Celebrity Death Thread 2022: Legends Never Die...Maybe | Seinfeld Watch

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/enews/status/1509204585600147458

[Corrderio]

Bruce Willis('s career)



https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1..._VhQuXKVA&s=19

Ooof. Wonder how severe that is/will be if it gets worse.

[Outlaw]

It must be pretty bad now if he can't act anymore. And at it's worst it's like your trapped in your own mind without the ability to express what you are thinking or feeling. I have read in some cases with speech therapy and other treatments people can recover a lot of language and lead nearly normal lives. In most cases though it gets really bad and the person can only use simple words or phrases and point to stuff.

[Zealot]

Aphasia only affects your ability to communicate, not your ability to understand, right?

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[zoobernut]

obvious odds are good that the aphasia diagnosis is just a nice way of saying dementia.

Aphasia is a really specific issue and dementia is one of the main causes of aphasia so it would make sense if that was the root cause of his aphasia. But it could also be head trauma (like from a stunt from one of his movies) or a stroke.

Aphasia only affects your ability to communicate, not your ability to understand, right?

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From what I was reading it can affect your ability to understand as well. It can render you unable to read as well. It is a terrible thing to suffer from.

[kuronosan]

Aphasia only affects your ability to communicate, not your ability to understand, right?

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It depends. Some aphasias can affect your understanding. Mixed, global, and Wernicke's have deficits with language comprehension.

It seems like his is more expressive in nature. If it's primary progressive aphasia it's quite sucky.

[synistar]

Some people who worked with Willis during this blitz of films the past few years paint a pretty bad picture.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...itive-disorder

Just days before Bruce Willis was scheduled to turn up on the set of one of his latest action films, the director of the project sent out an urgent request: Make the movie star’s part smaller.

“It looks like we need to knock down Bruce’s page count by about 5 pages,” Mike Burns, the director of “Out of Death,” wrote in a June 2020 email to the film’s screenwriter. “We also need to abbreviate his dialogue a bit so that there are no monologues, etc.”

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According to those who have worked with the elder Willis on his recent films, the actor has been exhibiting signs of decline in recent years. In interviews with The Times this month, nearly two dozen people who were on set with the actor expressed concern about Willis’ well-being.

These individuals questioned whether the actor was fully aware of his surroundings on set, where he was often paid $2 million for two days of work, according to documents viewed by The Times. Filmmakers described heart-wrenching scenes as the beloved “Pulp Fiction” star grappled with his loss of mental acuity and an inability to remember his dialogue. An actor who traveled with Willis would feed the star his lines through an earpiece, known in the industry as an “earwig,” according to several sources. Most action scenes, particularly those that involved choreographed gunfire, were filmed using a body double as a substitute for Willis.

In January 2020, actress Lala Kent, a star of Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” reality show, was cast as the action hero’s daughter in “Hard Kill.” In one scene, Kent said, Willis’ character was scripted to step in and protect her from villains.

“I’m supposed to think my life is about to end, and then my dad steps in to save the day,” Kent said, describing how her back was to Willis in the scene. Willis was meant to deliver a line that served as Kent’s cue to duck before he fired the weapon at a bad guy. Instead, he shot the gun before delivering the line — and the actress was unable to duck.

“Because my back was to him, I wasn’t aware of what was happening behind me. But the first time, it was like, ‘No big deal, let’s reset,’” she said.

Kent said she asked director Matt Eskandari to remind Willis to say his line before firing the gun.

But on the second take, the same thing happened, Kent said. Eskandari did not respond to calls seeking comment, but a second crew member said he remembered Kent being shaken that day. A third crew member, who also was not authorized to comment publicly, said he recalled a situation in which Willis “did fire the gun on the wrong line.”

But the crew member added: “We always made sure no one was in the line of fire when he was handling guns.”

[thetruepandagod]

rip to a real one



https://deadline.com/2022/04/estelle...93-1234993091/

[Mythe_Seraph]

Really sad :/ I still watch Seinfeld every day so this one hits the feels.

[Cail]

https://twitter.com/profootballhof/s...a4-VJkcYLuNc-g

[kuronosan]

Dwayne Haskins, the Steelers QB (edit: he was backup to Mason) was killed by a car, he was only 24.

[Gadritan]

was killed by a car

So I may be a terrible person, but all I could imagine was a car sneaking up behind him with some rope and duct tape.


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[Tyrath]

Apparently it was a dump truck and on the highway? What the hell was going on there

[Jaybar]

Killed by a car, let's call it like it is- killed by a driver.

[archibaldcrane]

Apparently it was a dump truck and on the highway? What the hell was going on there

He was apparently trying to walk across the freeway and got hit by a dump truck.

[Shenrien]

Ahh he thought he was immortal and learned in the best way he wasn't. Stupid doesn't belong in this world.

[archibaldcrane]

It's tough for a young QB to feel the pressure and know when to escape

[6souls]

Killed by a car, let's call it like it is- killed by a driver.

[Rulke]

I feel like this goes here somewhere.

[Kaslo]

https://twitter.com/RealGilbert/stat...i2mYyJUkmHBnRg