Glenn Shadix, perhaps most famous for playing Otho in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, died this morning after a fall in his home. He was 58. He also appeared in Heathers and on various television programs.

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Robert Schimmel has passed away last night at the age of 60. He was in a serious car accident last week, and died as a result of them. He was mostly famous for his quite colorful stand up acts, and was also in the films Blankman and Scary Movie 2. He also appeared on the Howard Stern show, and did voices on animated programs.

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Dennis Hopper passed away in his home today at 8:15am Pacific Time. He was 74 and suffered from prostate cancer, and his death was a result of complications from that.

If you are not sure who Dennis Hopper was, then you are clearly just as batty as some of his characters. Allow me to link some of his movies to learn something to that 1% of America, and to remind the other 99% of just how awesome his films were: Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, Jesus’ Son and much to Puck’s delight, Speed. In addition to starring in Easy Rider, he co-wrote and directed it and also directed Colors, a fantastic film. He also did video game voices and hosted an amusing episode of SNL.

This is obviously a very short sample of his very long and distinguished career.  Peruse his resume and watch one of his films tonight.

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Meinhardt Raabe, the Munckin Coroner that pronounced the Wicked Witch of the West dead with the following lines:

He died today of a heart attack. He was the last surviving cast member of the entire film with any significant dialogue.

Malcom McLaren, manager of the punk band Sex Pistols also died, after battling cancer. He left us yesterday, April 8th. McClaren appeared in The Great Rock and Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury, both films by Julien Temple, thus securing my ability to make a post about him on am movie website. McLaren, formed the pistols as a “product” that he would use to make a significant amount of money. Often times, the band would actually be paid to leave their current record label due to their drunken anti-establishment (mostly just drunken) acts. McClaren also formed Bow Wow Wow, managed the Clash for a bit, and produced television shows and artwork. This is merely a slice of what his body of work includes.

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Peter Graves, star of the television series Mission Impossible, and the movie Airplane! has died. He was 83. He died in his home of natural causes. He has a long list of credits, and was a fine actor.

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Corey Haim has died. He was 38. He apparently died after 3am this morning. Corey struggled with an addiction of prescription medications, however, reportedly he was sober at the time of death. As you can see from this old picture of him, we has a teenage heartthrob and starred in The Lost Boys, License to Drive and was on the show The Two Coreys with Corey Feldman, part of which featured him filming The Lost Boys: The Tribe. You can keep up with this information at, oh, let’s say, here. The details of this story keep changing so please utilize the link provided for updates. I am lazy.

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Reports are coming in that Andrew Koenig, son of Star Trek’s Walter Koenig, was found dead in Canada. Andrew played possibly one of the best named characters on a show whose main star was a devout Christian in real life, Boner Stabone, on Growing Pains. His father is reporting that it was an apparent suicide, but the cause of death has yet to be officially determined. Read more at the random news site I decide to link in this sentence.

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For those of you who don’t know, Brittany Murphy is dead. It has been determined that Cardiac Arrest is the cause and she was apparently found in the shower. This a newly developing story, so more info is to come. Brittany was in movies such as 8 Mile, Clueless, and Girl, Interrupted. She was 32 years old.

The End of the World , written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee, performed by Skeeter Davis

(song playing when Daisy in Girl, Interrupted, portrayed by Brittany Murphy, was found dead, having commited suicide.)

Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don’t know it’s the end of the world
‘cos you don’t love me anymore?

Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was.
I can’t understand, no I can’t understand how life goes on the way it does.

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world,
It ended when you said goodbye.

(spoken): Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
(sung): It ended when you said goodbye.

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was
I can’t understand, no I can’t understand how life goes on the way it does.

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Oh don’t, don’t they know it’s the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye.

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