Carpe Morte

Published: Jan. 30, 2015, 1:40 a.m.

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Movie Meltdown - Episode 298\\xa0

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This week we continue our now annual "People Who Died" series, as we discuss the actors and performers who passed away in 2014.

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And as we discuss which dearly departed celebrity was \\u201cso weirdly sexy\\u201d, we also discuss\\u2026 the argument-ender, the huge expansion of practical effects, a strange perverse pissing match, a choose your own adventure pizza commercial, striving to be diverse, It\\u2019s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Goofy had dirty pictures of me, Miss America, are you one of the gals or a lady, John Williams, the British Godfather, flip phones, the British Scarface, Dodge, when you get older\\u2026 you have to do some things for money, I can see him doing Chinatown, The Great Ziegfeld, The Sound of Muzak, Altered States, The Long Good Friday, I remember that vividly because that\\u2019s when I stopped being cool, Baby Doll, Jurassic Park, post-World War 2, brain cancer, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, the impossibility of love\\u2026 but we keep on trying, being a dancer and choreographer, The Swimmer, Out to Sea, The Lost Boys, The Cat\\u2019s Meow, I talked to his agent a while back about a role, The Exorcist, British comedy, 7-up, Mr. Freeze, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gas station concept, Batteries Not Included, strung up on meat hooks, Saturday nights on MTV, sticking needles in me, being involved in film by accident, General Hospital, tales of the colonel, selling aluminum siding door to door, Sam had left her for a younger woman, brain cancer, Roland Joff\\xe9, Amadeus, smart comedy, The Wiz, something with iron in it, Dennis Hopper\\u2019s grand kids, The Associate, Brighton Rock, I just saw him, those Lorelais are hot and I love a lunatic with a dream!

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\\u201cI can\\u2019t get Gary Coleman out of my head!\\u201d

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