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Nevada officials said on Monday they would conduct a homicide investigation into the death of B.B. King who died this month at age 89, after two of his daughters leveled accusations that the blues great was murdered.

The Clark County, Nevada coroner’s office said in a posting on Twitter that it had taken jurisdiction over King’s body, and that autopsy results would take a minimum of six to eight weeks.

“Our coroner takes jurisdiction over #BBKing body, performs autopsy. Results:6-8wks min,” it said, adding that a homicide investigation would be conducted along with the Las Vegas police department.

Two of King’s children, Karen Williams and Patty King, alleged that King was poisoned, ostensibly by two of his longtime associates including one who had power of attorney over his affairs, the Associated Press reported.

An attorney for King’s estate called the allegations unfounded and disrespectful, AP said…

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Marketing 101: Sell a remake with tales and intrigue of the original series. That was being done by the makers of the POLTERGEIST redo, but with a fourth place finish at the box office it may have all been done in vain.. regardless of that, the story of terror from the original POLTERGEIST film has always fascinated me—-it has been called the most haunted film of all time.

Or the ‘most cursed.’

That assertion came after the movie left in its wake a 12-year-old star dead of cardiac arrest, another strangled, and another killed with an ax.

The UK DAILY MAIL does its part in awarding the original POLTERGEIST film as the most cursed in movie history, and they write an in depth article that goes into the strange events surrounding the stars from the movie. 

There are two parts of the DAILY MAIL story that intrigued me more than the supposed curse. First, Stephen Spielberg was very afraid of clowns. As am I, and many others..

I have always felt there to be something dastardly about clowns and their atrocious death face smiles.. And second: The scene in POLTERGEIST where the family was floating in the muddy pool-to-be with skeletons actually featured real bones from dead bodies..Hair and other traits were added to the remains, but the skeletons were real .. BLOODY DISGUSTING wrote about that in 2012 when they said that Hollywood today, less renegade than the early 80s, would never do such a thing. I agree.. And probably, really, it’s a good thing that bodies will not be desecrated  for profit.

By the way, when the original film was made, it was cheaper to get real remains than fake ones.

Think about that concept for a while.

But also remember, in your logical mind, that there were countless others who were not harmed in the making of POLTERGEIST..
Perhaps that is more telling the the few occasions and rarities of people actually succumbing to tragic finales..
And anyway, Stephen Spielberg has been the unstoppable presence on the movie scene. Certainly if a curse would be true, wouldn’t the man who demanded REAL remains for the final scene get the worst treatment?

Emergency officials were forced to proceed with water rescues on major interstates in Texas.. Even more from CBS:

Inside the Toyota Center, where the Houston Rockets defeated the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of the NBA’s Western Conference Finals, fans were stranded inside with nowhere to go, some of whichstayed in the arena well into Tuesday morning, CBS Houston reported.

The west side of Houston had 4 inches of rain in only an hour..

The UK GUARDIAN is running some photographs taken from various areas hit by flooding. They showcase the human drama unfolding, houses destroyed, and trees unearthed and laying across roadways.. 

Photograph: Jay Janner/Zuma Press/Corbis

The latest information from the heart of Texas: Six are dead.. 13 are missing..From the Washington POST dispatch on the events:

More than 1,000 people were evacuated and at least five were killed during hours of vicious winds and drenching storms, including a 14-year-old Texan whose body was found Monday in a deluged storm drain, officials said.

And more:

A longtime Oklahoma firefighter was swept away and killed Saturday night in Claremore, a small town outside of Tulsa, while helping save trapped families gathered for a girl’s fifth birthday party, TV affiliate FOX 23 reported.

The Blanco River is still rising..

RODOLFO GONZALEZ / AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN VIA AP

There are at least 8 people missing after a vacation house was swept away during the natural disaster.. Cement is the only thing now that exists:

Accuweather is among those featuring a number of videos demonstrating just how deadly and historic these floods are…

The worst-hit area is the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, where authorities say more than 550 people have died in the last four to five days. Another 215 have died in the neighboring state of Telangana..

Temperatures have risen to 117 or more in some locations..The poor are the most affected, along with those are are working in outside conditions..

Noah Seelam—AFP/Getty Images

“Elderly people, laborers, beggars and people living on the streets are worst hit,” K.E. Krishna Murthy, revenue minister in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, told the INDIAN EXPRESS..