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Mark Blum, Star of 'Desperately Seeking Susan' and 'You,' Dies at 69 Due to Coronavirus Complications
msn ^ | March 26, 2020 | Brian welk

Posted on 03/26/2020 2:34:37 PM PDT by Morgana

Mark Blum, a veteran character actor who starred in the films "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee," as well as the recent TV series "You," has died due to complications from the coronavirus. He was 69.

The New York theater company Playwrights Horizons first announced the news, and SAG-AFTRA executive vice president Rebecca Damon confirmed that Blum passed away due to COVID-19. Representatives for Blum additionally confirmed the news to TheWrap.

Blum was also a fixture of the New York theater community, having won an Obie Award for his performance in the Playwrights Horizons production of a play from Albert Innaurato, "Gus and Al." He's also appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" and more.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: Pearls Before Swine

T^hey call them beards.


21 posted on 03/26/2020 2:56:14 PM PDT by sport
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To: dfwgator

Now he was married to a beautiful blonde, Janet Zarish!


22 posted on 03/26/2020 2:58:29 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Morgana

RIP.


23 posted on 03/26/2020 2:59:07 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Morgana

We gonna post every celebrity who dies now?


24 posted on 03/26/2020 2:59:20 PM PDT by McGruff (It came from China)
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To: Morgana

Is it me, or do only famous people get coronavirus?


25 posted on 03/26/2020 3:00:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Wouldn’t know that guy if I ran over him.

I tried watching “You” but gave up halfway through the first season, and I don’t remember any character his age standing out in what I watched.


26 posted on 03/26/2020 3:01:26 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: dfwgator
Let me guess, he also had HIV?

The article said: "Blum was also a fixture of the New York theater community” - So, yes.

27 posted on 03/26/2020 3:01:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Conserv

That’s like my transformation from 38 to 48.


28 posted on 03/26/2020 3:05:40 PM PDT by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You are an absolute asshat.


29 posted on 03/26/2020 3:08:48 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: dfwgator

His obituary mentioned he was married to actress Janet Zarish.


30 posted on 03/26/2020 3:09:59 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: A strike

Because he asks it every, single, time.

In his mind, if you die from this you must have HIV.

It’s just annoying, bigoted, and douchey.


31 posted on 03/26/2020 3:12:15 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DarthVader
Janet Zarish played the Airline Reservation Agent on Seinfeld

She was definitely a very attractive woman!


32 posted on 03/26/2020 3:13:25 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Not directed at you, but this announcement of every person who has died leads to a guessing game of what caused their death. It’s the US. Publishing personal information about a patient is illegal. So, guessing, is useless and meaningless. It’s just he always guesses “gay.” It’s infantile.


33 posted on 03/26/2020 3:14:57 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Morgana
"Desperately Seeking Susan"

That was a long time ago (1985). Madonna the madcap club girl, Rosanna Arquette the repressed housewife. Don't remember much more than that.

Funny thing. I was looking for him in the cast of "Suddenly Susan" (1996-2000, also a while back) and wondering why I couldn't find him and didn't remember him.

RIP.

34 posted on 03/26/2020 3:19:13 PM PDT by x
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To: carriage_hill
Was he hiding something from his wife, Janet?   thinking face winking face
35 posted on 03/26/2020 3:20:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: McGruff

We have for a long time here at FR. They are a good memory test for some of us. While this guy was in a few things I’m not sure where one would place him in the celeb pecking order. There used to be a thing called a Q score which rated how well known someone was with the general public. I don’t know if they still use it or not.


36 posted on 03/26/2020 3:28:30 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Kozak

And you are an absolute sucker


37 posted on 03/26/2020 3:29:06 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: dfwgator

“Let me guess, he also had HIV?”

Bingo, you know how this game is played!


38 posted on 03/26/2020 3:31:32 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Conserv
People in Hollywood who 'age well' have their plastic surgeons on speed dial...

Remember the famous interview between that liar Jane Fonda and Megyn Kelly? Megyn kept asking her about her many surgeries...and the witch kept ducking because she wants the women of the country to believe her 'ageless looks' come from 'eating right and exercise'... (yes, she made money off that lie) The witch of all times...

On-air press 'talents' are the same... the women have good plastic surgeons the men look like Chris Wallace's cheap job....

39 posted on 03/26/2020 3:36:13 PM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Rock Hudson was married to a woman too

So is Andrew Gillum.


40 posted on 03/26/2020 3:37:43 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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