{"id":24762,"date":"2019-11-03T16:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24762"},"modified":"2019-11-03T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:53:50","slug":"the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-actor-brian-tarantina-dead-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24762","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Marvelous Mrs Maisel&#8217; actor Brian Tarantina dead at 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 10.85pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">Brian Tarantina, best known for his role in &#8220;The Marvelous Mrs Maisel&#8221;, has passed away at the age of 60.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">The actor, who played Jackie, the emcee at the Gaslight comedy club where Rachel Brosnahan&#8217;s Midge performs in the Amazon series, died Saturday.<\/span>A spokesperson with the New York Police Department confirmed to Deadline that the officers received a call at about 12.40 am on Saturday morning about an unconscious person in a Manhattan apartment.<\/span>When the authorities arrived at the scene, they discovered Tarantina lying on his couch, and emergency medical services responded and officially pronounced him dead.The New York City medical examiner&#8217;s office will determine his official cause of death.&#8221;Brian had been ill lately. He was recently in the hospital and was in the process of recuperating from what I believe to be a heart-related issue,&#8221; a representative for Tarantina told the publication.<br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">According to TMZ, Tarantina&#8217;s niece found him near a white powder substance that is allegedly believed to be narcotics. The publication reported the actor died of an apparent drug overdose.<\/span>Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, &#8220;The Marvelous Mrs Maisel&#8221; writer-director duo, issued a joint statement saying they will &#8220;forever miss&#8221; the actor.<\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">&#8220;For over twenty five years, Brian Tarantina has been in our lives. He was in Amy&#8217;s first pilot. And he&#8217;s been in every significant thing we&#8217;ve done since.<\/span>&#8220;He came in with that voice and that timing and he made every scene better. And weirder. Every moment was completely unique. You can&#8217;t describe a guy like Brian, you just had to be there. And lucky for us, we were. We love him and will forever miss him,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Tarantina, best known for his role in &#8220;The Marvelous Mrs Maisel&#8221;, has passed away at the age of 60. The actor, who played Jackie, the emcee at the Gaslight comedy club where Rachel Brosnahan&#8217;s Midge performs in the Amazon series, died Saturday.A spokesperson with the New York Police Department confirmed to Deadline that the officers received a call at about 12.40 am on Saturday morning about an unconscious person in a Manhattan apartment.When the authorities arrived at the scene, they discovered Tarantina lying on his couch, and emergency medical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24766,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24762\/revisions\/24766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}