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TRFrance
08-10-2008, 02:54 PM
(CNN) -- Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday.

Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department.

Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., the sheriff's department said.

No foul play is suspected, the agency said in a written statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/10/hayes.obit/index.html

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They say that celebrities seem to die in bunches.
First, comedian Bernie Mac Died yesterday, now Isaac Hayes today.
Makes you kinda wonder who's next.
rgcraig
08-10-2008, 02:57 PM
Sounds like a heart attack....wow.
TRFrance
08-10-2008, 03:00 PM
Sounds like a heart ache....wow.
heart attack, you mean?
rgcraig
08-10-2008, 03:09 PM
heart attack, you mean?

Lol - yes......I hate when my fingers don't do what my mind is thinking!
Carpenter
08-10-2008, 04:00 PM
Things happen in threes...First Bernie Mac, now Issaic Hays...or is he three and who did I miss?

:D
rgcraig
08-10-2008, 06:49 PM
Things happen in threes...First Bernie Mac, now Issac Hays...or is he three and who did I miss?

:D

Morgan Freeman had a close call last week when he had a wreck here in Memphis and was hospitalized, but he's Kay.
Carpenter
08-10-2008, 07:08 PM
Morgan Freeman had a close call last week when he had a wreck here in Memphis and was hospitalized, but he's Kay.

That would have been really weird, but I don't think he counts...

I have always wanted to start a dead pool. I think it would be interesting, weight it for those who are totally unexpected like Heath Ledger and Bernie Mac, and now we know Paul Newman is on his way out and who would have thought of Issac Hayes?
TRFrance
08-10-2008, 07:13 PM
That would have been really weird, but I don't think he counts...

I have always wanted to start a dead pool. I think it would be interesting, weight it for those who are totally unexpected like Heath Ledger and Bernie Mac, and now we know Paul Newman is on his way out and who would have thought of Issac Hayes?

Sounds kinda morbid.
Carpenter
08-10-2008, 07:23 PM
Sounds kinda morbid.

Whaddaya mean? You think I think that it isn't morbid? What kind of person to do you think I am?

:D

Think about it, lets say folks pay 50 bucks to join up. You have to pick 10 people, ad higher values to the most unlikely

Paul Newman
Jack Black $20 (totally unexpected)
Any member of Saturday Night Live $5 (You never know)
Jimmy Carter
The Pope
Liza Minelli
Elizabeth Taylor
Sly of Sly and the family stone
Courtney Love
Cher


You get the point...
PraiseHymn
08-11-2008, 01:20 AM
Whaddaya mean? You think I think that it isn't morbid? What kind of person to do you think I am?

:D

Think about it, lets say folks pay 50 bucks to join up. You have to pick 10 people, ad higher values to the most unlikely

Paul Newman
Jack Black $20 (totally unexpected)
Any member of Saturday Night Live $5 (You never know)
Jimmy Carter
The Pope
Liza Minelli
Elizabeth Taylor
Sly of Sly and the family stone
Courtney Love
Cher


You get the point...

:crazy:crazy:crazy:crazy:crazy:crazy:crazy:crazy
Jermyn Davidson
08-11-2008, 01:59 AM
Whaddaya mean? You think I think that it isn't morbid? What kind of person to do you think I am?

:D

Think about it, lets say folks pay 50 bucks to join up. You have to pick 10 people, ad higher values to the most unlikely

Paul Newman
Jack Black $20 (totally unexpected)
Any member of Saturday Night Live $5 (You never know)
Jimmy Carter
The Pope
Liza Minelli
Elizabeth Taylor
Sly of Sly and the family stone
Courtney Love
Cher


You get the point...

I get it. You're twisted.....

$10 on Jim Carey! :)
tamor
08-11-2008, 07:14 AM
Morgan Freeman had a close call last week when he had a wreck here in Memphis and was hospitalized, but he's Kay.

I thought of the three thing this morning when I heard about Isaac. And the fact that Isaac would have been three if Morgan hadn't made it.
CC1
08-11-2008, 08:28 AM
Isaac Hayes seems like an unlikely canidate but was in fact a member of the church of Scientology.

He quit his gig as the voice of the chef on the South Park cartoon after the cartoon skewered Scientology and it's cheif proponent Tom Cruise.
tstew
08-11-2008, 10:22 AM
Shouldn't this thread be in the "Chef's Corner"?
rgcraig
08-11-2008, 10:24 AM
Shouldn't this thread be in the "Chef's Corner"?

His restaurant here in Memphis closed - not sure why because it was always busy!
tstew
08-11-2008, 11:57 AM
His restaurant here in Memphis closed - not sure why because it was always busy!

Oh, I didn't know he had a real restaurant...I was paying homage to his Chef character on South Park.
I think that maybe in recent years people may have started to think that he was getting a little weird and that may have affected his business though.