Demmes Autopsy Performed
January 17th, 2002
The results of director Ted Demmes autopsy are in and theyre...inconclusive. All the medical examiner will say is that he died of natural causes.
Toxicology tests and a look at Demmes medical history -- something which could take several weeks -- will now be conducted. Demme was pronounced dead Sunday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. He had been brought to the hospital in full cardiac arrest after collapsing at a celebrity basketball game at nearby Crossroads School.
A former football lineman in college, Ted Demme was less than six feet but, according to the coroner's office, "in excess of 200 pounds." (Doesnt sound outrageous to me.) He reportedly played basketball as often as five times a week.
Demme can be glimpsed in a cameo in the upcoming film JOHN Q, which stars Denzel Washington as a desperate father whose limited medical insurance doesn't cover his son's need for a heart transplant. During a montage scene featuring celebrity reaction to the heart-attack death of the young boy, Demme is shown in a clip from Bill Maher's POLITICALLY INCORRECT. The director doesn't speak, but he is identified by an onscreen caption. E! Online, citing several reporters and critics who attended a preview screening Monday, says the audience audibly gasped when Demme flashed on the screen. JOHN Q was directed by Nick Cassavetes, a close friend of Demme's. When E! Online asked Wednesday if the Demme clip would remain in the film, a producer at Evolution Entertainment said the scene was "definitely" going to stay. The film hits theaters February 15.
-- Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com)
(Reported by eonline.com)
Toxicology tests and a look at Demmes medical history -- something which could take several weeks -- will now be conducted. Demme was pronounced dead Sunday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. He had been brought to the hospital in full cardiac arrest after collapsing at a celebrity basketball game at nearby Crossroads School.
A former football lineman in college, Ted Demme was less than six feet but, according to the coroner's office, "in excess of 200 pounds." (Doesnt sound outrageous to me.) He reportedly played basketball as often as five times a week.
Demme can be glimpsed in a cameo in the upcoming film JOHN Q, which stars Denzel Washington as a desperate father whose limited medical insurance doesn't cover his son's need for a heart transplant. During a montage scene featuring celebrity reaction to the heart-attack death of the young boy, Demme is shown in a clip from Bill Maher's POLITICALLY INCORRECT. The director doesn't speak, but he is identified by an onscreen caption. E! Online, citing several reporters and critics who attended a preview screening Monday, says the audience audibly gasped when Demme flashed on the screen. JOHN Q was directed by Nick Cassavetes, a close friend of Demme's. When E! Online asked Wednesday if the Demme clip would remain in the film, a producer at Evolution Entertainment said the scene was "definitely" going to stay. The film hits theaters February 15.
-- Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com)
(Reported by eonline.com)
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