{"id":7232,"date":"2009-03-30T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2009-03-30T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:56:10","slug":"andy-hallett-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7232","title":{"rendered":"Andy Hallett Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7233\" title=\"lorne-black-and-white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lorne-black-and-white.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/>I don&#8217;t really know anything about Andy Hallet, except that his performance as &#8220;Lorne&#8221; on <em>Angel <\/em>made me very happy. And although this may be irrational, my instinct is that anyone who could project such a kind soul on screen, probably had a kind soul in real life. And 33 is really far, far too young.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/uberblog\/watch_with_kristin\/b106789_Angel_Star_Andy_Hallett_Dies_of_Heart_Failure.html\">E Online<\/a>: &#8220;<strong>Andy Hallett<\/strong>, who starred as Lorne (&#8220;the Host&#8221;) on the TV series\u00a0<em>Angel<\/em>, died of heart failure last night at age 33, according to his longtime agent and friend\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Pat Brady<\/span><\/strong>. The actor passed away at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with heart disease, with his father\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Dave Hallett<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0by his side.<\/p>\n<p>Hallett, from the Cape Cod village of Osterville, Mass., appeared on more than 70 episodes of the\u00a0<em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>\u00a0spinoff,\u00a0<em>Angel<\/em>, between 2000 and 2004. The accomplished actor was also a musician and sang two songs (&#8220;Lady Marmalade&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Easy Being Green&#8221;) on the\u00a0<em>Angel: Live Fast, Die Never<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack, released in 2005.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/buffyfest.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/moment-of-silence.html\">Buffyfest<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really know anything about Andy Hallet, except that his performance as &#8220;Lorne&#8221; on Angel made me very happy. And although this may be irrational, my instinct is that anyone who could project such a kind soul on screen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buffy-whedon-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}