They Come In Bunches

It is often said that deaths come in threes. Well if you go back the past eight days, that figure was better than doubled in the entertainment community. On June 23rd, we received word of the passing of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick on the original Tonight Show, who was 86. Two days later on the 25th, we lost 62 year old Farrah Fawcett to cancer, which she had been battling for the past three years. Within hours of Fawcett's death came the shocking news of the passing of pop icon Michael Jackson, who was only 50 years old. On June 27, Gale Storm, age 87, of television's 'My Little Margie' fame died of natural causes. The following day, Las Vegas stand up comedian Fred Travalena was struck with a heart attack and passed at the age of 66. Also on the 28th, the Oxi Clean man himself, Billy Mays also died of a heart attack. Mays was 49. And today, the entertainment community lost 97 year old Karl Malden. Best known for his starring role in the tv series 'The Streets of San Francisco', Malden's cause of death was not disclosed. To say I've had enough would be an understatement!