news-briefs.ew.com - 6/28/2009
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Discovery Channel, which airs Mays' ''Pitchmen'' show, issues statement confirming his passing last night
mediabistro.com - 6/28/2009
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mediabistro.com —
Even as infomercials he hosted aired on local
stations across the country this morning, the cable news...
channels were reporting on the death of pitchman Billy Mays . 50-year-old Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Tampa home this morning. Mays was on board a US Airways flight ...
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TV Pitchman Billy Mays Found Dead in His Tampa Home
latimes.com - 6/29/2009
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latimes.com —
Mays, 50, was found dead in his Tampa
home on Sunday after returning to Florida on a...
commercial flight that sustained a rough landing on Saturday. Mays had said that he had bumped his head during the touchdown. But Adams said the autopsy showed no ...
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Billy Mays' autopsy shows he died of heart disease, ...
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Remembering Billy Mays: Did the infomercial king pitch his way into your heart?
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Remembering Billy Mays: Did the infomercial king pitch his way into your heart? Just when I thought we had reached our capacity for celebrity death this week (Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon), I was saddened to learn about the passing of another pop culture fixture: Billy Mays, TV pitchman extraordinaire . The man jumped off the screen and right onto my living room couch for several reasons: He had his volume knob cranked up; he wore a blue button-down shirt, emblazoned with the logo of the product he was selling; he boasted an industrial-strength beard; and he ...
Billy Mays got Conan interested in the Gopher, iTie, and even 'The Tonight Show' last week
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... , boisterous infomercial overlord Billy Mays, who died in his sleep Saturday night , guested on The Tonight Show just last week with his Pitchmen co-host Andrew Sullivan. I love how Conan, the audience, and even Mays and Sullivan themselves can't stifle the occasional giggle at how utterly useless some of the pair's hawked products have been. (Not that I would mind owning a ...
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TVGuide.com: Breaking News 6/28/2009
Billy Mays , who sold such products as OxiClean and Orange Glo in late-night infomercials and demonstrated his techniques in his Discovery series Pitchmen , has died. He was 50.
Mays was found dead at his home Sunday morning and no foul ...
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Variety.com - TV News 6/28/2009
TV News: Co-host of Discovery's 'Pitchmen' series -- Billy Mays, the energetic product salesman of infomercial fame and co-host of Discovery Channel's "Pitchmen" series, was found dead early Sunday at his home in Tampa, Fla. He was 50.
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