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by The Grim ~V~eeper
geddyleeroth@att.net writes: Lets take a quick peek at the SICKTICKER at www.stiffs.com
And here's this month's famous corpses on
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by The Grim ~V~eeper
geddyleeroth@att.net writes: Lets take a quick peek at the SICKTICKER at www.stiffs.com
And here's this month's famous corpses on
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April 7: David
Graf, 50, a character actor remembered as Eugene
Tackleberry in the 1984 comedy Police Academy
and its six sequels, died of a heart attack while
attending a family wedding in Arizona. Graf portrayed
military officers in last year's motion picture Rules
of Engagement and the current television series West
Wing. Among his films were Guarding Tess, The
Brady Bunch Movie, Citizen Ruth and Irreconcilable
Differences. His television credits included guest
roles on Touched by an Angel, Sports Night,
Becker and Caroline in the City. (Could this be the
start of a Police Academy trend? Could we soon
see the demise of Bobcat? Howard Hesseman? Or dare I say
it, Steve Guttenberg? Stay tuned...)
pallid skin, leather jacket, tinted glasses
and crooked smile, died of lymphoma. He was 49. The
four-member Ramones came out of Queens with limited
musical skills, but by 1976, their staccato riffs and
full-frontal garage rock assaults began to make their
mark on British punk musicians. The band has been
acknowledged by many as the inventors of punk rock.
Robert Hilburn, The LA Times' pop music critic stated
"The legacy of the Ramones doesn't end with punk
acts. Many of the most prized mainstream rock groups of
the last two decades, from U2 and R.E.M. to Nirvana and
Pearl Jam, have also been inspired by the purposefulness
and grass-roots spirit of the Ramones and the punk
movement. For that reason, Joey Ramone stands as a major
figure in the history of rock." (Is this sedated
enough for ya, Joey?)
April
9: Baseball Hall of Famer Willie
Stargell, who led the Pittsburgh Pirates to two
World Series titles with tape-measure homers, died of a
stroke at 61 in Wilmington, N.C. He was inducted into the
Hall of Fame in 1988. He appeared at the Pirates' final
game at Three Rivers Stadium on Oct. 1, 2000, several
days after it was announced that a 12 foot statue would
be erected at PNC Park. The statue was unveiled on April
7th. (No
truth to the rumor that Motown is set to release
"Pops, In The Name Of Love" in his honor)
April
12: Harvey Ball, a commercial
artist whose design of a "smiley face" became a
pop icon for the 1970s, died in Worcester, Mass., after a
short illness. He was 79. Ball never reaped profits from
"Smiley," as he called the design, which fell
into the public domain when he failed to copyright it.
His total fees for designing the emblem: $45. 
Thomas E. Workman Jr., a Los Angeles
attorney who successfully defended R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co. in the first trial in the death of a cigarette
smoker, died of emphysema. He was 73. Workman, a smoker
of Reynolds-made Camel Lights, denied that Reynolds
products were addictive.
