This is Definitely Not a Good Day for Entertainment

Usually, I place news like this in the sister blog The Trash Bash, but what I've read this morning have me more depressed than the allergies I seem to be suffering from.

Let's see...Morgan Freeman gets hurt in a car crash; Christina Applegate has breast cancer; Bernie Mac has pneumonia (been there, done that. He'll recover); and the longtime voice of the Atlanta Braves has croaked.

I may as well go to the skull farm news first. Skip Caray, the longtime voice of the Atlanta Braves- and son of the late legendary Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray, died Sunday night at home in Atlanta. For over 40 years, Caray has announced for sports teams, beginning with jobs in St. Louis. He was an announcer alongside his father at University of Missouri games. Later, he was announcer for the St. Louis Hawks of the NBA, following the team to Atlanta in 1968. He joined the Braves broadcasting team in 1976, when it was broadcast on WTCG-TV 17 (now WTBS-TV 17, also known as the national cable network, TBS, which no longer airs Braves games). Caray was known for his sarcastic wit that endeared him to audiences over the past 32 years. Health problemns forced Caray to air only home games this season.

Caray was 68.

Christina Applegate, 36, has breast cancer. According to her rep, the Samantha Who? actress has an early stage of the disease, and is not life threatening.

Morgan Freeman, the Oscar-winning actor, was injured last night as he was driving home. Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be the case of this accident, but instead appears to be mechanical. According to a source, Freeman suffered a broken left elbow, and an injured neck and shoulder. Otherwise, he's reportedly in good spirits.

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