Oscar-nominated actor Michael Clarke Duncan dies at 54

foxnews.com ^ | 9/3/12 | ap

[ColdOne]

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his fiancee, Reverend Omarosa Manigault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.

[tenger]

That kind of symbolism is not strange coming from King, and he's said so himself. Most of his books have Christian overtones and he deliberately put them in there. I read his book "On Writing" and he talks about that very thing. Best book on the writing craft I've read.

Yeah, he's pretty distasteful towards Christians pretty much because they haven't been all that welcoming to him (calling him vile names because of his writing), which he also pointed out.

[Texas Songwriter]

Great in The Green Mile.

Kids, stay away from anabolic steroids. They have a very bad effect on the heart and the valves corde tendonae of the heart. I do not know what kind of heart attack he had, but I suspect it was steroid related.

[boop]

Actually I just read Stephen King's "On Writing". Fascinating behind the scenes look at what it takes to be a good, great, and marketable writer. He's one of my favorites, BTW.

He does make it clear in that book that he believes in God, but hates "organized religion". Well and good, but seems funny to me that he uses Christian allegories and outright symbolism in his stories. I haven't read "The Stand", but I've heard it has an unabashedly pro-life theme running throughout.

Odd for a liberal IMHO.

[Biggirl]

Having had not one of my best summers, when I had to spend time in the hospital fighting a major life-threatening bacterial illness, losing one of my peers whom I saw him in two movies, “Green Mile” and “Armaggetton”, it does hit very close to home.

[blam]

I understand.

My barber, ten years my junior, just died.