Ed's had a few rough years with a financial rough patch, and an accident in 2007 that reportedly broke his back. It was sad to see him go, even if it was only for nostalgia's sake. It's been a long time since Ed was a TV staple but he will always be an iconic presence in pop-culture.

Farrah's death was the tragic end to a long and public battle with cancer. In May NBC broadcast Farrah's Story, a two-hour documentary chronicling her struggle with her illness. Farrah is most famous for her role on the 70s TV show Charlie's Angels. Well, actually she’s MOST famous for the 1976 red bathing suit poster that ran in Life magazine. But she was also fantastic in The Burning Bed, which set the standard for TV mini-series in 1984. Farrah also launched a million feathered haircuts in the late 70s and early 80s. She was, hands down, the hottest Angel and everyone had been rooting for her and Ryan O'Neal for a looooong time. This is more tragic than Love Story!

Even while reporters where getting their obit pieces together for Farrah, TMZ broke the news that Michael Jackson was enroute to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest. By the time the rest of the news and gossip sites had picked up on the story, TMZ was reporting that Jackson was dead, but it was only confirmed a few hours later that the King of Pop had died. Since then, nonstop tributes to MJ have been running on radio, TV and cable stations. Everywhere you went they were playing Michael's music or talking about the shock of his death. By Sunday, the hagiographies has slowed, and new lurid tales of weirdness were emerging.

Of course, the entertainment industry isn't the only one preoccupied by Jackson's passing. His body was rushed to the LA County coroner's office on Friday morning, and shortly thereafter reports started surfacing that his heart had stopped after a Demerol injection. Authorities sought out the doctor who lived with the star and released him after questioning.

MJ's hair was accidentally set on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot back in 1988. He became addicted to his pain medication and ended up in the Betty Ford Clinic. For years people have hypothesized about what he was doing to and putting into his body. There are various surgeries and treatments he has undergone and some weird practices including sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber. HIs bizarre behavior, combined with allegations and subsequent trial for child molestation, made it seem as though the Michael Jackson from The Jackon Five had died 20 years ago, with some deranged white dude taking his place. It’s unfortunate that the allegations and accusations that plagued him later in life will always cast a shadow on a mindblowing career and talent.

Losing three celebrities in a week is weird. Everyone always talks about how celebrity deaths are supposed to happen in threes, as if Heaven’s a party you need an entourage to attend. And if two celebrities die in close proximity to each other everyone holds their breath to see if there will be a third. It’s just a weird urban legend.

But after Michael Jackson died there was a subconscious sigh of relief because well, there was the third. The rest of the celebrities were safe, for now.

And then, this afternoon I’m chowing down on a breakfast burrito when I get a text that Billy “OxiClean” Mays is dead! That guy was the king of infomercials! He’s been starring in a related based show on Discovery Channel called Pitchmen. It’s features Mays and Anthony Sullivan, a real life rival pitchman, traveling the country looking for new products to pitch on late night television. What are they going to do now? What a random death! No one is really sure what the cause of death is, but on Saturday Billy hit his head on an overhead luggage compartment during a rough landing of a plane that blew a front tire. He seemed perfectly fine, even talking about the incident with a Tampa, Florida radio DJ during a phone interview later that day. But his wife reported that he wasn’t feeling well when he went to bed Saturday night and he was unresponsive when she woke up Sunday morning.

Last week the starlets and the gossip queens were complaining about being displaced from the cover pages by the whole Jon & Kate plus Divorce saga. Lindsay and Paris are going to have to wait another week to get back into the spotlight as American magazines mourn these lost celebrities. RIP.

Vegas is a gambler who always loses money on craps. She spends her time in Chicago with her husband, two cats and various artistic endeavors which are beginning to take up way too much space in her house and hard drive. Visit her blog at jensaysanything.blogspot.com.