By Philman

March 29, 2011 6:00 AM | Link to this

Do you think it Might be, because we Stop counting at THREE and start over.. DUH

By NCF

March 29, 2011 8:21 AM | Link to this

LOL, Philman! It’s a fallacy of accident and faulty generalization. Any celebrity death that doesn’t fit the “pattern” is quickly relocated into a ‘new’ pattern. Celebrity deaths less occur in threes than we tend to categorize them in threes. Never the less, is “America’s Oldest Teenager” safe from this latest round of celebrity deaths? Or is he still in hiding?

By ZSA ZSA

March 29, 2011 9:40 AM | Link to this

I am worried I am next dalingk…

By Squirrellygirl

March 29, 2011 10:00 AM | Link to this

I heard Gabor passed away. And Elizabeth Taylor. Who’s #3?

By Duh

March 29, 2011 10:20 AM | Link to this

There is no such popular myth. I think you’re hanging out with the wrong people. Slow news day?

By rm miamisburg

March 29, 2011 10:30 AM | Link to this

Squirrellygirl, Gabor is STILL ALIVE! She went to the hospital after her Blood Pressure went up. When she heard about Liz T death, she thought she would be next, but Gabor is still alive. Rapper Nate Dog was the 3rd. Right who the heck is Nate Dog?? Yet he was suppose to be famous.. OK to some he was, for the rest of us, we went Nate Dog Who.. As for people or Stars passing away in 3’s, we only hear of the most current STAR passing. In the days after Liz T death, 3 other famous people died, but we didn’t hear about them, here it goes- a writer of novels and movies, passed away. Who was he, sorry I didn’t know his name, nor much about him,. He did win an Oscar so that made him famous. On any given day 3 famous or at one time famous, people will die. If that person is a TV or Movie star then we go OH WHO WILL BE NEXT. Robert Guy said it best. We just notice it when the person is a Star. Last year 3 “Stars” died, yet didn’t make the news. Why, cause these Stars were a person who had done Radio only, one had only done TV commercials, with another being a newspaper person.. Again Robert Guy said it best. Star we know, the pother we say WHO?

By The Penguin

March 29, 2011 10:31 AM | Link to this

Re: Eleanor Costello’s comment, it was Burgess Meredith. He passed 4 days after Mother Teresa, and about a week after Princess Di.

By Knowit

March 29, 2011 10:32 AM | Link to this

I’m not in to celebrity workship—-I don’t follow who dies when!

By Katie Jones

March 29, 2011 10:41 AM | Link to this

Ava Gardner died ths month,. Farley Granger (Alred Hitchcock’s “Strangr On A Train) died a few hours ago, and of course, Liz Taylor died last week. That’s 3 for the month but actually there are more that just weren’t headlined so unless you’re a celebrity-death watcher you may not know they died and include them in the count. Zsa Zsa has NOT died.

By Katie Jones

March 29, 2011 10:53 AM | Link to this

Well there you go. rm miamisburg has already added to the list (Nate Dog). Read the story a few days go but never heard of him so didn’t even think to add him. and rm also got it right in the fact that producers,screenwriters and the like usually have a little 1” piece about their death so most of us don’t even know about those, and some of those don’t dib;t even get an article about their deaths. If you read one of the articles at the end of the year about the year’s celebrity deaths (I think last year it said 110 and I may have heard about 10 and some of them I’d never even heard of)so they don’t end up in “our” count. Philman is right-you just stop counting at 3 and start over. My son and I figured that out about 3 years ago and quit counting.

By J

March 29, 2011 11:40 AM | Link to this

Jane Russell, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Ferraro, there’s your three.

By Sassytjh@yahoo.com

March 29, 2011 1:32 PM | Link to this

Russell…Taylor… Ferraro are more well known…so, I believe are the three for the moment.

