Tragedy on Tap

I logged onto the Web for the very first time in the summer of 1995 and, in an attempt to flummox the search engine, typed “Vivian Stanshall.” He, of course, was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, but the Internet already knew that, and furthermore told me he’d just died in a fire. Today, I made the mistake of looking up the star of Eraserhead. His name was Jack Nance, and he died at the age of 52 after a fight in a donut shop. He’d been married to Dick Van Dyke’s niece, until her suicide in 1991.