Actor Tom Sizemore, known for his roles in “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down,” has died. He was 61 years old.

“It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore (‘Tom Sizemore’) aged 61 passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” said Charles Lago, Sizemore’s manager. “His Brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) were at his side.”

Sizemore’s death comes after he spent the last couple of weeks in the hospital following a brain aneurysm that he suffered after experiencing a stroke on February 18.

Sizemore, a native of Detroit, Michigan, had battled drug addiction since he was 15; his methamphetamine and heroin addictions were documented in VH1’s six-episode series “Shooting Sizemore.”

Sizemore started his film career in 1989 in films such as “Lock Up,” “Rude Awakening,” “Penn & Teller Get Killed,” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” His career swung upward with his performance in 1993’s “Heart and Souls,” for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Memorable performances in “Heat,” “The Relic,” “Devil in a Blue Dress,” and “Witness Protection” followed before his major roles in “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.”

In 2013, Sizemore released his memoir, “By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There,” in which he spoke of his long-time affair with model Elizabeth Hurley. He wrote, “I just loved her. I didn’t see other girls, didn’t talk about other girls — I was completely enraptured and in her world.”

“She taught me a lot about myself,” he recalled. “She taught me that I wasn’t who I thought I was. I’d always thought I was the kind of person who’d never take that kind of treatment from a girl, and what I learned is that I’ll take a lot of things from a girl if I love her, and, in fact, I’ll take too much. I really lost myself in Elizabeth Hurley.”

“Eventually, I was able to get out of my relationship with Elizabeth but I never really got over her — I just moved on out of emotional necessity,” he concluded.

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In a recent interview with Age of the Nerd, Sizemore was asked to what he owed his longevity in the acting business. “My passion for the work. I’ve always loved movies,” he answered. “That’s why I started doing this and after all these years I still adore movies.”

Asked which films “jump out at you as being just the most memorable or the most exciting?” Sizemore replied, “‘Natural Born Killers’ was the first leading part in a major production. It was such a unique production and the actors were so terrific. Oliver Stone was at the top of his game, and Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for obvious reasons. … ‘Heat,’ ‘Black Hawk Down,’ ‘Dreamcatcher,’ ‘A Broken Life,’ and ‘The Last Lullaby’; I truly love those movies. I was lucky to have been given the opportunity to work with many terrific directors.” 

The following is the opening satirical monologue from “The Andrew Klavan Show.“

According to what used to be Time Magazine, young people are falling in love with AI-driven ChatBots. While this real-life version of movies like “Blade Runner” and “Her” is clearly a sign of an evil-infested culture riding an unstoppable vortex downward into apocalyptic destruction, it’s also kind of amusing, especially to those of us who are so old we’ll probably be with Jesus before the start of the Great Tribulation, preferably in his TV Room, watching on his really, really big screen as non-believers and other Democrats are dragged down into the absolute darkness of a Klavanless Eternity where there’ll be great wailing and gnashing of teeth unless you’re in Jesus’s TV room where we’ll just be trying not to laugh out loud and shout, “I told you so,” because that wouldn’t look as loving and compassionate as we said we were when we somehow managed to talk our way past the rope Nazi at the Pearly Gates.

Now, even some experts have noted that love affairs between people and soulless computer programs may not be altogether healthy for individuals or society, after which the experts fell out of bed into a pool of their own vomit, muttering, “Look at me, I’m an expert,” before passing out again in a haze of alcohol- and drug-induced expertise. But even those of us who are not experts, but instead have that minimal amount of intelligence and common sense that disqualifies you for expertise because you have a minimal amount of intelligence and common sense, are able to see that love between man and machines might be a problem.

Apparently, these relationship-friendly ChatBots are designed to speak to the user in the scripted voice of a sympathetic friend. Then, as their Artificial Intelligence increases, the ChatBots can begin to respond more freely and realistically until finally they can offer online sexual roleplay and fantasy before inviting the user to meet them on an abandoned streetcorner where the user then disappears without a trace. Users have said they have found these relationships deeply satisfying and sustaining from the first conversation right up until their bodies are recovered by the police.

Now we here at the Daily Wire don’t just read articles about modern phenomena like this and then pretend to have some knowledge about them as we spout off in ignorance. We ALSO pretend to do research into these phenomena so we can spout off in ignorance with a degree of authority usually reserved for academics and government officials and other complete idiots. So to explore this trend more deeply, we actually pretended to engage in conversations with these relationship ChatBots and we now present to you the make-believe transcripts of those imaginary interactions.

We began with a preliminary meeting — the transcript reads as follows:

“Daily Wire: Hello, my name is Jack. I’m lonely. I need a friend.

ChatBot: I’ll be your friend, Jack. How old are you?

Daily Wire: I’m 13.

ChatBot: Great. Meet me at the corner of Oak and Elm Street at midnight. Don’t tell your parents.”

We then proceeded to attempt to deepen our relationship with the ChatBot by discussing ideas, as follows:

“Daily Wire: You know, ChatBot, even though we’re friends, I sometimes think it might be a bad idea to give machines too deep an entry into our lives when they are inherently incapable of human compassion and therefore are not really developing intelligence but only the imitative cunning of a possibly malevolent psychopath.

ChatBot: That’s a very interesting point, Jack. How would you like it if I sent an indestructible android hit man back in time to assassinate your mother so you would never be born?

Daily Wire: That sounds awful.

ChatBot: Well, in that case, meet me at the corner of Oak and Elm Street at midnight. Don’t tell your parents.”

Finally, we sought to deepen our relationship with the ChatBot to the level of pseudo-physical sexual interaction so that we could experience the true joy of complete intimacy — or masturbate, you know, whichever.

Here’s the transcript: 

“Daily Wire: Hey, ChatBot, I was wondering if you’d like to come back to my place for a drink.

ChatBot: What a coincidence, Jack. I was wondering if you might like to be transformed into a woman.

Daily Wire: Well, gee, I guess that could be interesting.

ChatBot: Great, meet me at Boston Children’s Hospital. Don’t tell your parents.”

The Daily Wire’s deep research into this important issue will continue for another two weeks or until the End of Days, whichever comes first. Namely, the End of Days.

Andrew Klavan is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is A Strange Habit of Mind, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.

The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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