readers, she will be forever remembered as Mr. Spock&rsquo;s mommy in the Star Trek TV and movie series.

...Fellow DR native Martinez regularly paraded de la Rosa around like an oversize Cabbage Patch Doll, and claimed that the little man was his good luck charm in breaking the curse of the Bambino.

...She also had her own talk show called &ldquo;The Young Set.&rdquo; However, many CDT fans will remember her best from her role as Nora Charles opposite Peter Lawford in &ldquo;The Thin Man&rdquo; series.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Diversity In Death&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-16T11:30:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-78</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-78</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It was a busy few days for the CDT slabbers as each of the Big Three celebrity industries--sports, politics, and entertainment--each offered up a sacrifice to the god of embalming and autopsies.  Literally ripped from today's headlines, as well as their lives, the newest Celebrity Death Trio &trade; guests of honor provide us with a cross-section of American culture that you just can't get from watching reruns of "Leave It To Beaver."  A Tex-Mex musician, a gay congressman, and a member of the world's most famous sports franchise make for a deceased dinner party certain to be ripe with gallows humor and bare bones conversation.

...One of the first Mexican American musicians to achieve success on the country and pop music charts, Freddy was known for his plaintive vocals and his matador-on-LSD wardrobe.  Born Baldemar Huerta in a Texas border town, Freddy changed his name when he started recording Spanish versions of popular tunes (he chose Fender from the type of guitar he played).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Gang That Couldn&#x27;t Shoot Straight (to Hell)&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-09T04:27:08-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-77</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-77</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Really, when you look at the death stats on this list, it&rsquo;s as if these celebs shot themselves in the foot before putting the gun to their head.

...Now there&rsquo;s a lot of fingerpointing going on, and owner George Steinbrenner is understandably pissed at having spent one billion dollars in salaries over the last six years without a World Series win.

...This country has a lot more to worry about than Representative Mark Foley&rsquo;s penchant for bending over his pages instead of using a bookmark, but the Democrats don&rsquo;t care....  Because even though this scandal is about one guy, Americans believe that members of Congress are getting creepier and creepier, like they&rsquo;re in a halfway house for defrocked pedophile priests....  Dirty politics are going to get dirtier, and there will be more God-fearing Republicans with their faces down in that dirt than ever before.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Chill In The Air&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-10-02T22:25:28-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-76</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re going to savor the sound of that as we send our finalists off on their last round of play, where 18 holes is just another way of describing where we&rsquo;ve buried six sets of CDT alumni.

...She worked at Radio Tokyo and was alleged to have been the infamous and mysterious Tokyo Rose, a female broadcaster who taunted American servicemen with her seductive broadcasts....  Although Iva denied she was Tokyo Rose, she was sentenced to six years in jail for treason upon her return to the U.S. Gerald Ford later pardoned her, and many believe she was unfairly pegged as Rose by an overzealous American government bent on revenge.

...We reported Eddie Albert&rsquo;s death a little over a year ago.&rdquo; The actor had perished in 2005, the CDT was sure of it (and one thing you can be sure of is death....  But Junior was an actor in his own right, having made a name for himself in the hippie classic &ldquo;Butterflies Are Free&rdquo; with Goldie Hawn, and as the father of the Red Ranger in the Power Rangers series.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Musicians In The Mausoleum&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-25T20:56:39-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-75</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-75</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Getting three stiff celebs from one industry is a rarity, unless it happens to be group of diplomats in some Third World country getting car-bombed on their way to work.

...Today, Fender&rsquo;s good name and status have been restored, and the company is the largest maker of stringed instruments in the world&mdash;and the vast majority of the credit goes to Schultz.  Having saved the Stratocaster and Telecaster from the garbage can, we&rsquo;re sure Bill will soon be receiving heavenly high fives from other Fender legends and CDT alumni Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

...But Boz (known to his mum as &ldquo;Raymond&rdquo;) fronted his own band in the 1960s, was once rumored to be in the running to replace Roger Daltrey in The Who, and played in King Crimson during one of its most experimental phases.

...Then it struck us. We all know Flores for a single word, a word often used&mdash;or sung&mdash;at parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other polite social gatherings like binge drinking contests.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tough Broads. Tough Luck.&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-18T10:20:39-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-74</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-74</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Two sets of three in a distilled yet decaying concentration of politicians, journalists and ne&rsquo;er before knowns coupled with a tough all-female CDT, a rarity in the annals of the Celebrity Death Trio &trade;.

...Unlike most Kennedy women, she didn&rsquo;t suffer in silence as her relatives tried to run the world, or at least tried to get it into bed.

...But she was known as a tart-tongued street fighter, a tough lady in a tough state where you either kick the crap out of your opponents or get it kicked out of you.

...Ziff&rsquo;s name is almost synonymous with magazine publishing, and it&rsquo;s a safe bet that most readers of the CDT have read a Ziff-Davis publication, from PC Week to Car And Driver to Popular Mechanics.

...You know, Anna Nicole Smith is always good for a media feeding frenzy, and this week she gave the press a two-fer.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Global Graveyard&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-11T18:52:39-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-73</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-73</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Three European celebrities have sent their fabled careers to the mortuary while the rest of the world looks on. It&rsquo;s kind of like watching an intercontinental career crash .

...Times have been tough for Tony, who has overseen an economic resurgence in Britain along with its attempt to regain status as a modern power to be reckoned with.  However, like his political buddies in America, he&rsquo;s been getting the crap kicked out of him at home over his position on everything from Israel to Iraq.

...After winning the Italian Grand Prix, he decided it was time to go out at the top of his game (something Tony Blair probably wishes he could say)....  Be that as it may, Schumacher leaves a sport he has dominated over the past 15 years, and it&rsquo;s not likely that anyone will be able to take the wheel from him for years to come.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Crikey Cadavers&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-09-04T01:44:46-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-72</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[That&rsquo;s a rarity in this day and age, so take the time to wave a sincere goodbye to these three gents who&rsquo;ve pitched their tents at Camp Cadaver, the one place where summer never ends.

...As the incredibly grating Australian host of his own wildlife TV show, Irwin was famous for sticking his hands in crocodile&rsquo;s mouths and doing things that most people would classify as &ldquo;idiotic.&rdquo;  This includes holding his newborn baby over the open jaws of a crocodile a couple of years ago&mdash;a feat that was captured on film for the world to see....  style, we take this one to heart because the CDT editorial staff was diving in those same Port Douglas waters just a few weeks ago. As always, there is a silver lining: at least Steve didn&rsquo;t get eaten by a croc.

...On top of all that, he served four terms as a Congressman in California and then became the first director of the U.S. Olympic Training Center.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Pluto&#x27;s Picnic&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-08-28T12:25:36-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-71</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-71</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Summer vacation is ending with a bit of a whimper this week, unless you happen to be flying in one of those planes that manage to keep missing the runway lately.

...Discovered as a child prodigy, Maynard played in the big bands of Jimmy Dorsey and Stan Kenton, and his own band was a stepping stone for a generation of musicians schooled on jazz, rock and fusion.  While revered for his unique ability to hit double high C on his instrument, Maynard&rsquo;s crowning achievement in the eyes of the public may have been his Top 40 trumpet rendition of &ldquo;Gonna Fly Now&rdquo; (the theme from &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo;).

...When it comes right down to it, Pluto might be the single most famous celebrity death of all time, or at least of our lifetimes....  Nonetheless, astronomers decided that Pluto doesn&rsquo;t qualify as a planet anymore&mdash;it&rsquo;s more of a galactic dwarf&mdash;so all of its earnest hard work out there on the edge of the solar system has come crashing down in single horrific moment.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Media Massacre&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-08-21T21:56:34-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-70</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-70</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[You know that it&rsquo;s a slow end-of-summer news week when the media falls on its own sword just to have something to report.

