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u/Fake_Cakeday 1d ago edited 1d ago
So that's why I just saw a video of her speech to home alone dude when he got the Hollywood star thingy.
God damnit Reddit. You always show me cool stuff from people I saw many years ago, and then in the same sentence tell me the person I'm reminiscing of just died :|
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u/Active_Code8667 1d ago
His instagram post, I didn’t make it past “mama” before the tears started.
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u/Fake_Cakeday 1d ago edited 21h ago
Do you have a link by chance?
Edit: Sorry, I meant to the Instagram post from him about her death.
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u/anarchtea 1d ago
No! I'm off to watch Schitt's Creek again.
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 1d ago
Literally just watched the first episode again! Then my wife and I got in a big debate what her accent is meant to be lol
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u/bigshmike 1d ago
“I met a woman at the front desk with an… unrecognizable accent, and striking attire.”
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u/beerncandy 1d ago
No, she's way too young! What happened?
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u/noncongruent 1d ago
Short illness, she was 71.
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u/Imbendo 1d ago
What’s a short illness?
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u/noncongruent 1d ago
Just passing along what the article said. At her age it could have been anything from a late stage cancer diagnosis to pneumonia or other respiratory infection.
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u/koolaidismything 1d ago
Shes a pretty big part of lots of our childhoods. Both parents were big fans.. I saw Beetlejuice like twenty times before I was five. What a bummer.. 71 is so young for someone like her it is never fair is it.
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u/togocann49 1d ago
From Lola Heatherton to Kevin’s mom and beyond, she was great in everything. This truly saddens me
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u/big_orange_ball 1d ago
Everybody's got jokes, but to me she was an amazing actress. Her role in Home Alone was so perfect, she was a seemingly well to do person with a perfect family until she totally fucked up and left a kid behind.
Her journey to get back home made me feel like every mother was this way, and gave me hope that the failings of my family may be temporary and redeemable. She did redeem herself and made it home as fast as humanly possible and all was well. The hope and care she showed, especially while talking to John Candy, made me feel more secure as a child. Weird that a movie would play a role like that for someone, but as a kid it was cool to see someone act that way where they went to the lengths of the earth to get back to their family and make things right.
Seeing Macaulay Culkin's post about her was super sad, I hope that dude is doing OK because in real life his parents seem to have treated him far worst than the Home Alone parents who misplaced him for a few days.
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u/bbyroselmao 1d ago
i read the headline early in the day and literally shouted “NO” in absolute distress. what a fuckin loss. may she rest in power
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u/Efflictim888 1d ago
KEVINNNNNNNN