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Today, the entertainment industry has lost two legends. First of all, the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson and actress Farrah Fawcett.
Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009)
Michael Jackson, who was internationally known as the "King of Pop" after emerging from childhood superstardom to being on of the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest. The circumstances of his death was not immediately clear and he was not breathing when the Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home at about 12:21 PM PDT today. The paramedics performed CPR on him and he was taken to UCLA Medical Center. In the end, they were unable to revive him. His death was confirmed at 2:26 PM PDT and at 4:36 PM PDT, the Los Angeles coroner confirmed his death. Although there is no evidence of criminality, the Los Angeles Police Department detectives have opened an investigation into his death.
He was only 50.
His death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre and sometime farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s when he was popular music's premier all-around performer.
Born Michael Joseph Jackson in Gary, Indiana (an industrial suburb of Chicago, Illinois) to a working-class family on 29 August 1958. He was the son of Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson (born 26 July 1929) and Katherine Esther Jackson (nee Scruse; 4 May 1930). He was the seventh of nine children and his siblings were Rebbie (born 29 May 1950), Jackie (born 4 May 1951), Tito (born 15 October 1953), Jermaine (born 11 December 1954), La Toya (born 29 May 1956), Marlon (born 12 March 1957), Randy (born 29 October 1961) and Janet (born 16 May 1966).
He was widely known as the "King of Pop" in subsquent years, thanks to five of his solo studio albums have become some of the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995). He released ten albums and his last studio album was Invincible which was recently released in 2001. He achieve multiple Guiness World Records, including one for "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" with 13 Grammay Awards , 13 number one singles in his solo career...more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era and the sales of over 750 million albums worldwide. His Thriller album was certifed for 28 million shipments by the RIAA and giving it Double Diamond status in the United States. His album had worldwide sales between 47 million and 109 million copies.
For complete information on the legacy of Michael Jackson, read this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson Farrah Fawcett (1947 - 2009)
Also, Farrah Fawcett, an actress whose rose into international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the TV series Charlie's Angels in 1976 has died of anal cancer today at 9:18 AM PDT at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California and nearly three years after being diagnosed with the disease. Ryan O'Neal, the longtime companion who returned to her side when she became ill was with her at the time of her death. She was 62.
She was born on 2 February 1947 in Corups Christi, Texas as Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett named by her mother. She was a sex symbol with a winsome smile, tousled hair and unfettered sensuality. Her first appearance was a guest spot on I Dream of Jeannie in the 1968-1969 season, followed by guest appearances in Owen Marshall: Counselor as Law. She then latter appeared in The Six Million Dollar Man with Lee Majors, which first aired in 1974. On 21 March 1976, her first appearance as the character Jill Munroe in Charlie's Angels was aired as a move of the week. The movie also starred Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith. At the time the movie aired, she was billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors. The trio were private investigators for Townsend Associates in which was a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. The trio were accompanied by two male associates played by character actors David Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The movie earned a huge Nielsen rating, causing ABC to air it a second time and approve production for a series which formerally debuted on 22 September 1976.
She later appeared off-Broadway to the approval of critics and in highly rated television movies in roles often challenging and sometimes unsympathetic. For the rest of this story on the legacy of Farrah Fawcett, read this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett These two entertainers will be greatly missed. |
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