"Taxi" star in a coma

Shoot.

May 19, 2011 at 2:58PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo, Jeff Conaway arrives at the 2009 Fox Reality Channel Really Awards in Los Angeles. Conaway's manager says the former star of "Taxi" is hospitalized in critical condition. The actor was found unconscious last week from a drug overdose, possibly pain pills, manager Phil Brock said Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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