Before
proceeding further, I must make one statement. Thus far, the only
endangered person with whom I had enough clues (from both
Nostradamus and my own system of numerology) to make a positive
identification in advance was Princess
Diana. This is because Nostradamus actually named her. I have the
name of only one other individual who will be in danger in the
near future, but no definite date: singer/actress Madonna. Again
as with Diana, Nostradamus provides her name -- base 7 numerology
may provide the time.
It may be that
other names are to be found in Nostradamus' prophesies that I
will discover in good time. In the meantime there is only
numerology, speculation based on historical trends, Nostradamus
quatrains that are descriptive but do not
provide a name, and these strange relationships between words and
letters. The first such system that was developed was the "More"
and "F" system.
The Origins
of the "More" and "F" System
Those of us who
remember the late 1960s and early 1970s well know
that the period was marked by more than the Vietnam War, peace
protests, and the rock and drug culture (although the last
phenomenon listed partially contributed to the trend I am about
to discuss). For those of us who were in adolescence it was our
introduction to the shock of seeing celebrities we had grown to
love, emulate, or simply had grown up with suddenly topple over
one by one like a gruesome row of dominoes.
Certainly as
young children or infants we had already been exposed -- whether
or not we were aware of it -- to the earthshaking and tragic
deaths of seemingly immortal men and women: James Dean, Clark
Gable, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Jayne Mansfield, Martin
Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy. Jaded Beatles fans -- or perhaps
the Beatles themselves -- subjected us to a Paul McCartney death
scare. Then a crazed convict who claimed to be Christ and Satan
roled into one selected the Beatles' most unusual album and used
it to perpetrate the most heinous, tragic, and brutal murders of
this century.
Still, through
it all, seemingly great gaps of time passed.
It was late 1969
when a series of inexplicable young celebrity deaths began.
Rolling Stones drummer Brian Jones was discovered drowned at the
bottom of his swimming pool. He had taken LSD and confused the
water he was sucking into his lungs for air. Judy Garland,
Dorothy of Kansas, succumbed to depression and her addiction to
sedatives and alcohol, disappearing into Oz forever. Summer came
and began fading to autumn. Like two shots echoing in the night
Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were no more, their music and
voices stilled, leaving their brief legacy behind in short stacks
of vinyl and a few reels of film.
1971 came and
crawled slowly along in the manner that years tend to pass for
the very young. The noise of graduation parties and post-graduation
parties filled the air, competing with the sound of private
fireworks displays. Not long after, like a disturbing flash of de
ja vu, the news was reported: Jim Morrison, lead singer of The
Doors, was found dead in a bathtub by his girlfriend -- a drug
overdose victim (friends insist it was a heart attack) at the
incredibly young age of 27. Morrison, originally a poet before
being persuaded to join his famed rock band, was the most
prolific of the three rock superstars who had died in the space
of only ten months.
It seemed to end
there and then: death that shocked, death that disturbed, death
that saddened finally had played its trump card. For popular
culture, this appeared to be true for a short time. But for those
who read and wrote poetry, once a major domain of popular culture
until the suicide death of Sylvia Plath in 1963 and the
posthumous release of the final collection of her poems Ariel
in 1965, 1972 would bring tidings of another senseless death.
John Berryman, the most outstanding black poet in America, took
his own life. In the autumn of 1973 the world would be shocked
yet again with the sudden, unexpected death of folk-rocker Jim
Croce whose small plane crashed en route to a live engagement.
There is rarely
a year that passes that does not present us with that last look,
the final review of a life lived long and well and peacefully
departed from or else snuffed out senselessly and prematurely by
accident, suicide, murder, or a premature and terminal medical
event. The individuals mentioned above were not the only victims
of the 1969 - 1973 period. Inger Stevens, Duane Allman, and
Sharon Tate were among others who had also passed on before their
time.
The purpose of
the above reminisence may have already been plainly stated enough.
Most of the major celebrities of the 1969 - 1973 period had one
thing in common: they each had a first or last name beginning
with the letter "J." Brian Jones, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin (a double "J"), Jim Morrison, John Berryman, Jim Croce. I am convinced
that this was not a coincidence. I should also add that, because John Lennon "retired"
near the end of this period, he apparently bought himself some
extra time. Still, on December 8, 1980, the founder and leader of
the Beatles was murdered by a psychotic fan named Mark David
Chapman.
It did not occur
to me until late 1998 that something similar had been occurring
for nearly a year. Following the shocking deaths of Princess
Diana and John Denver, comedian Chris Farley was found dead of
an apparent heart attack. As the new year began, a pretty young
woman was seen more and more on television, praying in her prison
cell, arms upraised to heaven. Karla Faye Tucker would be the first woman executed in
Texas since the Civil War. The entertainment world quaked in May
with the announcement of the death of Frank Sinatra. Florence "FloJo" Joyner, a
famous black Olympics superstar would die in September,
asphyxiating in her sleep, just as rock star Jimi Hendrix had
done 28 years earlier in the same month. Television and film
actress Mary Frann was found dead
shortly after, prescription drugs strewn about the room wherein
her lifeless body lay. The following month the word was out: Ally
McBeal star Calista Flockhart was dying of anorexia. Not true, she
retorted angrily. It was a month-long death-scare rumour that had
fooled even seasoned journalists. Then, in November, actor
Michael J. Fox revealed that he was
suffering from Parkinson's Disease.
I believed I now
knew what was coming. Farley, Faye, Frank, Florence, Frann,
Flockhart, and Fox had one thing in common: the initial "F."
If the 1969 - 1973 period was being replayed in 1997 - 2001, then
not merely a sub-culture, but the world would be in for a major
shock in July 1999. A young male, wth the letter 'F' figuring
predominately in his initials, would die suddenly and
unexpectedly. But who?
I agonised over
this as I began to build my website, naively believing that
thousands of visitors would be beating a path to my pages. Surely
I would be able to pinpoint who was in danger. Surely the word
would get out somehow to the right channels to prevent whatever
was going to occur in July. But so many women had died tragically
since Diana's death in August 1997. Could it be that it would be
a female celebrity rather than a male who was in danger of dying
in July 1999? As I began to scramble for other possible clues, I
decided to include both genders in the prediction.
The most
outstanding sound in Jim Morrison's name was the sound "More."
Was there anyone around today with that sound predominating in
their name? Then a list began to form in my mind: Alanis
Morissette, Van Morrison, Demi Moore, etc. Also Jim Morrison's
initials: J.M. Could that be a clue? Could the first name of the
individual be Jim, James, John? John Mellencamp, perhaps? (I
recently have learned that Mellencamp has a heart condition and
is exercising, dieting, and taking prescriptions to keep his
illness in check.) Without realising it, I had the first initial,
"J," correct, and the second initial as well -- what I
didn't know was that the "FF" would end up being a middle
initial. I also began to wonder whether it was possible that
"More" and "F" might work independently of
each other -- each spawning a separate list of potential victims.
I joined
GeoCities on May 7, 1999. On May 8, I began FTPing my web site.
On May 10, I launched it. Then I began to promote it by
submitting to search engines and directories. All the while this
was going on, unbeknownst to me, television actress Dana Plato
committed suicide in Moore, Oklahoma. It would be two weeks before I would
learn of her death on May 8.
In June 1999,
Star Trek lost its first major actor: DeForest Kelly ("Bones")
died of stomach cancer. Then came that fateful day in July of
which I had warned, remembering the death of Jim Morrison 28
years before. John F. Kennedy Jr. plummeted to his death in the
Atlantic off Martha's Vineyard. His wife, Carolyn Bessette and
his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, died with him in the small
plane they had been flying in to attend the wedding of JFK Jr.'s
cousin.
Male
and female would die.
It was quite a
shock, especially with "JFK Jr." permanently affixed to
the bottom of the television screen on CNN, a very famous person
who I only marginally knew anything about. Yet, despite having
the "what" and the "when" and even the
originally-surmised gender of the person in media focus correct,
I only had had fragments of the "who." I had never had
any cause to consider the initial "K." The significance
of that letter would not become apparent until it was much too
late -- not only for JFK Jr., but for others as well.
Just as the
"J" trend for the most part ended with Jim Morisson, I
now suspect the "F" trend has also nearly finished with
John F. Kennedy Jr. However, there may be one more major "F"
at risk of death before his or her time.
Also, as with
John Kennedy Jr. I sense tremendous danger for someone very
famous with the name "John" in late 2001. It need not
be a first name. Indeed, I am concerned that the individual in
question may be singer/composer Elton John. I will be presenting my reasons for this
on the "Early 21st Century: 2001" page soon.
As for "More"
the potential victims continued to pile up until December 31,
1999, and were never anyone you might expect. For the exception
of the mysterious death of English maven John Morgan (Morgan) in July 2000, I
suspect its influence was largely a 1999 phenomenon.
"More"
and "F" Presentation (1999)
THE
INFLUENCE OF "F" AND "MORE" THUS FAR -- COINCIDENCE?
No image available.
Prediction: The 'F' hurricane has
formed. It is called Floyd. Watch it
carefully. Also, throughout the season, state of Florida; Ft. Lauderdale; Fayetteville, NC;
New cities (New York, New Bedford, etc.); East Coast
beware.
September 16,
1999 -- North Carolina, as far west as Fayetteville,
New Jersey, and New York City were most
adversely affected by Floyd (along with
Virginia and Pennsylvania).
October
15, 1999 -- The east coast of Florida
was
severely battered by the surprise hurricane Irene. Ft.
Lauderdale was worst hit by flood and death to six by
electrocution.
Prediction: In July 1999 a male or female
celebrity may die suddenly and unexpectedly. He or she
will be young. Base 7 suggests a set of potential
initials: J.M., A.M.,
V.M., D.M. J.S., or any letter
combined with the letter F.
July 16,
1999 -- Male and female celebrities JFK Jr. and his
wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, along with Bessette's
sister, Lauren Bessette, died suddenly and unexpectedly
after Kennedy's small plane took off from Fairfield, NJ and
crash-dived into the ocean enroute to Martha's Vineyard.
Services
were held at the Church of St. Thomas More.
