| Posted by: yorrick brown at March 18, 2008, 6:01 pm | | Topic: Anthony Minghella passed away Forum: JoBlo | | http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338815,00.html AP Anthony Minghella The saddest news: It was a shock today to learn of the death of Anthony Minghella at age 54. A source said Minghella had an operation at a West London hospital last week regarding a growth on his neck. The operation went well, but Tuesday at 5 a.m. in the U.K., he started bleeding heavily and died. Minghella's publicist, Jonathan Rutter, later confirmed all of these details for the Associated Press, adding that the filmmaker died at London's Charing Cross Hospital of a fatal hemorrhage. The Oscar-winning director of "The English Patient," "Truly Madly Deeply," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold Mountain" was in the middle of finishing a miniseries for The Weinstein Company based on the "Ladies' Detective Agency" novels. He spent last summer shooting the pilot in Botswana. Rarely has there been a more gracious, warm or lovely man. I had the pleasure of knowing him for more than a decade, ... | | Read Entire Entry |
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