# Is Nicholas Cage dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754 "2008-11-21T00:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/41 "2008-11-23T20:44:54Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I don’t see anything particularly strange about his looks. To me, he just looks the way most celebrities look without makeup. On the contrary, he looks like he’s wearing a _lot_ of makeup. Which is part of why he looks so weird and waxen. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/42 "2008-11-23T21:05:50Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > But… but… but… he looks completely hot in that photo! How could something so beautiful be so utterly destroyed so quickly??? With your help, we can stamp out Lohan’s Syndrome within our lifetime. Won’t you give generously? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/43 "2008-11-23T22:56:59Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > On the contrary, he looks like he’s wearing a _lot_ of makeup. Which is part of why he looks so weird and waxen. Exactly. It looks like he uses a putty knife. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/44 "2008-11-24T21:36:56Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > I hope not. Christina Fulton is his mother. Oopsie. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/45 "2008-11-24T21:44:35Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Nick’s not dead…but his son might be: [http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg](http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb90/PlacesParallel/Misc/gabrielisthatyou.jpg) > > I saw him on a news piece (TMZ, I think) and he’s just a growling goth dude who spews hilarious platitudes. It’s a trap! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/46 "2008-11-24T21:59:13Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Exactly. It looks like he uses a putty knife. Dude looks like Lenin’s corpse. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/47 "2008-11-25T01:48:41Z")
I used to have a huge crush on Nicholas Cage, starting with _The Rock._ I watched every Nick Cage movie I could get my hands on as a teenager. I was very proud of him for pulling off _Adaptation._ And I actually rather liked _Snake Eyes._ But for some reason he keeps chosing these shitty scripts. He dug his own grave. Also, he’s getting old. Crush is over. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754/48 "2008-11-25T04:40:19Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Exactly. It looks like he uses a putty knife. I recently bought a new house, and we painted the entire thing. I bought an automatic, electric paint roller. It pulls the paint up with a vacuum system into a metal roller, which then extrudes the paint out into the roller fabric. Used right, it’s a frigging miracle - I painted a couple of thousand square feet of wall by myself in a day. But if you hold the trigger down too long, you get too much paint. WAY too much paint. Nicolas Cage was using one of those. And he held the trigger down too long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nicholas-cage-dead/473754.md?page=2)