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Tag: obituaries

  • Comedian John Pinette dies at 50

    Chubby comedian John Pinette, who jokes about buffets and Italian food, acted in “The Punisher,” Dr. Katz, the last episode of Seinfeld, and on stage in Hairspray, has been found dead in his hotel room at age 50. I’m going to miss him a lot.  I own his album, a DVD, I caught his latest […]

  • James Rebhorn, SecDef in ID4, dies of skin cancer at 65

    A farewell to James Rebhorn, who was in a ton of stuff, but I will always think of him as the SecDef in Independence Day.  Turns out he had been fighting cancer for 22 years. R.I.P.    

  • Farewell to the great Dwayne McDuffie

    I think it’s fair to say that most everyone in the comic book industry is in shock right now.  Dwayne McDuffie has passed away, reportedly due to complications during surgery.  We still don’t know too much about what happened. Through this last weekend he was still posting on his blog about the debut of his […]

  • Abe Vigoda 1921-2009, R.I.P.

    Abe Vigoda was once declared dead by People Magazine, which he took in good humor by photographing himself reading the issue in a coffin. Unfortunately, his days of cheating the reaper have caught up to him. Last night, Abe Vigoda expired peacefully in a fiery car crash after a high speed chase with 30 police […]

  • Ron Silver, RIP

    Actor Ron Silver has passed away at the age of 62 after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer. Ron had many dramatic roles, but my favorite was always his playing the bad guy (as Ron Silver, an actor who was also the head of N.A.S.A.) on Ben Stiller’s aborted TV Series “Heat Vision and Jack.” […]