On"The X-files" he played the freaky mutant who could only eat cancer, which is how Scully found out she had the disease. Great episode
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I never saw the movie Fame, but I knew the premise and knew it was one of Alan Parkerās movies. Recently, I rewatched some ER episodes and I looked up Paul McCraneās IMDb bio and I was totally stunned that this a-hole doctor was in that movie as a student? (Iām guessing.)
@NukeML, I didnāt do a deep dive into his credits but now that you mention that X-Files episode, I totally remember him. Leonard Betts is one of many memorable characters on that show.
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Yeah, so you had the opposite of my experience. In my mind, he was this really nice, talented kid who had a rough time in school. The only thing that couldāve shocked me more wouldāve been a young Hugh Laurie appearing in that film, I guess.
Thinking back on Leonard Betts, I probably couldnāt recognize the actor while watching through my fingers and clutching a blankie (my usual X-Files viewing position after the episode āHomeā). 
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But did he die of Diabeetus?
Wow he was only 51 in Cocoon. Heās been old for a long time.
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āThe actor died Saturday morning at a Utah hospital, according to his manager, Lynda Bensky. He was on dialysis and had several medical issues.ā
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Kidney disease, according to wikipediaās list of notable deaths this year.
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Then thereās the Tom Cruise age comparison which always blows my tiny mind when i think about it.
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Thatās sad news.
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Such a montage might imply that the path to peace was a steady, inevitable treadmill towards success. But the people of Northern Ireland remember how hard Humeās task really was, and that āthe bits in black and whiteā went on a lot, lot longer. They know that escaping that period involved decades of often thankless, always exhausting activism, which went far beyond delivering speeches and signing documents.
One wonders, for example, how Michael Gove reconciles his ode to Hume as āa man of great integrity and wisdom who stood against violence and for peace with courage and steadfastnessā with the 58-page pamphlet he published in 2000, which compared the Good Friday agreement to appeasing the Nazis, or indulging the proclivities of paedophiles.
Donāt want to quote it all, go give the Guardian some ad revenue.
Feels a bit weird to see people like this in a thread called āDead Celebrityā, which I think was initially founded as a place to mark, say, Octomom running her Escalade into an embankment, butā¦
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Well John Lewis is above so heād be proud to be in that company. As he got dementia in later years he wasnāt as celebrated as others, and his party was relentlessly sidelined but he did the heavy, heavy lifting and put himself and his body on the line for peace and the personal respect and love for him is truly immense. I havenāt seen anything like it since Heaney died maybe.
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Gove the sociopath never lets you down if you are looking for examples of him being a human piece of shit.
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James Harris had a long career from the late 70s into the 90s.
A reminder, too, of how much pro-wrestling often leaned into racial stereotypes for people of colorā¦
Also, his stage name and his last name are the same as the possible VP candidateā¦ 
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He seems to have had a particularly rough life both during his career in wrestling (including some shocking mistreatment by Vince McMahon and of course racism from some of his colleagues), and eventually losing both his legs from diabetes complications.
RIP, Kamala.
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