ALL THINGS: We Hardly Knew Ye?

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Actress Polly Bergen Dies at 84

Emmy-winning actress and singer Polly Bergen, who in a long career played the terrorized wife in the original Cape Fear and the first woman president in Kisses for My President, died Saturday, according to her publicist. She was 84.

In recent years, she played Felicity Huffman's mother on Desperate Housewives and the past mistress of Tony Soprano's late father on The Sopranos.

Bergen won an Emmy in 1958 portraying the tragic singer Helen Morgan on the famed anthology series Playhouse 90. She was nominated for another Emmy in 1989 for best supporting actress in a miniseries or special for War and Remembrance.
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Actress Marcia Strassman, Who Co-Starred on 'Welcome Back Kotter,' Dies at 66

Strassman's first major acting gig was playing nurse Margie Cutler on six episodes of M*A*S*H. This led to her landing the co-starring role of Julie Kotter on ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter in 1975, playing the title character's wife. The series lasted four seasons.

She later appeared on numerous other series, including The Love Boat, The Rockford Files, Tremors, Third Watch and Magnum, P.I. She was a series lead on 21 Jump Street spinoff Booker, which lasted a season.

Strassman co-starred in several films, most notably as Rick Moranis' wife in the 1989 hit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and its sequel.
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Luc SkyBomba said:
**** man... i've seen static-x so many times i lost count. my last blog entry was seeing wayne in 2011. i'm gonna have to get back into it cause i'm ****ing devastated right now

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Didn't see as many times as you, but I saw them quite a lot...especially the 'classic' lineup. Very sad. He had a rough couple years due to financial problems and the fight over the name etc. but I thought he had turned it around. Sad really...Static X was very unique and I still have to think he had some good music left in him.

 
I did see Static-X once live and liked Wisconsin Death Trip, but the band didn't hold my interest much after that. And I am sure, I read somewhere that he was a vegetarian.

But, yeah, that's much to young. RIP.
 
Wayne Static Death Brings Conflicting Reports

http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=2857941&spid=783

hortly after the news broke, various Internet sources reported that Static died from a drug overdose. However, Loudwire reported that a publicist for the musician put out a statement saying that drugs played no part in his death. A press release from VQPR, which has repped Wayne Static in the past, explained that Static "passed away quietly in his sleep at his home," according to Loudwire.

The statement continues, "The couple [Wayne Static and wife Tera Wray] was getting ready to leave for a Fall/Winter tour this morning. They were to have left the night before on Halloween, but decided they would head out early in the morning November 1. The couple, known for partying heavy, had left hard drugs in 2009 and had not touched them since. Static's first solo album – Pighammer – was a tribute to his new non-drug life and hoped it would help others to get clean from hard chemical drugs. More official information about his passing will be released in the following days. This is not a drug related incident or an O.D."
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jerseydevil said:
Former Static-X Members Tony Campos + Koichi Fukuda Pay Tribute to Wayne Static


Read More: Former Static-X Members Pay Tribute to Wayne Static | http://loudwire.com/static-x-tony-campos-koichi-fukuda-pay-tribute-wayne-static/?trackback=tsmclip
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interesting how they both say were "waiting for him to come back". was that code for "waiting for him to ditch his wife?" neither of the two don't even mention the wife but they say they are sad for wayne's siblings.


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https://twitter.com/DinkusMaximus/status/528716765656662016

well that explains the wife thing
 
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jerseydevil said:
Wayne Static Death Brings Conflicting Reports

http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=2857941&spid=783
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That statement needs to be taken with a grain (or three) of salt as it obviously came from the wife... even if he did die in his sleep with no drugs in his system, the wear and tear that his years on the dark side took on him no doubt caused whatever happened.

And yes, the wife was hated by just about everyone involved with the Static camp from the moment she arrived. That is straight from the source BTW. For me, it was a shame to see Wayne allow himself to get "Yoko'd" as bad as he did.
 
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