As noted on The Superficial , Andrew Koenig, who had been missing for over a week, has been found dead in Vancouver. His father Walter Koenig, Star Trek ’s Chekov, has confirmed it was an apparent suicide. Andrew was best known for playing the tragically-named Boner, best friend of Mike Seaver on Growing Pains . I recommend Vinnie Delpino, Cockroach, and Sam from Clarissa Explains it All be put on immediate watch.

Seen here playing spaceman, Walter Frederick Morrison invented the modern Frisbee in the 1950’s after throwing a metal cake pan around on the beach with his wife. And the rest, my friends, is toy history. He originally called his toy the Pluto Platter and sold it at local fairs. In 1957 Mr Morrison sold the rights to the California firm Wham-O, which discovered that youngsters were calling the toy a “Frisbie” after the name of a well-known pie. The company changed the spelling to avoid trademark infringement and the Frisbee was born. On the official Frisbee website, Wham-O paid tribute to Mr Morrison, who was known as Fred. “As Frisbee discs keep flying though the air, bringing smiles to faces, Fred’s spirit lives on. Smooth flights, Fred,” it read. Ah, I can’t even begin to imagine how many countless hours I’ve spent throwing the ol’ Pluto Platter around in the yard with friends. Well Fred, this throw’s for you. *CRASH* Oh shit. Rest in peace. Frisbee inventor Walter Frederick Morrison dies aged 90 [bbcnews] Thanks to Cpt. Lars Von Fingerbang III, direct descendant of the royal Von Shockers.

Seen here playing spaceman, Walter Frederick Morrison invented the modern Frisbee in the 1950’s after throwing a metal cake pan around on the beach with his wife. And the rest, my friends, is toy history. He originally called his toy the Pluto Platter and sold it at local fairs. In 1957 Mr Morrison sold the rights to the California firm Wham-O, which discovered that youngsters were calling the toy a “Frisbie” after the name of a well-known pie. The company changed the spelling to avoid trademark infringement and the Frisbee was born. On the official Frisbee website, Wham-O paid tribute to Mr Morrison, who was known as Fred. “As Frisbee discs keep flying though the air, bringing smiles to faces, Fred’s spirit lives on. Smooth flights, Fred,” it read. Ah, I can’t even begin to imagine how many countless hours I’ve spent throwing the ol’ Pluto Platter around in the yard with friends. Well Fred, this throw’s for you. *CRASH* Oh shit. Rest in peace. Frisbee inventor Walter Frederick Morrison dies aged 90 [bbcnews] Thanks to Cpt. Lars Von Fingerbang III, direct descendant of the royal Von Shockers.

Zelda Rubinstein, the diminutive, child-voiced actress who was somehow able to upstage even the great Craig T. Nelson, died yesterday. The just-over-four-foot actress had a heart attack two months ago and had been hospitalized until her death. In the ’80s, she nobly campaigned for both AIDS awareness and the fair treatment of little people. As of writing this, Wikipedia has still not decided if Rubinstein’s death should be considered part of the Poltergeist curse or if a small woman dying of heart attack complications at 76-years-old might just be a regular old person death. ‘Poltergeist’ scene-stealer Zelda Rubinstein dies at 76, two months after heart attack [NY Daily News]

After 31 years of operation, Miramax, the Weinstein-founded company known for its independent spirit, is closing the doors on its New York and LA offices today, officially killing the company. The closure will put 80 people out of their jobs, and your Pulp Fiction and Clerks DVDs will stop working by the end of the week. Truly, the end of an era, and of course it happens the day after I finish writing a film with lot of really clever dialogue that may be too edgy for mainstream audiences.

It was only a matter of time before Avatar killed somebody , and it’s finally happened. Which is exactly why I haven’t gone to see it. Well, that and I’ve been banned from all the local theaters for public indecency excessive awesomeness and killer style. According to AFP, the 42-year-old cinemagoer, surnamed Kuo, had a history of high blood pressure and suffered a stroke while watching the film in in the northern city of Hsinchu (Taiwan). Emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih told AFP: “It’s likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms.” The China Times reported that the incident represented “the first death linked to watching James Cameron’s science-fiction epic”. Interesting, China, but if it was actually Avatar that killed him then how do you explain THIS GUNSHOT WOUND?! Dum dum dum! Avatar kills Taiwanese man [theregister] Thanks to Justin, who was *this close* to losing consciousness during Titanic .

It was only a matter of time before Avatar killed somebody , and it’s finally happened. Which is exactly why I haven’t gone to see it. Well, that and I’ve been banned from all the local theaters for public indecency excessive awesomeness and killer style. According to AFP, the 42-year-old cinemagoer, surnamed Kuo, had a history of high blood pressure and suffered a stroke while watching the film in in the northern city of Hsinchu (Taiwan). Emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih told AFP: “It’s likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms.” The China Times reported that the incident represented “the first death linked to watching James Cameron’s science-fiction epic”. Interesting, China, but if it was actually Avatar that killed him then how do you explain THIS GUNSHOT WOUND?! Dum dum dum! Avatar kills Taiwanese man [theregister] Thanks to Justin, who was *this close* to losing consciousness during Titanic .

Éric Rohmer, director, critic, writer, teacher, and one of the founders of the French New Wave film movement, died Monday in Paris. He was 89. Says Roger Ebert of the director’s work: A Rohmer film is a flavor that, once tasted, cannot be mistaken. Like the Japanese master Ozu, with whom he is sometimes compared, he is said to make the same film every time. Yet, also like Ozu, his films seem individual and fresh and never seem to repeat themselves; both directors focus on people rather than plots, and know that every person is a startling original while most plots are more or less the same. Rohmer is the romantic philosopher of the French New Wave, the director whose characters make love with words as well as flesh. They are open to sudden flashes of passion, they become infatuated at first sight, but then they descend into doubt and analysis, talking intensely about what it all means. Because they’re invariably charming, and because coincidence and serendipity play such a large role in his stories, this is more cheerful than it sounds. As he grows older Rohmer’s heart grows younger, and at 81 he is more in tune with love than the prematurely cynical authors of Hollywood teen romances. As Ebert also points out, though we’ve lost Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, and now Rohmer, we do still have Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette remaining from the movement. So let’s wait until one or two more die before we put our cameras back on tripods, call this whole New Wave thing over and go back to the old studio system. (Thanks, Ted.)

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Sorry, there’s more sad death news. Alaina Reed-Amini, best known for her roles in the ’80s as Olivia on Sesame Street and Rose on 227 , has reportedly died of breast cancer . She was 63. Were it not for her intervention, I’d probably still be tragically uninformed about the letter J and the number 8.