May 4,
1999 -- The worst F5 tornado in
history wreaks destruction on the town of Moore, Oklahoma
May 8,
1999 -- Dana Plato commits suicide in Moore, Oklahoma
October
31, 1999 -- Canadian race car
driver Greg Moore dies in racing accident.
November
18, 1999 -- Actor Dudley Moore reveals he has
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), an often terminal
brain illness.
Hi-Yo
Silver, Away!
"Lone
Ranger" Star Clayton Moore Dead at 85
Actor
Clayton Moore
December 28, 1999 --WEST HILLS, California
(CNN) -- Clayton Moore, the actor
forever identified with the Lone Ranger character, died
of a heart attack Tuesday morning at West Hills Hospital,
about 20 miles north of Los Angeles. He was 85.
Moore played the
Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1951, riding his trusty horse
Silver and accompanied by his faithful American-Indian
friend Tonto as the pair brought law and order to the Old
West in every half-hour episode. When he sat out a
contract dispute with the producers, actor John Hart took
over the role for two years. But Moore completed the show's
run until it was canceled in 1957.
The Lone Ranger
and Silver
Well,
what can I say? I thought he was already dead.
Clayton
Moore'sdays
may have been numbered by the "More" influence, but
there is no tragedy in a life lived long and well.
American
Hostage Was Last Casualty of 'MORE'
Influence in 1999
Lone
American Hostage of Indian Airline Hijacking, Jeanne Moore,
Returns to US
January 4, 2000 -- LOS ANGELES (AP) --
The sole American hostage on the hijacked Indian Airlines jet
returned to California Tuesday. Jeanne Moore, 53, who was among the
155 passengers held on the plane for eight days, arrived at Los
Angeles International Airport aboard a Lufthansa flight. Airline
spokeswoman Maria Soler said Ms. Moore was tired and left the
terminal with her son through an alternate route to meet her
family outside the airport. She did not meet with reporters. Her
Indian Airlines flight from Nepal to New Delhi was hijacked on
Dec. 24, and the hostages were freed December 31. Ms. Moore's
parents said they were anxious to see her. "I'll be so glad
to see her, and love her a lot," her 85-year-old mother,
Marie Redding, said Monday from her Burbank home. Her father,
Harold Redding, 86, said: "She travels quite frequently and
she wanted us to go along with her on this particular trip, but
we couldn't get away. Our health couldn't stand the rigors."
Ms. Moore lives in Bakersfield, where she teaches disabled
children.
Despite
a terrifying and potentially deadly experience in a drama played
out for nearly a week, this story has a happy ending for one MORE
at least.
Base
7 System and Name Sound System
NOTES:
Sadly, I did not
have the foresight to archive the 2000 series and deleted most of
the files.
"Hemingway
Curse" Threatens Actress Mariel Hemingway (well ... not too
likely)
June 13,
2010: The "Hemingway Curse" is suicide.
But it is highly unlikely that the surviving daughter, Mariel
Hemingway, will go the way of Ernest
and Margaux. Both died on the same base 7
timeline: 1961 and 1996 - 35 (5 x 7) years apart. Margaux's death
was 14 (2 x 7) years ago. Mariel Hemingway leads a squeaky clean
life unfettered by the troubles that plagued other members of her
family. Recently she was the keynote speaker at a mental health
conference.
Still, this
alert must remain in place for July 2010 because accidents can
still happen (car crash, for example). Also, in this crazy and
getting crazier world, murder is always a danger.
Actress
Drew Barrymore Threatened by Past Suicide Attempt (again, not too
likely)
June 13,
2010: Drew Barrymore is another
"together" actress like Mariel Hemingway. The "Barrymore
Curse" was last year when Drew's aunt, Diana
Barrymore (d. 1960, suicide), fell on the base 7
timeline. The danger on this timeline comes from Drew's own past:
addicted to drugs and alcohol since age 10 and in and out of
rehab, she attempted suicide at age 15 by slashing her wrists 21
(3 x 7) years ago on July 4, 1989.
As with last
year, this does not necessarily mean that Drew Barrymore is
currently in danger from any sort of addictive or self-destructive
behaviour at this time. However, one need only look back to
February 2001 to see that danger can take many other forms:
OnFebruary 18, 2001, Drew
Barrymore and her then-fiancé Tom Green escaped a fire that
gutted their Los Angeles home. The star and her comedian
boyfriend were alerted to the fire by their dog Flossie who
barked as it spread through the two-storey house north of
Beverley Hills. Sixty fire-fighters took about an hour to bring
the blaze under coDee Dee Sharphe charred-out house was estimated
at $700,000. The cause of the blaze was never determined. Had
it not been for the house pet being on the premises,
both Drew Barrymore and Tom Green would have burned to death.
Her death by
fire would have been spectacular and tragic indeed. Thus, as
unlikely as it may seem, Drew Barrymore could be in danger of
accidental death or some other means (such as murder) once again
in July
2010.
Echoes
of JonBenet Ramsey
June 13,
2010: In December 1996, the world was shocked by
the sex strangulation murder of a six-year-old girl from a
wealthy family. The murder of JonBenet Ramsey
remains unsolved to this very day. The little girl died 14 (2 x 7)
years ago, yet already echoes of her murder are being felt ...
and the abomination of what may be coming could be infinitely
worse than the original crime.
Is
ex-JonBenet suspect starting a child sex cult?
MSNBC - TODAY
10:58 a.m. ET,
Wed., June 2, 2010
The man who once
falsely confessed to the murder of child beauty
contestant JonBenet Ramsey is now living as a woman
and attempting to form a cult of little girls he intends to
have sex with, his former fiancee said Wednesday. Nineteen-year-old
Samantha Spiegel made the disturbing allegations to
TODAY’s Ann Curry in New York. She said she was once
engaged to John Mark Karr and, under his
sway, tried to recruit girls between the ages of 4 and 8 into
a sex cult.
“His
mission is to create a cult that he wants to call ‘The
Immaculates,’ of little girls that would have sexual
relationships with him and do whatever he wanted and just,
like, be his little minions,” Spiegel told NBC
News’ Jeff Rossen in a report that aired on TODAY prior
to her interview with Curry.
‘This cult could
happen’
It’s not
clear that Karr has done anything illegal, but police in
California and Washington state would like to talk to him.
But they can’t find him: Karr is reportedly
living as a woman under the nameAlexis
Valoran Reich and has a group of
“minions” who help him stay out of sight by
providing food and money and computers.
“I think
I’m a victim of his, as a teenager under the age of 18.
It wasn’t that long ago,” said Spiegel, who met
Karr two years ago. She said she began to look for little
girls to bring to him. “It seemed like a good idea at
the time,” she told Curry. “He was so persuasive.
He’s very manipulative. It’s a family that he had
wanted, and I didn’t want to get in the way of something
he wanted.
“This
cult could happen. It hasn’t happened yet,” Spiegel
told Curry. But Spiegel’s attorney, Robin Sax, told
Curry that isn’t necessarily true.
“Other people, we have evidence to show, are already
actively engaged in this cult,” Sax said.
In
2006, Karr sparked headlines when, while living in Thailand,
he confessed to the sensational murder of 6-year-old JonBenet
Ramsey in Colorado 10 years earlier. Prosecutors flew him
back to the States to check out his story.
Although
filled with chilling details, Karr’s confession was
rejected by investigators when his DNA did not match DNA
taken from the scene. He was dismissed as “a kook hungry
for attention.”
Spiegel told
NBC News that she first met Karr when she was a 9-year-old
fourth-grader at Convent of the Sacred Heart Catholic School
in San Francisco and he was a teacher’s assistant. Karr
left that job and Spiegel had no contact with him until two
years ago, after his arrest in Atlanta.Spiegel
contacted him and fell under Karr’s spell. When Karr
asked her to recruit little girls for his “Kiddie Cult,”
she readily agreed. “When I was on the street, I would
kind of size up children, girls. I thought about him meeting
my niece or other friends that had young children,”
Spiegel said.
Spiegel, who
said she now understands that what Karr wants to do is wrong,
said she never got to the point of actually recruiting a girl
for Karr. When she got engaged to the 46-year-old,
Spiegel’s parents intervened and sent her to a rehab
facility because of her drug use and her obsession with Karr,
who has two previous marriages. One bride was 13 at the time
of their marriage; the other was 16.
‘I
will hunt you down’
Spiegel said
she stayed in rehab for 18 months. When she got out, she said
she contacted Karr again to help police trying to build a
case against him and find him. She finally told him she could
not help him, and Karr threatened her. “If
you cost me my little girls, I will hunt you down and kill
you,” was one message she said he sent her.
Another read, “I only kill the girls I love
the most.”
John Mark Karr's twisted dream:
a harem of little girls dressed provocatively like JonBenet
Ramsey to be
used as sex slaves. As for his favourites, Karr's chilling
words: “I only kill the girls I
love the most.” (Images from parents' beauty contest on
Television Learning Channel's 'Toddlers in Tiaras')
To protect
herself, Spiegel got a restraining order against Karr in a
San Francisco court in April. But police can’t find Karr
to serve the order. Spiegel said that’s because
Karr’s minions look after him and he moves around a lot,
sometimes staying in homeless shelters and sometimes getting
rooms through Craigslist. Spiegel said she’s coming
forward because she wants to alert other
impressionable girls that Karr/Reich is out there and looking
for fresh prey.
“This is
something I would have liked someone to do for me, when I was
in his grips, but no one was there to do that,” she told
Curry. “I think it’s important for people to have
awareness about what a person like John is capable of.”
According to the most
recent reports (June 7, 2010), Karr surfaced in Atlanta, but had
already vanished again when authorities arrived. Then on June 8,
'After searching for more than a month, authorities finally
located John Mark Karr last Thursday at a familiar address –
his father’s residence near Chastain Park. Sandy Springs
police, at the request of the San Francisco police, served Karr
with a restraining order on behalf of 19-year-old Samantha
Spiegel. “The detectives met with Karr for about three
minutes and then left the residence,” said police spokesman
Steve Rose, who declined to elaborate.'
End of
story. Police are doing nothing along the lines of surveillance
to make sure Karr does not make good on his "dream."
Karr
also has a website where, as Alexis, he advertises his services
as a nanny and an at-home grade school teacher. He is also
reputedly seeking gender reassignment surgery."
Sound familiar?
