(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026: TMZ has reported that English actor and singer Tim Curry has died at the age of 80. Tim Curry -- who starred as the sweet transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the musical and subsequent movie version of The Rocky Horror Show (1975) and Pennywise among a slew of other roles -- has passed away due to long-term illness that left him unable to walk and clinging to his privacy about his relationships as a confirmed bachelor up until the age of 80.
Curry started his career in the West End production of the musical Hair (1968–1969). He went on to be nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his roles as The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (1982) and King Arthur in Spamalot (2006–2007).
On Broadway, he earned three Tony Award nominations, his first for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus (1981) and followed by two nominations for Best Actor in a Musical for My Favorite Year (1992) and Spamalot (2005).
Curry received acclaim for his onscreen roles, Rooster Hannigan in Annie (1982), Darkness in Legend (1985), Wadsworth in Clue (1985), the Concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1993), and Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996).
He also took roles in The Worst Witch (1986), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Congo (1995), Charlie's Angels (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), and Kinsey (2004).
On television, Curry is best known for having portrayed Pennywise in the miniseries It (1990) and was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing a family of Hillbillies in Tales from the Crypt (1993). More
Dear Robert Redford, why do people keep dying? And not just famous ones neither. Sure, the Hollywood stars get most of the attention, but they don't do most of the dying. It's almost as if, hey, you don't suppose I, too, am going to die one day, do you? No, it's just that when a famous person dies, the whole world is reminded of Death (Mara), like you played that time on The Twilight Zone (Episode 81). What was that one about?
Into The Twilight Zone
There, there, my dear, you can still be famous. - How and where? - In the afterlife, of course.
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Life is samsara is beset by rebirth
An old woman is living in a nightmare. She an old woman who has fought a thousand battles with Death and always won. Now she's faced with a grim decision—whether or not to open a door. And in some strange and frightening way she knows that this seemingly ordinary door leads to the Twilight Zone.
PLOT: Wanda Dunn is an elderly and frail woman, who lives in a dark basement apartment in an abandoned tenement flat.
She is awakened one morning by an altercation outside, in which Harold Beldon (Robert Redford), a young police officer, is shot and falls just outside her door. Although he cries out that he is dying and pleads for her help, Dunn is reluctant as she knows Death takes many forms and is coming to claim her life.
While she eventually relents, she tells Beldon that she has no phone to call a doctor. Dunn is relieved when she touches him and doesn't die, which convinces her that he can't possibly be Death. (But it is).
Why did the Buddha recommend recalling "mindfulness of death"?
Attain The Deathless, and then you will never die.
Maraį¹asati ("mindfulness of death") is a Buddhist meditation practice of bringing the inevitability of death to mind, remembering (frequently bearing in mind without resistance) that death can strike at any time (AN 6.20). Therefore, what is the wise thing to do?
Avoid it, deny it, never think of it, and become angry with any reminder of it in polite company? No, this is no way to peace and enlightenment. Instead, we should practice vigilantly and assiduously (appamada), with a sense of urgency (samvega) in every moment, even in the time it takes to draw in a single breath.
Not being diligent every moment is called "negligence" by the Buddha (AN 6.19). In the earliest discourses (sutras) of the Buddha, the term maranasati is only explicitly defined twice, in the two suttas (AN 6.19 and AN 6.20).
Later Buddhist schools expanded the meaning of marana ("death") sati ("mindfulness") to include various visualization and contemplation techniques to dispassionately remain aware of death, which is as natural as rebirth.
Just as we keep being reborn in samsara, "the continued wandering on through life and death in pursuit of pleasure and fulfillment," so we keep dying. How could it be otherwise, for how could there be a coin with only heads and no tails (only a front without a back)? It is not possible. As soon as one springs into being, the other arises simultaneously.
The cultivation of maranasati is said to be conducive to right (balanced) effort and helpful in developing a sense of spiritual urgency (saį¹vega) and letting go/renunciation (nekkhamma) [1]. More
There is a state beyond the reach of death. It is not heaven. Death comes to heavenly beings, no matter how long lived. Many Buddhists aspire to a heavenly rebirth. That is in many ways superior to rebirth on the human plane. But there is at least one way in which the human plane is superior to any of the ordinary heavens (sagga, deva loka). Here in the human world, it is like being on the surf between the warm sand and the swirling, crashing, restless ocean. It is not possible to get too comfortable for long.
Suffering (dukkha = disappointment, dissatisfaction) soon finds us. But it is not so bad as drowning and bobbing and being thrown around out in the rip currents of the water. There is a balance here. We see death. We can't hardly forget it for long. We have our sandcastles wiped out. We can't hardly build an impervious abode to rest in. Even when it is the epoch of long life, even human lives of 80,000 years, it is still too short, not long enough to attain all we wished for.
Why did so many place faith in the Buddha?
Then there is NIRVANA, the ultimate bliss, liberation from the cycle of samsara, freedom from all suffering and all further rebirth. This nirvana has a synonym in "the deathless" or amata (amrita,ambrosia, the "elixir of immortality" used in a figurative sense for deathlessness).
