Monday
11Aug2008
The Billy Bob Thornton Curse?
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 1:39PM 
This is top-flight journalism right here. Jokingly,
Defamer is pointing the finger of death at
Billy Bob Thornton after the untimely passing
of
Bernie Mac. No, the site isn't saying BBT is
next, but rather that he's kind of a grim reaper.
Relying on an astute commenter from a
Hollywood Elsewhere story about Bernie's death,
the reader points out, "Strange how many Billy Bob Thornton co-stars have died
prematurely ([John]
Ritter, Bernie Mac,
J.T. Walsh,
Heath Ledger.) Thank goodness
Morgan Freeman (Levity) and
Shia (Eagle Eye) survived their
crashes and
Patrick Swayze (Waking Up in Reno) is
coming back from cancer or we'd be talking about the Billy Bob Curse."
Well, that's certainly sobering, isn't it? And tacky.
Let's not forget tacky.
But Defamer's follow-up, that
Jim Varney also passed away shortly after
working with Thornton on Daddy and Them all but confirms it, right?
OK, maybe that, too, is just an unfortunate coincidence.
But you've got to love, in a disdainful sort of way, the photo chart Defamer put
together to illustrate the curse.
Reader Comments (13)
That is a horrible and hillarious to look at that. Talk about being in the wrong place!
Don't forget about BB killing any desires we had for Angelina :(...
Can I blame a "curse" on my one dimension and total lack of appeal? NO?? OK then ;(...
Jon Heder up in this bitch! Welcome, Benchwarmer!
Caught this article on IMDb! It was awesome to see your articles there!
The big secret is that everyone dies, eventually.
Rather than calling it "Billy Bob's Curse", you might call it simply "the Curse".
jim varney will never die. Wish I had a Che Guevara tshirt with jim varney's face
might be time to start a six degrees computation that determines statistically how many costars of how many actors are dead, see how BBT measures up
of course age is a factor, or guys like Warren Beatty would win hands down. Maybe Chris Walken could lead this pack
The curse strikes again. Natasha Richardson, who co-starred with Thornton in Waking Up InReno died just a few days ago.
I was just reading about Natasha Richardson and the Billy Bob "Curse". Weird, did Robin Williams costar in any of his movies???
BILLY BOB CO-STARRED WITH LIAM NEESON IN "LOVE ACTUALLY" AND IN THE MOVIE, LIAM'S WIFE DIES AND HE GOES THROUGH HIS GRIEF. WIERD, HUH?
Cursed!!! The guy is a useless musician who can't even keep an opening act position for Willy Nelson. Booooohed off the stage every night. Can't keep a beautiful wife (Angelina). And can only take acting jobs that require no acting... ie: retarded hillbilly and angry asshole. He's not cursed, he's Billy Bob Thornton. Never was good and never will be any good.
Burt is a fag!
Well now we have Britanny Murphy who (voice) was Luanne for King of the Hill and Billy Bob did a episode with her....
and now i see Dwayne Johnson is in a movie with him...... and he had just within weeks had a cousin die "Umaga" WWE