Would they do the same for a non-celebrity?
Not hardly...
It was hard losing my dd when I was 42. Can’t imagine what it would have been like when I was 13.
I enjoyed the Sopranos and find it ironic that this happened in Italy.
That’s sad. How hard for that boy to go through that, and end up with his Dad dead.
It’s going to be years for him.
Doctor” Take THAT for what you did to Big Pussy”
Could we not wax so eloquent about an average actor who was given the role of his lifetime and then had the “how can I get idolized” strategy to die young?
If Howard Winkler had died after the first 5 seasons of Happy Days we would be talking about him in the same breathless tones as Gandolfini and James Dean.
The best line about actors came surprisingly during a scene in the movie “My Favorite Year” when two neighbors speaking about Peter O’Toole hanging down below their balcony exclaim
” I believe that Alan Swann is beneath us”
“Of course he is beneath us “ claims the neighbor “he is an actor”
I wonder if he was under a physician’s care including medication for a heart or cardiovascular condition. With deference to obamacare, cardiology these days has really prolonged a lot of lives.