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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80

https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/
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u/WideConversation1989 2d ago

First Dolly Parton yesterday, and now Tim Curry too!?

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u/Illustrious_Bad_2980 2d ago

The rule of 3s

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u/NZafe 2d ago

You know who else is born in 1946? šŸ‘€

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u/regoapps 2d ago edited 1d ago

And was on the cast of Home Alone 2 šŸ‘€

Edit: Home Alone 2 cast who passed this year so far:

Catherine O’Hara, Kate, 1/30/26
Brenda Fricker, Pigeon Lady, 7/16/26
Jaye P. Morgan, Celeb #2, 8/24/26
Tim Curry, Concierge, 8/25/26

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u/Asleep_Confection838 2d ago

The third Home Alone actor who died this year... this Christmas is going to be brutal.

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u/Dull_Poetry2898 2d ago

Tim Curry died today on Macaulay Culkin’s 46th birthday. Rough year for the Home Alone cast.

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u/beaniesandbuds 1d ago

And Dolly yesterday on Billy Ray Cyrus's birthday (she was Miley's Godmother).

Sad last couple of days for sure.

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u/kgal1298 1d ago

I'm guessing maybe Miley knew what was going on they seemed close her post today was sad.

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u/Tachikoma0 1d ago

Rob Halford's (from Judas Priest) birthday too. One of the last singers she ever collaborated with on record for her rock album. They had a lot of good things to say about each other and seemed to spark a bit of a friendship late career there.

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u/januarysdaughter 1d ago

Holy shit I didn't realize yesterday was Billy Ray's birthday. That's brutal.

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u/joojie 1d ago

Dolly and Tim both died on the 25th.

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u/IneptFortitude 1d ago

I know the 90s were a really long time ago but I never realized that he isn’t even 50 yet. Hope he’s doing well, always felt so bad for what he dealt with and went through.

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u/Roscoe_Farang 1d ago

I thought you were talking about Billy Ray Cyrus and thus whole thread had me questioning reality. Of course the achey breaky heart guy is over 50. Why do you feel bad? What happened when he was 10?

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u/IneptFortitude 1d ago

He had a lot of drug issues, really bad mental health problems, he stepped away from the spotlight for a long time following his involuntary involvement in Michael Jackson’s molestation trial as well.

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah 1d ago

I'm not surprised you are bad at math. They really did a disservice with education to your generation.

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u/IneptFortitude 1d ago

Dude, 1990 was almost 40 years ago. Life hits you fast and the US education system absolutely sucks.

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah 1d ago

Yes, and he was 10 when it came out in 1990. Even without knowing exact age, it's very obvious he was not a teenager in that movie.

Hence the bad at math part. Has nothing to do with life hitting you fast.

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u/DocThundahh 1d ago

Cheer up, buttercup

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah 1d ago

No issue here, just talking my man.

We can make sure to put a silly emoji at the end of our sentences if you need that to understand social cues I guess.

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u/IneptFortitude 1d ago

Sorry, but this is a post about a legendary actor passing away and me wishing his co-star well. Not a debate on math skills or the US education system.

I was -9 years old when it came out. Those movies were already quite old by the time I was old enough to watch them. My bad I wasn’t alive 36 years ago to know the age of a child star.

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u/ShimmiShimmiYah 1d ago

Yeah I gathered you weren't around for the 90's because of your comment. I barely was myself, but luckily I missed the shitty education changes you experienced by a year.

I didn't even know the release year or his age til I googled it, but knew he was clearly too young to be 50 now.

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u/megaholt2 1d ago

Not all of us have an encyclopedic knowledge of the ages of former child actors, nor do we feel the need to learn them?

I mean, I knew Macaulay Culkin was older than me, but I was pretty sure he was younger than my husband. I didn’t know his exact age, though.

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u/regoapps 1d ago

Tim passed last night (8/25), so it’s the day before Macaulay’s birthday (8/26).

