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verushka70Talk about 6 degrees of separation.
I just discovered something sad. I'm up because I have to work Sunday night from 6:30pm-7am, so I try to stay up all night the night before so I can sleep all day on the day I have to go to work. That's why I was watching this B-movie "Boy Meets Girl" at 3am, with Joe Mantegna (alumnus of the same junior college where I graduated from nursing school! and much more, of course). Just for fun, I went to IMDB to look up "Boy Meets Girl" and see at what point in everyone's career they were in this film. It so happens that Joseph Scoren (aka Joseph Scorsiani) was in "Boy Meets Girl" -- along with Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee of LOTR fame) and Emily Hampshire (who was also in The Last Stop).
I'd first seen Joseph Scoren in Naked Lunch, with Peter Weller, as Kiki -- one of the Interzone boys Bill Lee gets it on with when he finally admits he's gay. And Scoren was quite hot in that flick as one of "les boys."
I mean, look at the pretty! And slashy!!
Years later he played Dr. Carter's lover Kevin, in the Due South ep Letting Go. Apparently by that time he had changed his stage name. Later he was also in Torso (which CKR was in), and in Chicago (playing the husband who was caught in bed with two women and shot by one of the women imprisoned with Velma and Roxie). He was very pretty in that, for all of the two seconds he had of screen time.
Well, he's dead. He died in 2005 of a heart attack caused by sarcoidosis, according to his IMDB bio.
He was 41. Jesus. A year older than me. I didn't know him personally, obviously. Now, a lot of people died in my ER between 6:30am Christmas Eve and 7am on Wed. 12/26 (six that I'm aware of on my two shifts, and probably others on the day shifts). And that's just one Chicago ER. I heard it was bad in ERs all over town, and we also got deaths radioed in by EMS responders which later were declared crime scenes because they were suicides or DUI deaths. One still had his toe in the shotgun trigger when they found him.)
But still. It's just. Sad. I was sad to find out that Joseph Scoren, who I never met (and never will, now), but who provided me with many happy TV- and movie-escapism moments, is now gone from this earth. And I guess I haven't looked him up on IMDB in a couple years. Or I would have already found this out about a year and a half ago when it happened.
I just discovered something sad. I'm up because I have to work Sunday night from 6:30pm-7am, so I try to stay up all night the night before so I can sleep all day on the day I have to go to work. That's why I was watching this B-movie "Boy Meets Girl" at 3am, with Joe Mantegna (alumnus of the same junior college where I graduated from nursing school! and much more, of course). Just for fun, I went to IMDB to look up "Boy Meets Girl" and see at what point in everyone's career they were in this film. It so happens that Joseph Scoren (aka Joseph Scorsiani) was in "Boy Meets Girl" -- along with Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee of LOTR fame) and Emily Hampshire (who was also in The Last Stop).
I'd first seen Joseph Scoren in Naked Lunch, with Peter Weller, as Kiki -- one of the Interzone boys Bill Lee gets it on with when he finally admits he's gay. And Scoren was quite hot in that flick as one of "les boys."
I mean, look at the pretty! And slashy!!
Years later he played Dr. Carter's lover Kevin, in the Due South ep Letting Go. Apparently by that time he had changed his stage name. Later he was also in Torso (which CKR was in), and in Chicago (playing the husband who was caught in bed with two women and shot by one of the women imprisoned with Velma and Roxie). He was very pretty in that, for all of the two seconds he had of screen time.
Well, he's dead. He died in 2005 of a heart attack caused by sarcoidosis, according to his IMDB bio.
He was 41. Jesus. A year older than me. I didn't know him personally, obviously. Now, a lot of people died in my ER between 6:30am Christmas Eve and 7am on Wed. 12/26 (six that I'm aware of on my two shifts, and probably others on the day shifts). And that's just one Chicago ER. I heard it was bad in ERs all over town, and we also got deaths radioed in by EMS responders which later were declared crime scenes because they were suicides or DUI deaths. One still had his toe in the shotgun trigger when they found him.)
But still. It's just. Sad. I was sad to find out that Joseph Scoren, who I never met (and never will, now), but who provided me with many happy TV- and movie-escapism moments, is now gone from this earth. And I guess I haven't looked him up on IMDB in a couple years. Or I would have already found this out about a year and a half ago when it happened.
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Re: dead: Joseph Scoren
Date: 2008-01-02 01:40 pm (UTC)As far as being a "survivor" is concerned, apparently it doesn't matter if we talked the (suicidally depressed) talk; when it comes to the walk, we're still here, and we want to be! You, at least, mention all the things you didn't do yet (although finishing nursing school sounds like a terrific achievement to me) - like learning foreign languages and travelling. Me, when I become frightened of death, and cling to life, it's because I don't want to miss the new season of my favorite TV shows! Not kidding. When I get scared of death, that's the little tiny kind of thing I latch on to, that makes me want to live so fiercely!
I'm 67 years old, now, and I surely don't want to end up in a nursing home (but that's better than dying of cancer!). It is a bit too late for me to start eating healthy and exercising! But as far as cancer goes, it seems to me that I could more easily choose "death by cop" than find a way to avoid "death by cancer," if that's in my genetic cards. Neither is a "lifestyle choice," for me. Cancer just happens.
And - as you can see by my situation - finding and hanging on to the right (or even the wrong) man doesn't help! My Hannes, with whom I've been for 33 years, ups and dies on me at age 61, and there goes my cozy future, toddling into old age with my lifetime companion!
Yeah, we survive. We continue to survive. And that's good. Because the strength we embody gives itself to others, even if we don't know it. A few words in a story, a comment to an acquaintance in passing - these can turn the tide of a life, make somebody think, make somebody's life *better,* even if we don't realize we've done that. I truly believe that, and moreso for a nurse whose whole life is dedicated to helping the next guy just when she needs the help....
Verushka, I've missed you. Be well. May 2008 be a happier year than this last one, for everyone, but especially for you, old friend!
Love ya, max
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