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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGame over man. Bill Paxton has passed away
Just got the push. No links.
LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)It said complications from surgery. But for what and why.. that's scary. Way too young.
RIP Bill Paxton
skylucy
(3,743 posts)He had heart surgery and afterwards something went wrong and he had a fatal stroke.
Cha
(297,655 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Whenever I think of Paxton, I'm reminded of the bit of trivia that he a child cheering the JFK motorcade on Nov 22, 1963 in Dallas. His dad brought him to see the President.
Edit: apparently, that was Fort Worth, not Dallas.
RIP Bill.
Sid
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Prayers to his family, friends, and coworkers. He always seemed like a mensch.
He had some of the best lines in movies, too, and even in interviews about his movie premieres.
aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)RIP
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Went to USA Today and saw it there so unfortunately true. Just so upset by this. He was great in so many movies like Twister sand Titanic and so many more. Was on the TV show Training Day currently airing. His two kids are actors. His son just stared on training day and his daughter is on stranger things.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Tough guy who wasn't fearful of stating the obvious when the chips were down.
Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events but we just got our asses kicked, pal!
We're on an express elevator to hell - goin' down!
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)when my work computers started getting sound and the internet, I had a bunch of his lines saved as WAV files on my PC - every time I turned my PC on in the morning, it would say "We're on an express elevator to hell, going down" and at the end of the night, it would say "That's it man, game over" when I turned it off.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Anyone remember??
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)RIP
chowder66
(9,080 posts)I am so saddened to hear of the passing of Bill Paxton and wanted to share a story about Bill's dad John.
I worked at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in the bookstore and ordered books for John over the phone.
This was in August of 1989.
At the time I had no idea who John Paxton was other than the wonderfully nice man I special ordered books for and discussed art with. I never met him in person and I can't recall where John was living at the time even though I shipped books to him.
The last time I spoke to John I let him know that I was moving to Los Angeles from K.C. and he was kind and supportive
of the move. In the conversation he said "...you should contact my son when you get there. He's an actor. You might
know him as Chet in Weird Science" (why John picked this movie, I will never know... but it worked).
I said "Oh, I know exactly who you're son is". John said "yeah, he was the big shit" and we both laughed and I let him know
that I loved that role that Bill played. At the time I had a tiny movie star crush on Bill and have watched many of his movies over the years while still having that little crush.
His dad John then demanded that I take down his number so Bill could show me around and in case I was ever in need of help.
I refused but he insisted and I finally wrote the number down. I may still even have it somewhere in a box.
Of course I never did call Bill and there probably were a couple of times I could have when I first got to L.A but
I worked out a living situation when another unraveled.
Today, I looked up Bill in IMDB and it stated that his dad John was also an actor. I had no idea. He never mentioned it.
I wondered if I would ever run into Bill (I had run into many celebrities over the years), never really speaking to any of them unless they were a customer when I worked in retail and the conversation was the same as it would be with any other customer.
If I would have run into him, which unfortunately I didn't, I would have told him that his dad gave me his number as an act of
kindness that I have and will never forget.