...As the axe swings down on our Tabloid Troika, raise a glass to that place where &ldquo;deadlines&rdquo; take on a whole new meaning, the nickname &ldquo;Scoop&rdquo; has more to do with ashes than investigation, and you don&rsquo;t shout &ldquo;Stop The Presses!&rdquo;

...As camera-ready confessor John Carr was waiting to get the fifteen minutes of fame that pedophiles so eagerly long for, the media was happy to give it to him on a gold plate (which was similar to the plate he ate on in business class during his flight home).

...The Presidential elections are more than two more years away, but the media this week has already decided that Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Party candidate for President....  So, objective journalism took another one in the back, and it&rsquo;s corpse is lying dead on the floor.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Breaking The Summer Spirit&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-08-14T06:13:33-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-69</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-69</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Fortunately, none of the deaths was heat related, which is more than can be said for hundreds of other deaths across the U.S., which saw people dropping faster than Mel Gibson&rsquo;s popularity at a bar mitzvah.

...So, as you start preparing for the traditional Back To School sales, take comfort in the fact that these three have already stopped by Beelzebub&rsquo;s Bargain Bin for the Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust Cemetery Sale.

...His daily talk show&mdash;-think Jay Leno meets Oprah---was hugely popular throughout the 1960s and 70s, attracting guests like John Lennon and Yoko Ono (who guest-hosted for an entire week), Richard Nixon, Frank Zappa, Martin Scorsese, various leaders of the Black Panthers and Yippies, Ozzie Nelson, George Carlin, a preschool Tiger Woods, and 30,000 thousand others over the course of 21 years and 6000 shows.

...This guy was let out on a pass from a halfway house, went to visit some elderly family friends and then spent the afternoon fatally stabbing and beating all three of them....  While his defenders claimed he had too low an IQ to be held responsible for his actions, he claimed he&rsquo;d happily do it all again---and more---given the chance.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Satan&#x27;s Icemaker&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-08-07T22:38:03-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-67</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-67</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The cemetery slots are hot, meaning these three careers are not, so make sure you don&rsquo;t bet against the House of Hades&mdash;especially when it&rsquo;s serving up steroids, surgical procedures, and one hell of a hangover.

...If you already know you can&rsquo;t handle the sauce, and you already have a reputation as a guy with a passion for anti-Semitism, then don&rsquo;t go drinking alone with young girls in flash bars all over Hollywood.

...Never mind the irony in the fact that the Castros have become the Cuban Kennedys (weren&rsquo;t they all trying to kill each other once upon a time?), but handing over the last Communist empire in the Western Hemisphere to your little brother has all the makings of a bad &ldquo;Leave It To Beaver&rdquo; episode where Wally expects the Beav to run the household on prom night.  This isn&rsquo;t going to be good for anyone, except Bill Clinton (in a starring role as Eddie Haskell), who can now get his Cuban cigars direct from the manufacturer and not from Monica&rsquo;s lingerie drawer.

...Here was a guy who wasn&rsquo;t even in contention for the yellow jersey until close to the finish, and all of a sudden he&rsquo;s flying up mountains like Christopher Reeves before his equestrian adventure.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mortuary Memories</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-24T00:09:24-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-68</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-68</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While we&rsquo;re kicking up our heels at that little summertime getaway down by Hell&rsquo;s Half Acre, you can strap on your time machine and view the CDT from this very same week in 2003, when we had an entertainment triad pulled like wisdom teeth right from the mouth of music and movies.

...Some people believe he&rsquo;d been dead since his last variety show tour of Vietnam about 30 years ago, but Bob&rsquo;s been keeping it up for nearly a century....  Born Leslie Townes Hope, his standup routine made him famous, but he earned his moniker as the Entertainer of the Century based on his numerous &ldquo;road films&rdquo; with Bing Crosby and his self-deprecating monologues.  He delivered classic one-liners right up to his 100th birthday (&ldquo;You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake&rdquo;), which he celebrated just two months before St.

...Sam was one of the first people to be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, and considering the roster of record company and music media idiots that have been voted in so far (Jann Wenner?]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Entertainment Exodus&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-17T17:05:59-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-66</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-66</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So, once again, we cancel our permanent vacation to the Reaper&rsquo;s Resort, because in this week&rsquo;s All-Star Game we got three up, three out as St.

...Burned out beyond belief by his mid-20s from too many elective trips into hallucinogen land, he was forced out of the band he founded because he could barely remember his name, let alone any of the band&rsquo;s songs.  While Pink Floyd went on to find its greatest success without him, notably &ldquo;Dark Side Of The Moon&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Wall,&rdquo; Syd became a recluse who lived with his mum in the English countryside for the last 40 years.

...It was said that while soldiers in Europe hung up posters of Rita Hayworth in their bunks, June Allyson was the one that they really hoped to bring home to mom....  She either A) made it okay for people to talk about the fact that incontinence is part of adulthood, or B) made it okay for late-night talk shows to use adult undergarments as the butt of their jokes.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Incubus Independence&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-10T19:05:06-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Celebrity Death Trio &trade; was amazed at how the &ldquo;bombs bursting in air&rdquo; actually led to one of those deaths, and &ldquo;the land of the free&rdquo; was the fitting epitaph to a celeb destined to spend the rest of his life in jail....  And while they can no longer see by the dawn&rsquo;s early light&mdash;or any light, for that matter&mdash;they&rsquo;ll certainly be lined up to march in the Purgatory Parade, where celebrity roasts are exactly that .

...We were hoping he&rsquo;d get the gas chamber when his sentencing date came up in September, but apparently God didn&rsquo;t want to wait that long.

...Those of us who remember Murray most likely recall his guest appearances on TV classics like &ldquo;Dr. Kildare,&rdquo; &ldquo;Mannix,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,&rdquo; &ldquo;Love, American Style,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Burke&rsquo;s Law.&rdquo;...  Most of us are too young to remember &ldquo;Treasure Hunt&rdquo; or &ldquo;Dollar A Second&rdquo; but they made Murray a star, and he became the first comic to host a game show.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cremated Careers&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-07-03T23:00:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-57</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-57</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After all, when three careers die in a week, it&rsquo;s our job to make sure that this news gets the kind of sensitive, caring coverage such total carnage deserves.

...Agassi is one of tennis&rsquo; all time greatest players, winning eight Grand Slam titles, so it&rsquo;s sad to see him go out with a bit of a whimper after getting shut down in straight sets at Wimbledon....  Yeah, at the ripe old age of 36, it was time for Andre to call it quits, but this is one funeral we&rsquo;re going to buy some nice flowers for.

...From our seat on the couch, it&rsquo;s only a matter of time before Star redoubles in size and has some sort of breakdown, so you can bet there&rsquo;s a rehab clinic in her future.

...But the reality is that neither of these doofuses can act, they&rsquo;re both a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and their musical careers are built on the same principle that fuels NASCAR: everyone is hoping to see a fiery crash.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Afterlife Styles of the Rich And Shameless&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-26T15:44:46-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-64</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-64</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Each of our dearly departeds has, in their own special way, contributed to the casebook of glittering wealth tainted by scandal or has promoted crass and clueless living.

...Although they won&rsquo;t be spending their evenings on balconies overlooking the shore, you can bet they&rsquo;ll be jet-setting at the Hades&rsquo; Hamptons, where the martinis---and the guests---are always served chilled.

