Tag Archives: Celebrity Death Watch

Diff’rent Strokes Curse Remains With Work Undone

By Smaktakula Diff’rent Strokes proved an instant hit with TV audiences in September of 1978.  The Norman Lear sitcom about Harlem orphans falling into the lap of luxury was anchored by veteran stage actor Conrad Bain, and featured promising child … Continue reading

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Who Is Killing Off The Former Stars Of ‘Full House?’

By Smaktakula No one yet. You need a job?

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Headlines XIV

By Smaktakula In which we opine upon the headlines of the day without first reading the articles. *** Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine backs Rick Santorum ~ See Kids? A bacchanalian life of drug-fueled debauchery is not without its consequences. Although the pernicious effects of addiction … Continue reading

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Singer Whitney Houston Dies

By Smaktakula Whitney Houston is dead at 48 a representative of the beloved singer announced today. Although cause of death has yet to be determined, even an encephalitic gibbon knows that drugs were the most likely culprit. After a series of chart-busting … Continue reading

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Sweathogs Begin To Die Off

By Smaktakula Metuchen, NJ: Actor Robert Hegyes died in his home Thursday after apparently suffering a  heart attack. The Welcome Back, Kotter star was sixty years old. Hegyes rose to fame in the 1970s playing Juan Epstein, a wiseacre Puerto Rican-Jewish street … Continue reading

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Promethean Times’ 2011 Person Of The Year: Us Again

By The Promethean Times Editorial Staff We’ll admit it–we didn’t think it would come to this.  We figured we’d be rich by now, or at the very least the Rapture would have freed us from our myriad woes.  Since it … Continue reading

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Bon Jovi Scare Raises Question: Who From Jersey NEEDS To Die?

By Smaktakula Residents of the Garden State are resting a little easier with the knowledge that beloved New Jersey music icon Jon Bon Jovi is not dead, as was earlier reported.  The erroneous reports of the singer’s death were greeted … Continue reading

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LiLo’s Got The Meth Mouth

By Smaktakula True? False? That’s what the gossip sites are reporting, anyway. More accurately, they’re claiming that the self-destructing former starlet and Flower of American Skankhood has a mouth full of rotting teeth, from which Promethean Times irresponsibly infers that … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs’ Obsolescence Comes Earlier Than Expected

By Smaktakula Around the world, the gnashing of teeth and tearing of clothes has greeted the sad news of Steve Jobs’ untimely death at fifty-six.  However, like Christ, the deity to Whom the Silicon Valley innovator is most often compared, Jobs leaves … Continue reading

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Cliff Robertson Is Dead

By Smaktakula Cliff Robertson, who played Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben in the film Spider-Man, is dead at 88.  This comes as something of a surprise to the millions of people who were heretofore unaware of the veteran actor’s  existence, as … Continue reading

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