But a fine quote, nonetheless. 
Most of Game of Death is like that. Bruce Lee died after filming the great sequence in which he ascends through a pagoda, fighting a different martial arts master on each level. To fill out the rest of the film the producers used a stand-in wearing huge sunglasses. They also incorporated subplots about disguises and plastic surgery and, jarringly, intercut brief shots of Lee from earlier films.
The end product really is painful to watch, up until the 11 minutes which feature the genuine article.
Even worse, he dances on their graves! :eek:
Not quite the same, but in one of the early episode’s of Family Guy, Stewie’s trying to get on a plane with a backpack full of weapons, so he does a little song and dance number to distract the airport security guards from looking at the x-ray machine as his bag goes through. Then he says, “I sure hope Osama doesn’t know any show tunes.” We do a quick cut and see Osama bin Laden doing a showtune in an airport. This was before 9/11, and Seth had the scene cut from reruns, since he’d have been on one of the hijacked flights if he hadn’t been so drunk.
I think he may have already been diagnosed beforehand as close to the end(he struggled against cancer for a long time ) and the character in the film was written as an end of life tribute to him ,not coincidentally.
The film was released before the assassination. The story is that Frank Sinatra withdrew it from distribution following the assassination but, FWIW, Wikipedia says no.
Also, the novel and film do not feature a hit on the President, but on a presidential candidate.
The distinguished character actress Susan Fleetwood appeared as Lady Russell in the 1995 film of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. (Worth seeing, Austen fans - it’s the best Austen movie yet.) Lady Russell’s dialogue includes the sentence, “I will be married to him until I die.” Fleetwood delivers this line movingly, with a strikingly melancholy emphasis on the words “until I die.” She died of cancer later in 1995 at the age of 51. She looks ill in the film and I think she must have known during filiming that her days were drawing to a close.
Are there moments from any of the three Poltergeist movies that presage the deaths of those two young actresses who played the daughters?
John Wayne had a bout with cancer back in 1964, and had a lung removed at that time, but between 1964 and filming of The Shootist, he was (as far as he knew) cancer-free.
The Shootist was released in 1976. The return of Wayne’s cancer wasn’t diagnosed until January, 1979. Cite.
This happened in The Crow, too. The remaining scenes were done by a stunt double. The ironic thing about this instance is that Brandon Lee played a character who was completely invulnerable, and the film featured several scenes where he gets shot repeatedly without dying. Lee, of course, died when he was accidentally shot during filming.
Reminds me of Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight, telling Madge Evans, whose gentleman friend has just died, “that’s the unfortunate thing about death. Even the young can’t do anything about it.” Dressler had cancer at the time and would be dead within a year.
And then there’s the Simpsons episode with Gunter and Ernst being mauled by their white tiger in a Las Vegas stage act - 2 years before the attack on Roy.
Yet another Christopher Reeve eerie moment — neither close to his death nor close to his accident but nevertheless disturbing in retrospect, the moment in Somewhere in Time where he’s been tied up in the barn and when found says, after being untied, that he cannot use his legs.
I’m surprised that this thread’s already run two pages but nobody’s mentioned OJ’s cameo in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure as
a fugitive fleeing the police because he killed his wife.
I happened upon the movie on TV sometime after the whole trial debacle and man, wacthing that scene was creepy.
Are you sure about that? IMDB doesn’t list that film among his credits. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but the only fugitive I recall was the guy on the run for
cutting the “Do Not Remove” label off a mattress.
:smack:
I knew I should have double checked.
Yeah, guy does that, and then he and Pee Wee
masquarade as husband and wife
I coulda sworn that was OJ, but again, my memory is spotty.
There was a 2002 episode of Scrubs that sent a sad little frisson down my spine. John Ritter was the guest star, playing J.D.'s dad, Sam. J.D. says that he’s going to give a talk on cardiac problems and invites his father to come. Sam says, sure, he’ll come because he’s interested in the topic. As we know, a heart problem would kill Ritter the next year.
Speaking of OJ, there was a Seinfeld episode in 1992 where Elaine was dating a guy named Joel Rifkin about the time NYC had a serial killer who shared the name. Elaine is suggesting he change his name and, while looking though a football program, comes up with OJ.
“The Unholy Three.”
As he is about to board a train, and presumably go to prison, someone hands him a carton of cigarettes.
He was actually ill during the filming, and six weeks after shooting wrapped, he died of throat cancer.
And in the next episode of “Chico and the Man” that aired after Freddie Prinze’s death, Cesar Romero, playing Chico’s long-lost dad, finally tracks him down. He is now fabulouslyl successful, and wants Chico to come work for him.
Louie (Scatman) and Ed (Albertson) are real concerned about this, and in one exchange Louie tells Ed “We could lose him forever.”
In an SNL sketch, “Disfunctional Family Feud,” Christian Slater threatened to shoot Phil Hartman.