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Canadian-American comic actress Catherine O'Hara just died at the age of 71. She was apparently found at home, not breathing. As of right now, her cause of death is undisclosed, but she had been rushed to a hospital. I hadn't followed O'Hara's decades-long career that closely, but I know her as an iconic presence in movies like "Beetlejuice" and "Home Alone." Despite my not having seen that many of her films, O'Hara was/is a noticeable background presence in my past. She seemed to have a special talent for playing goofy ditzes and tart bitches. About her health, Wikipedia says, "She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition where her heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions." This might be related: My maternal grandmother suffered from a congenitally inverted stomach, which made digestion painful and kept her body weight at around a frail 70 pounds. Perhaps there'll be an update later as to what happened to O'Hara. RIP.