I also liked Whitney, and many other performers who have bought there life and death . As I said in my post, we all play, no matter what life we live. Famous or not, and why is it that we let thing's destroy us ? Why ? Stupidity, money, family, importance in life job, fame, depression ? And yes you are very right, beny's , painkillers, downer's are overprescribed and abused by mostly the rich and famous that can get what ever they want. And when ever and then they are dead !

Now get over that mad shit and lets carry on proper !

Mitch Albom's Take

Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (Band of Brother) and lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy died on the 28th Feb..

RIP..

RIP Davy Jones (Monkees)

Wow, that's really out of left field. Quite a shock .

RIP, Davy.

WHAT? NO! He was my first crush when I was a little girl. My best friend and I watched that show religiously. It was one of the biggest thrills of my life when we were on vacation in Canada and saw Mickey Dolenz in the hotel restaurant. Our waiter informed us that Davy Jones and Peter Tork were also staying in the hotel, but I never did get to see Davy.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

Oh no!! I was in my car driving home when I heard them announce it. I am so shocked for some reason. I wonder if he had heart problems. How sad.

I didn't watch the Monkees show all that much, but I did like their music. Daydream Believer, one of my favorites, is such an upbeat neat song. Very surprised & very sad to hear of Davy's passing.


TIS

Always loved the SPITTING IMAGE parody of that opening.

Sorry to see Davy go. He lived about an hour away from me and I had the pleasure of meeting him through a mutual friend. He raised horses, and really seemed to love them. Always heard good things about him from people who knew him.

Kly, weren't you the one who shared a cab with or knew Jason Miller (The Exorcist actor)? I think you also mentioned another famous person you knew too. Now Davy Jones. Geez, you always rub elbows with the rich & famous?


TIS

He performed on the Ed Sullivan show on the night of the first Beatles appearance.

RIP Davy...

I heard that he was a jockey back in England. Is that true??

Geez, I just saw him on one of those PBS oldies shows (don't know how old the show was), but he looked pretty good. Pop Icons of the late 60's. The Monkees were all over AM radio back then. I remember driving "down the shore" in NJ in my '68 VW Beetle listening to Big Dan Ingram playing the Monkees, "Take the Last TRain to Clarksville....."

One of those trivia question.....Jimi Hendrix once opened for the Monkees.

Haha. Actually, I gave Jason Miller a ride home from a bar that night. We were from the same town, and he was close friends with an older cousin of mine, who was an actor. That's how I knew him.

Davy I only met twice at parties. It's funny, but lots of people from this area have Davy Jones stories as he certainly wasn't a recluse. After time he seemed more of a local than a celebrity. I'm guessing that it was the late 1990s when I met him. He was a guest on the Ed Sullivan Show as part of a Broadway musical cast on one of the nights the Beatles appeared. - as Don Marco indicated.

I don't know, SB. I guess he could have been. He was very small. He was telling us how to get to his stables, and was very gracious in inviting a lot of the guests to ride his horses. Central PA will certainly miss him.

Anybody else read those books as kids?

Jan Berenstain, Co-Creator of the Berenstain Bears, Has Died

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/...-has-die/49206/

I didn't read them as a kid, but I sure read them to my kids. Some of them still stick in my head 20 years later - from the book about a new bike:

"not yet, not yet, not yet, my son - first come the lessons, then the fun - how to get on is lesson one"

Andrew Breitbart died this morning at only 43 years old. I disagreed with the guy on just about everything, but I'll give him this: He was passionate in what he believed in.

That's one less barb in the President's side.

Didn't agree with the guy on anything but am totally shocked to hear of his death at only 42. Way to young.



TIS

Exactly. But if Rush Limbaugh wants to keep up with a diet of Twinkies and Percocets, I encourage him to do so.

This morning they played portions of a radio interview they had with Davy Jones about a year ago. He spoke of how happy he was performing for his fans.

He commented that he had met all of the Beatles and like them all. He said that he was flattered when Lennon said of the Monkees, "They aren't anything like the Beatles, they are more like The Marx Brothers."



TIS

They Monkees outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined in 1967. Amazing.

The year Sgt Pepper came out, that's surprising.

Shocking is more like it. When I read that this morning, I was shocked.

Al Roker from the Today show did a segment with the Monkees not too long ago, so they were airing sections of it. They asked Davy what it was like to have been such a teen idol, did the ladies still love him? He said that he still had the same loyal fans - at one time the girls threw their briefs onstage, now they tossed Depends!

Remember his appearance in The Brady Bunch Movie? Remember when Marsha invited him to the school dance and he sang and how the older women were just enthralled by him? Yes, how time flies.

I remember back in the summer of 1973 my folks and I spent the month of July traveling around the state of California. We spent a week in San Francisco, and saw an excellent revival of the musical "Oliver." Some well-known theatrical names were in the cast, including (in his US stage debut) Ron Moody as Fagin, a role he had created years before in London (as well as in the movie version). As great as he was, the other treat was seeing Davy Jones singing and dancing as the Artful Dodger. Of course, all the women in the audience just loved him - he was excellent, as was the entire cast. Somewhere, in my files, I still have the program book from the show.

I'm still shocked and quite saddened by his death.

Signor V.