{"id":12329,"date":"2025-11-23T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:20:57","slug":"i-still-cant-walk-legendary-star-faces-death-and-embraces-his-final-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12329","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Still Can\u2019t Walk\u201d \u2014 Legendary Star Faces Death and Embraces His Final Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"331\">Actor Tim Curry is known for iconic roles like Dr. Frank-N-Furter in <em data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"157\">The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>, Rooster in <em data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"177\">Annie<\/em>, Pennywise in <em data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"196\">IT<\/em>, Wadsworth in <em data-start=\"211\" data-end=\"217\">Clue<\/em>, and the concierge in <em data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"254\">Home Alone 2<\/em>. According to IMDb, he has appeared in 243 film, TV, and voiceover projects.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"660\">In recent years, Curry has focused mainly on voice work, especially after a stroke 13 years ago left him partially paralyzed. In a <em data-start=\"464\" data-end=\"484\">CBS Sunday Morning<\/em> interview, the 79-year-old reflected on his life, career, and views on death. He said his mother once worried fame would inflate his ego, but he never felt that was a concern.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"1059\">Discussing his health, Curry said he doesn\u2019t believe in self-pity: \u201cWhy are you so important that we have to pity you?\u201d He recalled not realizing anything was wrong during his stroke until his masseuse urged him to seek help. At the hospital, he learned he was having a stroke, underwent brain surgery, and went through rehabilitation to relearn how to speak. He is now paralyzed on his left side.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1176\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Curry said he doesn\u2019t fear death, explaining, \u201cI try to avoid it\u2026 but I suspect that in the end I will welcome it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-1 col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"body-column\">\n<article class=\"single-post post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail  category-news\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-inner\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RFo79ktWy8c?si=3nEw6ft5zBoVYTj_\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"col-2 col-md-4\">\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<div id=\"secondary\" class=\"widget-area\" role=\"complementary\">\n<aside id=\"search-4\" class=\"widget widget_search\">\n<form id=\"searchform\" class=\"form-inline search-form\" role=\"search\" action=\"https:\/\/tiphero.com\/\" method=\"get\">\n<div class=\"form-group\"><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Tim Curry is known for iconic roles like Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rooster in Annie, Pennywise in IT, Wadsworth in Clue, and the concierge in Home Alone 2. According to IMDb, he has appeared in 243 film, TV, and voiceover projects. In recent years, Curry has focused mainly on voice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12329\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u201cI Still Can\u2019t Walk\u201d \u2014 Legendary Star Faces Death and Embraces His Final Moments&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12331,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions\/12331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}