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We miss a good old-fashioned disaster movie. Before superheroes seized the summer blockbuster crown it was common to see movies like Dante’s Peak, Armageddon, or The Day After Tomorrow become some of the highest-grossing movies of the year. Sadly, if 2021’s 13 Minutes is any indication, a return to past successes may be unlikely. This tornado movie stars American Beauty‘s Thora Birch and was the final Anne Heche movie released before her untimely death in 2022. The movie focuses on multiple characters in an Oklahoma town…

Anne Heche was laid to rest in Los Angeles on Mother’s Day, nine months after the actress died at the age of 53. The private afternoon ceremony on Sunday saw Heche’s cremated remains placed at her final resting place, Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s Cathedral Mausoleum. “She loved everyone so passionately and deeply,” a rep for Heche shared in a statement from her family. “Her children, her legacy, thank everyone for their support and love through this difficult time and are grateful to be able…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAnne Heche was laid to rest on Sunday (14 May) – Mother’s Day in the United States – nine months after her death aged 53.The Six Days Seven Nights star died from inhalation of smoke and thermal injuries after she crashed her car into a Los Angeles home last August.The actor’s cremated remains were placed in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s Cathedral Mausoleum alongside late stars like…

Anne Heche was not impaired by alcohol or any substance at the time of her death, according to a new report from the L.A. County medical examiner-coroner‘s office that was reviewed Tuesday by The Times. However, a blood sample drawn in the emergency room did show the presence of an inactive cocaine metabolite, the report said, indicating that the actor had used the drug in the days before her death. Evidence of cannabinoids and benzodiazepine was found in a urine sample taken after she was admitted to the hospital,…

Lynne Mishele, the woman whose house was destroyed after the actor Anne Heche drove into it in the car accident that led to her death, is suing Heche’s estate for at least $2m (£1.7m).Mishele’s Los Angeles rental home and possessions were almost entirely written off in the incident in August, although she and her pets were unharmed.Heche’s Mini Cooper ploughed through Mishele’s front garden, living room, kitchen, home office, a closet and laundry room before coming to a halt. A fire was then ignited, described in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe woman who lived in the house impacted by Anne Heche’s fatal car crash is suing the late actor’s estate for a minimum of $2m (£1.7m). Heche, who was known for her performances in films such as Six Days Seven Nights and Birth, died in August after a car accident in Los Angeles. Her vehicle crashed into a house before bursting into flames. The actor fell into a coma before being…

The tragedy over Anne Heche’s death grows as her surviving sons from different partners, find themselves caught up in an increasingly bitter battle over the late actor’s estate. After Heche succumbed to injuries from a fiery Aug. 5 crash in Los Angeles, her oldest son, Homer Laffoon, filed a petition to be named executor, saying his mother had died without a will, TMZ and other outlets have reported. The 20-year-old Laffoon is Heche’s son from her marriage to Coley Laffoon, a former cameraman turned real estate broker.…

In a memoir Anne Heche worked on over the past year, the late actor shared candid thoughts on her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s, when they were among Hollywood’s first openly gay couples.“I was labeled outrageous because I fell in love with a woman. I had never been with a woman before I dated Ellen,” Heche wrote in Call Me Anne, which Start Publishing will release in January.Heche, whose films included Donnie Brasco and Wag the Dog, died in August at 53, a week after crashing her car into a house…

As Anne Heche’s family, friends, Hollywood and her fans mourn the actress following the multiple car crashes that occurred on August 5, more details have been revealed about fire department's response to the incident that led to her death. Per reports, Heche was stuck in her Mini Cooper for 45 minutes from the time firefighters arrived at the scene of the house fire and pulled her out. This happened seven days prior to her death, which reportedly stemmed from smoke inhalation and thermal injuries. It was reported that…

First responders could not reach Anne Heche to begin treating the actor as she was trapped, mortally injured, for 45 minutes after her car crashed into a house in Los Angeles last month, according to a report.Amid appalling flames and smoke from the crash, firefighters could not reach the car for 20 minutes and then couldn’t get it out of the building to extract her for at least another 20 minutes, NBC reported, citing fire department documents and radio communications.Heche, 53, died from inhalation injury and burns,…