The Billy Bob Thornton Curse?

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. This whole thing is so strange, though, because you could argue The Dark Knight is cursed, with the deaths of Ledger and a stuntman, plus Christian Bale's legal wrangle and Freeman's accident. You could argue that Soul Men is cursed because of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes (who wrote the song "Soul Man" and appears as himself in the film), but none of them can live up to The Exorcist Curse, which is creepy for its own set of reasons. So could Billy Bob Thornton be cursed? If you saw School for Scoundrels you might think so. Oh my God...somebody call Jon Heder and make sure he's OK!

Comments

[Lauren]

That is a horrible and hillarious to look at that. Talk about being in the wrong place!

[experimental chicks everywhere]

Don't forget about BB killing any desires we had for Angelina :(...

[Jon Heder]

Can I blame a "curse" on my one dimension and total lack of appeal? NO?? OK then ;(...

[Get The Big Picture]

Jon Heder up in this bitch! Welcome, Benchwarmer!

[Taylor]

Caught this article on IMDb! It was awesome to see your articles there!

[Lengthy Johnson]

The big secret is that everyone dies, eventually.

Rather than calling it "Billy Bob's Curse", you might call it simply "the Curse".

[hcb]

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

[Noir]

The curse strikes again. Natasha Richardson, who co-starred with Thornton in Waking Up InReno died just a few days ago.