Nick Gillespie | January 5, 1998
The last roll of fat had barely
stopped jiggling on the corpse
of ursine funnyman Chris Farley
- widely described, in a rare
burst of journalistic
objectivity and accuracy, as
"blubbery" and "sweaty" - when
the media pounced on the death
as a cautionary sequel: Wired 2
- Tommy Boy Clogs an Artery.
For the press, the two
"tragedies" had more ominous
parallels than any pair of
deaths since the Lincoln and
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