Johnathan Taylor Thomas Dead?

Cafe Society
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what is this:
Is it true

Title : Teen Idol Jonathan Taylor Thomas Killed
Author : Associated Press
Date/Time : 07/13/03 2:00 AM
Teen Idol Jonathan Taylor Thomas Killed
The actor, best known for his role as Randy Taylor on the comedy series “Home Improvement”, died Saturday of a speedboat accident off the coast of Monterosso, the main town in the Cinque Terre region in Northern Italy. The Baja 320 speedboat Thomas, 22, was riding collided with an offshore rock and the front end of the vessel exploded, according to witnesses.

Thomas, born Jonathan Weiss, was on vacation with his girlfriend Larissa Oleynik, also an actress, who was not in the boat. Oleynik explained to reporters on the scene “it all happened so fast no one had time to say goodbye.”

The boat exploded into flames and slowed down to partially sink into the water while emergency crews sped to the scene, just 200 yards from the shore. According to Reuters, Thomas and two others were rushed to the hospital where the actor was pronounced dead at 7:29 pm. The other men, who will remain anonymous until authorities contact their families, are listed in critical condition. Investigators are trying to determine if alcohol was involved in the crash.

Thomas was taking a break from acting to study theater and chemistry at University of California, Davis. The veteran childhood actor voiced for the young Simba in Disney’s “The Lion King” and costarred with Chevy Chase and Farrah Fawcett in “Man of the House”. His big break came in 1991 when he was cast as the middle child on Home Improvement. Thomas quickly became a teen idol, appearing in nearly every issue of girl’s magazines like Tiger Beat and Bopper, even after the Home Improvement was cancelled in 1998.

Thomas’s publicist Jill Frier released this statement ,“Jonathan’s family is devasted by the loss of their beloved son. Their hearts also go out to the other families affected by this tragic accident.” Home Improvement costar Patricia Richardson remembers Thomas as a “real talent”. “When he walked into a room, it lit up. A really caring, sensitive young man.”

It is at
theDilly.com

It says he is 22. Jonathan is 21.

Now I didn’t really like this guy, actually I hated him, now, I take all that back. But oh man, the poor guy, my condolences to the family. Just a bleeding waste!!!

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Looks like a prank in very poor taste.

Go here and scroll down to the posted comments.

I looked at sfgate.com and a few other newspaper sites and found no such story about his death.

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Urgh, what a waste of my time

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No way it’s true. The article said it went through the AP at 2:00 AM. It would be on all the major news sites by now, but isn’t. I’ll believe it when someone gives me a link to a MSNBC or CNN article.

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No link on CNN.

I checked.

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I looked on the Associated Press Web site and didn’t find anything about Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Yahoo News and Google didn’t have anything, either.

I’m with Fairy Dust. I think this was a bad joke.

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How do you think Jonathan Taylor Thomas will react if he hears about this sick prank?

Shrug it off?

Hold a televised press conference?

“As you can see, the news of my early demise was greatly exaggerated.”

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Another shot in the arm for his career

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I checked all the sites previously mentioned plus a few more. His name did not bring up a single new article.

For a Hollywood actor, not having your name come up in any news search is being worse than dead. :dubious:

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Sounds like a stupid prank.

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Why even bother with a stupid prank like this?

And why pick JTT over any number of other three-named child stars, including the other two clowns that played kids on “Home Improvement”? I guess he’s the only one who is anywhere near the public eye by now…

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Mmm… Larisa Oleynick…

I made her a sandwich once.

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Maybe he should ask Mark-Paul Gosselar how he feels about being dead.

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I ran through several perverted interpretations of this sentence before I realizes you probably meant you worked in a deli and made her an actual sandwhich with bread. Oops.

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I should just let everyone wonder, but yeah, I’m a Cala deli shlub. Thing that pisses me off is that the one day of my life where I actually meet her, I can’t remember her name beyond “Alex Mack.”

It is stories like this that inspired this: :smack: