Michael Madsen is DEAD to ME!

I thought he died already.

Heavy smoker and/or drinker.

R1, me too

I liked him and thought he was quite handsome and a decent actor. Poor Virginia.

He was incredibly handsome when he was young. I liked him better than Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise.

I don’t know him.

Like a rougher around the edges Matthew Perry.....Madsen was cute when he was younger

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths-Bernadette Peters and Elliott Gould

Overdose.

His manager, Ron Smith, confirmed the news on Thursday, revealing he reportedly died from cardiac arrest.

Case closed. I'm wearing my black scrunchie to honor his memory.

Has his sister Virginia released a statement yet?

I remember the director Tarantino said he lent him 4 million dollars! Yet, Micheal still filed for bankruptcy

[quote]I thought he died already.

He was easily confused with the late Tom Sizemore, another tough guy train wreck.

Has his grandmother Dolley Madison made a statement?

He was wed to Georganne LaPiere, half-sister of singer and actress Cher from 1984-1988.

[quote] He was easily confused with the late Tom Sizemore, another tough guy train wreck.

And Ray Liotta...

Virginia looks like she's not too healthy herself these days. Here's a recent photo with her nonagenarian mom. (She's not yet posted about Michael.)

So young.

Virginia looks pretty good in that photo. It looks like she lost that post-menopausal bloat that happens to most women her age.

[quote]I liked him better than Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise.

Ditto, and add thiccums Christopher McDonald to that list.

His son died a few years ago.....sad all around

Has Daryl Hannah commented?

God help me, but I've always been magnetically attracted to complete dirtbags inside and out — and young Michael was a 10 to me.

She did, R23!

[quote] Right at this moment, the biggest R I feel is Regret. Regret that maybe the greatest warrior I have ever known, met her end at the hands of a bushwhackin, scrub, alky piece of shit like him. That woman deserved better.

The Hollywood Reporter.

Somebody had to post it.

I thought he died years ago.

He was in trouble last year.

I saw Free Willy when I was 10 and developed the biggest crush on this guy. He was so dreamy!

(I think that was one of the few roles where he didn't play a bad guy or a psycho. Species was another good one.)

He was a mess, but RIP, big sexy!

I saw Free Willy a bunch of times as a kid.

A couple of years ago, it was one of the streaming services and I watched it for 90s nostalgia and I realized that Michael Madsen was in great in the movie as a blue collar good guy foster dad. But, I also saw how he was mismatched he was with Jayne Atkinson who played his wife. Lori Petty should have played the foster mom character and Jayne should have played the trainer character that Lori played in the movie.

Virginia has spoken

Hideous looking, but I did like him as an actor.

'Michael was suffering from the effects of alcoholism. He had multiple stints in and out of rehab. He struggled to maintain his sobriety. He was not happy about his life.'

Madsen was also facing a crippling legal battle with his estranged wife, which saw the pair fighting over child support and other finances, his lawyer claimed.

'I blame her for putting in the screws over his last years of life,' Wander said, alleging the legal battle, which saw his passport be 'maliciously revoked', impacted his ability to travel and work abroad.

'Michael lived a life of regrets - those regrets being his two marriages,' he added.

Virginia paid emotional tribute to Madsen in a statement to Variety, which read: 'My brother Michael has left the stage. He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother — etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.

'We’re not mourning a public figure. We’re not mourning a myth — but flesh and blood and ferocious heart. Who stormed through life loud, brilliant, and half on fire. Who leaves us echoes — gruff, brilliant, unrepeatable — half legend, half lullaby.

'I’ll miss our inside jokes, the sudden laughter, the sound of him. I’ll miss the boy he was before the legend; I miss my big brother. Thank you to everyone reaching out with love and memory. In time, we’ll share how we plan to celebrate his life — but for now, we stay close, and let the silence say what words can’t.'

Wow. Until today, I genuinely had no idea that Michael and Virginia were related - SIBLINGS, even!

