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Lifting its name from a Green Day song, the E! network is launching a series called Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Much like its True Hollywood Story, this series is about the rise and fall of Hollywood stars. Many of the subjects chosen for the series are dead, while others have just plain screwed up their lives after becoming famous.

Here's a list of the stars to be featured. Which one of these things is not like the others?

• Chris Penn, deceased brother of Sean Penn;
• Krissy Taylor, deceased sister of model Niki Taylor;
• Mitch Hedberg, deceased comedian;
• Leif Garrett, former teen idol and current joke;
• Lauryn Hill, singer who... WTF?

Mitch Hedberg, the acclaimed young comedian who passed away back at the end of March, had lived with a heart problem his entire life. It was initially assumed that heart failure was the cause of his premature passing. However, in a new article released by Spin Magazine, reports are now saying that Hedberg's death was caused by multiple drug toxicity. In other words, he OD'ed. This comes as sad news as Mitch was a favorite of mine. He had a handful of Comedy Central appearances, was on Letterman around nine or ten times I think. And according to the article I'm referencing, TIME Magazine once called him "the next Seinfeld." That's quite the title to carry with you, but I fully believe that he could have lived up to it.

[via CNN]