R.I.P.: Tom Sizemore (HEAT; SAVING PRIVATE RYAN)

[erik]

The number of entertainers of all kinds dying on us this year has gone up again. Tom Sizemore, the brilliant but frequently troubled actor who appeared in films like Heat and director Steven Spielberg's 1998 World War II classic Saving Private Ryan, has passed away due to a brain aneurysm. He was only 61:

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/tom-sizemore-saving-private-ryan-actor-dead-obituary-1234682777/

[sliderocker]

I'd been expecting to see the news of Tom's death, ever since I saw the story of his being in a coma because of the brain aneurysm. I hoped he would recover, even after the news was released of his doctors saying there was no hope. And though it seems like 61 is too young an age to die, those of us who are 60 and older are considered senior citizens. And we get tagged with the elderly label if we make it to our 70s or 80s. Dying at 61 was too young. Rest in peace, Tom. Better words will be said about you than what I can write, and you'll live on through the movies you were in. And you'll never grow old on celluoid.