Grantland Made Everyone Think Gene Hackman Was Dead
After Grantland.com published an article online titled, “The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge”, rumors started that Hackman had died. He didn’t. A Facebook memorial page was started in his honor and actor Dylan McDermott was one of the people that tweeted condolences.
McDermott deleted the tweet and then got pissed.
I guess Gene Hackman's death was a celebrity hoax. People have too much damn time on their hands…
— Dylan McDermott (@DylanMcDermott) January 28, 2015
Grantland has now changed their headline to The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is “Retired” But Still in Charge.
The site also hopes the title of a new piece they’re doing called “Kirk Douglas: 6 Feet Under and Still Kicking” isn’t too misleading.
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