Friday, May 27, 2011

Jeff Conaway 19502011 Actor in ‘Taxi’ and ‘Grease ’ Dies at 60 Grease Taxi actor dies 'Grease' after 2 weeks coma is back for obelisk climb Naval Academy gold; thieves get bold 'Grease ' 'Taxi' of overdose GREEN & GLOVER Hicks coming star Star Larisa Brass Military eyed biofuel help Letters The key to a 'who knows who' world Pans condoms antiBerlusconi protests 'Taxi

Actor Jeff Conaway, best known for roles in the hit musical "Grease" and the 1970s TV series "Taxi," dies at 60 Jeff Conaway in Los Angeles in 2009. 'Grease' star Jeff Conaway has died at the age of 60. The actor - who was famed for his role of Kenickie in the 1978 film, which also starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - passed away at a Los Angeles hospital today (27. 05. 11) as doctors fail... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Jeff Conaway, best known for his roles in the movie "Grease" and the 1970s TV series "Taxi", died on Friday at the aged of 60, his manager said. Conaway had struggled with substance abuse for decades. ENCINO, Calif. (KTLA) -- Jeff Conaway, who starred in "Taxi" and "Grease," has died after 2 weeks in a coma. (BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press) The grease is back at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland. After safety concerns prompted a greaseless climb last year, academy students - known as "plebes" during their first year - will again climb the grease- covered 21-foot Herndon Monument on Monday. Yellow kitchen grease has become as good as gold as gasoline prices soar and biodiesel fuel becomes more appealing. "Grease" star Jeff Conaway died today after he overdosed on painkillers two weeks ago. **Taylor-made** "When you get into the music business, you get into the germ business as well," laments recording artist and season five "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks in a phone interview on Friday with G2. The 30-something Mr. Hicks has been under the weather with ... Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom "Taxi," played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical "Grease" and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on "Celebrity Rehab," died Friday. He was 60. The actor was taken off life support Thursday and... Erik Pedersen, Andy Eiser The troubled actor was pulled off life support Thursday following an apparent overdose of painkillers. read more Farmers are growing the grass, Dupont Danisco is making the fuel, but in the end, who is going to buy the stuff? Who's going to grease the skids to ensure the work going on now successfully gets to market? Simon Jenkins is right that raising VAT to 20% was a mistake (Social immobility is built into the way we live and learn, 6 April), but for the wrong reason. He claims that the VAT increase will stunt growth and that growth is the great engineer of social mobility, but this is plainly not true. Until the recent recession we had an unprecedented period of growth – but it did little or nothing for social mobility. What was striking about the period of greatest social mobility (the 1960s and 1970s) was not GDP but relatively low purchase taxes (VAT) and high direct taxes on income – as well as, of course, free university tuition and generous maintenance grants. Moreover, social distance is a more significant problem than social immobility – and that is one of the reasons why private schools are such a cancer in our society. I am not particularly keen to live in a society marked by vast numbers of citizens clambering, sliding and kicking up and down a well-greased pole; it is more important to shorten the pole than to grease it. Again, it was not growth that shortened social and economic ... ROME (Reuters) - From plans to shower Silvio Berlusconi's villa with condoms to parodies set to the soundtrack from the musical Grease, Italians are protesting the prime minister's sex scandals with a mix of outrage and humor. Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom "Taxi," played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical "Grease" and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on "Celebrity Rehab," died Friday. He was 60.
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