Austin Majors, a former child actor born November 23rd, 1995 who started acting as a toddler in the late 1990s and who continued appearing in TV shows and movies through to 2009, has died at age 27 in a Los Angeles homeless shelter of suspected fentanyl poisoning.
Austin Majors appeared as Andy Sipowicz's son Theo in 48 episodes of NYPD Blue from 1999 to 2004.
Animation fans might also remember him as the younger voice of Jim Hawkins in Disney's Treasure Planet.
You'd have to wonder why a kid who probably made a good amount of money ended up homeless and overdosing, but child actors get screwed bad more than they make it out alive. It's doubly sad because these kids are usually pushed into it by their parents, way before an age that they know they want to be part of it. Then the ones like Corey Feldman who do get screwed up and try to tell people about it get mocked and treated like crazy people. I don't know why more attention is paid to the mental health of kids in that industry because this is the outcome more often than it isn't.
Long time baseball catcher and broadcaster Tim McCarver passed away today at the age of 81. He played 21 seasons in the Major Leagues, was an All-Star twice for the St. Louis Cardinals and won a pair of World Series championships with them in the 1960s. He was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2016 and then the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame the next year; he retired from broadcasting last April.
Long time baseball catcher and broadcaster Tim McCarver passed away today at the age of 81. He played 21 seasons in the Major Leagues, was an All-Star twice for the St. Louis Cardinals and won a pair of World Series championships with them in the 1960s. He was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2016 and then the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame the next year; he retired from broadcasting last April.
>Tim McCarver Now that is a name that I have not heard in years. Brings me back to the days when it was fun to learn about retro sports figures that you recognize from the name, but never knew that much about the impact of what they brought to the MLB.
Richard Belzer, acclaimed comedian and long-time actor in NBC's long running Law and Order franchise, has died at 78. The news first broke from long-time frien
