{"id":9852,"date":"2010-09-07T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T04:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2016-11-29T20:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T01:35:03","slug":"beetle-juice-star-glenn-shadix-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/07\/beetle-juice-star-glenn-shadix-58\/","title":{"rendered":"BEETLE JUICE Star Glenn Shadix, 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GlennShadix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9854\" title=\"GlennShadix\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GlennShadix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Glenn Shadix, who played the unctuous and pretentious interior decorator Otho in Tim Burton&#8217;s 1988 comedy <strong>Beetle Juice<\/strong> has passed away earlier this morning at his Birmingham, AL condo falling a fall.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Birmingham News<\/em> quotes Shadix&#8217;s sister as saying, &#8220;He was having mobility problems, and he was in a wheelchair&#8230; It looks like he fell and hit his head in  the kitchen, and that&#8217;s the cause of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shadix exhibited a flair for quirky, dark comedy that Burton capitalized on in his supernatural comedy, casting the heavy set actor as a decorator whose absurd plans for redecorating a home distresses the spirits of its deceased former owners. Shadix would reteam with Burton twice more &#8211; providing the voice for the Mayor of Halloweentown in <strong>The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/strong>, which Burton produced and the 2001 remake of <strong>Planet Of The Apes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in numerous films and television roles, including the dark comedy <strong>Heathers<\/strong>, <strong>Demolition Man<\/strong>, <strong>Sleepwalkers<\/strong> and <strong>Dunston Checks In<\/strong>. After retiring from films a few years ago, he relocated back to his native Alabama to be closer to family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Glenn Shadix, who played the unctuous and pretentious interior decorator Otho in Tim Burton&#8217;s 1988 comedy Beetle Juice has passed away earlier this morning at his Birmingham, AL condo falling a fall. The Birmingham News <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/07\/beetle-juice-star-glenn-shadix-58\/\" title=\"BEETLE JUICE Star Glenn Shadix, 58\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[3111,3110,3109,938,677],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-a-nightmare-before-christmas","9":"tag-beetle-juice","10":"tag-glen-shadix","11":"tag-planet-of-the-apes","12":"tag-tim-burton"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}