BEAT IT

Shocked and stunned. very stunned.

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What is it with continuing bizarro troika of major celebrity deaths?

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Again, always, in 3's.

This week brought the demise of Ed McMahon, and then on the same day, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.

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With the Jackson thing being the most shocking, or was it?

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Snowballing reports allege that MJ was heavy on the painkilling narcotic meds such as Dilaudid, Demerol, or stronger, and that obviously, a miscalculation or too high a residual dose could prove fatal, even to a healthy heart.

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In any event the King of Pop is dead, long live the King.

(When you as a child have 4 number one singles in one year, and sell 100 million copies of one LP, then you can call yerself just about anything you want.)

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Still, other media outlets were less than kind at the out-of-left-field news.

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Within hours of confirmation of MJ's death, The Smoking Gun website reprised some grand jury testimony from a young man who accused Jackson of molestation. Not even in death, etc.

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And some fans of the Beatles are less than shocked, and stunned, what with their noses still outta joint from 1985, when MJ bought up publishing rights to 259 Lennon/McCartney tunes for a measly 47 mill, whilst Macca and Mz. Ono failed to get on the same page.

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Regardless, an immense talent, no matter how weird and even distasteful is gone at 50, and that, is the real story.