It may seem like horror is mainly used to elicit fear and terror, but its ability to frighten and rattle its audience is actually rooted in an unlikely emotion: sympathy. Even the most cynical character can be found worthy of redemption if the circumstances which jaded them are deemed tragic, and even the darkest villains are made more interesting by exposing their insecurities. It is this gray area in which brilliant author Joe Hill seeks to explore the darkest depths of the human mind throughout his portfolio of work, and the result of his inquiries is a large stack of fascinating publications.
Born Joseph Hillstrom King, Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King, the famous writer of iconic works such as Carrie, Christine, The Shining, Gerald’s Game, Cujo, Salem’s Lot, The Green Mile, Misery, and many, many more. Stephen King has become a household name, and although...
Born Joseph Hillstrom King, Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King, the famous writer of iconic works such as Carrie, Christine, The Shining, Gerald’s Game, Cujo, Salem’s Lot, The Green Mile, Misery, and many, many more. Stephen King has become a household name, and although...
- 11/1/2016
- by Kalyn Corrigan
- DailyDead
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Actor Eddie Carroll, who voiced beloved Disney character Jiminy Cricket, has lost his battle with brain cancer. He was 76.
Carroll died at a Los Angeles hospital on 6 April after a long struggle with a brain tumour.
In 1973, he became the second actor to voice the lovable cricket, first featured as Pinocchio's conscience in the animated 1940 film of the same name. The original voice of Jiminy Cricket, Cliff Edwards, died in 1971.
Carroll later gained notoriety for his impersonations of comedian Jack Benny, after being cast in one-man show A Small Eternity With Jack Benny. He continued appearing as the icon until last year.
Carroll is survived by a wife, Carolyn and two children.
Carroll died at a Los Angeles hospital on 6 April after a long struggle with a brain tumour.
In 1973, he became the second actor to voice the lovable cricket, first featured as Pinocchio's conscience in the animated 1940 film of the same name. The original voice of Jiminy Cricket, Cliff Edwards, died in 1971.
Carroll later gained notoriety for his impersonations of comedian Jack Benny, after being cast in one-man show A Small Eternity With Jack Benny. He continued appearing as the icon until last year.
Carroll is survived by a wife, Carolyn and two children.
- 4/15/2010
- WENN
Eddie Carroll, the actor who gave voice to Disney's Jiminy Cricket, has died at the age of 76. Carroll passed away on Tuesday from a brain tumour, reports the Los Angeles Times. The star spent his final hours at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA, according to his wife Carolyn. Carroll voiced Jiminy Cricket, the character featured in the 1940 animated film Pinocchio and several other Disney projects. He was also known for impersonating comedian Jack Benny. "He was so proud to do both roles. He just admired the whole fantasy of Jiminy Cricket, and he (more)...
- 4/12/2010
- by By Mike Moody
- Digital Spy
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Audiences will have to fall for I Love You Phillip Morris this July: The Jim Carrey-Ewan McGregor film has been delayed from April 30 to July 30. [Variety] Twilight studio Summit acquires film rights to Homelanders, a young adult novel by Andrew Klavan that follows a high school student "who wakes up to find himself tied to a chair, not knowing where he is or how a whole year has passed." Okay, so when do the vampires come into the picture? [THR] Into the Wild's Emile Hirsch will star in another movie about survival: The actor has signed onto The Darkest Hour,...
- 4/12/2010
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
Morning Meme: John Barrowman's Super, Adam Lambert's a Coverboy, Prequels, Sequels, and Critter Cam!
Plus Mike Manning on his legacy, Mike Huckabee talks puppies, Glee at the grove, plus Emmerdale gets dark with Aaron.
This was just not a good weekend for gay entertainment buffs. Not only did we lose Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), but we lost one of the last surviving Munchkins. Word comes from Florida that Meinhardt Raabe, the Munchkin who pronounced the Wicked Witch of the East “most sincerely dead” has himself been pronounced at the age of 94. A last minute addition is the loss of Eddie Carroll, who had voiced Jiminy Cricket for Disney since 1973. He was 66-years-old.
Snippets of music from The Power of Madonna by the cast of Glee have surfaced online, and I’ve got to say, it sounds just awful. Maybe seeing the kids perform it and the emotional tie-in will sell it, but it’s just so over produced I’m not even sure who’s singing what,...
This was just not a good weekend for gay entertainment buffs. Not only did we lose Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), but we lost one of the last surviving Munchkins. Word comes from Florida that Meinhardt Raabe, the Munchkin who pronounced the Wicked Witch of the East “most sincerely dead” has himself been pronounced at the age of 94. A last minute addition is the loss of Eddie Carroll, who had voiced Jiminy Cricket for Disney since 1973. He was 66-years-old.
Snippets of music from The Power of Madonna by the cast of Glee have surfaced online, and I’ve got to say, it sounds just awful. Maybe seeing the kids perform it and the emotional tie-in will sell it, but it’s just so over produced I’m not even sure who’s singing what,...
- 4/12/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Sad news hit a few days apart last week as Deadline reports actors Eddie Carroll and Meinhardt Raabe have passed away. Though you may not know them by name, you certainly know them by their most iconic characters. Raabe played the Munchkin coroner in the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who so succinctly proclaimed The Wicked Witch of the West was "really most sincerely dead." Meanwhile, Carroll voiced quite possibly the most famous insect of all-time: the lovable Jiminy Cricket. Carroll inherited decades of work as the longest recurring Disney character after the original voice actor, Cliff Edwards, passed away in 1973. Yahoo says Raabe was 94-years-old and one of the last few surviving little people out of the 124 actors who appeared on-screen as the Munchkins in the original movie. On Friday, April 9th, the actor suddenly went into cardiac arrest at his retirement community before passing away ...
- 4/12/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
His family tells me that Eddie Carroll, who touched countless people's lives as the voice of Jiminy Cricket for almost 40 years, died of a brain tumor on April 6th. He was 66. Jiminy Cricket is the longest recurring character voice actor in the Disney stable of characters, and Carroll took over from the late Cliff Edwards, the original voice, in 1973. "He absolutely loved performing the voice," Rick Dempsey, Svp of Disney Character Voices told the studio in-house newsletter. "He was so into the character and truly took to heart what Jiminy was all about." Also, Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin official [...]...
- 4/12/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
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