Thursday, October 18, 2007

One, Two...

Joey Bishop, one of the lesser members of the famed Rat Pack, is now on his way to join up with Frank and posse.

The comedian died of multiple causes at his home. What exactly is that? He got stabbed while drinking poison on an exploding grenade? Heat attack during a stroke while suffocating? How about he was 89, and that’s old enough to die.

Peter Lawford, the other guy who was not Frank, Dean, or Sammy died first in 1984. Interestingly, Bishop outlived the Chairman (with his permission, of course).


Also on bucket kicking duty is Deborah Kerr, who swapped spit with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity and tangoed with Yul Brenner in "The King and I. She was 86.

Kerr is proof that if you get six nominations for best actress, eventually you’ll get an honorary Oscar. I’d say more about them both, but I thought they were already dead long before news broke today. That, and I don’t care.

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