In March 1997, the
world discovered 39 bodies lying in bunk beds as the comet Hale-Bopp
blazed in the sky. In one of the many videos the cult's leader,
Marshall Applewhite (alias "Do"), revealed that he and
the male members of the group had undergone castration surgery a
year earlier.
A pedophile cult
where the leader, a transgender male turned female, a whacko who
looks eerily like the transvestite played by Michael Caine in
Brian de Palma's movie Dressed to Kill,
surrounds himself/herself with JonBenet-type "beauty queens"
ages 4 to 9 (and conceivably in their teens too since he married
a 13-year-old and 16-year-old) for sexual purposes is deranged
enough ... almost deranged beyond belief. But note the chilling
words of John Mark Karr: “I will only kill the
girls I love the most.”
I
cannot understand why this statement is being ignored! Clearly
this person is planning not only on having sex with his harem of
little girls, but intends to snuff out their very lives, one by
one, when he feels the time is right ... replacing the murdered
ones with more little sex slaves that will later meet the same
fate. This is not a sex cult ... it is a sex and death cult!
Thus,
with the 14th (2 x 7) anniversary of JonBenet Ramsey's sex
strangulation murder coming up in December, could it be that this
cult will turn into something even more horrible: a cult of
little girls/underage girls who will be use for sex and then
murdered???
If
police can be believed, “Other people, we have evidence to
show, are already actively engaged in this cult.”
2010 Name Sounds
NOTE
ABOUT BLUE ALERT SYSTEM (3/11/03): Some of you
may recall a few years back when I used "name blends"
-- rhyming sounds and off-rhyme clues frommm part of one name to
determine what the next name in the sequence might be (or later
in the year). An example was the death of Layne Stahley and how
"Layne" led to "Lynne" then "Linda"
and the car crash death of Linda Lovelace which followed. I
surmised that "Lace" in "Lovelace" might lead
to a "Leese" then "Lisa" tragedy. The next
day, Lisa Lopes of TLC was killed in a car crash.
Rather than
create a whole other section on this page for name blends, I will
instead highlight certain names in the lists below in light blue that I feel may be
influenced by celebrity deaths that have occurred this year.
IMPORTANT
NOTE ON EXCLUSIONS (1/23/04): We acknowledge the
passing of dancer and actress Ann Miller, age 81,
and note with great regret the passing of Bob Keeshan (Captain
Kangaroo), age 76. However, it is no longer the mission
of this website to address the deaths of celebrities who are of
advanced age or those who have had a long term health problem and
are in their early elderly years. Such deaths are largely
inevitable and often beyond any purposeful prediction. Also, the
one and only applicable sound in Mr Keeshan's name ("eeeee")
we now consider to be far too common to be remarkable or in any
way useful for predictive purposes. Ergo, save for certain
celebrities of advanced or elderly age who may appear on the
prediction lists, we will no longer be publishing their
obituaries and including comments.
It is, after all,
premature death that we are most concerned about.
Prominent name
sounds must also be present. "Ray", for example, is a
prominent sound, "Ay", on the other hand, is not. This
distinction will become more clear as we progress through the
year.
ANSWER
TO POSSIBLE QUESTION: Hey ... why all the chicks on here and
hardly no MEN??? (6/9/07):
Sometimes that
is the way it works out.
Charles
Nelson Reilly was over 70. Singer Don Ho
was over 70. Remember that this page is largely concerned with
PREMATURE DEATH or disability/serious mishaps. There are some
over-70 celebrities that appear on the lists, but only because I
strongly feel they may be at some special risk at this time. Lloyd
Alexander was a writer and I have not spread the
celebrity base out so far as to include writers (save for a few
well-known poets). So I do not report them as a rule if anything
happens to one, even if his/her name conforms to a name sound.
Alexander was also over 70. Gordon Scott was
over 80. Tom Poston was over 70. Tommy
Newsom was well over 70, almost 80 ... and so on. I won't
continue listing the male celebs who were over 70 or 80 any
further; you get the picture.
Al
Hunter Ashton was a writer. Note what I said about not
yet expanding the base to include authors, save for a few poets.
Sci-fi writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
would have appeared on a list if I had thought of a base 7
section for this page in time. Instead, his death inspired the
base 7 section. Bobby "Boris" Pickett,
who sang the classic "Monster Mash", was 69. Luther
Ingram, who sang "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't
Want to Be Right" (a song I really like), was also 69. That
is close enough to 70 to not bother. Don't get me wrong .. I
realise that 70 is "the new 60" and 60 is "the new
50" and 50 is "the new 40" and 40 is "the new
30" and 30 is "the new 20," but until everybody
agrees on that, I will be forced to treat 70 and above the old
fashioned way.
Directors like Benjamin
"Bob" Clark also are not yet included in the
base, unless they are extremely famous (like the late Stanley
Kubrick or the recently deceased Robert Altman, but again the
name sounds must match even for the very famous). The same is
largely true about politicians. Comedian Richard Jeni and
Boston frontman Brad Delp did not match any of
the name sounds, so I could not report on their deaths.
There are a few
males listed such as Denny Doherty of Mamas and
the Papas fame. But the truth is, males have been very careful
this year not to get into the kind of scrapes that the women on
this page have gotten into. And most of the men who have died
have been over 70.
It will be noted,
however, that so far this year the total number of celebs, male
and female, on this page is rather sparse anyway compared to past
years. Both men and women have been more careful than in the past,
it would appear. Especially since the death of Anna
Nicole Smith in February.
2010 Name Sounds
UPDATE (6/13/10):My apologies yet
again for a very late debut of the Celebrity Deaths and Mishaps
page for the year 2010! Due to my father's death from cancer
last year in April, having to balance my time as a caregiver for
my mother with running this site, and problems I have had with
gout and bursistis this year, progress on my entire website has
been slowed considerably. Thus, because it is now mid-June 2010,
this page will prove useless for prediction purposes for the
expired period of January 1, 2008 through June 13, 2010 quite
obviously. However, it will still prove invaluable as a
predictive guide for the final six-and-a-half months of 2010 and
we can of course look over what has happened in the last six
months and see what celebrities have already matched with the
name sounds for this year.
Obviously, I
will not be posting all of the pertinent celebrity deaths and
mishaps that have occurred so far this year all at one time. They
will be posted over the coming days and weeks, in no particular
order. Of course, they must relate to the name sounds lists or
the conditions in the base 7 section to appear on this page. Any
name that is inorange on the predictions list
(such as Lena
Horne) relates to the first six months of 2010 and will
not be considered a "prediction fulfilled" (since I
cannot actually prove the name would have appeared on the list
back in January). Meantime, beginning right now, anyone
new for the remainder of the year who I feel relates to this page's
conditions will be posted and, if the name is listed, will count
as a prediction fulfilled.
So as not to
waste more valuable time, I will skip doing a summary for 2009
for now. Perhaps I may feel like attending to that another time.
If I do, it will appear on Celebrity Deaths
and Mishaps Archives 17 at the appropriate location near the top
part of the page.
We note the
untimely passing of Teddy Pendergrass,
Kate McGarrigle, Caroline McWilliams,
Andrew Koenig, Corey Haim, Alex
Chilton,and Gary Coleman. None
of these celebrities appeared on the predictions list for this
year. Also gone are Jean Simmons, Pernell
Roberts, Kathryn Grayson,
Robert Culp, John Forsythe, Lynn
Redgrave, Lena Horne, Art Linkletter,Dennis
Hopper,and Rue McClanahan.
Lana Clarkson (d. 2003) - Lah, Lan, Ann, Anna,
Nah, Clark, Lark, Lar, Son, Uhh
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Candy Clark, Anna Bielska, Anna Faris, Anna Friel,
Anna Kournikova, Anna Lynn Mccord, Anna Mouglalis, Anna Murray,
Anna Paquin, Anna Poppelwell, Vanna White, Diana Barton, Diana
Hayden, Diana Morgan, Diana Rigg, Diana Ross, Diana Zubiri,
Joanna Cassidy, Joanna Pettet, Anne Archer, Ann Blyth, Anne
Hathaway, Anne Heche, Ann-Margret, Anne Meara, Anne Murray, Annie
Lennox, Annie Potts, Annette Funicello, Diane Cilento, Diane Farr,
Diane Franklin, Diane Keaton, Diane Kruger, Diane Ladd, Diane
Lane, Diane Neal, Diane Sawyer, Diahann Carroll, Marianne
Faithful, Julianne Moore, Carrie-Ann Moss, Jo Ann Pflug, Suzanne
Somers, Suzanne Vega, Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa
Ann, Lisa Donovan, Lisa Hartman, Lisa Lovbrand, Lisa Stansfield,
Susan Clark, Roy Clark, Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay Lohan,Loni Anderson, Lynn
Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Linda Carlson, Angie Dickison, Linda
Harrison, Florence Henderson, Twiggy Lawson, Emily Robinson,
Jessica Simpson, Linda Thompson, Cicely Tyson, Ted Danson,
Richard Dawson, Keith Emerson, Mel Gibson, Charles Manson,
Marilyn Manson, Tim Matheson, Liam Neeson, Craig T. Nelson, David
Nelson, Craig Wasson, Nicol Williamson, Charles Nelson Reilly,
Bronson Pinchot, Harrison Ford, Jason Biggs, Jason Gedrick, Jason
Hervey, Jason Patric, Jason Priestley, Nelson Mandela, Orson Bean,
Wilson Cruz.
Additional predictions: (0/0/10):
ESPN's Andrews gets death threats
LOS
ANGELES — The Associated Press
Published on Saturday, Apr. 03, 2010 12:10AM EDT
Erin
Andrews has been getting death threats in a stream of e-mails
to a media outlet, an attorney for the ESPN reporter and
Dancing with the Stars contestant said Friday.
Attorney
Marshall Grossman said that a man had sent at least a
dozen e-mails since September threatening Andrews.
DirecTV provided them to Andrews' representatives
Thursday, but it was not immediately clear to whom the e-mails
were addressed.
The e-mails
were at first sexual, but the most recent were explicitly
violent and “threatened Erin with murder,”
Grossman said. They also had details about location and
method.
The
messages discuss the case of Michael David Barrett, who
was sentenced last month to 21/2 years in federal prison
for secretly shooting nude videos of the ESPN reporter.
