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- <title>
- Sep. 20, 1993: Died:Herve Villechaize
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Sep. 20, 1993 Clinton's Health Plan
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> DIED. HERVE VILLECHAIZE, 50, actor; of a self-inflicted gunshot
- wound; in Los Angeles. The nasal cry ("The plane! The plane!")
- of his character, Tattoo, on ABC's escapist Fantasy Island made
- Villechaize a late-'70s pop-cultural footnote and punch line.
- Born in Paris, the 3-ft. 10-in. painter turned to acting after
- immigrating to New York City. The years since his Fantasy Island
- stardom were grim--legal troubles, medical problems and scant
- work. In accord with his wishes, there was no funeral; Villechaize
- had requested that a specialist in dwarfism examine his remains
- before he was cremated.
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- </body>
- </article>
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