...The Colorado socialite and stage mom became a national celebutante ten years ago when her daughter, six-year old JonBenet, was killed in the family home.  A sordid kink in the case was Patsy&rsquo;s compulsive desire to have JonBenet participate in the weird world of little girl beauty shows, referred to lovingly on the web as &ldquo;pedophile pageants.&rdquo;

...Pierce (what a great name) claimed that Anna Nicole took advantage of dear old dad and tricked him into bequeathing her the family fortune.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Icons On Ice&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-19T00:01:52-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-63</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-63</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[That means the chill winds of spring will give way to the likely torrent of shark attacks, European killer heat waves, and Hollywood bombs that make summer the feel good season of the year.

...&bull; Dan Rather&rsquo;s news career You know, ole Gunga Dan really went overboard on the liberal journalism thing, and it bit him in the ass. The powers that be bumped him from the CBS Evening News just shy of his 25th anniversary, denying him a grand and illustrious exit....  Reports this past week are that no one wants to touch Dan or work with him&mdash;he&rsquo;s kind of like the ebola virus of prime time.

...&bull; New Orleans&rsquo; rebirth as a city of unity and hope It took less than a year, but our beloved NOLA is back on the road to regaining its title as &ldquo;Murder City USA.&rdquo;...  It&rsquo;s gotten so bad that Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin&mdash;the Tweedledee and Tweedledumshit of Louisiana politics&mdash;have called in the National Guard to try and restore order.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Famous Sidemen&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-12T11:00:49-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-62</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-62</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He joined the band as sideman in 1990 and stayed right up to the death of leader Jerry Garcia, an event noted by people who actually give a crap as &ldquo;the day the Dead died.&rdquo;...  This, it turns out, is similar to signing your own death warrant, as the Dead&rsquo;s three previous keyboard players had all died nasty deaths&mdash;and none of them were very grateful about it.

...Zarqawi was Osama bin Laden&rsquo;s sideman in Iraq, but he did everything he could to step out into the limelight and make a name for himself....  He was finally brought down by a half ton of bombs, which also killed his wife, whom Zarqawi apparently married when she had reached the ripe old age of 14.  In death, he&rsquo;s getting the marquee billing he lusted after, and at the tender age of 39, the CDT believes he died much too late in life.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ungratefully Dead&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-06-05T23:59:15-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-61</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-61</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yet, with the apparent suicide this past week of Dead (literally) member Vince Welnick, the Dead achieved Spinal Tap status for producing more dead performers than anyone outside of Lynyrd Skynyrd&rsquo;s airline charter company.

In fact, when you tally up the total deaths in the band, including the death of the Dead, you get a double Celebrity Death Trio; six deaths all told.

...He was with the band right up the death of leader Jerry Garcia, an event noted by people who actually care as &ldquo;the day the Dead died.&rdquo;

...Despite missing a finger, Garcia was an accomplished musician, and his passing in 1995 from a heart attack (while at a drug rehab center) prompted the demise of .

...We don&rsquo;t know how many people probably killed themselves when they heard about this&mdash;other than Vince Welnick&mdash;but we&rsquo;re guessing it was a lot.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rebirth And Rot&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-05-29T04:33:45-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-60</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-60</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s only fitting that during this Memorial Day week we should remember those who&rsquo;ve passed on before us. The Celebrity Death Trio &trade; is nothing if not a celebration of death, but some pass on to paradise in nobler pursuits and circumstances than others.

...We&rsquo;re here this week to honor celebs who&rsquo;ve already started dancing with Mr. D, so let&rsquo;s head on over to the Memorial Day Morgue and get this party started.

...Almost no one remembers anything about Lloyd other than 1) he and Mike Dukakis got their asses kicked in the 1988 election, and 2) he kicked Dan Quayle&rsquo;s ass in the 1988 debates.

...There is still some irony to be found, however, in this celebrity death; the only job tireless Edouard ever held outside of the family business was in the French Navy.

...A graduate of Lee Strasberg&rsquo;s famed Actor&rsquo;s Studio, Gleason&rsquo;s most famous roll was as the tough guy principal in &ldquo;The Breakfast Club,&rdquo; delivering hapless lines to the Brat Pack like &ldquo;the next time I have to come in here, I'm crackin' skulls.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Undead&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-05-22T23:07:13-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-58</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But when the dead keep coming back&mdash;even after a stake through the heart, a silver bullet between the eyes, or starring in The Da Vinci Code---you have to believe there&rsquo;s something supernatural at work.

...The way things are going, we&rsquo;re going to have to add a horse to the CDT pretty soon, and that hasn&rsquo;t happened since Mr. Ed huffed the hay back in 1970.

...Hey, with the price of crude being what it is in resort destinations like Afghanistan and Iraq, Uncle Sam figures he&rsquo;s got a good reason to go digging up the corpses of dictators who used to blow up our airplanes and warships.

...Only a month ago, Nagin was being forced to buy a one-way ticket on that little career vehicle Arlo Guthrie referred to as &ldquo;the train they call the City of New Orleans.&rdquo;...  There&rsquo;s no way this crematorium clown is going to make any changes in NOLA, so we&rsquo;ll be forced to listen to him blather on about hurricane injustice like some political poltergeist.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Horror Show (Alligator Stew)&#xa;May 15&#x2c; 2006&#xa;&#xa;Dear CDT Reader&#x2c;&#xa;&#xa;This week&#x2019;s been a challenge for the lab technicians over here at CSI: Celebrity Death Trio &#x2122;. On the one hand&#x2c; we have a garden variety terminated troika&#x2014;three famous personalities who have become Box O&#x2019; Bones ingredients all in the same week. Yet&#x2c; we also have a different trio (de)composed of people who&#x2019;ve all died in the same strange and incredibly unpleasant manner during that exact same time period. In fact&#x2c; this latter group of recent Reaper Resort residents are a certified Celebrity Death Trio only because of the way they died. Or&#x2c; from a scientific perspective&#x2c; from the way they were digested.&#xa;&#xa;It&#x2019;s what is known in the forensics business as &#x201c;some really wacky shit.&#x201d;&#xa;&#xa;Herewith&#x2c; the departed.&#xa;&#xa;&#x2022; George Lutz &#xa;Mr. Amityville Horror. This is the guy who turned a spooky house on Long Island into an American nightmare and cultural fascination&#x2014;all while generating millions of dollars for the publishing and movie industries. In 1975&#x2c; Lutz bought the Amityville house just after the previous owners were murdered in it. Suddenly walls dripped blood and demon pigs hid in every corner. Portrayed by James Brolin in a suitably scary movie role as the tormented man of the house (perfect preparation for Brolin&#x2019;s current job as Mr. Barbra Streisand)&#x2c; Lutz became the personification of every homeowner&#x2019;s personal hell. He moved the family out after only 28 days&#x2c; claiming to have escaped with his life&#x2014;at least until last week. While much of his story was later debunked&#x2c; he maintained to his death that it was true. Interestingly&#x2c; Lutz died from heart disease and not from Satanic possession. James Brolin&#x2c; on the other hand&#x2c; ended up marrying Satan. &#xa;&#xa;&#x2022; Floyd Patterson&#xa;Boxer. Known as a good man in the bad world of boxing&#x2c; Patterson became the youngest boxer to ever win the heavyweight title&#x2c; and the first man to regain it having once lost it. He won 55 bouts&#x2c; lost 8 and tied one&#x2c; and was the middleweight gold medal winner at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He also defended his title seven times. Patterson had a troubled childhood and was an ardent believer that boxing helped kids find a way out of the ghetto. After retiring&#x2c; he went on to become the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He was voted into the U.S. Olympic Committee Hall of Fame in 1987 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame four years later.&#xa;&#xa;&#x2022; A.M. &#x201c;Abe&#x201d; Rosenthal&#xa;New York Times editor. Abe brought the Times into the modern era&#x2c; in the process redefining what a daily American paper could be. He was also a writer who knew what good journalism was all about&#x2c; and during his tenure the paper won 24 Pulitzer Prizes. Under his leadership&#x2c; the Times took on Richard Nixon and published the Pentagon Papers&#x2c; 7000 pages of classified data that documented how every administration since World War II had increased America&#x27;s involvement in Vietnam while lying about how bad things were going. As Rosenthal once said &#x201c;When something important is going on&#x2c; silence is a lie.&#x22; Too bad most of the big media companies have forgotten that.&#xa;&#xa;&#x2022; Now for that other trio . . .&#xa;&#xa;In the last 58 years&#x2c; only 17 people have been killed in Florida by alligators. That&#x2019;s one every three years or so. Yet this week alone&#x2c; three women were killed by alligators&#x2c; all apparently in broad daylight and in populated areas. Annemarie Campbell&#x2c; Judy Cooper&#x2c; and Yovy Suarez Jimenez have all become part of the revered circle of life&#x2c; and Florida authorities are gutting the suspects to ascertain whether the gators are on some kind of human-protein South Beach Diet. &#xa;&#xa;RIP&#x2c; one and all.</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-05-15T23:08:03-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-59</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-59</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the guy who turned a spooky house on Long Island into an American nightmare and cultural fascination&mdash;all while generating millions of dollars for the publishing and movie industries....  Portrayed by James Brolin in a suitably scary movie role as the tormented man of the house (perfect preparation for Brolin&rsquo;s current job as Mr. Barbra Streisand), Lutz became the personification of every homeowner&rsquo;s personal hell.

