{"id":21887,"date":"2010-01-29T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=21887"},"modified":"2011-06-03T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:00:26","slug":"farewell-zelda-rubinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/farewell-zelda-rubinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"To Zelda, with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Savas Abadsidis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Zelda Rubinstein came into all of our lives as the savior of Carol Anne \u00a0and the Freeling family in the 1982 horror movie Poltergeist<\/em> which left an indelible mark on pop culture and for many of us, our childhoods.<\/p>\n

As the medium Tangina Barrons, she saved Carol Anne from malevolent spirits who had taken over the family’s home.\u00a0The remarkable\u00a0thing about Zelda’s screen persona was her ability to make that little voice and presence emanate something\u00a0palpable. You could\u00a0sense from\u00a0her screen presence\u00a0that on the earthly plane you\u00a0were thankful she was that small because of all that potent heartfelt energy, emanating beyond Tobe Hooper’s direction and Spielberg special effects, even at that size, could blow you and everyone off the set.<\/p>\n

She had that gift of simple\u00a0presence on screen that didn’t need much artifice. You could reach out to touch the screen and feel what she felt. Diminutive and strong at the same time, she was an outspoken activist for little people and for HIV\/AIDS at the height of the crisis when it wasn’t fashionable. Rubinstein became active in the fight against\u00a0AIDS\/HIV\u00a0in 1984. She appeared in a series of advertisements directed towards\u00a0gay\u00a0men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness. Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did “pay a price, career-wise”. She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk.<\/p>\n

On December 29, 2009, it was reported that, after a month-long stay at\u00a0Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, her close companion and her family made the decision to take Rubinstein off\u00a0life support\u00a0due to both kidney and lung failure.\u00a0She died yesterday at the age of 76.<\/p>\n

I remember feeling in another life where I was an insecure geeky target of bullies, that if she came along she could save you from anyone, poltergeists, bullies and whatever the world threw at you. When she wrapped her arms around Carol Anne after pulling her out of the television–the doorway to a darkly sinister dimension–she wrapped her arms around a whole generation.\u00a0\u00a0I’m terrible at eulogies, so let’s just say this: although little in person she was larger than life. She made all our lives a little richer, stranger, and more delightful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Thanks, Zelda.\u00a0 See you on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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