He refers
to Barrett in his e-mail in a way to make clear to us
that situation had some influence,” Grossman said,
but added that the man appeared to have no ties to
Barrett.
The FBI
has been notified, Grossman said. He said the man's
identity is known to law enforcement and is believed to
live on the East Coast. An e-mail message left for an FBI
spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
Andrews is
not yet seeking a restraining order but has asked ABC to
beef up its security on Dancing with the Stars , Grossman
said.
Private
security also has been hired to protect Andrews and her
family.
Andrews
has no plans of quitting the show.
“She's
not the type to be easily threatened,” Grossman said.
“She has every intention to meet her obligations.”
'Dancing
With the Stars' and ESPN's Erin Andrews threatened with 'suicide
vest' in death threat
NY Daily
News
Saturday,
April 3rd 2010, 4:21 PM
ESPN
reporter Erin Andrews has been receiving email death
threats - less than two years after another stalker video-taped
her through hotel room keyholes.
ESPN's
Erin Andrews receives death threats via e-mail.
The creep
who targeted stunning ESPN reporter Erin Andrews with
death threats claimed he wanted to show her his "suicide
vest," according to law enforcement sources in Los
Angeles.
New
details emerged yesterday about the chilling e-mails the
man sent to a Connecticut-based sports show laying out
the stalker's desire to see Andrews dead. "I would
love to get close enough to her to show her my suicide
vest," he wrote in one e-mail on March 14, celebrity
Web site TMZ.com reported yesterday. A few weeks later he
wrote: "I hope she gets shot in the face.
I would love to see if she can dance away from a hail of
gunfire. That would really make my day."
Andrews,
31, who is currently in Los Angeles where she is a
contestant on "Dancing with the Stars," has
been victimized previously. A man videotaped her nude
through the peepholes of her hotel rooms in three
different states in 2008. Michael Barrett, 49, then
posted the videos on the Internet and tried to sell them
to TMZ.com. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison last
month, and cops say some of the e-mails from this latest
psycho also mention the case against Barrett. They
started off sexual in content but later turned violent,
police said.
Officials
say they know the identity of the Newport News, Va., man
who sent the latest notes, which number at least a dozen,
because he made no attempt to hide his name.
The first
one was received by "The Dan Patrick Show" on
Sept. 16, and the program's broadcaster, DirecTV, swiftly
turned them over to Andrews' representatives. "Dear
Dan: I hope Erin Andrews gets murdered in L.A.," one
of the most recent e-mails, sent on March 29, said.
Andrews'
lawyer, Marshall Grossman, said the FBI has been brought
in to handle the case, and the ESPN presenter had no
plans to quit "Dancing with the Stars." She has
yet to seek a restraining order against the sender but
has asked ABC to beef up its security on the popular
reality television show while she remains a contestant.
"She's not the type to be easily threatened,"
Grossman said.
Erin
Andrews Gun Threat
Posted Apr
9th 2010 3:00AM by TMZ Staff
TMZ has obtained
another email targeting "Dancing with the Stars"
contestant Erin Andrews, and it's the clearest sign yet
that the man who wrote it is a potential threat.
TMZ broke
the story that a man in Newport News, Virginia has been
sending sexual and violent emails to ESPN's Andrews since
September. The emails -- all sent to DirecTV's "The
Dan Patrick Show" -- turned violent and threatening
in late March.
On March
29, the man wrote, "I would like to see
if Erin Andrews can dance her way through a hail of
gunfire. Better yet I would love to shoot her with a
Barrett rifle. Get the pun -- her stalker was mr. Barrett
and the barrett rifle is an ultra expensive 50 cl. rifle
with a range over a mile."
In spite
of this email and others, law enforcement sources tell us
the FBI is resistant to making an arrest, because
authorities believe the author is engaging in free speech
... which is protected.
By the way,
sources familiar with the author tell us he's 6'9"
and very bulky.
COMMENTS
(6/17/10): The deadly stalking of ErinAndrews is
also a RED
ALERT for my prediction concerning a Female
Newscaster in Danger of Death in October 2011. It will be noted that
the "drew" sound is repeated again
with the untimely death of Andrew Koenig, and is
likely an influence of the base 7 alignment of actress Drew
Barrymore's attempted suicide in 1989.
Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 90 Days
in Jail, 90 Days of Rehab
ABC News
July 6,
2010
Bawling
and broken, Lindsay Lohan learned today that she's going
back to jail. Beverly Hills judge Marsha Revel declared
the 24-year-old starlet in violation of probation for her
2007 DUI conviction for failing to attend court-ordered
alcohol education classes. Revel sentenced Lohan to 90
days in jail followed by 90 days in-patient rehab.
Following
Revel's ruling, Lohan broke down sobbing, barely
sputtering a "yes" when Revel asked if she
understood and accepted the terms of her probation. Revel
ordered Lohan to surrender on July 20 at 8:30 a.m. PT.
According
to Steve Whitmore, spokesperson for the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's department, Lohan will serve her time at
the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood,
California and will be segregated from the general jail
population. Lohan may only end up serving a few weeks of
her 90 day jail sentence -- Whitmore noted that "female,
non-violent prisoners will do about 25-percent of their
sentence" because L.A. jails suffer from "an
overcrowding sitution."
After the
hearing, Lisa Bloom, the attorney for Lohan's estranged
father, Michael, said that if the starlet had followed
their advice and gone to rehab, she might not be facing
jail time now. Michael Lohan has long maintained that his
daughter is addicted to prescription drugs. "If she
had gone to rehab anytime over the last several months,
when we were begging her to go to rehab, she could have
avoided all of this," Bloom said. "Where she
belongs is rehab. We don't believe incarceration is the
place for addicts."
Prior to
learning her fate, Lohan pleaded her case to the court.
"I just wanted to take a minute to say that, as far
as I knew, I was being in compliance with my programs,"
she started. "When I asked to leave town, [the
alcohol ed program] would give me permission to leave
town." I wasn't expecting any special treatment
aside from the understanding that I have to provide for
myself, I have to work. My schedule is, unfortunately,
very different," she continued. "Having said
that, I did do everything I was told to do and did the
best I could to balance jobs and showing up."
Then, the
tears started flowing. Lohan held her head in her hands
as she attempted to compose herself. She went on talking,
and at times, sounded incomprehensible. "I know that
I was ordered to go once a week. ... I was working,
mostly, I was working with children, it wasn't vacation,
it wasn't some sort of a joke," she said, sniffling.
"I wanted to make sure that I would come back here
making you happy and the court system."
Lohan
pulled herself together for the conclusion of her
monologue. "I'm not taking this as a joke. It's my
life, it's my career," she said. "I've learned
from my experiences, I take responsibility for my actions,
I've tried to do the best I can."
Her best
wasn't good enough in the court's eyes. "She knew [the
prosecutor] would be asking for jail time and yet still
after all that, she didn't comply with the court order
and the court does find her in violation of her probation,"
Revel said. Prosecutor Danette Meyers went to great
lengths to show the degree to which Lohan violated her
probation by failing to attend weekly alcohol education
classes according to the schedule set by Revel.
Lindsay
Lohan sobs as she's sentenced to 90 days in jail
Mail
Online
1:21 AM on
7th July 2010
Lindsay
Lohan broke down in tears as she was sentenced to 90 days
in jail after violating her probation.The stunned actress
sobbed as the Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel handed
down the term and blasted her for not taking her
probation in two 2007 drink driving cases seriously.
Lohan, who will start her sentence on July 20, must also
serve 90 days as an inpatient on a substance abuse
programme once she is released from jail.
The
actress had tearfully addressed the judge in a last
attempt to avoid jail after it was ruled she violated her
probation by repeatedly missing court-ordered alcohol
education classes. Lohan protested she did not realise
she had not been keeping up with the order and insisted a
busy work schedule had stopped her attending regularly.
She maintained: 'I was taking it seriously. I wasn't
expecting any special treatment.''I'm not taking this as
a joke. It's my life and my career, something I have
worked for my entire life.'
She was
handed a box of tissues to wipe her eyes as the tears
flowed. Lohan told the judge: 'I have tried to do the
best I can. It's just been such a long haul. I don't want
you to think I don't respect you and your terms. 'I
really did think I was doing what I was supposed to do,
and I mean it with all my heart.' But the judge wasn't
buying, saying: "I couldn't have been more clear [about
my orders]. There are no excuses.'
The
Beverly Hills court heard Lohan repeatedly missed once-weekly
classes at an alcohol-education program. Lohan had failed
to attend the program at least nine times since October
16, the court heard. Her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley
claimed Lohan had done well by meeting the overall terms
of her probation. She urged the judge not to punish Lohan
too severely because she 'did the best she could under
extremely difficult circumstances.'Lohan was on probation
after two DUI offences in less than two months in 2007.
On May 26, 2007, the actress was in a Mercedes-Benz that
crashed into a hedge along Sunset Boulevard. Less than
two months later she was arrested in Santa Monica on
suspicion of drink driving.
Lohan
later pleaded no contest to two counts each of drunken
driving and being under the influence of cocaine, and one
count of reckless driving. She spent 84 minutes in jail
and was placed on three years probation. Lohan's
probation was extended for a year in October after she
missed some alcohol-education classes while making a
movie in Texas. In May she failed to show up for a court
hearing because she was at the Cannes Film Festival. Her
legal team claimed she was stranded in France after her
passport was stolen. Lohan eventually made it to court
four days late, when she was ordered to wear a SCRAM
alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet as a condition of her
release on bail pending today's probation hearing. She
was also ordered to undergo random drug testing, among
other conditions.
On June 6
the SCRAM bracelet indicated Lohan may have violated her
bail by consuming alcohol after the MTV Movie Awards. The
judge doubled Lohan's bail and the actress posted a bond
with the court, allowing her to remain out of custody. At
today's hearing Revel did not consider the SCRAM anklet
as part of her determination of whether Lohan violated
probation. The judge conceded Lohan was ordered to wear
the SCRAM device as a condition of her bail when she
appeared in court in May, not when she was placed on
probation. Lohan was ordered to continue wearing the
SCRAM device until she reports to jail.
