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So many actors and musicians and filmmakers "died suddenly" last year that the awards shows can't "remember" all of them

It happened recently at BAFTA and the Emmys, just as it did at the Oscars in 2022 and 2023—and surely will again at the Academy Awards this March, SO MANY having now "died suddenly"

Mark Crispin Miller

Jan 23, 2024

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So many actors and musicians and filmmakers "died suddenly" last year that the awards shows can't "remember" all of them

Mark Crispin Miller

January 23, 2024

So many actors and musicians and filmmakers "died suddenly" last year that the awards shows can't "remember" all of them

Jesse Collins, the producer of this year’s Emmys, has told Entertainment Tonight that the Emmys’ “In Memoriam” segment left out Raquel Welch and Jerry Springer (among others) because “some big names were unable to make the final cut.” That problem is what makes “In Memoriam” “‘one of the hardest parts of the show’ to put together,” Collins said—implying…

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Among the (many) missing from the “In Memoriam” segment at last year’s Academy Awards:

Ann Heche:

Tom Sizemore:

Charlbi Dean:

Tony Sirico:

Cindy Williams:

Paul Sorvino:

Melinda Dillon:

Stella Stevens:

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John

Wasn't Heche the one that crashed her car and then tried to get out of the body bag until she was told to lie still for a while until they got her in the van?

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Yuri Bezmenov

How old were these "celebrities" and what were the reasons given for their deaths? Hollywood pumped the lockdowns and jabs, so they are reaping what they sowed.

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