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Body of Unknown Vagrant Found in Greenwich Village -- New York -- March 30, 1968

jbickers — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:57:26 -0800

This month marks both the birth and the death of Bobby Driscoll, child star, Peter Pan, "Walt Disney's golden boy." He was penniless, drug-addled and buried in an unmarked grave by the age of 31. Some of his notable early work for Disney included Song of the South and Treasure Island. He won a special Academy Award for his performance in "The Window," a film that won the Edgar Allen Poe award in 1950. Three years later he turned in the performance that he would be best remembered for, the voice of Disney's "Peter Pan." Shortly thereafter, puberty struck, and with it a bad case of acne; Disney terminated his contract, saying he needed too much makeup, and things were never the same for Bobby. He ran afoul of the law. He started taking drugs at the age of 17; at 31, he ventured into a New York tenement and never emerged. The body was unidentifiable, and was buried in an umarked pauper's grave. Nearly two years later, his mother tried to locate him to reunite him with his dying father; it was only then that a fingerprint match told her what had become of her son.

Kickstart70 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:34:06 -0800

bbrown — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:12:06 -0800

Danica McKellar —the former star of The Wonder Years—has her own web site. It's got a great feature where she answers your math questions. No, really. She's got a degree in mathematics and co-authored a paper on percolation and Ashkin-Teller models. No, really.

sassone — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:38:00 -0800

Oh, God, here we go again. Maybe he can go next door and ask Wilson for some advice?