She was
sentenced to 30 days in jail for the reckless driving
case, 30 days consecutive for the first DUI case and
another 30 days consecutive for the second drink driving
case. Lindsay, who swapped her outfit half way through
proceedings, will start her sentence July 20.
COMMENTS (7/9/10):Lindsay
Lohan appears in orange in the list above. As I
mentioned in the foreward, names in orange relate to an event or
events occurring during the first six months of 2010 and will not
be considered a "prediction fulfilled." I was to have
posted Lohan's failure to appear at court on time when she was at
the Cannes Film Festial in May ... and the danger of her possibly
having to go to prison. I was also to post the SCRAM bracelet
incident of June 6 where it detected that she had been drinking
alcohol.
However, what
has now taken place after June 13 when I put this page
together ... Lindsay Lohan's pending 90 day jail sentence handed
down on July 6 ... eclipses anything that occurred in May or
early June. Thus, the orange colouring of her name in
this instance should be looked upon as a code blueinstead.
It stands right out like the true omen it is, not only for the
jail time Lohan faces, but potentially for the psychological
damage this may cause. I do not think I am exaggerating when I
say that Lindsay's self destructive behaviour may become much
worse and that even a suicide watch should be put into
place. The danger of sudden death by some form of suicide may not
actually come until August of next year (the
Marilyn Monroe/Diana/Sharon Tate/Carole Landis/Carole Lombard/Thelma
Todd/etc death line). The "lin" sound in
Lindsay's name (LIN-dsay) has ripples of Mari-LYN
Monroe and the "low" sound in Lindsay's name (LO-han)
has echoes of Marilyn Mon-ROE (making her Sadie
Lynn Hanlow in anagram). She is also one double
initial removed form Marilyn Monroe's (L.L. compared to M.M.).
However, certain
other influences from this year's death line now
dominate: actress Virginia Maskell's suicide by drugs
overdose in 1968, actress
Grace Kelly's car crash death in 1982,actress
Dominique Dunne's strangulation murder in 1982, the
double suicide of actresses Brenda Benet and Romy Schneider in
1982, actressMargaux
Hemingway's drugs overdose suicide in 1996,andactress Lana Clarkson's
mysterious gun-shooting-off-in-mouth murder (or kinky spontaneous
suicide) in 2003. None of this bodes well for
shattered Lindsay. Lindsay posed nude for a photographer with
a gun in her mouth, Lana Clarkson style, in April and
released the image to the Internet. Add to this that Lindsay is
starring in a biopic about the late porn legend and deep throater
Linda Lovelace (who died from injuries sustained
in a car crash in 2002), and two other influences suddenly
present themselves: the car crash death of porn
actress Holly Landers in 2003and
thehanging suicide of porn actress Kristine
Heller in 1989.
All-in-all,
the base 7 influences for Lindsay Lohan are truly terrible as she
is also following in the steps of once drug-and-alcohol-addicted
actress Drew Barrymore who attempted suicide in 1989.
Jennifer
Aniston files restraining order against stalker
Trust of India
Thursday, July
22, 2010 (Los Angeles)
Hollywood star Jennifer
Aniston was left fearing for her life after being stalked by a
man who claimed that she had asked him to be the father of her
children.
The Friends star
had to file a restraining order against Jason Peyton alleging
that he embarked on an "aggressive pattern of harassment",
reported Los Angeles Times.
"Mr Peyton
has aggressively sought to have personal contact with me and
integrate himself into my life...His ongoing, ever-increasing,
aggressive and harassing conduct are extremely distressing. I
fear for my personal safety and that of those around me,"
the actress stated in a signed court declaration.
The 41-year-old
filed the restraining order against Peyton after he drove across
the US on a mission to track her down in Los Angeles.
Court documents
claim that cops found the 24-year-old sitting in his car on July
15 this year, waiting for the actress with a sharp tool and a
roll of duct tape.
"Mr Peyton
had, among other things, a sharp object, a bag, a roll of duct
tape, a variety of DVDs of movies in which Aniston appears, and a
notebook and various scraps of loose paper on which he wrote a
variety of messages to Aniston," the legal papers reveal.
He had even
scratched 'I love Jennifer Aniston' down the side and along the
bonnet of his car and was carrying a list of potential baby names
for the children he intended to father with Aniston.
Peyton, who was
arrested and placed on a psychiatric hold, is obsessed with
Aniston.
Police caught up
with him after he left a note for his father on June 25 in
Pennsylvania, stating he was going to California. His father
realised he was going to find Aniston and alerted the police.
According to the
court papers, he has attempted suicide four times and has
physically battered and attacked his own mother on numerous
occasions.
He also
allegedly stalked and harassed a female neighbour who he is
believed to have planned to abduct, resulting in "multiple
police holds and mental evaluations and ultimately several
arrests".
COMMENTS
(8/23/10):Jennifer Aniston is named in the
prediction list above.
John Ritter (d. 2003) - John, Rit, It, Ter, Er
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): John Agar, John Aniston, John Carpenter, John
Cleese, John Cusack, John Fogerty, John Goodman, John Hurt, John
Kassir, John Landis, John Stamos, Elton John, Johnny Crawford,
Johnny Depp, Johnny Mathis, Artie Johnson, Magic Johnson, Britney
Spears. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Holly Landers (d. 2003) - Holly, Holl, Oll, Lee,
Eee, Lan, Ann, And, Der, Urs, Er
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Holly Hunter, Lauren Holly, Molly Ringwald, Ashley
Judd, Billie Piper, Kylie Minogue, Miley Cyrus, Shelley Long,
Gena Lee Nolin, Sheryl Lee, Gena Lee Nolan, Layla Anna Lee,
Tiffany Selby, Geena Davis, Gina Philips, Beth Ehlers. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Margaux Hemingway (d. 1996) - Mar, Ar, Go, Oh,
Hem, Em, Eh, Ing, Way, Ay
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Mariel Hemingway, Margot Kidder, Marlo Thomas,
Martha Hyatt, Martha Stewart, Julianne Margulies, Wynton Marsalis,
Penny Marshall, Steve Martin, Pamela Sue Martin, Julie Newmar,
Selena Gomez, Emma Samms, Emma Thompson, Linda Livingston, Gloria
Loring, Barbara Corday, Doris Day, Linda Hayden, Jesse Jane,
Amanda Pays, Elizabeth Taylor, Shania Twain, Susan Day George,
Eva Gabore, Eva Longoria, Jayne Atkinson, Jayne Bentzen, Jayne
Bickerton, Jayne Kennedy, Jayne Meadows, Jayne Tunnicliffe, Jayne
Wisener, Jane Adams, Jane Asher, Jane Birkin, Jane Casson, Jane
Curtain, Jane Danson, Jane Elliot, Jane Fonda, Jane Kaczmarek,
Jane Kean, Jane Krakowsky, Jane Leeves, Jane Lynch, Jane Seymour,
Jane Sibbett, Jane Stuart, Jane Wall, Janeane Garofalo, Laraine
Newman. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Zsa Zsa
Gabor in critical condition
Road Runner
Monday, July 19,
2010
LOS ANGELES
— Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was in critical condition Friday
after undergoing hip replacement surgery earlier in the week, her
husband said.
Gabor, 93, had
injuries to the right side of her body, including a broken hip,
after she fell out of bed last weekend trying to get into a
wheelchair at her Bel-Air home, said Prince Frederic von Anhalt,
Gabor's husband.
Gabor initially
appeared to be recovering after the hip surgery Monday at Ronald
Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her publicist John Blanchette said.Blanchette
said von Anhalt told him Friday that "doctors were working
very hard to stabilize her."
"Right now
she's not communicative," Blanchette said. "Only time
will tell." He said doctors had taken Gabor off morphine and
were putting her on another painkiller with the hope that would
help the situation.
Blanchette said
earlier Friday the actress might have suffered a stroke during
surgery, but von Anhalt said doctors have not confirmed there was
a stroke.
"It's just
speculation," von Anhalt said. "We have to wait a few
more days to see what is going on." Von Anhalt said his wife
was conscious. "She looks at us but doesn't know what is
going on," he said.
Zsa Zsa
Gabor surgery reported successful
CBC News
Monday, July 19,
2010
Former actress
and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor has emerged from a successful hip-replacement
operation after suffering a fall at her Bel Air home over the
weekend.
Gabor, 93, is
recovering from a 3˝-hour surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical
Center, according to her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt. Von
Anhalt, Gabor's ninth husband, said there were no problems during
the operation and the surgeon was happy with the outcome.
According to her
publicist, John Blanchette, Gabor was watching television
Saturday night at her home in the affluent Los Angeles
neighbourhood, and fell when she reached to answer a telephone
call.
Gabor has been
partially paralyzed since 2002, when she was the passenger in a
car that struck a telephone pole.
Born in Hungary,
the former beauty queen's acting credits include dozens of films,
such as 1952's Moulin Rouge, and a few stage roles. Later, she
often appeared in cameos portraying herself, as in films like
Pepe, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and TV shows such as The Fresh Prince
of Bel-Air.
Along with her
late sister Eva, who starred in the TV series Green Acres, Gabor
became renowned for her high-profile marriages and posh lifestyle.
She also made headlines in 1990 after being found guilty of
assault for slapping a police officer when stopped for a traffic
violation.
Gabor has one
daughter, actress Constance Francesca Hilton, from her short-lived
second marriage to hotel mogul Conrad Hilton.
COMMENTS
(8/9/10): Actually, Zsa Zsa Gabor is listed in the
prediction list, but mistakenly under her sister's name, Eva Gabor (last name misspelled by
me as Gabore). I
always got the two sisters mixed up. But Eva Gabor
being listed at all is truly silly since she died
fifteen years ago in 1995. It is obvious that I
intended the living sister, Zsa Zsa, so
there it is.
Lina Marulanda, Actress,
Supermodel and Television Presenter, Commits Suicide
Gaea News
Network
April
23rd, 2010
BOGOTA,
COLOMBIA (GaeaTimes.com)- Lina Marulanda, who is known to
be one of the most prominent television personalities of
Colombia, passed away on Thursday after she fell from the
balcony of her apartment in the Colombian capital.
