One of my all-time favorite lines from a movie is when the Heather Chandler character in the movie Heathers utters "Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?" I was reading the Wikipedia entry on Heathers when I came across this weird pop culture factoid today. Apparently, the actress who played Heather Chandler, Kim Walker, actually died of a brain tumor.When I first read it, I thought for sure it was a Hollywood urban legend along the lines of Paul from the Wonder Years being Marilyn Manson or Zack from Saved by the Bell being killed in a motorcycle accident. But I did a little googling, and it turns out it's true. Kim Walker really did die of a brain tumor in March of 2001. Can someone say irony?!? (And I mean the real kind of irony, not Alanis's fake kind of irony. Does that song drive anyone else crazy with it's misuse of the word irony?)
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