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To have people questioning my motives and taking aim at me because people get sick and die because they have a life-threatening disease, and I take the blame? Rodney King has a heart attack and I take blame for that?
It’s very stressful and very intense for me. And to have people questioning my motives and taking aim at me because people get sick and die, because they have a life threatening disease, then I have to take blame for that? [ ] Rodney King has a heart attack and I have to take blame for that? That’s really what is happening these days.
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Newsday's coverage
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Dr. Drew Pinsky of 'Celebrity Rehab' criticized following Mindy McCready's suicide
3 castmates Mike Starr , bassist for Alice in Chains, and Joey Kovar, a "Real World" participant. Los Angeles riots spark Rodney King and actor Jeff Conaway also have passed away. Starr and Kovar overdosed and King was found dead in his pool with alcohol and Read more »
Around the web
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A Devil of a Problem for Labor in the City of Angels
Tomorrow, Angelenos go to the polls to select a new mayor. Well, some Angelenos—actually, not a hell of a lot. Indeed, turnout is projected to be so low that the winner may get fewer votes than Fletcher Bowron did in winning the election of 1938, when Lo from The American Prospect Read more »
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Where the I.R.S. Investigation May Go From Here
Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAttorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testified before the House Judiciary Committee. If Washington scandals have taught us anything, it is that the most trouble comes from the cover-up, not the conduct from Dealbook Read more »
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Dr. Drew Has No Plans To Continue VH1's Celebrity Rehab!
Celebrity Rehab has had its fair share of drama throughout its run on VH1. With a grand total of five deaths — Mindy McCready, Jeff Conoway, Rodney King, Mike Starr and Joey Kovar — and their repercussions, it seems Dr. Drew doesn’t want to deal with it from Perez Hilton Read more »
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Show's Over? — Dr. Drew Is Done With Celebrity Rehab: "I'm Tired of Taking All the Heat"
In February, country star Mindy McCready became the fifth Celebrity Rehab cast member to die in the span of two years, following Alice in Chains’ bassist Mike Starr, actor Jeff Conaway, police brutality victim Rodney King, and reality TV star Joey Kovar. from wetpaint.com Read more »
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Rodney King verdict sparks LA riots: from the archive, 1 May 1992
From the aerial shots of Los Angeles provided by news helicopters, the city looks like a war zone. The flames devouring sections of this sprawling southern California metropolis were started by arsonists and fuelled by righteous anger over the not guilty from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