And I pride myself on showbiz knowledge, gossip, etc.

I feel so...oblivious

It's fascinating how many movies he appeared in which have a shockingly low star rating on IMDB.

R36 Super fascinating

[quote]It's fascinating how many movies he appeared in which have a shockingly low star rating on IMDB.

He's like Eric Roberts — both made the decision to appear in anything that met their day rate. Eric was even in the last installment of "The Human Centipede."

Bullshit, R9. He had a heart attack.

He has looked rrrrrrrrrough for 20 years. It catches up at different times for different people, but 67 is young. But then my dear alcoholic sister died at 63.

And yet he made 2 classic movies, R38. How many actors make even one?

Well, at least R41 didn't say, "How many classic movies have YOU made, R38?"

But of course Mr. Madsen had many committed and well-defined performances, with a youthful appeal and an early-maturity seriousness behind the mannerisms on the surface.

He was Mr Blonde

How many classic movies have YOU made, R38?

Yeah, R43, we know.

What was his character's name in Kill Bill, r43?

He was a slightly less dirtbally Tom Sizemote.

aw, he was sort of cute

The New York Times obit.

He also landed in more B-movies that he cared to mention.

“You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money,” he told The Guardian, “then you go to the Cannes Film Festival and they got some poster of you, 40 feet high, in the worst movie in the world. You’re like, ‘Oh, my God. Take the thing down!’ (He had inserted an expletive.)

67 is definitely young today.

Susan Dey does not know him and will not be issuing condolences.

Michael Madsen is Cher's former brother-in-law.

Madsen was married to Cher's sister, Georganne LaPiere 1984-1988.

I seem to recall him making a racist statement regarding dick sizes, am I right?

Dead?

Why couldn't it have been Trump?

r53 see r16

r46 Bud

[quote]His manager, Ron Smith, confirmed the news on Thursday, revealing he reportedly died from cardiac arrest.

No shit. That simply means his heart stopped. Ya know, that’s what happens when you die.

[quote]Bullshit, [R9]. He had a heart attack.

From drugs. He was a well-known junkie.

RIP Mike. I took a photo with him at a Con years ago and was pleasantly surprised by how big his basket looked in his jeans when he was seated before he stood to take the pic. He showed his (very nice) butt in several nude scenes over the years. This one was from an episode of The Hitchhiker…

Miss R59 fancies herself in the loop.

R59. My mother's official cause of death was cardiac arrest. No mention of the fact that she was on dialysis for three years with end stage renal failure. She also had diabetes, and what ultimately killed her was internal bleeding.

The above post (R62) was meant for R58.

R35 Me neither!

Hudson Madsen deadson.

r60 finally gets to the meat of the matter!

Madsen in his heyday was hot like Lawrence Tierney was hot in his heyday 50 years earlier - scary but thrillingly virile and sexually magnetic.

"Thrillingly virile..." Hmm.

He kind of reminded me of a young Robert Mitchum

Two more sibs who people may not know are sibs and who don't really resemble each other are Lisa and Billy Zane.

R1 and r3, perhaps you both are thinking of Ray Liotta.

[quote]I saw Free Willy when I was 10 and developed the biggest crush on this guy. He was so dreamy!

Ditto. That movie came out when I was in middle school, and it was my first exposure to him.

I remember both FREE WILLY and HOCUS POCUS opened on the same day in July 1993, and I was torn about which one to watch first. Ultimately, I went with the former, because I was drawn to Madsen in the TV spots.

RIP

Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are two more siblings who look nothing alike.

Warren got all the lip lusciousness while Shirley got zilch.

I loved him in a lot of movies, especially Reservoir Dogs and Species.

R71 I always got Michael Madsen confused with Tom Sizemore, who's most definitely dead.

Add Mickey Rourke to the Madsen/Sizemore/Liotta group of tough guy/bad boy/trainwreck actors.

And Martin Kove.

nobody lives forever

Awww that’s a shame. I guess he won’t be announcing the football games this year with Pat Summerall.