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Five Surprising Last Wishes of the Stars

In her will, slain Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen requested that Star Wars composer John Williams write a piece of music for her memorial service--"if possible."
/ Source: E!online

In her will, slain Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen requested that Star Wars composer John Williams write a piece of music for her memorial service--"if possible."

Outrageous? Outlandish? Try: Pretty cool idea. Just like these celeb last wishes:

MORE: Read Ronni Chasen's will

1. Michael Jackson enlists Diana Ross: Some parents ask friends to take care of their kids in the event of, well, you know... Jackson did, too. His friend just happened to be the supreme Supreme.

2. Star Trek creator blasts off (and off and off and...): One year after Gene Roddenberry died, the producer's ashes hitched a ride on the space shuttle Columbia. Roddenberry's remains continue to get out and about. In 1997, they returned to orbit, along with the ashes of LSD doc Timothy Leary; they're due to go up again in 2012, this time along with the ashes of his widow, Majel Barrett, who died in 2008. (The late James Doohan, Trek's engineer Scott, took a posthumous rocket ride of his own in 2008.)

3. Bob Fosse throws a bash: The director and choreographer behind shows like Chicago and movies like All That Jazz was a live wire. Even in death. After his passing in 1987, nearly 70 Fosse pals, including Liza Minnelli and Dustin Hoffman, were bequeathed a collective $25,000 " to go out and have dinner on me." Similarly, Janis Jopin set aside cash in her will to pay for a party for 200 of her friends, featuring a performance by The Grateful Dead.

4. Dorothy Parker's unexpected gift: A writer on the original Star Is Born and famed quipmeister, Parker left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr., whom she had never met. At the time, King said he wasn't touched by the financial windfall--he came into about $10,000--he was touched that Parker was "so committed to the civil-rights movement that whatever she had she offered to it." After King's own death a year later, in 1968, the estate, per Parker's request, came under the control of the NAACP.

5. Oliver Reed lives the dream: In 1999, a barkeep told the press that the " ambition " of the hard-drinking star of Gladiator, Tommy and one totally weird David Letterman appearance had been to go just as he went: in a pub (albeit in Ireland, and not Malta, but close enough...)

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