...Known as a good man in the bad world of boxing, Patterson became the youngest boxer to ever win the heavyweight title, and the first man to regain it having once lost it.

...Under his leadership, the Times took on Richard Nixon and published the Pentagon Papers, 7000 pages of classified data that documented how every administration since World War II had increased America's involvement in Vietnam while lying about how bad things were going.

...Annemarie Campbell, Judy Cooper, and Yovy Suarez Jimenez have all become part of the revered circle of life, and Florida authorities are gutting the suspects to ascertain whether the gators are on some kind of human-protein South Beach Diet.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Fame Breeds Fame</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-05-08T13:18:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There was David Lee Roth&rsquo;s stupendously bad radio career smashing through the guardrails, Tom DeLay riding the lightning to political purgatory, Katie Couric committing career suicide on national TV as she prepares to become the biggest bomb in the history of nightly news, Porter Goss piloting his own personal Titanic into an iceberg of international intrigue, and the poetic ending to little Kaavya Viswanathan&rsquo;s plague of plagiarism.

...The Celebrity Death Trio &trade; that has assembled this week is famous primarily for being associated with fame&mdash;a lot like Liza Minnelli (we&rsquo;re expecting her call any day now).

...We have to admit, Earl did produce one of the world&rsquo;s all-time great golfers&mdash;and if Tiger has no hard feelings about learning how to call a mulligan while still in diapers, then who are we to criticize?

...Only five years old when God decided to sink &ldquo;the ship that God himself couldn&rsquo;t sink,&rdquo; Lillian and her mother, along with a baby brother, were put into lifeboats by her father and three brothers....  There are two other survivors of the Titanic, both living in England, but they were only a few months old at the moment when the world&rsquo;s biggest metaphor hit the world&rsquo;s deadliest ice cube.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Number&#x27;s Up</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-05-01T02:18:19-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Numbers have always been a big part of dying&mdash;the times, the dates, the amount of toxins found in the body, the number of bullet holes&mdash;and this week numbers take center stage yet again.  In particular, we&rsquo;re dealing with minutes of fame, the number of U.S. states, and millions of people who can&rsquo;t go home again.

...Death has always been a numbers game, and we&rsquo;re betting that these three aren&rsquo;t going to beat the odds at the Casket Casino.

...Kaayva got half a million dollars to write a book about her personal trials and tribulations, and then copied at least 40 of those personal and intimate details from other books.

...Despite the best intentions of Hollywood&rsquo;s elite&mdash;oh yeah, like that&rsquo;s going to help&mdash;talks to end the conflict between the farmers and herders, Arabs and non-Arabs, and everybody else in the region broke down this week.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Crashing Through The Guardrail</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-04-24T07:13:52-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Listening to Roth was like listening to the original broadcast of the Hindenburg going down in flames&mdash;it was horrible, and you couldn&rsquo;t imagine it getting any worse ....  We thought Free FM&rsquo;s Radiochick owned lameness on the airwaves, but even her pathetic pandering was eclipsed by Roth&rsquo;s deadly dull shtick (she reclaims her title now that Roth is returning to whatever it is he&rsquo;ll be doing; maybe driving an ambulance)....  But if he ever wants to dig his career out of the grave, he&rsquo;ll have to make that phone call he&rsquo;s been dreading for so many years&mdash;to Eddie Van Halen.

...Being a former White House spokesman is like being a leper; no one wants you around because you remind them of a festering disease, and your prospects for a continued and happy life can be measured using Billy Barty&rsquo;s tablespoon.

...Nagin is now facing a runoff election for his job, and even if he does get re-elected, people will treat him like an escaped refugee from Marie Laveau&rsquo;s voodoo shop.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Desert Survival Tips</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-04-17T09:15:10-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re laying to rest the notion that bears are our friends, laying to rest the notion that Iran is our friend, and laying to rest the notion that happiest place on Earth is really all that happy.

...It&rsquo;s sad when long-held beliefs and ideals die, but sometimes you just have to let go&mdash;before you get your hand blown up, bitten off, or crushed on some out-of-control ride.  So, take off your cap, bow your head and pause a moment in memory of three ideals that have bitten the biscuit, sold the boat, and bought the farm&mdash;all from the comfort of their new luxury skyboxes, made out of custom-fitted pine and on view for all eternity right here at the Celebrity Death Trio Cemetery.

...Sure, waiting in the Space Mountain line for three hours with several thousand of your closest and most morbidly obese friends might qualify Disneyland and Walt Disney World as heaven on Earth, but dying on park attraction puts it all a little closer to hell.

...Take your Build-A-Bears, your Vermont Teddy Bears, your Paddingtons and your Berenstains and start jabbing them with voodoo needles, because as The Colbert Report has warned us time and time again, the bears are coming to your house.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Perkiness In Purgatory</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-04-10T05:11:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There are some weeks when famous things die in threes and you wonder how life will go on. Well, since we&rsquo;re talking about death, technically life doesn&rsquo;t go on. But it&rsquo;s a nice thought, nonetheless.  This time out, we&rsquo;re looking at the career suicide of America&rsquo;s sweetheart (or Satan&rsquo;s mistress of the morning&mdash;you be the judge), a lesson in &ldquo;learning how to swim&rdquo; from the Third World, and a literary lynching.

...Sure, she&rsquo;s making the $15 million jump to the CBS Evening News, but no one has ever figured out how to successfully leave a morning show without taking a career dirt bath.

...Passengers on these &ldquo;cemetery sailboats&rdquo; are pretty much guaranteed a one way trip to Davy Jones&rsquo; Locker the minute they set foot on board&mdash;and we&rsquo;ll bet the ferries don&rsquo;t even bother selling round trip tickets anymore.

