>From the Chicago Tribune: The recent spate of high-profile deaths likely left you and your friends asking: Is there really something to the Celebrity Death Rule of Three? But with Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays, we now have four such demises in the last week. Mays' death starts the next cycle, one of the four wasn't really a celebrity after all, or the whole axiom is just a bunch of bunk.
...and then impressionist Fred Travalena died.