One more reason to like Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum is now one of very few people who can recite Mark Twain’s classic quip “the report of my death was an exaggeration” and mean it. This morning amid the frenzy of reports lamenting the late pop star Michael Jackson and, to a far lesser extent, the passing of original Charlie’s Angels actor Farrah Fawcett, reports also surfaced about Goldblum’s apparent death. He was reportedly killed on-set in New Zealand, but visit this URL and you will get an inkling of how the fraudulence began, or at least how legitimate these things can look at cursory glance. Among the media outlets who ended up with egg on their face was Channel Nine’s the Today Show and more particularly entertainment ‘journalist’ Richard Wilkins, who approached the story relatively cautiously (watch the video below) but came out of it looking very sheepish indeed. I agree wholeheatedly a friend of mine on facebook, who wrote “this demonstrates yet another way in which Jeff Goldblum continues to enrich our lives: his fake death leads to the public humiliation of Richard Wilkins.”