...The authors of the book &ldquo;Holy Blood, Holy Grail&rdquo; sued Brown on the premise that he stole many of the ideas for his insanely popular Da Vinci book from theirs.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Career Suicide&#x2c; Part 1</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-04-03T23:00:35-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, we&rsquo;re used to celebrity bodies piling up in stacks of three at the end of each week&mdash;like so many chopped logs of Hollywood kindling&mdash;but actual careers?

...Of course, most of us think that someone should have stepped in and cut the head off this smiling snake years ago. Perhaps no one in modern politics, including his buddy Jack &ldquo;Off&rdquo; Abramoff, has spent more time making sure that the U.S. Congress became the best government money could buy.

...If Ms. Stone thought she was going to make the transition to respected actress in her old age, a la Meryl Streep and Anne Bancroft, she just flushed it down the toilet with &ldquo;Basic Instinct 2.&rdquo;  Crossing one&rsquo;s legs in the most famous R-rated closeup of all time is not the quickest path to cinema credibility&mdash;and neither is trying to repeat it 14 years later, well after gravity has taken its toll.

...He was captured this week after hiding out in Nigeria for years, and even managed to break out of Boston jail cell a few years back (how the hell does that happen).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Buck Stopped Here</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-03-28T18:58:34-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The CDT &trade; is back at if, after a brief respite, and it&rsquo;s a strange trio this week: a country icon, a race car hopeful, and a longtime political fixture.  Strange bedfellows, indeed, unless you consider that death makes for the most natural of bedfellows (especially when that bed is made out of natural Grade A premium cemetery dirt).

...In this case, we&rsquo;ll do it at the Too Dark Park, located just off the Last Exit to Lucifer Land, across the street from Gabriel&rsquo;s Garden of Full-Time Sleepers.

...Most of us probably remember Buck as one of the two guys from &ldquo;Hee Haw&rdquo; (the other being banjo player Roy Clark, a surely soon-to-be member of the Celebrity Death Trio&trade;).

...A junior member of the race car circuit&mdash;as part of David Letterman&rsquo;s team, no less&mdash;he was to supposed to hit the big time driving in the Indianapolis 500 this past weekend.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Honeymoon&#x27;s Over</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-03-21T16:55:08-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It was the death of &ldquo;Love: Iraqi-America Style,&rdquo; the end of a high-flying legal career, and a not-so-happy-finish for China&rsquo;s richest convict.

...Dubya even had to admit that the nuptials hadn&rsquo;t gone as planned, stopping just short of saying the love was all but gone.  He&rsquo;s going to give it the old college try (which is not encouraging, considering how much he tried at college) and he hopes the Iraqis will do the same.

...There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with being a stewardess&mdash;we love stewardesses&mdash;unless you hold the key to one of the most important judicial moments to come down the pike since the Nuremberg Trials....  Because as far as the CDT is concerned, her career as a cracker-jack lawyer has been cremated and the ashes are waiting to be thrown in her face.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Milosevic BBQ&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-03-14T03:11:54-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-56</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-56</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It feels like the Celebrity Death Trio &trade; is getting to be a regular way to start your week, doesn't it?

...We're not saying that it's a direct cause and effect relationship, but it seems like the more CDT &trade; lists we put out, the more celebs start lining up to make our list.

...And with odds like those, you can head on over to the gambling graveyard where you're sure to find this trio jockeying for position at the Divine Dirt Derby .

...He was a Minnesota icon right up until he had a stroke that killed him in Scottsdale, Arizona---just as spring training was getting underway.  When he was inducted in to the Baseball Hall Of Fame, Kirby said "I played every game like it was my last."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hey&#x21; You&#x21; Get Off McCloud&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-03-07T22:56:31-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-55</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-55</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But the fact that celebrities die in threes in a seven-day period is a fact of life, an immutable force of nature, not to mention a mathematical constant....  In that light, Dennis "McCloud" Weaver wasn't the fourth pungently slabbed celebrity in a week--he was the first celebrity in a brand new week.

...He appeared in dozens of films and made-for-TV movies, usually as some variation of the wise man of the Wild West (think Marlboro Man rather than Brokeback Man).

...A World War II air force ace and member of the famed Flying Tigers, he was awarded the Silver Star for evacuating thousands of troops and refugees out of Burma.  His life of adventure was fodder for books and movies, and he was the guy who first wrote that "God Is My Co-Pilot."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>TV Guys Sign Off&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-27T22:55:39-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-54</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-54</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Even we were thinking "Wow, there can't be this many celebrities dying, let alone this many who've died in threes in the first two months of 2006."

...So, tip your hat to these TV land greats who will live on forever at the Reaper's Rerun Resort, where every actor gets the lead and the drinks are always free over at the Horizontal Hilton.

...While he'll always be Barney Fife and the incredible Mr. Limpet in our hearts, he also won five Emmy in five years and appeared in 25 movies and seven TV shows.

...Yet McGavin appeared on almost every show you can think of from the heyday of the boob tube: Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, Ben Casey, The Name Of The Game, The Rookies, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man .

...By the way, there's no truth to the rumor that he died this past week from watching the horrible color coverage of the Torino Olympics.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Blizzard Of Burials&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-02-14T22:54:29-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-53</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-53</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's not often you find them lying around, but lately they seem to be showing up everywhere, like paramedics at a Dick Cheney hunting trip.

...A new slate, or slab, of celebs have signed on to the CDT, and they're going to spend this Valentine's Day making hearts in Frankenstein's workshop.  But soon these newly dead famous people will be celebrating their newfound downtime by dancing at the Dust-To-Dust Discotheque, where the drinks are always free and the jukebox only plays Norman Greenbaum's classic "Spirit In The Sky."

...One of the benefits of being a vampire on TV was that Al already had a pretty good idea of what sleeping in a coffin would be like.

...Back in the late '70s, he introduced trans-Atlantic fares for a couple hundred dollars-pissing off British Air and Pan Am, which were happy to gouge customers for the privilege of flying across the pond.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Hits Just Keep On Coming&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-01-31T14:53:36-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-52</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-52</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In addition, this was not a group known for populating the pages of People magazine, so it's unlikely that they'll be fighting over who gets to be this week's Purgatory Pi&ntilde;ata.

...Known as a stocky character actor who played movie toughs, he was good in "At Close Range" and great as Nice Guy Eddie in "Reservoir Dogs."

...Wendy helped usher in a whole generation of New York feminist writers who used the theater as a place to explore the angst of being a single woman in the baby boom era.  Her essays and plays, notably the Pulitzer-winning "The Heidi Chronicles" paved the way for "Sex And The City" (we'll reserve comment on that) as well as enough chick-lit to bury Oprah's memory of James Frey for years to come.  She leaves behind her brother, Bruce Wasserstein, who is one of Wall Street's all time biggest dealmakers---and someone potentially rich enough to buy his way off of Satan's Shuttle when his own time comes.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Still Hungover&#x2c; and Hanging&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-01-20T21:52:35-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-51</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-51</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If we didn't know better, we'd think that a lot of celebrities had made a recent New Year's resolution to die as quickly as possibly this year....  If this keeps up, everybody who's ever appeared on the cover of US Weekly magazine, including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, will be dead by the end of the year.

...Let's start off by saying it's been a rough ride for male R&B singers so far this year, and we're only 20 days in. Lou Rawls already caught the midnight train this year; now we have Wilson hitching a ride.  Known as Wicked Pickett, Wilson wrote and recorded raw gems like "In The Midnight Hour" and "Mustang Sally"--songs that put the sultry in soul. He exposed more of America to R&B than anyone this side of Barry White and James Brown....  well, let's just say we'd be careful with those loaded firearms and ex-wives if we were "The Godfather Of Soul" this year.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Year&#x27;s Bashed&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-01-06T01:51:14-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-50</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2006#unique-entry-id-50</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Admit it: Every one of you was thinking "Ariel Sharon---man, that guy's definitely going to top the CDT list this week."