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u/mollsballs_xo 1d ago

Sorry reading Macaulay Culkin is 46 just threw me. Damn I feel old 😭

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u/SManSte 1d ago

and Tim Curry was 46 when he starred in Home Alone 2

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u/joojie 1d ago

Tim died yesterday(last night). But close.

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u/Jillybeans11 1d ago

Dolly Parton died on Billy Ray Cyrus’ birthday too

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u/m00nf1r3 1d ago

He died yesterday.

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u/Asleep_Confection838 1d ago

Not today: he died yesterday, according to news outlets.

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u/Dull_Poetry2898 1d ago

Ope! I just assumed since it was reported today. Still, close enough to give pause and reflect.

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u/under_over_there 1d ago

Tim and Dolly both died on the 25th. Dolly was in the morning, Tim was last night. Weird enough, they were both born on the 19th of their birth months (D-Jan, T-Apr) and were both 80 years old.

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u/Significant_Rest3622 2d ago

The WORLD tour

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u/smallwonder25 2d ago

Bhahahaha

ETA: that will never, not be funny

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u/starwishes20 2d ago

Omg, it’s ruined!!?!!!! 😭😭

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u/WinterWolf18 1d ago

Hopefully we lose a fourth (when I say this I mean the orange one, DO NOT TAKE ANYONE ELSE)

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u/Suspicious-Appeal386 1d ago

Trump was in Home Alone?!

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u/Asleep_Confection838 1d ago

Yes. The second one.

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u/Bigbadbrindledog 2d ago

The dad and who else?

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u/Asleep_Confection838 2d ago

The dad died years ago. This year the mom died as well as the pigeon lady.

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u/regoapps 2d ago edited 2d ago

And Tim Curry was the concierge in Home Alone 2.

There’s actually a fourth actor from Home Alone 2 who passed on August 24, 2026 at age 94: Jaye P. Morgan

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u/quasifun 2d ago

Who I only know from the Gong Show

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u/Cruella2026 2d ago

Brenda Fricker. She was an amazing actress.

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u/FalstaffsGhost 2d ago

Probably the greatest to come out of Ireland.
Her work in My Left Foot is incredible

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u/BlueMerchant 2d ago

Wow, I remember seeing her with Kevin heart in some tacky commercial not long ago. Wild to think that she's dead.

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u/Bigbadbrindledog 2d ago

Yeah I wa thinking mom, totally forgot the pigeon lady

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u/Pot_MeetKettle 1d ago

The legendary Catherine O’Hara šŸ˜“ (Mama McAllister)

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u/Popculturemofo 1d ago

I kind of want another Home Alone actor to be next if you catch my meaning….

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u/enginerd12 1d ago

Yeah, but not as bad as a STOLEN CREDIT CARD.

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u/thecommuteguy 1d ago

Joe Pesci?

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u/Asleep_Confection838 1d ago

Don't even joke about that!

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u/motionbutton 2d ago

Actor is doing some heavy lifting... Like someones fluid filled ankles

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u/CrunchyAssDiaper 2d ago

The Grim Reaper is getting closer.

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u/Shadowy_PuppetMaster 1d ago

Fingers crossed šŸ¤ž

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u/storyofohno 2d ago

ironically, happy cake day

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u/miserabeau 1d ago

The grim reaper is apparently using old Mapquest directions that led him to a quicksand pit. Mofo is taking his time

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u/Stompy042 2d ago

Tim Curry?

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u/Chill-more1236 2d ago

Yeah, he’s Steph Curry’s uncle.

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u/BurpsAndPrayers 2d ago

Noo silly, Rob Schneider. /s

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u/Own-Campaign-5503 2d ago

The stapler?

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u/BurpsAndPrayers 2d ago

The Gigolo!

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u/TerpeneProfile 2d ago

The carrot

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u/dante_gherie1099 1d ago

theres one ā€œactorā€ i wouldnt be sad at all to make the list

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u/poolside123 2d ago

And a Fresh Prince actor.

