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1

I wonder if he'll be able to see Sack Lunch in hell.

Posted by Mr. Poe | March 18, 2008 1:48 PM
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Hmm, I thought The English Patient was interesting, and Mr. Ripley was not. Well, to each their own.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 18, 2008 1:52 PM
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complications from tonsil surgery?????

Posted by Rotten666 | March 18, 2008 2:18 PM
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he had cancer of the tonsils...

Posted by michael strangeways | March 18, 2008 2:23 PM
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Other news outlets are saying it was a "brain hemorrhage," whatever the fuck that is (CVA, I presume).

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 18, 2008 2:38 PM
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Even without cancer, tonsil surgery in adults is much more dangerous than it is for children. Adults have a tendency to hemorrhage and the bleeding can be quite shocking to witness. The routine tonsilectomy of yesteryear was an attempt to prophylactically reduce throat infection in children, a practice that was discredited in the early '60s. Of course, had Mr. Minghella had his tonsils removed as a tot he could not have developed cancer in them.

Posted by inkweary | March 18, 2008 2:44 PM
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So did Arthur C. Clarke, but then, more people probably know about him.

There will be a moment of silence from all robots worldwide at 11:59 pm tonite.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 18, 2008 2:47 PM
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Well, 90, sheesh, I should be so lucky.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 18, 2008 3:02 PM
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Ripley is such a beautiful film.

Posted by eclexia | March 18, 2008 3:45 PM
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No love for Truly Madly Deeply?

Posted by Nat | March 18, 2008 6:33 PM

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