Category: Actors and Celebrities

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Gratuitous James Franciscus (1934-1991)

Marooned (1969)

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970)

I can't tell you how many times a certain horny 11-12 year old boy used Mr. Franciscus as masturbatory fodder—especially from the Apes movie…

He was taken from us far too soon. COD is listed as heart failure from emphysema, but with the staggering number of deaths that marked the early 90s, my mind immediately goes to one place and how celebrity passings from AIDS were always reported as something else.

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Happy Birthday Steven Stucker

Comic actor Stephen Stucker would've turned 71 years old today. The man who played impish Johnny in Airplane! (1980) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)—a character who relished sales at Penney's and who noticed Leon's fluctuating largeness—became one of the first public figures to announce that he had AIDS. Stucker relied on metaphysical healing, vitamins, a positive outlook, and a healthy diet to combat the syndrome, which he suspected he had as early as 1979 and which he somewhat questionably attributed to past blood transfusions and intravenous drug use. He passed away in 1986 at 38.