If i recollect correctly, i think i asked the questions:
1 - Does anybody remember
Michael Hayes?
2 - Does anybody remember
Cracker?
3 - If so, what did you think of them?
As for the
Actor Who Died Twice:
As i wrote this lost post in which i wanted to ask about those two shows, i couldn't remember the title "Cracker". I remembered the star, but i couldn't remember his name. So i did an IMDb search for "Murphy Brown". That led me to Robert Pastorelli.
But, while reading Pastorelli's info at IMDb, i came across the weirdest coincidence.
Rewind to '98: |<<
After Cracker aired, i recall hearing that it was on hiatus
i.e. probably dead but might be brought back as a mid-season replacement.
Couple months later i heard on the news that it's star, Robert Pastorelli had died. A family member had heard likewise and we wondered how, but never bothered to find out.
Fast-forward to 2003: >>|
I was watching a "Hack" episode and
Surprise; up pops none other than Robert Pastorelli as a guest star! Risen from the dead apparently. Happened to be watching with the same family member who had also thought he was dead. Blew us away!
Fast-forward to the recent present, once again: >>|
I've just barely looked up Robert Pastorelli to find out the name of the '97 series he was in, and thinking about how i thought he was dead until last fall. I recognize the title "Cracker" right away, and then my gaze flits across the top of the page and i see this:
Date of death (details)
8 March 2004
Hollywood Hills, California, USA.
-- (accidental heroin overdose)
So now he's dead again!
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So, anyway, his next role is in the film
Be Cool, due for release in 2005"