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Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie revealed she’d had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt died from the disease. Debbie Martin died at age 61 at a hospital in Escondido, California near San Diego, her husband, Ron Martin, said.
Angelina Jolie’s aunt and the “unsung heroine” in her fight against cancer has slipped into a coma because of the disease. The 37-year-old actress revealed she underwent a preventative double mastectomy earlier this year in a New York Times op-ed piece published on May 14.
If there’s one film magazine connected with the Cannes festival, it’d probably be Positif or Cahiers du Cinema, French journals whose passionate seriousness perfectly suits the movies that usually show here. This year, though, the festival’s journal of record should be the American horror-movie mag Fangoria. The official Cannes selection has included all manner of genre films: a sexy vampire shocker , a guns-n-guts crime film and two gory psycho-thrillers about devoted mothers gone bad .