OT: RIP Luke Perry, age 52
Age 52, never recovered from the stroke a few days ago.
I can't believe I have to say "if you're old enough to remember Beverly Hills 90210" like it's The Honeymooners or something, but when I was a kid that show was what I thought high school was going to be like. It wasn't, but the closest thing to water cooler conversation we had back then was discussing what Dylan, Brandon, and the gang were up to. Introduced himself to a newer generation with the Netflix series "Riverdale" which was a spin-off of the Archie comics series.
RIP Dylan.
(I will confess though, when you consider that his father, Jack, famously faked his own death only to reemerge later, I am not calling this 100% yet).
In all honesty, I understand they are planning a soft-reboot of that show. I imagine this will have implications as to what form that takes.
Car bomb and stroke are 2 different ways to go. RIP to Luke aka Dylan. This year has been brutal for the celebrity deaths from my youth.
How in the world does someone have a stroke at 52?
Just awful
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is suddenly interrupted or a blood vessel in the brain bursts, spilling blood into the spaces surrounding brain cells. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood or there is sudden bleeding into or around the brain.
thanks doc but that wasn't really the question methinks
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Genetics plays a big role here, and he may not have helped himself if he smoked, drank heavily, or had poorly managed high blood pressure.
I have a friend who had a stroke in late thirties. Genetics was the big factor; at the time he was smoking. He seems to have recovered well, thankfully.
Even more frightening is that my 12-year old son had a basketball teammate have a stroke at practice a few weeks ago. He's 12....and thus far there have been no causes identified as to why it happened. They are hopeful about his recovery but it is too soon to tell for sure.
I had a stroke at age 43. Patent Formen Ovale (PFO). Due to a congenital heart defect where a hole between the two halves of the heart doesn’t close and eventually throws a clot. Fortunately my wife (pre marriage) figured out there was a problem and called 911 quickly. Other than some memory loss no permanent damage.
I have no idea what happened with Luke Perry but strokes can happen at any age.
52 is way too young. RIP.
Was good in HBO's OZ.
He was in Oz?
I don't even remember that, and I remember watching the entirety of that show, way back when.
Wow.
Perry played a jailed reverend in some of the later seasons, and he had some interesting storylines and chaos around his character.
He had the stroke on the same day they announced the Beverly Hills 90210 reboot.
Sad news; he's younger than me. Makes you wonder how many more trips around the sun you have left.
RIP Luke
That show was the bomb when I was in high school. Man I am getting old.
Wow. Rest in peace. I always think of his bizarrely small role in The Fifth Element when I hear about him. I might have to watch that or the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie tonight.
Also, Riverdale is on CW, not Netflix.
It’s also on Netflix
So is the Office, but you wouldn't call that a Netflix show.
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*Aziz
People who watch tv shows on actual stations via cable I think are in the minority compared to those who watch on streaming services like netflix now. At least if you cut out all the old people without internet.
That is really sad. Dude was a good actor that unfortunately got pigeon-holed from being on 90210
I kind of just think he was a good actor who was on 90210.
His best role was 8 Seconds.
I dunno - I'll always remember him best as Krusty the Clown's "worthless half brother."
Sideshow Luke Perry
So here's a weird story: Luke owned a large piece of property in very, very rural Tennessee. Not sure how he acquired it, but he would spend about a week or two a year there-- probably to decompress. This place is so out of the way you have to cross two streams to get there-- as in drive through the freaking water because no one is going to build a damn bridge through the property of people that lived that deep in that kind of holler.
It happened to be next to a friend of the family, and he swung by and chatted with her for almost an hour right after he bought it. She was totally star struck-- even though she was a bit older, he was her #1 famous person crush-- but he was apparently the most down-to-earth guy ever. He stopped by a couple of times through the years, sent her xmas cards, and even left some dog treats when he saw that she got a dog. Apparently he just thought that was how you treated your neighbors.
that is a nice story to share as a remembrance.
Yeah, seriously by all accounts he was a really good person. It certainly seems things like this happen disproportionately to people who are described in those terms.
Sad to hear. Perry helped bring a coolness factor to an iconic troubled TV character. If there’s a driving force as to why you know of a bunch of people named Dylan, it likely was Luke Perry.
There were 4,413 baby boys named Dylan in 1990.
In 1992, the number was 15,060. That's plus 340 percent!
(and yes, I know two Dylans - one born in the early 1990s and one in the mid-2000s).
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As someone who never saw the show when it was still being made, I recently binged the entire 90210 series (within the past four to five years). I actually really like that show. The last few seasons are a grind to get through, but overall, the show runners did a good job of wanting me to keep watching the next episode. Dylan is my favorite character from the show followed by Steve.
I wonder if he had afib, since he was kind of young for his body type to have a massive stroke at 52. I think Harbaugh had afib but got the thermal scaring technique. When I turned 50 I started noticing some irregular heart beats, had it checked out and it was PVM, lower chamber nerve just firing occasionally. I noticed when I drink a lot, my PVM acts up.
I heard about this on the radio on the way home - 52 is way too young.
90210 was not really my thing (though I was in high school in its earlier years), but because I had two sisters and there weren't enough TVs in the house, I occasionally had to watch an episode if I wanted to watch TV at all.
Luke Perry was a pretty good actor overall though. Oz, Riverdale, and some others shows that I do know.
Sad. Gone too soon. His best work, IMO, was presenting an MTV music award to Fartman.
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Dammit, just dammit.
I want to go outside and just kick and break something.
So I liked Luke Perry as an actor in a low rated soap opera in the later 80s, called Loving. I was hooked on it. It's the only daytime soap opera I have ever watched and it was cancelled after a couple of years due to said low ratings. I thought the production and direction was of surprisingly good quality given the genre, and the people who ran it seemed to have a talent for assembling good actors. Maybe that was the differentiating factor because I couldn't stomach any other soaps for even an episode. Luke played a sweet character in such a way it may not have been all acting.
I never watched 90210 but remember being happy that Perry found success. I am so pissed off this had to happen to him.
I did some business in Mansfield and spoke at length with someone who knew the family and said he was as down to earth as they get. I’ve got no room to talk but he was looking pretty rough the last few times I saw him on TV. I wonder if the stress of 30 plus years in Hollywood took sits toll on him. Either way RIP. He was the James Deen of my era for sure.
