Sensible Erection | Michael Clarke Duncan Dead at 54

Monday, 3 September 2012

quote [ Michael Clarke Duncan's fiancee says the Oscar nominee for "The Green Mile" has died while being hospitalized following a July heart attack ]

I guess Ricky Bobby did put that curse on him!

RIP, he will be missed.

[by michaelofoz@10:39pmGMT] [+10 Informative]

Comments

the belt said @ 10:45pm GMT on 3rd Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003817/

6'5, 300lb, the guy's heart had to pump blood to a lot of body.

ENZ said @ 12:55am GMT on 4th Sep
I wonder how long it's going to be until more efficient bionic hearts will become a medical viability?

1000gpw said @ 7:53am GMT on 4th Sep
If you mean mechanical hearts, never.

If you mean biologically engineered and artifically grown, we're already doing the basic research, but at least 20 years away.

chold_numa said @ 2:32pm GMT on 4th Sep
There are LVA (left ventricle assist) devices which assist your heart in pumping blood however. Generally installed if your heart has been damaged after a heart attack. You end up having no pulse as a result of having one. They're about the size of a man's fist these days, but in the 80s, an equivalent device had to be worn outside the body.

ENZ said @ 4:00am GMT on 5th Sep
Why never?

X said @ 12:10am GMT on 7th Sep
Because viable mechanical hearts are still a ways away while building new biological organs, which would be better in the grand scheme of things, is fairly close on the horizon.

X said @ 12:09am GMT on 7th Sep
6'5" 300lb is not really large huge, in the scheme of people. Until you pass 7ft and, i dunno.. 400lb? you're not really pushing the capabilities of any organs.

There's a metric shitton of athletes (football, lifters, etc) who are 6ft+ and 300lbs+

I'm a non-fatass computer nerd and I'm 6'7", 280lb (huge legs from biking). Once you're 6ft+, inching to 300lb isn't nearly as impressive as it is for a 5ft6 man.

My blood pressure is 118/76 (smack in the middle of the "optimal" range).

Gunner v2.0 said @ 10:58pm GMT on 3rd Sep
Shit, what a downer. My buddy and I were just discussing how much we enjoy this guy, maybe four days ago.
Also, we were trying to remember if his name was Clarke-Duncan, or vice versa.
I guess both those topics will go no further.

oxyrosis said @ 11:07pm GMT on 3rd Sep [Score:2 Underrated]
i loved him in "the slammin salmon"

showed a different side of him that honestly surprised me and made me have high hopes for his acting career.

GordonGuano said @ 12:16am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
Yeah, the fact he also played a gorilla and a magical Negro at various points just shows Hollywood doesn't know what to do with talent.

Still, I cried at the end of Green Mile.

willrogers said @ 11:18pm GMT on 4th Sep
I just can't watch The Green Mile because it always makes me cry. It's just so fucking sad and depressing even though Michael Clark Duncan was so good in it.

damnit said @ 11:08pm GMT on 3rd Sep
Dude... not cool :(

userguy said @ 11:17pm GMT on 3rd Sep
Stinks. I wish he would have been able to make many more movies.

feldenglas said @ 12:02am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
Fuck.

leezurd said @ 3:55am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
ing too soon for his demise.

bruceski said @ 12:31am GMT on 4th Sep
Well geez, so not only did they end The Finder with the most downer finale I've seen, but they went and killed the actor of the only character to escape unscathed?

bruceski said @ 12:46am GMT on 4th Sep
For context, I think the Finder was going for a "scattered to the winds" season finale that wasn't changed when they didn't make another season. The main character got arrested for tracking down his mom who was in Witness Protection, in addition to do this he skipped finding something else he had fixated on which with how his brain works was likely to drive him insane(er). His girlfriend lost her badge for not stopping him. The gypsy girl who was with them on parole ran away to avoid an arranged marriage to her brother (emotionally and mutually).

In contrast, NCIS just blew up most of the cast, gave Duckie a heart attack alone on a beach, and is STILL coming back this fall.

grosaprap said @ 12:40pm GMT on 4th Sep
For more context, one of those shows appeared on FOX, and the other didn't. Guess which one didn't survive past it's debut?

To horribly mangle a quote:

"If you watch Fox, it's your own damn fault."

bruceski said @ 4:22pm GMT on 4th Sep
But it was done by the folks who did Bones, and they haven't screwed that up yet.

damnit said @ 7:53pm GMT on 4th Sep
The Finder was a good premise, ruined by the higher ups that kept making changes to the show's direction.

grosaprap said @ 8:38pm GMT on 4th Sep
The issue isn't that Fox makes drek, the issue is that any good show on Fox has only a one in twenty chance of actually making it out of the stall.

Investing time or attention span to anything from FOX is pretty much playing the lotto. It may have a slightly higher than normal chance of being 'good' TV than if it was on another channel, but it has a far far lower chance of reaching a death of natural causes than any other channel's shows.

landsky said @ 1:51am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Good]

RhesusMonkey said @ 2:02am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
He's Ridin' with the Valkyries now!

pleaides said @ 9:29am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
+1 for the purple ass

landsky said @ 10:52am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Funny]

sua_sponte said @ 5:29am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
Woops.
http://deadspin.com/5940163/buffalo-nbc-station-uses-photos-of-singer-seal-to-report-on-actor-michael-clarke-duncans-death?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

swiggy said @ 6:16am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:1 Funny]

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 11:26am GMT on 4th Sep
Steve Urkel's dead?!

rndmnmbr said @ 6:46am GMT on 4th Sep [Score:3 Underrated]
I tried to take it back... but I couldn't...

valen85 said @ 9:20pm GMT on 4th Sep
He was a purple belt in bjj.

valen85 said @ 9:22pm GMT on 4th Sep
Sorry, more like Blue Belt

lilmookieesquire said @ 5:16am GMT on 5th Sep
What he lacked in belts he made up for in mass.