Kim Walker Mystery Solved
Louis Epstein
Sometimes the strangest things just happen.
A couple of years ago we were questioning whether the IMDb report
that Kim Walker,who played Heather "Did you have a brain tumor
for breakfast?" Chandler in HEATHERS,had died of a brain tumor
was more than a hoax.
After others failed to follow through,I called SAG
and confirmed that she was indeed dead,whatever the
cause.I later found her birth and death dates on SSDI.
Tpday I found that the IMDb had deleted the brain tumor
reference,and adjusted the death date one day to match SSDI,
and there was also a new biography of her that said she died
"of cancer"...of course brain tumors are cancers.
I emailed the writer of the biography...and he said that the
brain tumor reference had been deleted at the insistence of
Kim Walker's mother and over his objections,but that Walker's
death certificate is online at findadeath.com and confirms
that she DID die of a brain tumor...around breakfast-time!
(OK<a little early for most of us).
I wish it HAD been all a hoax...
but sometimes the strangest things just happen.
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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Louis Epstein <l...@put.com> wrote:
> ...of course brain tumors are cancers.
Not always.
But thanks for the dose of irony. Here I was afraid one of my
favorite death stories was nothing more than urban legend.
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Mack Twamley
"J.D. Baldwin" <INVALID...@example.com> wrote in message
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>
> In the previous article, Louis Epstein <l...@put.com> wrote:
> > ...of course brain tumors are cancers.
>
> Not always.
>
> But thanks for the dose of irony. Here I was afraid one of my
> favorite death stories was nothing more than urban legend.
If they're not cancers, what are they, J.D.?
Maggie
***A *malignant* brain tumor is cancer. A benign brain tumor is not cancer.
But benign brain tumors, in the wrong location, can be just as deadly as brain
cancer.
Maggie
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins
to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Mack Twamley <mack...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> If they're not cancers, what are they, J.D.?
There are lots of kinds of "benign" tumors that aren't cancerous. One
with which I am personally familiar is the vascular tumor, where a
blood vessel sort of goes crazy and becomes a "growth." It's weird,
and it's dangerous (especially in one's brain), but it's not cancer.
No, I didn't have a vascular tumor (I know that would explain a few
things for a lot of you), but a friend of my family did. Surgical
intervention fixed him up completely.
Louis Epstein
:>"J.D. Baldwin" <INVALID...@example.com> wrote in message
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:>>
:>> In the previous article, Louis Epstein <l...@put.com> wrote:
:>> > ...of course brain tumors are cancers.
:>>
:>> Not always.
:>>
:>> But thanks for the dose of irony. Here I was afraid one of my
:>> favorite death stories was nothing more than urban legend.
:>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:>If they're not cancers, what are they, J.D.?
: ***A *malignant* brain tumor is cancer. A benign brain tumor is not cancer.
Walker's death certificate confirms that she had a
malignant glioma,and had had it for two years (a
1999 craniotomy failed to remove it).
: But benign brain tumors, in the wrong location, can be just as deadly as
: brain cancer.
: Maggie
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James Moore
movie about teen murders made to look like suicides is that one of its other
stars, Jeremy Applegate, who played Peter Dawson, commited suicide by
self-inflicted gunshot on March 23, 2000.
Media Watch
findadeath.com site you mention:
http://www.findadeath.com/Decesed/w/Kim%20Walker/kim_walker.htm
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Aje RavenStar
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Sounds like the new standard for taking Method Acting too far (top that,
Robert Duvall).