Authorities have stated that initial probe suggest that
it was a case of suicide as it appears that the Lina
Marulanda, who was also a celebrated model, ended her
life by jumping from the sixth floor of her apartment.
However,
the autopsy report, which has not been available till now,
is likely to shed more light regarding the circumstances
which lead to the unfortunate demise of the supermodel.
The
model was only 29 years old at the time of her untimely
death. According to reports, the well-known television
personality had been suffering from depression lately due
to her divorce from her second husband Carlos Onate. The
fact that her marriage came to an end just after four
months seemed to have taken a huge toll on Lina Marulanda
which supposedly propelled her to take her own life,
reports have claimed. People who knew the deceased model
from close quarters have reportedly validated that Lina
Marulanda was indeed experiencing a difficult time lately
since her divorce from her second husband and was finding
it increasingly tough to come to terms with the fact.
However,
the news of the unexpected death of Lina Marulanda has
come as a bolt from the blue for all her fans as well as
her family and friends. Her close friends have reportedly
stated that although things were not easy for her lately,
nobody had comprehended that she would take such an
extreme step.
The
popular Colombian television presenter Lina Marulanda
died in Bogota after falling from her apartment just
north of the Colombian capital. Lina Marulanda was a most
sexy television presenter. Officials from the Colombian
prosecutor confirmed her death as reported by the
newspaper El Espectador. So far it is unknown the exact
reasons for her death, but talk is of a possible suicide.
The
young woman of 29 was alone at the time of her death and
been fired from the sixth floor of her apartment. Actress
Alejandra Azcarate, one of her closest friends, told the
Radio W and amid tears that the presenter was going
through a difficult time and was quite depressed. Other
people close to the presenter say she was taking
antidepressants.
Marulanda
was divorcing her second husband, Carlos Onate, a
businessman to whom she was married for only a few months.
Her death sent shock waves through the world of
television and fashion of the country.
Lina
Marulanda was from Medellín and began her modeling
career at age 12.
Her
Colombian television debut was in 2002. She was the news
anchor in the television news show CM & y Caracol
Noticias. She is also noted for her radio work in the
station’s W. She became the image of several
national brand apparel, food and accessories. She was
also currently working on setting up a jewelry store.
COMMENTS
(6/17/10): It is most inauspicious that every name sound
appears in that of suicide model Lina Marulanda. Her death also appears to
foreshadow that of singer Lena Horne.
Jack Nance (d. 1996) - Jack, Ack, Nan, Ann, Ance
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Jack Klugman, Jack Nicholson, Jackie Chan,
Jackie Mason, Jackie Shannon, Nancy Allen, Nancy Sexton, Andy
Garcia, Danny Aiello, Carlos Santana. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
JonBenet Ramsey (d. 1996) - John, On, Ben, En,
Nay, Ay, Ram, Am, Zee, Eee
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Lisa Bonet, Olivia Newton-John, Jill St John,
Laura Ramsey. Additional predictions: (0/0/10):
Rebecca Schaeffer (d. 1989) - Reb, Beck, Becca,
Ka, Shay, Ay, Fer, Er
Gilda Radner (d. 1989) - Gill, Gild, Ill, Da,
Rad, Ad, Ner, Er
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Hilda Peter, David Gilmour, William Shatner. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Kristine Heller (d. 1989) - Kris, Ris, Tine,
Teen, Tee, Eee, Hell, Ell, Er
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Kristen Williams, Christie McVie, Linda Christian,
Lena Christenson, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Lloyd, William
Christian, Helen Hunt, Kate Nelligan. Additional predictions: (0/0/10):
Vic Morrow (d. 1982) - Vick, Ick, More, Mar, Row,
Ohh
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Victoria Adams (Posh Spice), Victoria Principal,
Vicki Lawrence, Demi Moore, Drew Barrymore. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
John Belushi (d. 1982) - John, On, Bel, El, Ooo,
Shee, Eee
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): John Travolta, Kathleen Beller, Lou Ferrigno, Lou
Myers, Lou Reed, Louis Gossett Jr., Louis Jourdan, Louise
Fletcher, Louise Lasser, Louise Lombard, Louise Sorel, Tina
Louise. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Dominique Dunne (d. 1982) - Dom, Ih, In, Ick,
Done, Duh, Un, Uhh
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Dominique Blanc, Dominique Croix, Dominique
Geisendorff, Dominique Swain, Griffin Dunne, Sarah Jayne Dunn. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Burberry
model Tom Nicon commits suicide at start of Milan Fashion Week
Telegraph
8:30AM BST 21
Jun 2010
The Burberry model TomNicon has committed suicide
after he fell 40ft to his death from his apartment in Italy.
Nicon, 22, is thought to have been depressed after breaking up
with his girlfriend. The model, who was the male "face"
of the British fashion label Burberry, died at the start of the
Milan Men's fashion week.
He had also
worked for Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss and Versace, for whom he had
attended a show rehearsal the day he died. It is thought that
Fashion Week will go ahead with a tribute to the Frenchman.
Donatella Versace said: "Tom was with us on Friday morning
for a final show fitting. He seemed fine and calm. He had already
done three or four shows with us and he was a sweet boy. I just
can't understand why he did what he did. We would never have
thought he would do something like this. When we heard the news
we were all so upset and we still are all so very sad."
The model's
death follows Alexander McQueen who committed suicide in February
this year following the death of his mother. Three months ago
Noemie Lenoir, the face of Marks and Spencer's underwear, was
found unconscious in woodland near her Paris home after
attempting to commit suicide. Lenoir - the girlfriend of former
Chelsea football star Claude Makelele - is believed to have taken
a cocktail of drugs and alcohol. She was rushed to hospital and
has now made a full recovery. Last year, South Korean supermodel
Daul Kim hanged herself at her luxury Paris apartment after
writing on her internet blog that she was 'mad depressed and
overworked'.
French
Model Tom Nicon Dies After Falling From Apartment Block Before
Milan Men's Fashion Week
Sky News
10:02am UK,
Monday June 21, 2010
Top male model Tom Nicon
has died after falling four floors from an apartment block just
hours before the start of Milan Men's Fashion Week.The French
catwalk star, who was the face of British label Burberry, had
just returned from a Versace rehearsal before he was found dead.
The 22-year-old is thought to have been depressed after breaking
up with his girlfriend and was staying with friends in the
Italian fashion capital. He died instantly after falling 40ft
from the window. Police in Milan said they were treating the
death as suicide and investigating suggestions he had suffered
from a ''complicated affair of love''.
Organisers said
Fashion Week would go ahead as planned and designers paid tribute
to Tom, with Donatella Versace saying: "He was with us on
Friday morning for a final fitting. "He seemed fine and calm.
He had already done three or four shows with us and he was a
sweet boy. When we heard the news we were all so upset and we
still are all so very sad."
The modelling
industry has been hit by a series of shocks in recent months.
Marks and Spencer model Noemie Lenoir took a cocktail of alcohol
and drugs to try kill herself in Paris in May - she has now made
a full recovery.
In April US
model Ambrose Olsen, 24, was found dead in his New York home. In
November South Korean model Daul Kim, 20, hanged herself in her
Paris apartment.
Following the
news of Nicon's death, an anonymous posting by a fellow model on
the fashion website Issac Likes said: "People think we are
young and beautiful and rich and happy. But we're not. "We
go to castings and the directors take one look at us and then we're
dismissed. You spend your whole life wondering what's wrong with
you. Why didn't I get that job? You're competing with your
friends, you're away from your family. The pressure is huge. It's
not the fairytale life people would expect."
Meanwhile, Milan
Men's Fashion Week has hosted the Alexander McQueen fashion house's
first collection since the designer's suicide in London in
February. The 40-year-old is believed to have become depressed
following the death of his mother Joyce, who died on February 2.
COMMENTS (7/3/10):
All the name sounds are there, save for the "T,"
in the name Tom Nicon. It was only a matter of
time before the suicide epidemic afflicting male and female
actors and singers, and female models would begin striking male
models. The hanging suicide of model Daul Kim,the jumping suicide of model Lina Marulanda,
and drugs overdose suicide attempt by model Noemie Lenoir
have been noted on the the 2010 (Part Four)page, as well as that of
country singer Mindy McCready, who I named in
advance as being in danger of suicide and also predicted that she
would use drugs to try to kill herself, even including a collage
image of her and spilled bottle of pills illustrating this
attempted suicide well beforehand. Also on the 2010 (Part Four)page, the predicted
hanging suicide of British actress Lucy
Gordon.
However, I did
not specificially predict any male model suicides, although I
anticipated a male porn star would commit suicide (which
apparently has not happened). I did not know about the suicide of
male model Ambrose Olsen until reading about it
on the above report.
This phenomenon
I expect will get worse, much worse, as we close in on
the mid 2010s. Hanging will remain the growing majority means of
suicide, although drugs overdose and jumping cases will continue
as well. Only a week ago supermodel Viveka Babajee hanged
herself, as have supermodels Yulia Pavlunko and Daul
Kim, and actors Lucy Gordon,
David Carradine, Stephanie Parker,
Woo Seung-yeon, and Jang Ja-yeon during
the last 12 months or so.
Grace Kelly (d. 1982) - Gray, Ray, Ace, Kell,
Ell, Lee, Eee
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Grace Jones, Grace Park, Grace Slick,
Maggie Grace, Linda Gray, Ray Manzarek, Lisa Ray, Lisa Raye,
Paula Kelly, Jean Louisa Kelly, Kelly Osbourne, Kelly Packard,
Elizabeth Berkley, Lena Headley, Elizabeth Hurley, Carol Lynley,
Mary Ann Mobley, Priscilla Presley, Jaime Pressly, Jennifer Tilly,
Meg Tilly, Joanne Worley, William Moseley, Liza Minnelli, Brenda
Lee, Spike Lee, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kathie
Lee Gifford, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Lee Roth, Yasmine Bleeth,
Beverly Garland, Dolly Parton, Julie Andrews, Lesley-Anne Down,
Lesley Gore, Lesley Ann Warren, Leslie Uggams, Leslie Nielsen,
Lily Tomlin, Shelley Duvall, Shelley Hack, Shelley Fabares,
Shirley Maclaine, Willie Nelson, Eileen Brennan, Kathleen Turner,
LeAnn Rimes, Leah Cairns, Lena Bjorna, Lena Gercke, Lena Horne, Lena Heady, Lena Headey,
Lena Jolton, Lena Olin, Lena Tanaka, Lee Majors, Lee Travino,
Angelina Jolie, Arlene Dahl, Celine Dion, Charlize Theron. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Legendary
singer, actress Lena Horne dead at 92
May 11, 2010 --
Updated 1409 GMT (2209 HKT)
(CNN) -- Legendary singer, dancer, actress and
civil rights activist Lena Horne, 92, died at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital on Sunday night, a hospital spokeswoman said. No other
details of her death were made public.
