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« Reply #1275 on: February 11, 2012, 08:51:43 PM »
Whitney Houston - 48 years old.  :crying
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46355454#.TzcZScUS3kp


Some details (not that it matters) @ TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-dead/#.Tzcc4MUS3ko


Why is it always in a fucking hotel room? Now I'm thinking of Heath. Shit.
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« Reply #1276 on: February 11, 2012, 10:53:51 PM »
Never really listened to Whitney Houston - too much of a 'pop star' for me, and definitely not funky enough. I rarely listen to pop - my tastes run to hard rock, blues, soul, folk, and reggae.
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« Reply #1277 on: February 12, 2012, 12:54:04 AM »
more's to sorry for you then. just the greatest voice ever. genre is no matter here. She said goodbye with her hit single.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QaI-M9sxW4

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« Reply #1278 on: February 12, 2012, 01:07:57 AM »
Extremely sad news. It seemed like she was all set to participate in a tribute to Etta James at the Grammy Awards. For once in a long time, the news about her was positive and then this/  :crying
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« Reply #1279 on: February 12, 2012, 01:09:58 AM »
Yeah, the grammy's, not so real yet.
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« Reply #1280 on: February 12, 2012, 07:39:29 AM »
Such sad news. Like Boom Boom, I didn't care for her singing or her material, but that has no bearing on the tragedy of her early (and it seems, "avoidable" death).

Avoidable is psychobabble shorthand for suicides or parasuicides (binges on substances, deliberately dangerous driving etc).
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« Reply #1281 on: February 12, 2012, 08:18:02 AM »
Yeah, I agree with lagatta's post - I regret her death but just never got into her music. I loved her singing in that movie with Kevin Costner, though. Jazz is another genre, like pop, that I didn't care much for, although it's genuinely sophisicated music.
 
ETA: almost all the music I listen to is from the 1960s and 1970s. I seem to be stuck in a time warp with regard to music.
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« Reply #1282 on: February 12, 2012, 08:53:14 AM »
Quote from: Toedancer on February 12, 2012, 01:09:58 AM
Yeah, the grammy's, not so real yet.

Saw on CNN last night there will be some changes made to allow for a tribute to Whitney Houston.
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« Reply #1283 on: February 16, 2012, 07:04:04 PM »
Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter dies at 57
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NEW YORK — Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, the first player enshrined in Cooperstown wearing a Montreal Expos cap, died Thursday. He was 57.

Carter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour last May, two weeks after finishing his second season as coach at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
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« Reply #1284 on: February 16, 2012, 07:31:32 PM »
Only 57 years old. Terribly sad.
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« Reply #1285 on: February 16, 2012, 11:51:09 PM »
Anthony Shadid, New York Times reporter, dies in Syria
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The New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won the Pulitzer prize for his coverage of Iraq and was detained in Libya for almost a week last year, has died in eastern Syria while on a reporting assignment.

The cause of his death apparently was an asthma attack, his newspaper said, adding that New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks was with him and carried his body to Turkey.
He was 43.
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« Reply #1286 on: February 21, 2012, 06:08:24 PM »
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« Reply #1287 on: February 29, 2012, 01:51:23 PM »
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« Reply #1288 on: February 29, 2012, 01:54:25 PM »
Waaah! I was a huge fan as a youngster! Goddam he looked so healthy. It's bizarre, I see hugely obese men who's tickers don't look like they could even muster the energy to have a cardiac arrest.


Adding - Al Roker had a ball being a Monkee http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10540912-monkees-star-davy-jones-dies-at-66
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« Reply #1289 on: March 01, 2012, 04:31:37 PM »
Andrew Brietbart has died.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-dies-natural-causes-website-reports/
Can someone explain to me how a 43 year old dies 'unexpectedly of natural causes'? 4 kids, that's sad.

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