The Tragic Loss of a Pop Culture Icon
June 28th, 2009 at 5:43 pm by NigelForgive me if I am late to this conversation, but see…I’ve been traveling abroad. I understand that the world has lost one of it’s icons…here where I am the news is just beginning to reach me.
When I read about it, I was crushed. I spent many hours watching his videos, enthralled by the way the man moved, captured by his voice.
And now he is gone. The king is dead. Long live the king…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.
Tampa police said Mays’ wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and his wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators he didn’t feel well before he went to bed about 10 p.m. that night.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I thought you had written some weird sort of joke. That’s a shocker.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:48 am
I always thought he would make a good Foghorn Leghorn in the Broadway live action version of Looney Tunes..