Horne was the
first African-Americans to sign a long-term movie contract with a
major Hollywood studio when she joined MGM in 1942. Horne's
expressive and silky voice made her a singing star, known best
for her hit "Stormy Weather," after Hollywood failed to
give her roles that might have made her a big screen starlet.
Horne complained
she was used as "window dressing" in white films,
mostly limited to singing performances that could be easily
edited out for play in southern theaters. The light-complexioned
Horne refused to go along with studio plans to promote her as a
Latin American. She later said she did not want to be "an
imitation of a white woman."
Horne, whose
parents divorced when she was 3, lived a nomadic childhood
traveling with her actress mother. She spent much of her time
growing up in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born in 1917.
Horne was 16 when she began her show business career as a dancer
at Harlem's Cotton Club. She later became a singer there, playing
to packed houses of white patrons, with band leaders Cab Calloway
and Duke Ellington. She began taking singing lessons in 1935, and
eventually landed a part in the all-black Broadway production
"Dance With Your Gods."
Her work as a
feature singer with touring bands and in nightclubs increased.
She became the first African-American singer to tour with a white
group in 1940, according to her official biography. Her first
film role came in 1938 in "The Duke is Tops," but her
next movie didn't come along for another four years.
She was given a
screen test by MGM and signed to a seven-year movie contract
after a studio scout saw her performing in a New York club. Her
stepfather, Miguel Rodriguez, negotiated with MGM head Louis B.
Mayer for her to never be cast as a maid or "Tarzan extra."
"I think the black boy that cleaned the shoes and me were
the only two black people except the maids who were there working
for the stars," Horne said in a CNN interview. "And it
was very lonely and I wasn't very happy." Still, Horne said
she was grateful that her World War II era films -- including
black musicals "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy
Weather" -- were seen by black and white soldiers. "
But after I realized I would only go so far, I went on the stage,"
Horne said.
With only
subservient roles available for a black actress in Hollywood in
the 1940s, Horne turned to recording top-selling songs. Horne
said performing for live audiences was what she loved most.
"I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by people to react and
feel and touch," she said.
While traveling
with a USO tour during the World War II, she walked out on a show
because German war prisoners were seated in front seats, ahead of
African-American troops. After the USO withdrew her from the tour,
she used her own money to travel to sing for the troops.
She has a son
and daughter from a first marriage that ended in 1944. Horne
married again in 1947 to Lennie Hayton, who was then MGM's music
director. She kept the marriage secret for several years, since
Hayton was white. When it was made public, the couple received
hate mail and threats of violence, according to her biography.
Radio,
television, film and nightclub jobs were harder for Horne to find
in the McCarthy era of the 1950s when she was blacklisted. That
ended in 1956 when RCA gave Horne a new recording contract and
she earned a guest spot in the movie "Meet Me in Las Vegas."
Horne returned to Broadway in 1957 for her first starring role
there. "Jamaica" ran for 555 shows.
She became
active in the civil rights movement after she was involved in a
public altercation following a racial slur in a Beverly Hills,
California, restaurant in 1960. She was an active supporter of
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement.
Horne was there when King delivered his "I Have a Dream"
speech on the Lincoln Memorial steps in 1963.
Variety
television shows welcomed Horne as a musical performer,
especially in the 1960s. She appeared on numerous episodes with
Perry Como, Dean Martin and Flip Wilson. She returned to film for
a final role in 1978 as Glinda the Good Witch, opposite Michael
Jackson and Diana Ross, in "The Wiz," an adaptation of
"The Wizard of Oz." She got a special Tony Award for
her 1981 one-woman Broadway hit "Lena Horne: The Lady and
Her Music." She also won two Grammys for the recording of
the show. Horne was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1989, and she also won a Grammy in 1995 for best jazz
vocal performance for her album "An Evening With Lena Horne."
In her later
years, Horne said she found peace. "The best time in my life
I guess is now because I'm quiet and I'm logical and I accept
without flying off the handle -- sometimes I do," Horne said
with a laugh.
COMMENTS
(7/2/10):Lena Horneis named in the
prediction list above.
Rod Serling (d. 1975) - Rod, Ra, Ah, Odd, Sur,
Er, Ling, Ing
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Rod Stewart, Rod Taylor, Dennis Rodman,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Beth Broderick, Lori Spelling, Tori
Spelling, Jerry Springer. Additional predictions: (0/0/10):
Albert Dekker (d. 1968) - Al, Alb, Burr, Bert,
Urt, Deck, Eck, Ker, Er
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Al Gore, Al Green, Al Pacino, Alan Alda,
Alison Krauss, Allison Parks, Morris Albert, Muhammad Ali, Woody
Allen, Charlie Callas, Sally Field, Sally Struthers, Salma Hayek,
Talia Shire, Kirstie Alley, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Burt Reynolds,
Burton Cummings, LeVar Burton, Steve Burton, Tim Burton, John
Decker, Thomas Dekker. Additional predictions: (0/0/10):
Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1968) - Rob, Ob, Burr,
Bert, Err, Urt, F., Eff, Ken, En, Ned, Ed, Dee, Eee
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tanya Roberts,
Robin Williams, Linda Robson, Emily Robinson, Bob Balaban, Bob
Dylan, Bob Hoskins, Bob Newhart, Bob Saget, Bobby Brown, Bobby
Cannavale, Bobby Deol, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Vinton, Bobbie Benton,
Bobbi Billard, Bobbie Blair, Bobbie Eakes, Bobbie Eden, Bobbie
Gentry, Bobbie Jo, Bobbi Sue Luther, Bobbie McFerrin, Bobbie
Phillips, Dennis
Hopper, Ned Beatty, Ed Harris, Ed Lauter, Edward Norton,
Cindy Williams, Edy Williams, Dee Dee Sharp, Dee Wallace, Kiki
Dee, Cameron Diaz. Additional predictions: (0/0/10):
Singer
Mindy McCready hospitalized
May 25,
2010 -- Updated 2147 GMT (0547 HKT)
(CNN)
-- Country singer Mindy McCready was rushed to a Fort
Myers, Florida, hospital Tuesday morning according to a
hospital spokeswoman.
"My
daughter has just taken an overdose," said the
caller in the 911 recording released by the Lee County
sheriff on Tuesday afternoon. "You've taken too many
pills for me to handle this," she said, apparently
to someone in the room with her.
McCready,
34, has waged a public battle with drug addiction over
the past several years and was a participant in the last
season of the reality TV show "Celebrity Rehab with
Dr. Drew."
"I
don't know how many pills my daughter's taken," the
caller said. "I thought that I could handle it and I'd
get her to the hospital but she's evidently taken a whole
bottle. There was a lot of Darvocet in the bottle and I
don't know how many she took, but she's claiming she took
a lot."
"And
it was intentional?" the emergency operator asked.
"Yes," the caller said.
Cape
Coral Hospital spokeswoman Karen Krieger confirmed that
McCready was being treated in the emergency department.
Mindy
McCready's Overdose A Failed Suicide Attempt
RadarOnline.com
May
25, 2010 @ 08:48PM
Country
singer Mindy McCready took a near lethal dose of
prescription pills in what was a failed suicide attempt,
her mother tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. A
devastated Gayle McCready Inge even admitted covering up
for her troubled 34-year-old daughter earlier on Tuesday,
but spoke out to RadarOnline.com, to set the record
straight.
Inge
said McCready, who remains in a Florida hospital, has
admitted she attempted to take her own life with an
amphetamine drug, used to treat obsessive compulsive
disorder. Inge also admitted to taking Darvocet and
another muscle relaxer.
“I
asked Mindy how many pills did you take,” Inge told
RadarOnline.com. “She said maybe 25. I said
that’s it, and that’s when I called 911. Mindy
told the 911 people that she absolutely didn’t care
if she lost her life. My daughter is very, very sick.”
There
are conflicting reports whether or not McCready left a
suicide note. Inge has been told her daughter left a
confession on her computer, but a search has so far
failed to find it. However, Inge admitted she discovered
a series of letters McCready wrote to her attorney in
which she criticized her mother, who cares for McCready's
four-year-old son Zander. “I am in shock about what
she wrote about me,” Inge said.
McCready
has been staying with her mother Gayle Inge in Ft. Myers
for a week, despite being locked in a custody dispute
with her daughter. “I’ve allowed Mindy to come
here and stay... this after she has bad mouthed me... so
she can see her child,” Inge said.
Listen
To The 911 Recording
In
the 911 call, released on Tuesday, Inqe told an operator:
“My daughter has taken an overdose. I don’t
know how many pills my daughter has taken; I thought I
could handle it. And I could get her to a hospital, but
she’s evidentially taken a whole bunch.”
At
one dramatic point when asked if the overdose was
intentional, Inge replied that it was.
After
the day of intense drama, Inge told RadarOnline.com’s
reporter Andrea Simpson: “You have the truth and
you’re the only person who has the truth. I’m
telling you the truth.”
Mindy
McCready's 2nd failed suicide attempt
May
25, 10:48 PM
The
Examiner
Country
singer Mindy McCready has attempted to take her own life
unsuccessfully for the second time since 2008. McCready
was reported by Radaronline to have taken a near lethal
dose of prescription pills.
Gayle
McCready Inge who is the mother of the 34 year old singer
talked with Radar about her daughter and wanted to make
sure she set the record straight. At this moment Mindy is
in a Florida hospital and has admitted to attempting to
take her own life with an amphetamine drug used to treat
obsessive compulsive disorder along with Darvocet and a
muscle relaxer.
When
Inge asked her daughter Mindy how many pills she had
taken Mindy groggily answered maybe 25 and that is when
her mother rushed to the phone to call for 911 assistance
stating "My daughter is very,very sick."
