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Films have a strange way to foreshadow events. Or at least, the human mind thinks this may be so. No one knows how or why, but the visual component of having a permanent record of a fictional incident collides across time and space, infrequently, with the reality of an unforgettable disaster, tragedy, or assassination. Raymond Shaw ( Laurence Harvey ) in the sniper's nest. In the case of the death of John F. Kennedy, chroniclers, researchers, and theorists have often pointed to the intriguing timing and plot of one specific motion picture, The Manchurian Candidate . The 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, stars  Frank Sinatra (a close friend of JFK), Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury.   The central plot of the film is that the son of a prominent, right-wing political family has been brainwashed to be an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.  The Manchurian Candidate  was nationally released on...

Brittany Murphy has died. The 32-year-old actress went into full cardiac arrest early Sunday morning, December 20, 2009, following a 911 call from her husband, Simon Monjack, Variety reports. Around 8 a.m. local time, her mother found her unconscious in the shower in her home in the hills of West Hollywood. The star was pronounced dead upon arrival at 10:04 am on Sunday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner confirms to E! News , "We do have a preliminary death report of a Brittany Murphy" coming from Cedars-Sinai. Popular Movie Celebrity Murphy starred in such films as 8 Mile , Uptown Girls , Sin City , Clueless and Don't Say a Word . She also starred in the ironically named Drop Dead Gorgeous . Murphy's Drop Dead Gorgeous co-star Denise Richards lamented: "Brittany Murphy was in Drop Dead Gorgeous with me and was the sweetest and most adorable. Tragic, sad and devastating. Her poor family." Murphy...