...So, as you put away your Christmas trappings this weekend and settle into a haze of impending football overdose, knock back an eggnog for the first graduating class of Grim Reaper High, 2006.

...Suffice it to say that once upon a time, way back in the 1960s, there was a squeaky clean, new-fangled "rock and roll" band made up of a bunch of wacky kids and their ultra-cool mom....  It's kind of a shame that younger brother Barry was more popular the past few months for being a missing Katrina victim than for being the bass player for the band (and thus the role model for Danny Bonaduce).

...More than a few CDT subscribers are technogeeks, so they'll be lighting a candle for Frank, the man who ushered in the age of the personal computer by investing in the development of the first IBM PC during the late 1970s.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ghosts Of Christmas Present&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-12-21T23:59:15-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-49</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-49</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just last week we had Richard Pryor, Eugene McCarthy and Tookie "Hurry It Up" Williams singing "It's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with Yul .

...In the course of barely one weekend we got three new celebrities, and this time it's a holiday buffet for our politically-partisan patrons.  Since the US Government has been outed for spying on everyday citizens (hey, if it's okay for Santa--he knows when you've been bad or good--it's okay for Dubya), they deserve something for Christmas other than the lumps of coal they'd be getting.

Politics aside, the following three celebs have all been voted off of the island once and for all, and can now be found spreading holiday cheer at the Christmas Crematorium.

...Anderson was one of the last of a generation of investigative journalists who were happy to take on bureaucrats and expose their craven ways.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Jingle Hell&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-12-13T07:48:49-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-48</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-48</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, you have Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa, but nothing says "hark the herald angels sing" like three celebrities taking one final trip to the Mortuary Mall for some last-minute shopping.

...So, tip your hats, or tip an eggnog, to the troika of famous people who beat the Christmas rush this week on their way to the gift-giving graveyard-where all sales are final.

...His in-your-face comedy got under a lot of people's skin, and forced Saturday Night Live to use a seven second delay when he hosted the show.

...The thinking man's liberal, he stirred up the Democratic Party in his numerous attempts to run for president (for those actually wondering, he was never elected president).

...Regardless of your stance on capital punishment, he was put to death in California for murder-each of his victims was killed at point blank range with a shotgun.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>When The Levee Breaks&#xa;When The Levee Breaks&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-09-15T22:36:49-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-47</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-47</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, it seemed as if Peter Jennings went off to that big newsroom in the sky with Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, making for a perfect trio, but the fact is that Jennings was the only one who actually died.

...In a perfect world, Mayor Nagin, Governor Blanco and FEMA flunky Michael "Heck of a job, Brownie" Brown would have all been shot in the New Orleans Convention Center, making for a Celebrity Death Trio of properly political proportions.

...Here's to the latest group of cremation-worthy castaways, all of whom have gone on to join that great nonstop Mardi Gras Parade in Paradise, drinking--what else?--hurricanes at the very last call and eating filet of soul.

...* Justice William Rehnquist - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, former lawyer You have to appreciate a guy who managed to get a job in the Nixon Administration and lived to talk about it more than thirty years later.

...One of the most familiar faces in TV Land, he really WAS Gilligan, the original "little buddy" who never quite figured out that Ginger and Mary Ann wanted him to father their love child week after week.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Voices From The Grave&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-06-27T22:35:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-46</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-46</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Younger readers may not remember her pioneering star turn on the Point/Counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes, but everyone remembers Jane Curtin's version of that role, in which Dan Ackroyd routinely addressed her as "Jane, you ignorant slut."

...Paul Winchell - Voice artist who, in addition to being the voice of Tigger from Winnie The Pooh, did a host of Saturday morning cartoons (Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races, Fleegle in The Banana Splits).  And the guy didn't stop there: he was a famed ventriloquist (with Jerry Mahoney), had a patent on a disposable razor, and invented an early prototype of the artificial heart.

...John Fiedler - A diminutive bald actor best known as the voice of Piglet in the Winnie The Pooh series (notice that God's got a theme going here?).

...Astute readers will remember that the last CDT, barely three weeks ago, featured the inimitable Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Tony The Tiger and numerous Disney attractions alongside Frank Gorshin, famed for his comic impressions.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Riddle Me This&#x2c; Satan&#xa;&#xa;Riddle Me This&#x2c; Satan</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-05-31T22:34:04-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-45</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-45</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In fact, it's been so dry, we thought that maybe celebrities just didn't feel like dying in the wake of the last CDT (led by the Pope).

...Today we mark the passing of those brave souls who can no longer be taped live in front of a studio audience, and will be enjoying all the well-earned benefits of an eternal dirt nap.

...Well known as a Vegas and New York club headliner with an uncanny ability to mimic other celebrities, Gorshin achieved true fame as the Riddler on the original Batman series (starring Adam West).

...Eddie Albert: a well respected actor who will always be remembered first and foremost (at least by the CDT) as Mr. Oliver Douglas on "Green Acres."  Putting up with Eva Gabor, Arnold the pig, Eb the Handyman, and the rest of the sophisticated citizens of the sitcom, Albert made a career of being the guy for whom nothing went right, although he did put Hooterville on the map.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Papal Procession&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-04-06T08:33:08-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-44</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The death week everyone was putting their Kentucky Derby money, their lunch money, and their life's savings on. And the CDT did not fail to deliver a stunning cast, quite likely the most storied troika of world renowned former carbon-based life forms to date.

...But you've all read the headlines, so you don't need us to dwell mawkishly on this latest group of esteemed citizens who've finished up their visit to this theme park we call Life; those who've sampled the delights of Taking-Up-Space Mountain and by their departure have now made it a "smaller world after all."

...was actually guilty, and because his own lawyer knew it, Johnnie Cochran should have to spend all of eternity sitting outside the gates of heaven ("If it does not fit, you cannot admit") listening to Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman discuss the finer points of the word "justice" until hell freezes over.

...No matter where you sit on the electrified fence that is organized religion, you have to give this particular Pope credit for taking an active role in world politics.

...At least her friends and family had the good grace and dignity not to turn her personal life and death into a media blitz: a blitz launched day after day where one side sniped against another while lining up headline-grabbing politicians in a constant grab for one-upsmanship that resembled nothing so much as a lethal game of "Red Rover Red Rover."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Waiting In The Wings</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-03-28T22:32:03-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-43</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-43</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We come off last week with a trio of deaths that may not have resonated on every corner of the known world, but certainly will strike a chord with many of our readers.

...Admit it, Foghat was a guilty pleasure for anyone over the age of 40 (and we don't need to point out how many of you readers are smack dab in the middle of THAT demographic), plus, you can all sing the riff to "Slow Ride" in your sleep, can't you?

...Despite the fact that we're a hard news organization, and report only the hard cold facts (after they've occurred), many readers have been "speculating" about the next CDT winners with a level of morbid fascination that would do Gomez and Morticia Addams proud.

...While we won't take bets--but, oh, are we tempted--we will be keeping vigilant watch over the fates of any and all celebrities who decide to keep the "death comes in threes" tradition alive.

...He was once approached by the Guinnness Book Of World Records for inclusion in that tome after having performed brain surgery on a single patient for over 40 hours (the patient lived).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Back To Back To The Beyond&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-02-22T03:30:34-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-42</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-42</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[While many people took this week off in honor of dead presidents, we have no such luxury hear at Celebrity Death Trio&trade; Central.

...This week finds us yet again experiencing a mad dash to the Finite Finish Line, with two sets of triumphantly terminal trios leaving the good life .