Whether
or not Mindy McCready left a confession note on her
computer has yet to be confirmed. Mindy's mother has
neither confirmed nor denied that the suicide note
allegations have any ring of truth to them or not. What
Gayle McCready Inge has confirmed was that a series
of letters were found left to Mindy's attorney
criticizing her mother, who has been caring for Mindy's
four year old son Zander.
Gayle
Inge revealed that she has allowed Mindy to stay in her
home for over the last week to spend time with her child
despite the two being involved in a ugly custody battle
at the present time. This is the second report of a
suicide attempt by Mindy since 2008 when the singer
attempted to end her life with an overdose of pills then
also.
Mindy's
latest condition update has stated that that the singer
is resting and is in stable condition at the present time.
The one fact that McCready's mother remains adamant about
is that the plain fact of the matter is that Mindy did
try to kill herself and that is the truth.
COMMENTS
(6/17/10): It is most inauspicious that "Min"
from Dominique and "Dee" from Kennedy (twice) appears
in that of country singer MindyMcCready. This
was an attempted suicide that I predicted would occur by name (Mindy
McCReady) and through drug overdose on my prediction concerning a
female pop or country singer committing suicide in October 2010. This prediction appears
on the 2010 (Part Four)page. With four more
months to go, this attempt can be regarded as a RED ALERT ... for McCready,
Britney Spears, or someone else.
'Easy
Rider' actor Dennis Hopper dies
May 30, 2010 --
Updated 0043 GMT (0843 HKT)
(CNN) -- Dennis Hopper,
the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such
indelible characters as "Easy Rider's" biker Billy and
"Blue Velvet's" and huffing villain Frank Booth, died
of prostate cancer Saturday morning at his home in Venice,
California, his wife said. He was 74.
Hopper, who was
diagnosed with prostate cancer last October, was surrounded by
his children when he died, his wife, Victoria Hopper. told CNN.
Funeral arrangements have not been decided, but Hopper's wish was
to be buried in Taos, New Mexico, "his heart home,"
Victoria Hopper said.
The American
film icon made his last public appearance on March 26, 2010, when
his star was dedicated on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Over almost six
decades as a performer and director, his career spanned a range
of Hollywood trends: TV's live "Golden Age," films
about disillusioned teenagers, a variety of Westerns, anti-establishment
dramas, offbeat indie films, action blockbusters and edgy cable
series. He often played villains, occasionally lost souls, almost
all with a force and empathy.
There was Dennis
Hopper before "Easy Rider," generally known as a clean-cut,
if rebellious, character actor who had built a career of
supporting roles in Westerns, youth-oriented films and TV shows.
There was Dennis Hopper after "Easy Rider," for years
one of Hollywood's wild men, an actor with a penchant for alcohol,
drugs and outlandish behavior, and later a go-to performer to
play villains and commanding misfits. And then there was "Easy
Rider," the 1969 film that he directed and co-wrote, and in
which he played a dissolute, countercultural biker named Billy.
Thanks to the film, Hopper helped blaze a trail for the young,
aggressive filmmakers who would take Hollywood by storm in the
1970s.
Dennis Lee
Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, on May 17, 1936. He grew
up in San Diego, California, and established an early reputation
for stage work. Making his way to Hollywood while still in his
teens, he quickly earned roles in several films and TV shows,
including "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), in which he
met James Dean, who became a friend and lifelong model, Hopper
once said. Dean was "a guerrilla artist who attacked all
restrictions on his sensibility ... I imitated his style in art
and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble," Hopper recalled.
Hopper also
appeared in "Giant" with Dean, who died in a car
accident in September 1955. "He's the greatest actor that I
ever saw. I never saw anyone that could even touch him," he
told CNN's Larry King in 2005. "He moved better than any
actor. He's like an expressionist to me. He not only filled
himself with emotion, but he, like -- he did things that were so
unbelievably physical."
Hopper
maintained a somewhat uneven career through the mid-'60s,
appearing in such films as the John Wayne vehicle "The Sons
of Katie Elder" (1965) and the Paul Newman classic "Cool
Hand Luke" (1967) as well as several TV shows -- often
Westerns. But it was 1967's psychedelic "The Trip,"
directed by "King of the B's" Roger Corman, that
exposed the actor to an antiestablishment audience and two of his
"Easy Rider" colleagues, actor Peter Fonda and "Trip"
writer Jack Nicholson.
In early 1968,
Hopper led the group through his own low-budget film, a biker
road movie about two disenchanted riders who -- thanks to some
drug money -- travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans. "A man
went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere,"
went the words of its famous tagline. "Easy Rider" was
finally released in the summer of 1969, and became a sensation --
after 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate,"
the breakthrough that set free the baby boomer generation on
Hollywood. (Ironically, another of Hopper's 1969 films was "True
Grit," an old-fashioned Western that earned John Wayne an
Oscar.)
The film, made
on the fly by Hopper and co-star Fonda for less than $500,000,
became one of the highest-grossing movies of its time and helped
make a star of Nicholson, who played an ill-fated, alcoholic
lawyer. "It was just a very special time when the lunatics
really got to take over the asylum for a minute," Hopper
told Reuters in 2008. "For a brief moment there, there
really seemed to be an independent film movement. Then it was
over." ...
COMMENTS
(7/2/10):Dennis Hopper is named in the
prediction list above.
Martin Luther King (d. 1968) - Marr, Ar, Tin, In,
Loo, Ther, Err, King, Ing
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Martin Landau, Martin Sheen, Marty Allen,
Marty Balin, Martie Maguire, Marvin Hamlisch. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
Ernest Hemingway (d. 1961) - Ern, Er, Nest, Est,
Es, Hem, Em, Eh, Ing, Way, Ay
Possible
predictions (6/13/10): Denzel Washington, Jay Leno, Norman
Mailer. Additional
predictions: (0/0/10):
January 4, 2000 -- LOS ANGELES (AP) --
The sole American hostage on the hijacked Indian Airlines jet
returned to California Tuesday. Jeanne Moore, 53, who was among the
155 passengers held on the plane for eight days, arrived at Los
Angeles International Airport aboard a Lufthansa flight. Airline
spokeswoman Maria Soler said Ms. Moore was tired and left the
terminal with her son through an alternate route to meet her
family outside the airport. She did not meet with reporters. Her
Indian Airlines flight from Nepal to New Delhi was hijacked on
Dec. 24, and the hostages were freed December 31. Ms. Moore's
parents said they were anxious to see her. "I'll be so glad
to see her, and love her a lot," her 85-year-old mother,
Marie Redding, said Monday from her Burbank home. Her father,
Harold Redding, 86, said: "She travels quite frequently and
she wanted us to go along with her on this particular trip, but
we couldn't get away. Our health couldn't stand the rigors."
Ms. Moore lives in Bakersfield, where she teaches disabled
children.
The man who once
falsely confessed to the murder of child beauty
contestant JonBenet Ramsey is now living as a woman
and attempting to form a cult of little girls he intends to
have sex with, his former fiancee said Wednesday. Nineteen-year-old
Samantha Spiegel made the disturbing allegations to
TODAY’s Ann Curry in New York. She said she was once
engaged to John Mark Karr and, under his
sway, tried to recruit girls between the ages of 4 and 8 into
a sex cult.
According to the most
recent reports (June 7, 2010), Karr surfaced in Atlanta, but had
already vanished again when authorities arrived. Then on June 8,
'After searching for more than a month, authorities finally
located John Mark Karr last Thursday at a familiar address –
his father’s residence near Chastain Park. Sandy Springs
police, at the request of the San Francisco police, served Karr
with a restraining order on behalf of 19-year-old Samantha
Spiegel. “The detectives met with Karr for about three
minutes and then left the residence,” said police spokesman
Steve Rose, who declined to elaborate.'
TMZ has obtained
another email targeting "Dancing with the Stars"
contestant Erin Andrews, and it's the clearest sign yet
that the man who wrote it is a potential threat.
COMMENTS (7/9/10):
Lindsay
Lohan appears in orange in the list above. As I
mentioned in the foreward, names in orange relate to an event or
events occurring during the first six months of 2010 and will not
be considered a "prediction fulfilled." I was to have
posted Lohan's failure to appear at court on time when she was at
the Cannes Film Festial in May ... and the danger of her possibly
having to go to prison. I was also to post the SCRAM bracelet
incident of June 6 where it detected that she had been drinking
alcohol.
Hollywood star Jennifer
Aniston was left fearing for her life after being stalked by a
man who claimed that she had asked him to be the father of her
children.
Road Runner 
CBC News 
The Burberry model Tom Nicon has committed suicide
after he fell 40ft to his death from his apartment in Italy.
Nicon, 22, is thought to have been depressed after breaking up
with his girlfriend. The model, who was the male "face"
of the British fashion label Burberry, died at the start of the
Milan Men's fashion week.
Top male model Tom Nicon
has died after falling four floors from an apartment block just
hours before the start of Milan Men's Fashion Week.The French
catwalk star, who was the face of British label Burberry, had
just returned from a Versace rehearsal before he was found dead.
The 22-year-old is thought to have been depressed after breaking
up with his girlfriend and was staying with friends in the
Italian fashion capital. He died instantly after falling 40ft
from the window. Police in Milan said they were treating the
death as suicide and investigating suggestions he had suffered
from a ''complicated affair of love''.
COMMENTS (7/3/10):
All the name sounds are there, save for the "T,"
in the name Tom Nicon. It was only a matter of
time before the suicide epidemic afflicting male and female
actors and singers, and female models would begin striking male
models. The hanging suicide of model Daul Kim,
the jumping suicide of model Lina Marulanda,
and drugs overdose suicide attempt by model Noemie Lenoir
have been noted on the the 
(CNN) -- Legendary singer, dancer, actress and
civil rights activist Lena Horne, 92, died at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital on Sunday night, a hospital spokeswoman said. No other
details of her death were made public.
(CNN) -- Dennis Hopper,
the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such
indelible characters as "Easy Rider's" biker Billy and
"Blue Velvet's" and huffing villain Frank Booth, died
of prostate cancer Saturday morning at his home in Venice,
California, his wife said. He was 74.