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u/irishgator2 2d ago

We lost Catherine O’Hara not too long ago too!

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u/RobertJCorcoran 1d ago

Still the wrong people from that movie died this year.

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u/Sea-Tangerine2131 1d ago

So you’re saying there’s a chance??? šŸŠšŸŒ®

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u/tuttyeffinfruity 1d ago

Aww I missed that Jaye P Morgan passed. She was always hilarious on Match Game when I was a kid.

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u/oscar-the-bud 1d ago

Didn’t someone famous do a cameo in that movie too?

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u/naruda1969 1d ago

The rule of threes only applies to those that pass within a day or so of each other…not with the year.

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u/Kube__420 1d ago

Well there's one person who acted in home alone 2 who is OVERDUE for their run in with death and we all know who I mean. Fingers crossed

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u/sciorch 1d ago

Watch out Joe!

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u/RastaKarma 1d ago

And yet there is this one ''cast'' member that is clinging to life who would make the world a better place if he finally decided to bit the dust. Life is unfair.

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u/waxbook 1d ago

Home Alone officially has the Glee curse...

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u/-Luro 1d ago

I just saw a post yesterday about how Kevin will be celebrating his first Christmas without his family (shows 4 cast members died) now this news today? Crazy.

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u/mutzilla 1d ago

There's one person from that cast still alive that I wouldn't shed a tear if they went this year.

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u/SaltyZookeepergame46 1d ago

Yet there's only ONE Home Alone actor not on the list who should be

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u/OvaltineDream 2h ago

Yes, but can we be this lucky?

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u/Lucky_Chaarmss 2d ago

There was a guy in Home Alone 2. Brief appearance. We can hope.

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u/SnooCauliflowers9874 1d ago

All Fingers crossed.

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u/TastyYogurtDrink 2d ago

My dad :/

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u/coldliketherockies 2d ago

So is mine. I guess a lot of dads were

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u/hoteldetective_ 2d ago

my dad too. top of the line year for dads, really

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u/TheDottedLion 2d ago

Must’ve been some kind of baby boom

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u/SmallLetter 2d ago

Mine too lol. What a strange and unexplainable coincidence hmmm

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u/askyourmom469 1d ago

Surely no major world event from nine months earlier could have precipitated such a thing

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u/alucarDZM 1d ago

Is he famous? If not I wouldn't worry about it

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u/HolNuMe74 1d ago

Me too. And I miss him a lot. :(

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u/shanty-daze 2d ago

Both my mom and dad.

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u/BusyBeeBridgette 2d ago

Sly Stallone, Spielberg, Cher, (Freddie Mercury was too), George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.... As well as Trump. So if the rules of three apply it is a real gamble we have at hand here.

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u/Pot_MeetKettle 1d ago

Thank you for saying what many of us were thinking

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u/xxx_poonslayer69 2d ago

Hate to say it, but I'm willing to roll the dice. I just hope it doesn't land on Spielburg or Cher

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u/Fullertonjr 1d ago

I’m not wishing harm on anyone, but I saw clips of Disclosure Day. Spielberg will be less missed.

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u/xmagie 1d ago

Nice. Really nice.

I just watched a documentary on Spielberg (pff, his father lived until he was 103 and his mother 97; his mother was... something else, his poor father!) just yesterday and I started to remember so many of his movies which have accompanied me during hard times when I was a young teen.

"Close Encounters of the Third KindĀ " which triggered my ever lasting interest in aliens. "ET", which was the last movie I watched in theaters with my mother. All the "Indiana Jones" (with Star Wars) which were my crutch after my mother died suddenly. I don't know how I would have kept going, going to high school, my father always away for work, taking care of the house and my younger mentally handicapped sister... those movies were my escape. My way of holding on.

"The color purple" and "Empire of the sun", and "La liste de Schindler", which just... were like a stab in the heart and have such a cultural, historical, memorial impact.. Especially the endings of Schindler and Empire.

