Odd News - June 25, 2009

Odd News - June 25, 2009 CNN news live reported Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to UCLA hospital in Los Angeles. It’s reported it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance. The 911 call came in at 12:21PM at his Holmby Hills home in L.A. No confirmed death at this writing.

Farrah Fawcett, the blonde actress whose "Charlie's Angels" stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, died June 25, 2009. She was 62. Fawcett checked into a hospital in early April, and  has been battling anal cancer on and off for three years. Farrah Fawcett's cancer journey is documented in a television special. Farrah began shooting "Farrah's Story," by taking a camera to a doctor's appointment. Eventually, the film expanded to include trips overseas in hopes of treating the cancer. Fawcett was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1947. She married Lee Majors in 1973; they divorced nine years later. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/25/obit.fawcett/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Edward McMahon, Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009) was an American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality. Most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992, also as the host of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995, also co-hosting with Dick Clark on TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes from 1982 to 1986, he also became well-known as the presenter of the now-defunct American Family Publishers sweepstakes (not, as is commonly believed, its main rival Publishers Clearing House). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon.