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A recent University of Notre Dame study found that there was a 133% increase in the risk of a mother dying in the two years immediately following the death of her child.
Filmmaker David Cronenberg was offered the directorial reins on Flashdance, Top Gun, Witness, The Juror and The Truman Show, but turned them all down.
According to forensic psychiatrist Paul Mullen, the first mass shooting in modern society took place in the towns of Degerloch and Mühlhausen an der Enz, Germany, on September 4, 1913, when Ernst August Wagner went on a rampage, killing his family as well as nine more strangers.
Before Canadian director Mary Harron adapted Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial 1991 novel Ameri- can Psycho, Johnny Depp suggested to producer Edward Pressman that Stuart Gordon (Re-Ani- mator) direct him in a black and white X-rated version of the film.
An eighteen-year-old Taiwanese man collapsed and died after renting a private room at an inter- net café and playing Diablo III for 40 hours straight, without once stopping for food.
In The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Val Kilmer was supposed to play the UN diplomat who discov- ers the island and serves as the movie’s narrator. But after signing on, he demanded his role be reduced by 40 percent, so he was given the part of Montgomery, Dr. Moreau's assistant.
In 1998, Werner Shenke choked to death after biting off another man's earlobe during a particu- larly brutal barroom brawl in Bremen, Germany.
In 2002, a Japanese television network pulled its annual broadcast of a hotdog-eating competi- tion after a twelve-year-old viewer choked to death while attempting to mimic the speed-eating championship he was watching.
Michael Marin collapsed and died in an Arizona courtroom in late July, just moments after being convicted of arson: he committed suicide using a concealed, homemade cyanide capsule.
Thomas Harris’ 2006 novel Hannibal Rising was originally titled Behind the Mask and The Lecter Variations at various points during its writing.
Hans K. Rausing, the billionaire heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, has received a ten-month suspended sentence for not reporting his wife’s death for more than two months; instead, he left her corpse to decay beneath a pile of clothes and taped-together garbage bags in the family home.
Anthrax guitarist and long-time Stephen King fan Scott Ian recently listed Salem’s Lot as his favourite King book, calling it “the greatest vampire story.”
New Jersey authorities suspect cult involvement after a 98-year-old woman’s corpse was recently stolen from a Greenfield Cemetery mausoleum, where she’d been interred for sixteen years.
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