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x When 45-year-old Australian mime Wayne Condo dropped dead of a heart attack mid-perfor- mance during the summer of 1998, it took the audience several minutes to realize that his collapse was not part of the act.
x Muhammad Ali publically dedicated his 1976 “Thrilla in Manilla” fight against Joe Frazier to his friend Christopher Lee, who at the time was watching the bout at the Playboy Mansion with another friend of his, Hugh Hefner.
x A recent study conducted by Pew Research discovered that 16 percent of Americans believe in the “evil eye” and other curses.
x James Bond author Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee were step-cousins and Fleming had origi- nally envisioned the actor in the titular role in 1960’s Dr. No. While this didn’t work out, Lee was later cast as the assassin Scaramanga in 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun.
x A California moviegoer was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer at a screening of Shut- ter Island after he complained about a woman using her cellphone during the film.
x Christopher Lee turned down an offer to play Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween. He would later tell director John Carpenter that it was one of the biggest mistakes of his career.
x After the recent SeaWorld trainer death in Florida, the American Family Association called for the killer whale to be stoned to death. This is how the Bible advises dealing with animals that kill.
x Before appearing in more than a dozen films together, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing both had roles in Hamlet (1948) and Moulin Rouge (1952), though they never crossed paths during ei- ther of the shoots.
x Earlier this year, a Southern Ontario man died of hypothermia after trekking out into the woods, allegedly trying to survive with only the knowledge he obtained from watching Discovery Channel’s Survivorman.
x Christopher Lee has a crooked finger, the result of an injury during a sword fight with Errol Flynn on the set of The Dark Avenger (1955).
x A North Korean factory worker was publicly executed by firing squad in March for contacting an out-of-country friend via an illegal cellphone and discussing the price of rice and his current living conditions.
x Several popular Hammer players have gone on to roles in the Star Wars franchise: Christopher Lee played Count Dooku in Star Wars Episodes II and III, David Prowse was Darth Vader in Episodes IV to VI, and Peter Cushing was Gran Moff Tarkin in Star Wars Episode IV.
x Patients at Heartlands Hospital in the UK recently endured the stench of decaying bodies when three people in one ward died in relatively quick succession and the hospital took more than seven hours to remove the deceased from their beds.
Compiled by MONICA S. KUEBLER and JAMES BURRELL Got a weird stat or morbid fact? Send it through to:
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Christopher Lee DraCuLa Deaths
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HORROR OF DRACULA DISINTEGRATED TO DUST
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE CRUCIFIX CLIFF DIVE
DRACULA A.D. STABBED BY COACH SPOKE (PROLOGUE)
SCARS OF DRACULA SPEARED, STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, SET ABLAZE, SAILS OFF ROOF
DRACULA A.D. STAKE PIT SLIP
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA POWDERED BY ALTAR-POWER
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