Sorry to bum you guys out on your holiday, but Michael Clarke Duncan has died. He was as far as I’ve ever heard a super nice guy and always seemed pretty healthy, which makes this kind of scary as well as sad.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Clarke Duncan’s fiancee says the Oscar nominee for The Green Mile has died while being hospitalized following a July heart attack.
Publicist Joy Fehily released a statement from Clarke’s fiancée, the Rev. Omarosa Manigault [Wait, she's a reverend now?-Ed], saying the 54-year-old actor died Monday morning in a Los Angeles hospital after nearly two months of treatment following the July 13 heart attack.
The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Duncan appeared in dozens of films, including such box office hits as Armageddon, Planet of the Apes and Kung Fu Panda. [USAToday]
He was also great in Slammin’ Salmon, which makes me wish he’d gotten to do more comedy. This sucks. At the very least he could’ve done us the courtesy of getting fat or becoming a comedian before he died so we could’ve prepared ourselves for this a little better. It should also be noted that the guy managed to get engaged to a fairly-infamous reality TV villain without anyone even knowing about it until he died, which is as good of proof as any that he wasn’t some obnoxious, fame-whoring piece of sh*t like half the other people in LA. Bummer.
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This ruined my day. Although, on the bright side, at least now Tom Hanks is going to live forever.
Fuck. I really liked Green Mile and he was great in it. Do people like that movie or is it just me?
You aren’t alone, bro….
Where is all this dust coming from?!
I almost forgot he was in “Talladega Nights.”
:(
Should have been you, Doug Hutchinson.
True dat
What? No badge for commenting on this and tweeting about it?
That’s some bullshit.
I watched the episodes he did with Craig Ferguson in Scotland and he was just a really cool, low key, funny guy. RIP big dude…
The fact that we’ll never see the exploits of Mick DeLaPlane & sir Reginald Highbottom committed to film is a godsdarn tragedy.
Ya he was the bomb in Scorpion King yo. Like BOOM BOOM
I don’t think it had anything to do with being a reverend, I think it was short for “Reviled.”
Well fuck, fuck fuck fuck, why the big guy huh? and a heart-attack.
maybe this will cheer us up
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He should have green miled himself.
That’s a thing, right?
He died choking on “Oogielove’s Big Balloon Adventure”.
Looks like Mr. Jingles is free to vote for Romney now
R.I.P. Big Mike
He almost made DAREDEVIL watchable.
Al Pacino couldnt have made that turd watchable. Let’s not over state
He threw Ben Affleck into the ceiling. I always thought that was a pretty awesome move, even if Hollywood rules meant he had to finish by taking a dive.
That is fucked up. That reporter is a fucking racist. Those were people in gorilla costumes in Planet of the Apes, not Michael Clarke Duncan.
This sucks for real.
What kind of Hoodoo Magik is Omarosa a Reverend of exactly? Now she’ll grow even more powerful than we can imagine.
RIP big dude who made film enjoyable.
“It should also be noted that the guy managed to get engaged to a fairly-infamous reality TV villain without anyone even knowing about it until he died”
BURNSY KNEW….burnsy knew. *pours out 40*
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He was as far as I’ve ever heard a super nice guy
He had a big heart.
Tough loss. Can’t remember anything I ever saw him in that wasn’t improved by his presence, from the B-movie garbage to stuff like Green Mile.
I always thought it was cool of him to suit up and do the DirecTV commercial as his character from Planet of the Apes. He had to have known it was critically savaged and generally scoffed at, but you get the idea he had such fun doing it that he relished the opportunity to do it again. And really, he did a hell of a job in a role that could have been a HUGE joke. So “BOW YOUR HEADS!”
I met him back in 2009 at the Gracie Academy in Torrance, CA. He was fully naked just with a towel sitting on the bench in the locker room area and I walked in and saw him. I was like, OMG IT’S MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN NO WAY!! But all I said to him was, “Hi,” and he was like so fucking cool about it like he wasn’t this movie star that I watched in movies my whole life. RIP Michael Clarke Duncan.
holy shit! have you checked that bitches wiki page. death follows that chick around. need to fucking get poirot on this right now.
iampheonix, i’m assuming the grace academy is a gay sauna specializing in white twinks for black bulls?
It’s a magical place where boys become men, and men come on boys.
This really sucks, but I’m not entirely convinced that his fiancée isn’t a succubus and she was the cause of his death instead of a heart attack.
Has anyone tried to sing “The Morning After” backwards in her presence?
I can do it, but I need about tree-fiddy.
He’s off to that great white horse in the sky.
RIP
*Pours an entire 40 oz Colt .45 on the ground.
What? He was a big-ass dude.
If ifs and buts were candies and nuts Michael Clarke Duncan wouldn’t be dead.
looks like Ricky Bobby ‘put that evil’ on him after all. RIP