Meanest story nominee: The low rent Examiner has another Sad Last Days collection.

 Publication: National Examiner

Date: 28 Nov. 2011

For the fourth time this year, the low rent Examiner goes on a hypothetical killing spree and tells us who is going to die soon.  As usual, their list has a lot of TV stars from the 1960s and 1970s and only one true Hollywood legend.

Welcome to gossip hell, Robert Conrad!

Welcome to gossip hell, Andy Williams! He announced his cancer on stage a few weeks back.  That must have been a fun night out for his fans.

Miss Lauren Bacall has been mentioned before, but this is her first time being slated for death.

Don't worry too much, Miss Bacall.  They aren't that good at predicting these things.

This is also Rose Marie's first time on a tabloid death watch list.

And then there's Penny Marshall, by far the youngest person on the list but the only one who has already been marked for death by the gossip rags.  If fact, she has an expiration date in the spring of next year.

If it's any consolation, they aren't particularly good at guessing the date people will die.

This is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

Hey Old Timer Gossip: The Globe has a "Where are they now?" fit.

Publication: Globe
Date: 4 April 2011

Fresh trash tomorrow! Last trash of the week... right now!

The Globe mentions a whole lotta people, most of them who were famous before I graduated high school, and does not directly predict that any of them is one step away from the grave, so this is about as positive as they get. Almost all of them are best known from work on old TV shows, with the exception of Margaret O'Brien and Esther Williams. Here is the full list of people on the cover.

June Lockhart, Esther Williams, Adam West, Burt Ward, Loni Anderson, Rose Marie, Gavin MacLeod, Jaleel White, Margaret O'Brien, Johnny Whitaker

Of this list, only Loni Anderson and Jaleel White (Urkel) had their major claim to fame after I left Alameda High School back in the early 1970's.