By Squirrellygirl

March 29, 2011 1:43 PM | Link to this

I’ll agree with Russell and Taylor, but not Ferraro. Russell and Taylor were actresses, not Ferraro. Ferraro was a politician. So who is #3?

By Samantha

March 29, 2011 8:38 PM | Link to this

Of course you can say they happen in threes. They happen in fours and fives and 100’s too. There is no given time span so where’s the cutoff?

By Ken

March 30, 2011 7:14 AM | Link to this

Jane Russell and Elizabeth Taylor died over 3 weeks apart. That hardly qualifies. A good example: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson…all within three days of each other.

By null

March 30, 2011 7:21 AM | Link to this

It’s a quite popular myth and it seems a lot of people here are confirming that, duh. Slow brain day?Stop being such an ignorant hater.

By Tony

March 30, 2011 8:15 AM | Link to this

depends on each person…personally, I’ve never heard of Jane Russell, so the 3 to me would be Nate Dogg, Taylor, and Ferraro…probably hold true as each of us will know of and consider different people to be celebrities.

By June

March 30, 2011 9:49 AM | Link to this

@Katie Jones - Ava Gardner died several years ago. Think you mean Jane Russell. I have always thought the #3 meant movie stars and never considered any other entertainment field. Also thought the deaths were only counted if within days or a week of each other. Think that may be where the myth came from. The shock of three so close together. It’s interesting on a slow news day.

By diana

March 30, 2011 10:12 AM | Link to this

i don’t know about deaths but i do know that bad politicians come in 3’s, george w. bush,dick cheyney and condolezza rice.

By dupree

March 30, 2011 11:01 AM | Link to this

we have all heard this myth since the 3 stooges first appeared several years ago. let them rest in peace.

By dupree

March 30, 2011 11:01 AM | Link to this

we have all heard this myth since the 3 stooges first appeared several years ago. let them rest in peace.

By Henry

March 30, 2011 11:04 AM | Link to this

Farley Earl who? Seriously, that’s a stretch. Jane Russell died weeks before Taylor. Pretty weak examples, blogger.

By The Devil

March 30, 2011 11:12 AM | Link to this

Diana you left out Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Ron Emanuel. They are definitely qualifiers

By rm miamisburg

March 30, 2011 11:47 AM | Link to this

Hey Diana, You forgot Barrack Obama , Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. As for the passing of a STAR, not certain where a death of a well know person has to do with GWBush Rice and Cheney. Again we only hear of the passing of Stars if they are of the Caliber of a Liz or Russel or even Elvis. How many will not take in to account Football and Baseball players? If they are a Star yes we notice their deaths. YET if they played in the pros for years but was not a star, we may see a tiny obit in the paper about them.

By diana

March 30, 2011 1:20 PM | Link to this

i remember 3 of my schoolmates died in the same week. we didn’t think it was a big deal though because we knew the cafeteria food would kill us all someday.

By diana

March 30, 2011 1:30 PM | Link to this

in 2001 three of my neighbors died in the same week. strange thing was another neighbor was passing out peanut butter fudge to everyone on the block.

By null

March 30, 2011 2:21 PM | Link to this

Diana will be performing at Joker’s this week. Yes, I know the building burned down.

By Emmett Thornton Beaver

March 30, 2011 5:23 PM | Link to this

3 is all the DDN wants to allow space for.

By diana

March 31, 2011 6:18 AM | Link to this

hey null you should be null and void.

By c'mon man

March 31, 2011 6:30 AM | Link to this

Are you kidding me?! This lame blog is still up?! DDN cant find anything else to blog about??

By Franklin Pierce

April 3, 2011 10:30 AM | Link to this

The myth is true, and needs to be codified into law. The law should say that if a celebrity dies naturally, and two more celebrities don’t die naturally within 24 hours, the government should execute two celebrities as a matter of law. The choice of what celebrities are executed should be left to a panel of expert TV viewers elected by the people. The net political effect would be to calm growing societal anxiety about Hollywood and mass media.