Hatrack River Forum: Irvin Kershner dies at 87

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Posted by manji (Member # 11600) on :

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30kershner.html?_r=1&hpw

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/11/29/obit.irvin.kershner/?hpt=Sbin

[ November 30, 2010, 01:56 PM: Message edited by: manji ]

Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :

That's #2... I wonder who's next. [Frown]

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

He will be missed.

Posted by C3PO the Dragon Slayer (Member # 10416) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Nighthawk:
That's #2... I wonder who's next.

That's the third time I saw someone say something like that related to this story. Is there some kind of myth that movie-business people always die in threes or something? Can someone explain this to me?

Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :

Yes, that seems a pretty persistent belief.

A story about it: http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/06/01/celebrity_deaths_threes

I'm not sure I understand what the world view of people who invoke the myth is. Do they think that God is killing them three at a time? That there's some sort of celebrity killing rule of the universe that must be invoked? Are they just having fun with pattern finding and know that its not real?