We just couldn’t finish 2009 — the year of deaths — without another. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite, Patrick Swayze, Soupy Sales, Ed McMahon and from our wrestling world, John Tolos , Eck Fatu and so many more.

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Dr. Death was always full of "Sunshine" (Slam! Sports)

Michael Jackson’s death was the most talked about event of 2009, according to a new poll.

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Michael Jackson’s death ‘most talked about event of 2009′ (Daily Telegraph)

Audiophiles, record buyers and pop culture mavens, lend me your eyes. I come to bury Michael Jackson, not to praise him.

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A king, a Taylor and the Boss (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

! URBAN ! WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials with the National Film Registry say they had thought about adding Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video to the list before. But the head of the National Film Preservation Board says after Jackson’s death, they decided “the time was right.”

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AP-AM Prep-Urban (FOX 11 Tucson)

Here are 2009’s top entertainment stories as voted by U.S. newspaper and broadcast editors surveyed by the Associated Press.

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Jackson’s death was the top 2009 entertainment story (Pioneer Press)