December 27, 2006
RIP Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Maceo Parker, formerly the second-hardest working man in show business, and George Clinton, Deputy Minister of Funk, will both vie for the position of "Soul Brother #1" in special plenary elections to be held later this month. Enjoy this Interview with James Brown on CNN (courtesy of the Show With No Name).
As soon as he was dead, gotta get that bio-pic project in the works. Now he can't object to any portayals...
My family seems to believe in the Deaths come in Threes theory because everyone's immediate reaction to these two pieces of news was "Who's Next?"
Richard Roeper has more hard data on deaths coming in threes.
Glad to see Jim Varney cracks the "celebrity" barrier. And yeah -- the "Deaths come in Threes" is classic Multiple Endpoints Fallacy with a little bit of clustering illusion thrown in.
The correction at the end of the JB article serves as an obituary-in-brief:
Correction: December 27, 2006.
An obituary yesterday about James Brown misidentified the Georgia city where he took part in an annual Christmas toy giveaway on Friday. It was Augusta, not Atlanta. It also misstated the year in which he led the police on a car chase across the Georgia-South Carolina border. It was 1988, not 1987.
What, too soon?
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R.I.P. Accidental President; Tom Brokaw reported this back in 1996 (thx waxy).
posted by mrflip at 11:33AM CST on December 27