need to come up with seven examples of death in entertainment

[Lady Freedom]

Any ideas? I'm pulling a blank??

[hotforteacher]

1. Bruce or Jason Lee? Marilyn Monroe?

Or deaths that become entertainment, like Nicole Simpson?

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. How about anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Just kidding. OK, not really.

But how about Jon-Erik Hexum?

[brook]

3. LOL...

Jon-Erik was the first one I thought of, too. Maybe because I was on the stage when it happened.

[IntravenousDemilo]

5. No shit, really?

I was so sad that such a beautiful man died in such a stupid way. Was he as good-looking in real life as he was on film?

[brook]

9. He was very good looking.

It was sad -and as you say -stupid. One of the worst afternoons of my life.

As a prop master, it mattered not who you were - I took the gun between set-ups. Maybe because all the shows I cut my teeth on were pretty heavy on guns and almost everyone's an a**h**e with 'em.

edited to add: I wasn't propping the show. The studio had me there to figure out how they could lose 2 trucks full of stuff. (They abandoned one on the freeway on-ramp). Drug use made for weird times. :)

[IntravenousDemilo]

10. I hope he was nice, though, and not too full of himself.

And boy, it sure is a good thing you weren't propping the show, or you could have got some major grief over it.

Oh, and I'll bet this is the most anyone has talked about Jon-Erik Hexum on the net in a long time.

[brook]

13. As it was

the major grief I had was trying to scrape the prop master off the ceiling and get him a lawyer...and as a rep, deal with the union. The studio shut everyone down very quickly.

[IntravenousDemilo]

14. Wow, this is like the E True Hollywood Story!

I forget, what was the show again?

[brook]

17. "Cover Up" n/t

[Lisa]

11. I've always remembered that case ...

I watched his show when I was quite young. These days, I sometimes teach disaster planning, and when I teach accident-analysis scenarios in class, I usually start with the Hexum and Lee examples of how many things have to go wrong for a disaster like that to happen (generally not one big thing, but a whole chain or cascade of minor-seeming things).

[IntravenousDemilo]

15. Spurious George should have taken your course.

"No one anticipated the breach of the levees" etc...

[brook]

16. Right.

You have to be very careful with the guns and the loads. I always broke the gun to show the actor and when retrieving it, broke it again to make sure nothing was jammed. And as I said, never let the actor control the weapon between shots. Always had dummies when there was a need to choreograph the scene.

You try to think of everything that could go wrong and what your plan(s) A, B, etc. are.

[Lisa]

19. and if you do all that right -- nobody notices!

Or else someone complains about how "picky" you are, and how you should "relax" and "cut people more slack" (meaning them specifically). You can be the most mellow person in the world, but for some reason, if your co-workers/underlings/bosses think you are thinking about something more than they are, it can result in more than one's fair share of flak.

I'm giving you kudos, brook, because I know that you probably don't get nearly as much credit as you deserve!

[brook]

20. Thank you.

I do appreciate a kudo. :)

I've been called "bitch" for so long, I answer to it! Yep, I got called abrasive, picky too. When I got my Masters ticket, I was the 10th woman in the history of the IATSE to do so.

Before it was over, I played the guy's game so well, I'd made a Teamster cry. Well a girl's gotta have some fun, right?

[Lady Freedom]

4. Good ideas but I also need things like music and games.

Music in not to hard but video games is another story.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. Grand Theft Auto

Plus there are tons of first person shooter games out there.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Mortal Kombat

The original parental outrage catalyst.

[michreject]

34. One before that- Death Race 2000

Death Race 2000. Had to be in the late 70's or early 80's. You got points for running people over with your car. A lot of hell was raised about this video game.

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Badass.

[michreject]

39. ???????????????,,,,nt

[qnr]

8. Oh those poor ghosts. Evil, evil pacman! n/t

[Haole Girl]

18. How about the Madonna Crucifiction ?

[rockymountaindem]

28. Try "Jungleland" by Bruce Springsteen

It's one of my favorite songs.

[BreweryYardRat]

30. The entire Hitman series might be good for you.

All about killing people for money.

Although the developers did set it up so the vast majority of those people are terrorists, drug lords, arms dealers, high-profile rapists, high-profile pedophiles, etc...

If you want examples from the latest game, lemme know. Or just Google: Hitman blood money walkthrough.

[China_cat]

33. A whole band...the Grateful Dead

[Lisa]

12. how about the "predictable death"?

The new guy in the WWII or Vietnam platoon who shows the others pictures of his girlfriend -- or the red-shirted "expendables" in the original Star Trek series?


Or the soldier at the end of "All Quiet on the Western Front" -- you're still shocked even though you've been expecting it.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Dick Shawn died onstage and it seemed part of his act.

The audience didn't believe it for a long time because it seemed part of his performance. Here is an entry on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn

[AngryAmish]

22. Boom Boom Mancini v. Duk Koo Kim

[leftofthedial]

23. opera

hip hop
rap
polka music
Oasis
metal

all make me want to die.

you'll have to find the other one by yourself.

[mdmc]

24. Yo! Bret the Hit Man Hart's brother - he died doing a stunt

and lots of members of the Grateful Dead. I think there are 7 right there.

[MnFats]

25. Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children "Twilight Zone -- the Movie"

Jon Landis directed scene where helicopter approaches in Viet flashback scene. too close; they're all killed in a spectacular and violent way.
because Landis wanted realism.
a lot of people thought he should go to prison....
Vic Morrow was star of a '60s tv show, "Combat," about a platoon of soldiers in WWII Europe.
it was interesting but they fought all the battles after a couple of years...

[MnFats]

26. Terry Kath of Chicago....'blank' gunshot..

...apparently he was loaded at a party and didn't realize that a "blank" round, though it fires no bullet, it fires a bunch of wadding and stuff to, um, kill you if you hold the gun to your head.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Here's a listing of performers who have died on stage or on the set

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/onstage.htm

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

29. Deaths in entertainment

What about the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Janis Joplin,Jimi Hendiix, Jim Morrison, John Belushi, John Candy, John Ritter, Christopher Reeves.

[Evoman]

31. Reality television.

If that isn't the death of entertainment, I don't know what is. At the very least, entertainment is on its last legs....death knell on a tropical island, and in the big brother suite.

[enigmatic]

32. Christine Chubbuck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

It was rumored for years that the video actually made it on the air, but I never saw it and nobody I knew did, either.

This story always haunted/fascinated me; I'm really surprised nobody has done a more detailed piece on it..

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. That's a very sad story. It ranks up there with Budd Dwyer and

"hit the water...hit the water"...:(

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Keith Whitley...very sad...

Finished recording a song for his wife, another country singer-Lorrie Morgan, and then died of alcohol poisoning. The song is haunting.

[LaraMN]

37. The Poltergeist "curse"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_curse