THE NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE OF THE KING OF POP

Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood’s best-known entertainers. “It’s become a culture with celebrity doctors who in one sense get a sense of importance by hanging around with celebrities.

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THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS SINGERS (PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE)

Every year, they trot out the same lame Christmas songs we have heard for half-a-century, It’s starting to fewhitechristmas1el “contrived.” There’s Burl Eives singing Have a Holly Jolly Christmas or Frosty the Snwoman (the two biggest hits he ever had), Bing doing the Ba-Ba-Ba-Boom, “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,” as I begin to nod off while Dean Martin crooning Christmas Blues on another station and Elvis strumming Blue Christmas on a Gibson sun-burst guitar on yet another.
To honor the festiveness of the holidays I present to you, oh blog-readers, my version of the best and worst of Christmas singers past, present and future.

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