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This week we cover four actors who died before the age of 30. We start with James Dean in George Stevens’ Texas oil epic Giant (1956), next up is River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant’s soporific retelling of Henry IV My Own Private Idaho (1991), then Brandon Lee in Dwight H. Little’s early American Hong Kong action attempt Rapid Fire (1992), and we finish with Anton Yelchin in Stephen Sommers’ supernatural detective film Odd Thomas (2013)
Also: Adam Driver. Dallas (1978). A24 and Blumhouse. Drunk actor secrets. Dennis Hopper. Kalifornia (1993). Stand By Me (1984). Sneakers (1992). Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Zen Neo. Sex tableaux. Last Days of American Crime (2020). Al Leong. Dustin Nguyen. Ong Bak (2003). Guns, lots of guns. Dean Koontz. Caper energy. The Sexy Lamp Test. The burden of heroics. We play a game of “The Many Onscreen Deaths of Al Leong”.
