2024-10-30 at 9:52 PM UTC
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How about The Jeffersons? All in the Family? Sanford & Son? Good Times?
The theme song to Sanford & Son is constantly on my mind.
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post didn't die in a fire!
2024-10-30 at 10:13 PM UTC
Redd Foxx. He'd be 103 today.
2024-10-30 at 10:17 PM UTC
On October 11, 1991, during a break from rehearsals for The Royal Family, Foxx suffered a heart attack on the set.[34][35] According to Della Reese, Foxx was chatting with a reporter from Entertainment Tonight. The scene he was supposed to be in was not ready to shoot, and Foxx and Reese were rehearsing. In fact, Foxx had no lines in the scene at all; he was whisked away from the interview by a producer (one who, Reese stated, quarreled with Foxx about how he could teach him to be funny) who insisted on him being there.[36]
Foxx did his scripted part of the scene (walking across the back of a chair) while being livid, then immediately fell to the floor. Reese said that nobody initially suspected that anything was wrong. After all, Foxx was famous for Fred Sanford's fake heart attacks on Sanford and Son and was particularly skilled at pratfalls. When he did not immediately rise, Reese went to the floor [37] and heard him say "get my wife" twice.[38] Reese called for paramedics.[38] According to Joshua Rich at Entertainment Weekly: "It was an end so ironic that for a brief moment castmates figured Foxx–whose 1970s TV character often faked coronaries–was kidding when he grabbed a chair and fell to the floor."[39] Eddie Murphy, a producer on the show, credited him with being the most "naturally funny person" he'd known.[40]
Foxx was temporarily resuscitated and taken to Queen of Angels Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Four and a half hours after admission, he was pronounced dead.[38]