It is hard to conceive of because all we have ever known in the phenomenal universe is conditional and composite, with everything composed of impermanent constituents. But nirvana is the unconditioned element. So there is nothing to compare it to. It would be like a turtle being asked by fish where he had been as no one had seen him.
The Turtle and the Fish
The turtle answers, "on dry land."
"Dry land? What is this 'dry land' you speak of, friend Turtle?"
"Well, Fish, um, you see, uh... Hmm."
"This 'dry land' of yours, is it cool and wet?"
"No, it is not cool and wet, Fish."
"Can you swim and dive into it?"
"No, you can't swim and dive into it."
"Can you drink it?"
"No, you can't drink it."
The Fish would determine, "Well, if it isn't cool and wet, can be swum or dived into, and is not drinkable, then this 'dry land' of yours must be complete nothingness and nonexistence!"
And the Turtle would be left with little to say other than, "That may be, Friends, that may be" as it went onto dry land again and bathed in the warm sun.
Robert Redford (RIP), The Twilight Zone (Ep. 81); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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There is a Hollywood legend that actor Keanu Reeves, that guy from The Matrix, Neo the Neophyte, starred in an earlier life in the role of the Buddha Shakyamuni. What was Hollywood thinking? Reeves can hardly speak his lines, which he must have gotten in writing and been given lots of time to memorize. Anyone who saw him in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure will have to wonder how such a skilled thespian would be chosen for the role of a lifetime.
A search of the archives reveals a film from 1993, Little Buddha, about an American tulku (important reincarnation of a rinpoche in Tibetan Hinduism/Mahayana Buddhism). Would Tibetan Vajrayana elites really choose to be reborn in the West (perhaps an interpretation of Amitabha's "Western Paradise") among whites?
They might. There is a long and harsh history (thanks, England) of colorism in and around India (Bharat), which was violently occupied, exploited, and colonized, forced to be a part of Rome II (the United Kingdom of the British colonial power) that set up a Raj (King) System and left behind a lot of DNA.
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And the current Dalai Lama (#14), who is thought to be a or the reincarnation of Kwan Yin/Kwannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara), has said that next time he may choose to be reborn as a woman outside of Tibet, in which case he says he wants to be "hot," presumably so more little boys will be willing to suck his tongue in a totally consensual and not at all creepy or perverted act of child grooming. The pontiff in the Vatican probably does the same thing must be the rationalization, and everyone knows the history of the imperial Holy Roman Catholic Church with little boys and erotic priests in sheep's clothing, so there's nothing weird going on.
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The impossible has happened. The Dark Side has come one step closer to losing the epic war in heaven between good and evil, between the Force (may it be with you) and the Dark Side (may you be spared).
The voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones, Luke Skywalker's dad (though in one video on the Mandela Effect, where Jones speaks of not believing the script as he read it and said "LUKE, I'M YOUR FATHER" not "NO, I'M YOUR FATHER"), has ceased to be and is no more.
And he will never be again but has already reappeared (been reborn) as someone else. Well, he is neither the same as who he was nor altogether someone else by the strange operation of radical impermanence (anicca).
The radical form of impermanence the Buddha was pointing out was not the one visible to us all if we just pay attention. He was speaking at a much subtler level we are not yet capable of discerning. But with mental purification by stillness and mindfulness (calm and insight) we may yet see it.
It's not just that things will someday die. It's that all things at all times, at every sub-moment as they arise, turn, and pass away, are passing away. The very "constituents of being" (the Five Aggregates clung to as self) are turning, falling away, and hurtling towards destruction. What is there worth clinging to?
So it is with the being we identify as the great actor James Earl Jones. He appeared as the voice of the character Darth Vader (a scary echo of Dark Invader?)
The wisdom of George Lucas' Star Wars
He was 93 and leaves behind minions of grieving sci-fi fans, many of them Buddhists who have not yet realized the irony that even characters are passionately clung to. How much more the clingers who do the clinging? They themselves cling to notions of themselves.
Everything can wait. Only seeking our spiritual liberation cannot wait. When Jones met Yama, the King of the Dead, he was asked a series of questions, according to the Buddha. We will all be asked these benign questions from kind Yama. Did we never think that as others were dying that we might die? Seeing the signs of old age, sickness, and death in others, did we never think that these messengers were talking to us, too?
James Earl Jones, an actor whose thundering Old Testament voice and commanding presence established him as one of his generation’s most indelible performers, whether in Shakespearean tragedies, the Star Wars franchise or a Disney animated classic, died today, September 9, 2024, at his home in Pawling, New York. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause. Jones’ personification of barrel-chested authority in Hollywood and on Broadway, augmented by his 6-foot-2 frame, was in jarring contrast with his stammer and extreme timidity in childhood.
How to commemorate him?
While being raised on a farm in Mississippi then Michigan, he spent eight years virtually mute to hide his stammer.
He discovered his love of performing in high school, when a teacher in an effort to draw him out, called on him to recite a few lines of poetry the young student had composed.
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