Jeff Goldblum

While we officially record our sorrow at the passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - and anyone else who’s carked it in the past 20 minutes or so - it’s worth noting the terminal case of death-mania which has struck the media today.

Leading the charge was Richard Wilkins on Channel Nine who aired the hoax story that Jeff Goldblum had died, apparently from a fall. Nine boldly declared Goldblum to be deader than disco and ran with the story for a full ten minutes before airing new details which had come to hand, namely that the star of The Fly and Jurassic Park was considerably less dead than originally feared.

The official, pissed-off word came on Twitter from Kevin Spacey.

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  • S says:

    09:42am | 01/07/09

    Billy Mays had also died on June 28.Dang,every one is dying.Oh,well it is just the End Times. Read more »

  • Moose says:

    05:15pm | 30/06/09

    6390 people die every hour. Being crass about 1 dead plasticised “star” helps us cope with the shame of not caring for the other 6299. Now what are we going to about MJ? rinse and recycle or landfill? Read more »

 

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