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Fear ÉIREANN\ (caint) 02:51, 12 March 2020 (UTC) Reply [ reply ] File:MoonflatCurzonPlaceletteredjpgletters. Launching her career in TV, the star became a regular on talk shows and Hollywood Squares, as well as landing acting roles and her own programmes. Legally, all former noble titles form part of the surname, thus her husband's name could have been Donald Baron von Wiedenman. I think it also highlights the difference in perspective on substance use/abuse from that era as compared to now.

It's been proven definitively that food did not play a role in Cass's death and the ham sandwich story is a cruel joke on a woman who made no bones about her weight problem.I admit that having a pipe hit you on the head is a strange way to get a voice change, but since she admitted it, it should be left in.

As Cass Elliot was laid to rest in California, the rumors about the cause of her death continued as the story unfolded. On July 30, 1974, The Daily News in Pennsylvania was one of numerous newspapers that reported that Cass Elliot had died following a concert in London. In real life, however, Biography says Cass Elliot's life was fraught with heartbreak, the trials of being a single mother, her weight, and even a brush with the notorious Manson Family. It wouldn't be the last time; Michelle Phillips would remember that when they were in the Virgin Islands, the group had "limited their drug use to psychedelics and alcohol," according to the Baltimore Sun, but "there was no cocaine around. Edward Jay Epstein is an investigative reporter, not an acclaimed medical authority, but had no trouble ruling out “suicide,” which would “require extraordinary activities from a sixty-two year old man, who was over-weight and suffered from vertigo.No matter what she was doing or how fat she was she isn't nearly as big as some of the 33 year old land whales walking around today (2008).

I am concerned that this article overall has too many unreferenced claims, and there is too much nasty trivia, disguised as "urban legends" and "references in the media". When a body is moved it is entirely possible that enough abdominal pressure could be generated to dislodge a piece of sandwich.I have also raised questions about her daughter's version of things and I think that she is anything but an ironclad credible source given her inconsistency in interviews and her obvious motives with regard to the issue. I haven't checked, but I'd bet that Abraham Lincoln doesn't include the joke that starts "But other than that, Mrs. Most of it is pointless and does nothing to enlighten the reader as to Elliot's life and contributions.

Unless she opened the trachea along its entire length or did a bronchoscopy down to the bifurcation, she can't state that there was no food in the trachea. She did not publicly reveal who the father of her child was, but Michelle Phillips helped Owen locate him.I am in complete agreement about the change in perception toward substance use/abuse, both its benefits and its tolls. Maybe if there was a section discussing (accurate and tasteful one,) that discussed Cass having to deal with discrimination and fatphobia maybe somehow tying in that even with the insults and discrimination she is still a celebrated musical artist. He is also the author of Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John Kennedy -- a revisionist account of the sniper fire in Dallas.