Category Archives: Passing

Judge allows Jackson estate challenge

By doris | Published: September 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – A judge has ruled that Michael Jackson’s mother can challenge the men currently administering her son’s estate without losing her substantial stake. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff’s ruling, released Friday, clears the way for Katherine Jackson to challenge whether attorney John Branca and music executive John [...]

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Mary Travers of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72

By doris | Published: September 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Travers died from side effects of treatment from a bone-marrow transplant after battling leukemia, publicist Heather Lylis said. The singer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in November 1936 and grew up in New York’s Greenwich Village. As a teenager, she performed in a Broadway review, but stepped on to the folk [...]

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Film heartthrob Patrick Swayze dies of cancer at 57

By doris | Published: September 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Swayze died of pancreatic cancer, his publicist, Annett Wolf, told CNN. “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” Wolf said in a statement Monday. Swayze’s doctor, Dr. George Fisher, revealed in early March 2008 that [...]

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‘M*A*S*H’ writer, producer Larry Gelbart dies

By doris | Published: September 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Gelbart died of cancer, Pat Gelbart said. The family will hold a private memorial service. Throughout his career, Gelbart developed a portfolio of more than 40 works spanning radio, television, theater and film. His fascination with radio as a child inspired him and influenced his evolving career. “I never had any [...]

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Friends, colleagues honor Walter Cronkite

By doris | Published: September 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “He was a great anchorman in the news business, because his greatest contribution was not his knowledge or his expertise — as great as those were — it was his steady holding to what was most important,” said his colleague and longtime friend Andy Rooney, who addressed the crowd in a [...]

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Michael Jackson reaches his ‘final resting place’

By doris | Published: September 4, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Jackson’s burial may lay to rest some of the mystery and controversy that erupted with his sudden death on June 25. His large family was divided over where the superstar’s final resting place should be, but matriarch Katherine Jackson settled on a crypt inside the well-guarded and ornate Great Mausoleum at [...]

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Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson

By doris | Published: September 3, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Only his family and closest friends will attend the private funeral inside the ornate Great Mausoleum on the grounds of Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California. The news media, which has closely covered every aspect of Jackson’s death, will be kept at a distance, with cameras no closer than the cemetery’s [...]

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Jay-Z announces 9/11 charity concert

By doris | Published: September 1, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com So, this year the hip-hop artist will hold a charity concert at Madison Square Garden in New York on the anniversary of the attacks. He announced the show, named “Answer the Call,” at a press conference with government officials Monday morning at the Midtown New York venue. Standing next to officials, [...]

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Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide, coroner rules

By doris | Published: August 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The drugs propofol and lorazepam were found to be the primary drugs responsible for Mr. Jackson’s death,” said a news release issued Friday by the coroner. “Other drugs detected were: midazolam, diazepam, lidocaine and ephedrine.” The release said Jackson died from “acute propofol intoxication,” but said “other conditions contributing to death: [...]

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Jackson burial moved to September 3

By doris | Published: August 23, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Jackson was scheduled to be laid to rest August 29, on what would have been his 51st birthday. The private ceremony will still take place at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, according to a statement from Ken Sunshine. No reason was given for the change in date. The [...]

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