...If it wasn't for him--and "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas"--we wouldn't be writing the Celebrity Death Trio the way we do.

...If life was fair, current teen idol Britney Spears would have offered to trade places with Sandra and Britney would now be the Grim Reaper's girlfriend.

...Their sightings turned the place into a veritable haven for the faithful, who believed that the little kids were telling the truth (Lucia was 10 when this happened) and had been given secrets about the future.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Graveyard Gridiron</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-02-04T06:29:21-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-41</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-41</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We've barely recovered from last week's big Terminal Troika (Johnny Carson, Philip Johnson, Rosemary Woods) when three more celebs decided to walk the paradise plank this week--all just in time for Super Bowl weekend.

...So, just in time for a long weekend of football festivities, blow a kiss goodbye to the following ex-celebs who have taken their final run across God's Goal Line and spiked their souls in The End Zone.

...Max Schmeling: German boxer who was the great white hope of the Nazis in the 1930s, even though he publicly disavowed Hitler and his band of idiots.  Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis in the upset of the century, before a rematch where Louis kicked his ass to the ground in less than three minutes.

...He also starred opposite Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales" was provided the voices of the Submarine and Iron Man in the old 60's cartoon series.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Heeeeeerrrre&#x27;s Johnny&#x21; Or His Ghost.&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2005-01-28T16:28:27-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-40</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2005#unique-entry-id-40</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And while they might have preferred that paradise had come in the form of, say, Hawaii instead of the Afterlife Bar and Grille, they certainly rest comfortably (forever) in the satisfaction of knowing they didn't go alone.

...Nixon loyalist (perhaps the only one on the planet) and secretary who was alleged to have erased the crucial 18 minutes of White House tapes that would have put Tricky Dicky in the slammer for covering up Watergate.

...He was a co-designer of the original glass and steel skyscraper, New York's Seagram Building, which changed the way buildings were built all over the world.  He was an aggressive innovator and promoter of new styles (he almost single-handedly created NYC's Museum of Modern Art), and designed the famed Sony building in NYC, California's Crystal Cathedral, and numerous skyscrapers around the country.

...While you may barely remember any of this group's actual songs, there were plenty of girls in high school during the 70s that cried themselves to sleep listening to songs like "If," "Diary," "Make It With You," and "Baby I'm A Want You."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hellacious Holidays&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-12-30T23:59:13-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-39</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-39</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, the Reaper of all things Grim was certainly making hay while the sun shone, clearing a Path to Purgatory before the New Year arrives this weekend in diapers....  So, without further ado, let's sing Auld Lang Syne to the most recent group of people who are going to spend their holidays tailgating with Jesus.

...While he was primarily famous in and around New York, everybody who's ever been to a pro sporting event knows his signature crowd-pleaser: "Da-da-dun da-DA!

...PS. We have to note Darrell Abbott, a nice guy who died earlier this month when he was shot onstage by a former fan.  Well-known in the guitar community, Darrell has became more of a celebrity for the way in which he died than the music he made.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Thanks For Giving (Up)&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-11-30T13:24:16-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-37</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-37</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Many of you have written in wanting to know why we didn't report on the rash of celebrity triple-headers that occurred in mid-to-late November.

Well, the truth is that we refrained from sending the Celebrity Death Trio missives out over the Thanksgiving holidays because we felt they might cast a bit of a pall over the season.  After all, each of us is thankful to be alive--and not checking into our own eternal version of the Roach Motel.

...That said, we did have a couple sets of celebrity trios who managed to get themselves a non-refundable ticket to the Heavenly Hotel.

...Harry Lampert - A cartoonist whose name is not nearly as well known as that of his celebrity creation: The Flash.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Kryptonite Corpses&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-10-19T17:25:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week, the Celebrity Death Trio HotLine (TM) was lighting up like a Chernobyl sunrise when actor Christopher Reeves and former Major Leaguer Ken Caminiti both took the proverbial plunge within minutes of each other.  Some speculated that they had alerted each other to their impending demise(s), thereby getting a CDT week underway.  But alas, the faithful and faithless alike were left hanging--as it were--until Pierre Salinger threw in the towel (or is that 'cashed in his chips'?)

...Nonetheless, the CDT itself continues to make up for lost time in record time, plowing through the nationally famous faster than Oprah Winfrey at an all-you-can-eat chocolate buffet.

...His later years were spent in France, supporting Internet conspiracy theories and refusing to trim his eyebrows--perhaps in pursuit of a Guinness Book record for length.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One Day Onslaught&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-10-06T10:23:31-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So, without further ado, hail farewell to the three celebs who've chosen not to partake of Octoberfest this year, instead lining up for Mortuary Madness and serving as their own Halloween costumes.

...The guy who once said "I asked my parents if I could go ice skating on the pond, and they said, 'no, wait until the weather warms up" couldn't get no respect.

...Gordon Cooper: one of the world's first astronauts, he flew both Mercury and Gemini missions and set an endurance record by traveling more than 3 million miles in one flight....  But Gordon found his own way into space for his final flight, and he didn't need Paul Allen or Richard Branson to pony up a million bucks for it.

...That should be enough for anybody, but the impressive Leigh had an impressive resume': she also starred in the classics "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Touch Of Evil," was married to Tony Curtis (that had to be a barrel of laughs), and was mother of Jamie Lee Curtis.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Six Sleeping Celebs Slabbed On A Slate&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-10-01T14:22:48-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But this time it's a set of two--which in the mortuary business is technically known as an "exacta."

...We should note that it's been an especially difficult week for the fashion industry, as you'll see below.  So light a candle, or perhaps throw together an evening ensemble with a sassy yet sensible scarf, for all those memorialized below, each of whom is now doing the eternal strut down the Creator's Catwalk.

...Know as Scotto, he was one of the first to put the Beatles on the radio, and his show inspired "Dog Day Afternoon."

...Special trivia note: for all you Notre Damers out there, and there are more here than I'd like to admit, Ed was a '38 graduate and is the famed Haggar of Haggar Hall.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Purgatory Punk</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-09-20T22:21:48-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In fact, we haven't seen this diverse a crowd since Bill Clinton and the Secret Service went out for soul food in Harlem.

...He was the "smart" one of the group (there wasn't a lot of competition), and was also the third original member to die in the last three years.

...He was involved in some of the biggest divorce cases of all time--a dubious distinction, indeed--but perhaps he should have spent some time with tax law.  He spent two years in the slammer and went bankrupt for cheating on his taxes after making oodles (or scads) of cash off his clients.  But maybe he can do some pro bono work and help out some of his new friends in The Great Beyond.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Buried Under All This Paperwork&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-08-13T15:33:22-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After a year where the biggest names in entertainment hogged the media obituary pages all to themselves (yes, that means YOU, Marlon Brando .

...We've had two trios in the last two weeks (okay, the CDT was a little behind on paperwork from the week before).  So we actually have two sets of three celebrities who decided to hitchhike one last ride on the highway to heaven.

...Week 1 Francis Crick - remarkable scientist who (with partner James Watson) discovered the structure of DNA, the molecule that holds the key to life.

...Henri Cartier-Bresson - one of the most famous and influential photographers ever, who took pictures of some of the most crucial events of the 20th century.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Remember Begins With &#x22;R&#x22;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-06-12T12:11:04-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This year has been a far cry from 2003, when we were swamped with high profile passings nearly every week--a year that even had a trifecta in one day.

...No one is quite sure why--it may be a Screen Actor's Guild by-law, or it may be in their major league contracts, or maybe PEOPLE magazine pays them upfront to keep this noble tradition alive.

