Actor Corey Haim died this morning of an apparent overdose, possibly accidental according to LAPD. He was 38.

R.I.P. Corey

GhettoBitch (aka Marlene Stoller, host of Ghettoradio’s “The ROCK Show”) and filmmaker brother Bryan Michael Stoller in front of one of the many MJ canvasses at the “friends and family” entrance to the Staples Center.

On Tuesday July 7, 2009 I attended the Memorial Service for Michael Jackson at The Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.  My brother Bryan Michael Stoller was a very close friend of Michael’s for over twenty years.  He asked me to attend the service with him.  In the mid 1980’s Bryan wrote and directed a parody of Michael Jackson’s Pepsi commercial.  Jackson saw the parody on TV and contacted the TV station asking how he could contact Bryan.  Bryan received a phone call one day and the caller said “Hi, this is Michael Jackson”.  Bryan says he almost hung up because he thought it was a prank call. Good thing he didn’t because that phone call launched a friendship that lasted over 20 years.  In the years to come Bryan would spend many days and weeks at Neverland with Michael.  In Bryan’s 2004 Feature Film “Miss Cast Away And The Island Girls” Michael Jackson is featured as “Agent MJ”.  Bryan and Michael had plans to co-direct a feature film with Mel Gibson’s company called “They Cage The Animals At Night”.  Bryan was scheduled to mentor Michael and his children about filmmaking after his 2009 London Tour.  Bryan last saw Michael about 2 months ago when he visited Jackson for a week in Las Vegas.  They spoke on the phone 2 weeks before Michael passed away.  Since then Bryan has been featured on many news programs talking about his late friend Michael.  Woodiewood did an impromptu live phone interview with me the evening of the memorial.  So rather than write an article describing how it was to be inside the Staples Center, I have chosen to post this interview because it is more descriptive than anything I could post here and it would be pages long.  It is very informative, so please give it a listen.  Unfortunately the very beginning of the interview was not recorded so what you will hear is “already in progress, raw and unedited”.

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Farrah Fawcett, who became the postergirl for a generation of teenage boys and men in the 1970s, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 62.

CHICAGO (AP) — Norm Van Lier, one of the most popular players in Chicago Bulls history and one of the NBA’s top defensive players in the 1970s, was found dead in his home just blocks away from the team’s arena Thursday. He was 61.

The cause of death was not immediately known, authorities said.

Van Lier’s death was discovered on the same day that former Bulls coach Johnny “Red” Kerr died.

WASHINGTON – Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” program when he collapsed, the network said. He and his family had recently returned from Italy, where they celebrated the graduation of Russert’s son, Luke, from Boston College.

The great Evil Knievel has passed. Best known for his Legendary, death defying stunts, including jumping the fountain at Ceasar’s Palace and over part of the Grand Canyon (well, halfway sorta.) Evil, who has suffered many illnesses through the years was 69.

Now tell me you didn’t have an Evil Knievel lunch box growing up… I know I DID!

Kevin DuBrow, frontman of Quiet Riot was found dead in his Vegas home at age 52. Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of “Cum On Feel The Noize” from the Metal Health album which was the first metal band to go #1 on the Billboard charts.

Drummer Frank Banali has updated his website with his thoughts, http://frankie-banali.com/

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