POLTERGEIST’S RUBINSTEIN DIES
POLTERGEIST star ZELDA RUBINSTEIN has died, aged 76.
The actress, who played spirit talker Tangina in Steven Spielberg’s cul= t 1982 film, was hospitalised in Los Angeles in December (09) after two o= f her major organs failed.
Internet reports suggested the petite star was close to death after she= was reportedly taken off her life support machine, but friends and famil= y insisted Rubinstein was on the mend earlier this month (Jan10).
Her agent, Eric Stevens, has now confirmed she passed away of natural c= auses at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles on Wednesday (27Jan10= ).
He tells RadarOnline.com, "She had ongoing health issues and unfortunat= ely they finally overtook her." A friends adds, "She was very much at peace when she finally rested… = The world has definitely lost someone very special." Poltergeist was Rubinstein’s big break in Hollywood. She went on to app= ear in films like Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Sixteen Candles, Teen W= itch and National Lampoon’s Last Resort, as well as U.S. TV shows Carolin= e in the City, Picket Fences and Mr. Belvedere.
From 2000 to 2006 she narrated spooky TV show The Scariest Places on Ea= rth.
Rubinstein was also an activist for HIV and Aids awareness. (KD/WNWCDAR=
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