[HN Gopher] Michael Madsen, star of Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill...
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Michael Madsen, star of Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, dies aged 67
Author : benoitg
Score : 20 points
Date : 2025-07-03 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Madsen
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| https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000514/
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| https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://michaelmadsen.com/
| crtified wrote:
| As tragic as any passing is, I can't be the only one who feels
| uneasy about Hacker News being used to share _general showbiz
| obituaries_ with no particular tech association. HN is one of the
| few havens from the various death and killing notices that seem
| to comprise most of the world 's news these days. What place have
| Hollywood obituaries here?
| Alupis wrote:
| I believe people are paying respects to a very talented (and in
| my opinion, criminally underrated) artist - not the "general
| showbiz" stuff.
|
| We can appreciate Madsen's craft just the same as we appreciate
| other high-skilled artists and creators. There's no "rule" that
| everything must be tech-related here...
| 123yawaworht456 wrote:
| >There's no "rule" that everything must be tech-related
| here...
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| take that to its logical conclusion, and you get orange
| reddit
| krapp wrote:
| That's water under the bridge, unfortunately.
|
| Even "political" stories with direct relevance to tech get
| flagged immediately but some random actor dies and it's fine to
| wallow in the shallow intellectual pool of mainstream culture
| because nostalgia I guess.
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