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Remembering Actor, Merlin Santana, ( Gone too soon ). Merlin Santana (March 14, 1976 – November 9, 2002) was an American actor and rapper. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, Santana was best known for his roles as Marcus Dixon on Getting By, Marcus Henry in Under One Roof and Romeo Santana on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show (1996–2002) Born in Washington Heights, New York City to parents from the Dominican Republic, Santana's career in show business began with a push from his parents, who wanted to keep him off the tough streets of New York.[2] He began his career at the age of three as an advertising model for a fast food chain. His first screen appearance was as an extra in the Woody Allen film, The Purple Rose of Cairo. In 1991, Santana landed a recurring role on The Cosby Show as Stanley, the boyfriend of Rudy Huxtable and the rival of Rudy's friend Kenny (Deon Richmond). He was then cast as Marcus Dixon in the short-lived sitcom, Getting By, starring Cindy Williams and Telma Hopkins. Deon Richmond was cast as his brother Darren, due to their interaction on The Cosby Show On November 9, 2002, Santana was murdered while sitting in a car in Los Angeles. Santana and his friend, actor Brandon Adams, had just left an acquaintance's home in the Crenshaw District when Damien Andre Gates, 19 at the time, fired the shot that entered through the trunk of the vehicle in which Santana was a passenger. The bullet penetrated the right-front passenger headrest and entered Santana's head, killing him. Santana was buried at Saint Raymond's Cemetery in The Bronx borough of New York City. He was survived by his daughter, Melinda. In 2003, Gates was convicted of the first-degree murder of Santana and the attempted murder of Adams and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 70 years in prison. #CelebrityLoss #ActorLife #GoneTooSoon #HowDidHeDie #ViralVideo

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In June 1943, an eighteen-year-old girl married a man thirty-six years her senior. The world called it scandalous. Her own father called it unforgivable. She was Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose dark tragedies had defined American theater. Beautiful, intelligent, and quietly determined, Oona had been named Debutante of the Year at the Stork Club. She had briefly dated the young writer J.D. Salinger. She had her whole life ahead of her. He was Charlie Chaplin. The Little Tramp. The silent film legend who had made the world laugh and cry. At fifty-four, he had been married three times before, always to younger women. He had teenage sons. His career was fading. Scandal followed him everywhere. When they met in late 1942, Chaplin was considering Oona for a film role. The film was never made. But something else began that neither of them expected. To the watching world, it looked like every cliché. An aging star pursuing naive youth. A young woman seeking the father who had abandoned her. The age gap made headlines. The fact that Chaplin was only six months younger than Oona's own father made it even more shocking. Eugene O'Neill was furious. The playwright who had written masterpieces about family dysfunction could not forgive his own daughter for choosing love he did not approve of. He disowned her immediately and completely. He never spoke to her again. Not once. Not ever. When Eugene O'Neill died in 1953, Oona was not mentioned in his will. The father who had written so eloquently about tragedy could not bring himself to reconcile with his daughter. But Oona had made her choice. And she never looked back. Within a month of turning eighteen, she married Chaplin in a quiet civil ceremony in California. She gave up her acting aspirations entirely. Not because she lacked talent, but because she did not want that spotlight. She chose to build something private in a very public world. Against every prediction, their marriag

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