Actor Michael Jeter has DIED
The Amnestic Mr. Hole
states it was from "natural causes" which I find highly suspect.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=529&e=6&cid=529&u=/ap/20030401/ap_en_tv/obit_jeter
Veteran Character Actor Michael Jeter Dies at 50
LOS ANGELES: Reuters: Award-winning stage and screen actor Michael
Jeter, an "actor's actor" who was beloved by children as Sesame Street's
The Other Mr. Noodle, died over the weekend in Los Angeles, his
publicist said on Tuesday.
Jeter, who revealed in 1997 that he had contracted HIV and was a
longtime supporter of AIDS (news - web sites) charities, was found dead
in his Hollywood Hills home on Sunday, his publicist said. The cause of
his death has not been determined. Jeter was 50.
The slight, prematurely balding actor won fame and an Emmy award in 1992
for his role as wimpy assistant coach Herman Stiles in TV's "Evening
Shade" opposite Burt Reynolds.
He was nominated twice more for "Evening Shade" before the show ended in
1994, and twice for guest appearances on "Picket Fences" and "Chicago
Hope."
The Tennessee native earned a Tony award and other honors in 1990 for
his Broadway performance as a dying clerk enjoying a last fling in
Berlin in "Grand Hotel."
At the time of his death, Jeter was wrapping up a role in "The Polar
Express" with actor Tom Hanks, with whom he shared the screen in "The
Green Mile." In that film, Jeter played a condemned murderer who
befriends a cell block mouse.
Filming was suspended on "The Polar Express" on Monday in observance of
Jeter's death, his publicist said.
Born the son of a physician on Aug. 26, 1952, in Lawrenceburg, Kansas,
Jeter discovered his love of acting while studying medicine at Memphis
State University.
After graduation, he moved to New York and worked at a law firm while
trying to land his first acting job. That came in 1979, as a small role
in Milos Forman's film "Hair."
Dubbing an "actor's actor" by critics, Jeter earned rave reviews for his
turn as a homeless cabaret singer in "The Fisher King" opposite Robin
Williams.
He starred again with Williams in "Patch Adams" and "Jakob the Liar,"
and in Clint Eastwood's "True Crimes." His credits include "Air Bud,"
"Mousehunt," "Waterworld," "Tango and Cash," "Zelig" and numerous
guest-starring TV and stage roles.
In 2000, Jeter began his run as the bumbling Mr. Noodle for the
children's TV series "Sesame Street." He is survived by his life
partner, Sean Blue, his parents and five siblings.
rande...@rogers.com
Amnestic Mr. Hole) wrote:
>Here are two articles about Jeter's death. The one contained in the URL
>states it was from "natural causes" which I find highly suspect.
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=529&e=6&cid=529&u=/ap/20030401/ap_en_tv/obit_jeter
>
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>Veteran Character Actor Michael Jeter Dies at 50
>
>LOS ANGELES: Reuters: Award-winning stage and screen actor Michael
>Jeter, an "actor's actor" who was beloved by children as Sesame Street's
>The Other Mr. Noodle, died over the weekend in Los Angeles, his
>publicist said on Tuesday.
>
> Jeter, who revealed in 1997 that he had contracted HIV and was a
>longtime supporter of AIDS (news - web sites) charities, was found dead
>in his Hollywood Hills home on Sunday, his publicist said. The cause of
>his death has not been determined. Jeter was 50.
It is unfortunate that he died, but I find it mind boggling that
people are still treating AIDS like it was some kind of relatively
benign venerial disease and not taking the proper precautions to
avoid contracting it. We've known since the mid-1980s how to avoid
it.
-Rich
Mpoconnor7
>people are still treating AIDS like it was some kind of relatively
>benign venerial disease and not taking the proper precautions to
>avoid contracting it. We've known since the mid-1980s how to avoid
>it.
How do you explain the so-called barebackers and bug chasers, who are gay men
who are INTENTIONALLY trying to get infected with HIV because they feel
excluded by the HIV positive men in their peer groups, and want to be part of
"the club"? A very few of the gay men out there are chasing the bug, and most
of them are practicing safe sex, but it is believed that a possibly a quarter
of the new cases of HIV among gay men are caused by bug chasing.
When Rolling Stone did a big story on this topic a couple months ago, they
faced all kinds of protests from the Gay community, who attack any media source
that does not portray gay men in the best possible light.
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
"The probability of one person being right increases in a direct porportion to
the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
Andrew Johnston
news:m88k8v8e1mn2mb676...@4ax.com:
Actually, I believe the mid-80s is when Michael Jeter contracted HIV. He
didn't go public with his condition until 1997, but he had it for a very
long time and had the good fortune to remain asymptomatic for years
before today's drug cocktails became available.
Jeff Jones
"Mpoconnor7" <mpoco...@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
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> >It is unfortunate that he died, but I find it mind boggling that
> >people are still treating AIDS like it was some kind of relatively
> >benign venerial disease and not taking the proper precautions to
> >avoid contracting it. We've known since the mid-1980s how to avoid
> >it.
>
> How do you explain the so-called barebackers and bug chasers, who are gay
men
> who are INTENTIONALLY trying to get infected with HIV because they feel
> excluded by the HIV positive men in their peer groups, and want to be part
of
> "the club"? A very few of the gay men out there are chasing the bug, and
most
> of them are practicing safe sex, but it is believed that a possibly a
quarter
> of the new cases of HIV among gay men are caused by bug chasing.
