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Sad and strange, this week has seen the passing of three icons in the entertainment business. The first, of course, Ed McMahon on Tuesday, then on Thursday Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer and Michael Jackson was pronounced dead of a suspected coronary (an autopsy is scheduled for today in Los Angeles). However, as the rumor mill will, it spun with rumors of Jeff Goldblum having died in a fall during a movie he was shooting in New Zealand. Jeff Goldblum is very much alive…and grateful we’re sure.

Last evening, as we were getting ready for supper, my oldest grandson called to tell me that Michael Jackson had passed away. I had spent the majority of the afternoon playing games with my grandchildren or watching cartoons and had not seen any news, so it was a shock to hear such news. Many in my generation remember a really cute little boy who sang I’ll be There in what would become the voice of a genius in the music industry; Michael Jackson “The King of Pop.”

It was natural to draw parallels to another “King” of music, Elvis Presley, who was also in the beginnings of a renewed music come back that promised to put him back on the throne when he died. Michael, like Elvis, had been out of the public eye and off the music scene for several years when his new beginning became his end. Mourners had already gathered in many places around the world, last night, as news personalities sought to make sense of the sudden passing of one of music’s largest and most enigmatic stars.

Though we really do not know them, we will miss them.

Jeff Goldblum

Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson

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