EppsNet Archive: Death

Embracing Couple Killed By Train

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A young couple in New Jersey held hands and stepped in front of an Amtrak train, electing to be simultaneously obliterated in one final embrace. Relatives told The Associated Press that the couple were drug addicts who had been evicted from their apartment and saw suicide as their only way out, which takes a lot of the romance out of the story as far as I’m concerned . . . Read more →

Are You Proud of Me Now?

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Barbra Streisand’s mother died last week at age 93. The two had a strained relationship, as people sometimes do with their mothers. When Mom attended one of her shows in 1994 — she would have been 85 years old at the time — Barbra addressed her from the stage, saying, “Are you proud of me now, Mama?” I’m not a big fan of anything Barbra Streisand has ever done, but for articulating a lifetime of pain in seven words, you can’t do much better than that . . . Read more →

I Fought the Law . . .

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Doreen Waddell, a former vocalist with the chart-topping 1980s British band Soul II Soul, died after being hit by several cars as she ran across a busy road. Police said it appeared she had been running from a supermarket after being confronted about shoplifting. Read more →

People I Thought Were Dead

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Joey Bishop – TV host Ernest Borgnine – actor Red Buttons – actor Kitty Carlisle – game show panelist Alistair Cooke – TV host Buddy Ebsen – actor Glenn Ford – actor Eugene McCarthy – U.S. senator Jack Paar – TV host, “The Tonight Show” Don Pardo – TV announcer Artie Shaw – clarinetist and bandleader Byron White – U.S. supreme court justice Richard Widmark – actor Updates Joey Bishop – died 10/17/2007, age 89 Ernest Borgnine – died 7/8/2012, age 95 Red Buttons – died 7/13/2006, age 87 Kitty Carlisle – died 4/18/2007, age 96 Alistair Cooke – died 3/30/2004, age 95 Buddy Ebsen – died 7/6/2003, age 95 Glenn Ford – died 8/30/2006, age 90 Eugene McCarthy – died 12/10/2005, age 89 Jack Paar – died 1/27/2004, age 85 Don Pardo – died 8/18/2014, age 96 Artie Shaw – died 12/30/2004, age 94 Byron White – died 4/15/2002,… Read more →

Samuel Butler Meets Rusty and Andrea Yates

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“Poor people! They had tried to keep their ignorance of the world from themselves by calling it the pursuit of heavenly things, and then shutting their eyes to anything that might give them trouble.” — Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh Related Links Transcript of Andrea Yates’ confession This is very, very sad and hard to forget. You may want to just skip it. Read more →

Ted Demme

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Director Ted Demme dies while participating in a celebrity basketball game. I can’t think of any plausible reason for attending a celebrity basketball game other than watching some fat cokehead keel over. Kudos, Ted! Read more →

Hockey is Fun!

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Thomas Junta, a 275-pound “hockey dad,” was convicted of manslaughter for beating to death another parent, 156-pound Michael Costin, at a youth scrimmage. The point that Junta was trying to get across to Costin was that Costin’s sons were playing too rough and spoiling a nice, fun game of hockey. Way to go, Dad! Read more →

Julia Phillips

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Julia Phillips — producer (The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), author ( You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again), cocaine addict — dies of cancer in West Hollywood, Ca. She was 57. Her book, a memoir of life in Tinseltown, made her an icon and a pariah simultaneously. “I wasn’t a pariah because I was a drug-addicted . . . rotten person [but] because I lit them with a harsh fluorescent light and rendered them as contemptible as they truly are.” Read more →

Last Words

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“I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.” — Johnny Frank Garrett. Executed by injection, Texas. “I did not get my Spaghetti-O’s, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.” — Thomas J. Grasso. Executed by injection, Oklahoma. “Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you’re screwing around.” — Carl Panzram. Executed by hanging, Kansas. Read more →

Dav Pilkey Lives!

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Charles Dickens, however, is dead I was reading Bleak House last night, and my 8-year-old son said, “Charles Dickens is dead, right?” And I said, “Yes, he’s dead.” “It seems like all the good writers are dead.” “Well, a lot of them are dead.” “Dav Pilkey is still alive.” So there you have it: Charles Dickens is dead but Dav Pilkey lives. Tra-la-laaaaaa! Read more →

People I Thought Were Dead

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Ingmar Bergman – film director Henri Cartier-Bresson – photographer Archibald Cox – Watergate special prosecutor Olivia De Havilland – actress Edward Heath – British prime minister Skitch Henderson – bandleader Thor Heyerdahl – anthropologist Edmund Hillary – mountaineer Van Johnson – actor Mitch Miller – bandleader Stan Musial – baseball player Bettie Page – model Thurl Ravenscroft – voice, Tony the Tiger Max Schmeling – heavyweight champion boxer Penny Singleton – actress, Blondie, Jane Jetson Enos Slaughter – baseball player Billy Wilder – film director Alan Young – actor, “Mister Ed” Updates Ingmar Bergman – died 7/30/2007, age 89 Henri Cartier-Bresson – died 8/22/2004, age 95 Archibald Cox – died 5/29/2004, age 92 Olivia De Havilland – died 7/25/2020, age 104 Edward Heath – died 7/17/2005, age 89 Skitch Henderson – died 11/1/2005, age 87 Thor Heyerdahl – died 4/18/2002, age 87 Edmund Hillary – died 1/11/2008, age 88 Van… Read more →

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