> When Rolling Stone did a big story on this topic a couple months ago, they
> faced all kinds of protests from the Gay community, who attack any media
source
> that does not portray gay men in the best possible light.
>
The reason the Rolling Stone article was attacked by the gay community is
because it was absolute bullshit. The article claimed that 25% of HIV
infections were caused by bug chasers. The problem with this claim is that
it is totally unsubstantiated by ANYTHING except for ONE interview with ONE
doctor who said that 25% of his AIDS patients got the virus on purpose.
This doctor had NOTHING to back up this claim however and Rolling Stone
then, erroneously, extrapolated out the 25% of ALL people who get the bug
get it on purpose. They ignored the fact that the rate of new AIDS
infections among gay men is DECLINING and yet they lump ALL new AIDS cases
into the 25% number. In fact, only 42% of new AIDS cases are attributable to
gay male sex. Bad reporting to the extreme. Here is a link to a good
article about it from Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer for salon.com
and others.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/sullivan/2003/01/24/rolling/
Jeff Jones
Austin, Texas
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Kenneth Crudup
mpoco...@aol.comnojunk (Mpoconnor7) says:
>How do you explain the so-called barebackers and bug chasers, who are gay men
>who are INTENTIONALLY trying to get infected with HIV because they feel
>excluded by the HIV positive men in their peer groups, and want to be part of
>"the club"? A very few of the gay men out there are chasing the bug, and most
>of them are practicing safe sex, but it is believed that a possibly a quarter
>of the new cases of HIV among gay men are caused by bug chasing.
What? Didn't this sound like bullshit from where you heard/read it from?
-Kenny
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Mpoconnor7
>because it was absolute bullshit. The article claimed that 25% of HIV
>infections were caused by bug chasers. The problem with this claim is that
>it is totally unsubstantiated by ANYTHING except for ONE interview with ONE
>doctor who said that 25% of his AIDS patients got the virus on purpose.
>This doctor had NOTHING to back up this claim however and Rolling Stone
>then, erroneously, extrapolated out the 25% of ALL people who get the bug
>get it on purpose. They ignored the fact that the rate of new AIDS
>infections among gay men is DECLINING and yet they lump ALL new AIDS cases
>into the 25% number. In fact, only 42% of new AIDS cases are attributable to
>gay male sex. Bad reporting to the extreme. Here is a link to a good
>article about it from Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer for salon.com
>and others.
I didn't mean to support or deny the statistics provided by Rolling Stone, but
there are a few gay men out there who are trying to contract this disease, and
I was curious in this era of safe sex and knowing how the virus was
transmitted why these so called bug chasers would be intentionally trying to
get HIV. I cannot understand why some men would sign a death sentence this
way.
T Berk
Just exactly _when_ did he contract it rich?
TBerk
rande...@rogers.com
Then he's a very rare case. People contracting the HIV virus and not
developing AIDS for a fairly long period (up to 10 years) is unusual
in itself, but being diagnosed with AIDS in the mid 1980s and living
this long (considering the drugs you mentioned didn't exist as AIDS
drugs until the 1990s)is rare indeed. I wonder if he was in any of
the studies they are doing on certain African AIDS carriers who have
managed not to show severe symptoms despite having the disease for
decades?
-Rich
Mpoconnor7
>developing AIDS for a fairly long period (up to 10 years) is unusual
>in itself, but being diagnosed with AIDS in the mid 1980s and living
>this long (considering the drugs you mentioned didn't exist as AIDS
>drugs until the 1990s)is rare indeed.
Perhaps the fact that he was in show business gave him access to better medical
care than the average HIV positive person gets. Magic Johnson claims to no
longer be HIV positive, and as enormously wealthy as he is, he was able to get
the best doctors in the world. Word is, Magic reportedly had his blood drained
and replaced several times a week for several years, and it is believed it
flushed the HIV out of his system.
I'm not saying that Michael Jeter had anywhere near the kind of money Magic
had, but perhaps because of his fame he was able to get some really good
doctors and he underwent some radical or experimental treatments that were able
to extend his life much longer than most HIV positive people.
N344545
Vic Martinez
GHOST died too.
trotsky
"HIV virus" is redundant, Rich. It makes you sound stupid.
Mpoconnor7
>GHOST died too.
>
Rick Aviles. I saw him doing stand up at a club in LA in the early 80's before
he got into acting full time.
claire
> I don't remember his name, but the guy that killed Patrick Swayze in
> GHOST died too.
in real life??? When did he die?
Mpoconnor7
>> GHOST died too.
>
>in real life??? When did he die?
He died about 7 or 8 years ago, right about the time that Waterworld came out;
he had a small role in it, and looked pretty rough. Check www.imdb.com for
Rick Aviles. Looking over his bio, I never realized he was in the first
Cannonball Run. He was the guy who jumped over the moving train in the pickup
truck and started imitating Howard Cosell.
Mack Twamley
"trotsky" <gms...@email.com> wrote in message
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yeah, and correcting such a pissant error in writing makes you sound rude.
MJF
" Mack Twamley" <mack...@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
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the sound of that word. Haven't used it since I was down on the farm.
(not to be confused with "puissant," of course.)
MJF
trotsky
I am rude. Any other questions?
mc
Why do you assume he contracted it recently?
MC
> -Rich