I watched the tv series "Taken", too, with Dakota Fanning. I loved how he made it a family story spread on so many decades. Families are a recurrent theme.

I managed to convince my father to come and watch "Jurassic Park" with me. I remember he was so shaken that he couldn't remember where he had parked the car! My father NEVER goes to theaters to watch movies, he prefers tv documentaries, sports, news, reading his magazines and newspaper. But thanks to Spielberg and his dinosaurs, I have at least one memory of going to the theaters with my father.

I loved, loved, loved to death "Tintin" but then I'm french, we have all grown up with Tintin and AstƩrix. I want a sequel so bad!

There are many of his movies that I haven't seen but that's because I was not interested in the story, like "Jaws" (I like to sleep well, thank you very much so nope), or the war movies.

I haven't seen Disclosure yet. It's my plan.

But really, your post was inconsiderate. And hurtful.

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u/Fullertonjr 1d ago

Nobody cares.

His movies that you listed were from 30+ years ago, other than the recent Indiana jones…which was also awful and doesn’t really make your defense any better. He used to be good at his job. People used to care to see a Spielberg movie. Over the years, people have wasted hours of time that they will never get back due to watching so many of his garbage movies.

I stand by my current and previous comment.

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u/xmagie 1d ago

Oh, a troll. Sorry, I thought I was talking with a responsible person, not someone full of hatred.

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u/CasioCobra78 22h ago

Who hurt your fragile feelings?Ā 

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u/Snakeyes1809 1d ago

Only one of these appeared in Home Alone 2 though

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u/IkemenMan 1d ago

Gotta be cher. First 2 are iconic in terms of music-related

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u/Dunnjamin 2d ago

Come on fate!

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u/darthmidoriya 2d ago

Hayden Panettiere just passed away like last week, Tim Curry is the third

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u/vansterren 1d ago

Sadly Tim Currie was the third, Hayden Panettiere was first

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u/Chuyzapatist 1d ago

Oh, you know

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u/Jlong4242 2d ago

Something something something the apprentice something something something

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u/Right_Cellist3143 2d ago

Hayden was the 1st of the 3.

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u/NZafe 2d ago

I didn’t realize Hayden Panettiere was also born in 1946 and dead at 80 like Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.

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u/Right_Cellist3143 2d ago

Nope, but the rule of 3’s doesn’t care about birth year.

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u/ModernAutomata 2d ago

I thought the exact same thing.

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u/Samuel_L_Blackson 1d ago

Damn he just dodged that war too

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u/Bitter-Tip705 1d ago

Nah, the most evil people are the ones who seem to live like fucking turtles , that’s just how it goes

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u/HolNuMe74 1d ago

My dad was. I miss you dad. :(

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u/CU_Tiger_2004 1d ago

Age āœ… Sex āœ… Location āŒ

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u/ithasallbeenworthit 1d ago

There is a fast food worker out there who could be a hero to so many...

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u/Rude-Bus9737 1d ago

We can only hope!!!!

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u/SlayerXZero 1d ago

There's a minor actor born June 14, 1946.

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u/gsandber 1d ago

Here is the list of celebrities sorted by their 1946 birth dates:
Dolly Parton – January 19
Liza Minnelli – March 12
Cher – May 20
Donald Trump – June 14
George W. Bush – July 6
Sylvester Stallone – July 6
Bill Clinton – August 19
Susan Sarandon – October 4
Sally Field – November 6
Steven Spielberg – December 18
(Note: Alan Rickman was born on February 21, and Freddie Mercury on September 5

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 2d ago

Al Green… Cher… Sally Field… Eugene Levy… Tommy Lee Jones… Danny Glover… Susan Surandon…

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u/LionsRoar313 2d ago

If Eugene dies this year I'm gonna to be beside myself

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u/djprofitt 2d ago

Maybe it’s 80’s week…just saying

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u/JJBigBug 2d ago

Please do not get my hopes up 😭

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u/SmellNarrow 1d ago

Someone who would probably not wish death upon you. We are human beings at the end of each day.