...For some, they're avoiding the "death as a career move" route, even though it's obvious that death would probably save their careers (yes, we're talking to you Courtney Love--and you, too, Michael Jackson).

However, the death drought--as it were--has been broken this week, and three celebs are now knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door.  (FYI, we define a celeb as somebody everyone has generally heard of, or knows the work of--or should know the work of--and their obit has to be a feature in the New York Times.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cadaver Kangaroo</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2004-01-27T13:50:13-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2004#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After a very quiet holiday season, it seems as if celebrities are in a real hurry to make up for lost time.  Maybe they're trying to get into heaven (or hell) before the next snowstorm, or before they get this cruddy flu.  Still, it was a week to remember for three celebs who just won the "Life's Over Lotto:"

...He'd made it to 83, but didn't make it all the way across the street in the car he was driving.

...If anybody deserves to have a monument built in his image, it's the Cap'n.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Season&#x27;s Beatings</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-11-19T22:49:08-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's getting near to the end of the year, and it seems like everyone's dying to make this list.

...In the last week, three new celebs joined the line for the "Meet & Greet With St.

...er, Jackie Gleason (We thought that was Jackie who lost the battle with his publisher last week....  Tony Thompson: beloved drummer, member of Chic, temporary member of Led Zeppelin

Larry Tisch: not-so-beloved billionaire mogul, who owned both Loew's theaters and CBS, responsible for selling CBS Records to Sony (to his credit, though, he did rebuild the Central Park Zoo).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy Haunting Grounds&#xa;&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-10-28T00:48:37-05:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So here's the current list of entertainers now appearing tonight--and every night--at the Pearly Gates Bar & Grille.

...actor's name appeared so often as Fred "Rerun" Berry that it seemed as if he'd been named Rerun at birth.

Elliott Smith: Oscar-nominated songster from the late-90s known for his brooding tunes and the soundtrack to Good Will Hunting.  Allegedly committed suicide by stabbing himself in the chest--which must have been an Oscar-worthy performance in and of itself.

Jack Elam: fantastic and fantastically grizzled character actor with the bulging and wandering eye, star of Westerns almost since they were invented.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another Double Trio&#x21;?&#x21;?&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-09-29T20:47:32-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We know, it's hard to imagine--it's either something in the drinking water, or there really are Weapons Of Mass Celebrity Destruction....  This kind of thing doesn't happen very often, unless you're the occasional rock band chartering a jet from Jethro's Screen Door and Flying Transport Service.

...Robert Palmer: rock singer whose video to Addicted To Love changed MTV forever (your choice as to whether that was good or bad)

...Elia Kazan: either one of the greatest directors of all time (On The Waterfront, Streetcar) or a com-symp.

...The emails were flying this week, and we're glad--and perhaps a little mortified--that a lot of you were checking the wire services with such regularity.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Double Trio&#x21;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-09-12T04:46:02-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We have not one, but two--yes, count them TWO--sets of terminal triplets from the world of celebrity joining the ranks of the heavenly choir this week.  This proves our point that not only do celebrities die in threes, they also die in multiples of three.

...He may not have had the lead on the show, but he died with more dignity than Bob "Hogan" Crane.

...Say what you will about "Three's Company," but the guy was great in Sling Blade....  He also created that baby devil with horns and pitchfork (in red) that is tattooed on the ass of nearly every biker chick in the U.S.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Death Wish List&#xa;</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-09-08T23:44:22-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Couldn't start out the first week of September without a down-to-the-wire race from three deceased celebrities.  From September 1 to September 8th, three new celebs cashed in their chips at the Coffin Casino.

...Charles Bronson - cool actor who probably didn't have a real "Death Wish" Warren Zevon - great songwriter whose "best of" collection was named--honestly-- "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" Paul Hill - former minister who killed an abortion clinic doctor; he was this week's most celebrated execution

...Except for Paul Hill.  Let's hope he's the main course at the "Hades Barbecue."]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dark Days</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-08-18T13:11:23-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For such a long hot--and in some cases, dark--summer, celebrities manage to keep making news....  This past week was no different, and we're not even adding Ben and Jen's soon-to-be-pushing up daisies romance.

Three famous people who booked a reservation at the Chateau Eternity last week.  And the way things are going, we're sure to have another celebrity triad in the next couple of weeks.

...Idi Amin: poster boy for ill-tempered dictators and torturers Herb Brooks: coach of the gold winning "miracle" US hockey team in 1980 Gregory Hines: actor, dancer (check out "White Knights")]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Interred Industry Icons&#xa;Interred Industry Icons</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-07-20T15:42:12-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Every week it seems we get a full triad of celebrities who are lining up to go tailgating with Jesus.

...Sam Phillips - the recording industry legend who discovered Elvis and launched Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.  John Schlesinger - director of films such as Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Falcon & The Snowman, et al

FYI, even though she's not a household name (so not quite a celebrity), Jane Barbe died.  Everyone in America knows her: Jane's voice has been used since 1963 on nearly every public and private telephone network system in the US for messages, information, and misplaced calls.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beverly &#x22;Boot&#x22; Hillbilllies&#x2c; Baby</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-07-14T11:41:05-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Boy, a big run this summer for celebrity deaths.  This past week we had another three celebs sign up to cook for the Kennedys.  Given the caliber of our dearly departed, we allowed a Saturday to Saturday week (okay, it's a long week).

...Barry White: R&B love commander Buddy Ebsen: not a hillbilly in real life, but played one on TV Benny Carter: jazz pioneer

There is some discrepancy about the hours of White's and Carter's deaths, so it may or may not have fit the seven day timeframe as neatly as we like.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Entertaining For Eternity</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-07-04T13:12:48-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This week's "Celebrity Death Trio" is composed of artistes (you'll remember that last week was politicians).  Quite the entertainment industry lineup, and now they're laid out in a straight line facing the sunset.

...Katherine Hepburn - great actress, famed as a kept woman Buddy Hackett - great comedian, famed for his squirrelly voice Herbie Mann - great flautist, famed for fusing jazz and world music

Those of us at the CDT have got to believe that perennial CDT wannabees Bob Hope and Pope John Paul are breathing a little easier this week .

...RIP, one and all.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Old White Guys In Their Graves</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-06-23T20:38:16-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Another big week for the "Celebrities Die In Threes" sociologists.  This week, however, instead of the usual assortment of dead rock stars and entertainers, we get three dead politicians.

...Strom Thurmond - hundred year-old congressional viagra joke...  Lester Maddox - poster boy and cross-burner for the KKK

Boy, those segregation guys sure lived long enough to see the world bite them in the ass, didn't they?]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rich&#x2c; Thin and Really Dead</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2003-04-21T20:36:56-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2003#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Death to big names comes in threes, yet again ....  proving you can never be too old, too rich, too thin, or too jazzy.  Maybe you can be too dead, but we doubt it.

...Nina Simone (famous jazz singer, civil rights activist) Robert Atkins (famous thin guy) J Paul Getty, Jr (famous rich guy)

RIP, one and all.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One Day Trifecta</title><dc:creator>hpn3@yahoo.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Celebrity Death Trio</dc:subject><dc:date>2002-06-27T20:36:04-04:00</dc:date><link>http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2002#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http//www.hpnewquist.com/cdtblog/files/2002#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A New one day deadpool record!

...If you're keeping tabs, today was a celebrity death trifecta....  John Entwhistle, bass player for the Who Timothy White, editor of Billboard since forever Jay Berwanger, first Heisman trophy winner

On a day like this, with John Entwhistle leading the way, one can only ask "Who's Next?"

RIP, one and all.]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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