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For once, the family sounded shaken.
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The kids—now in their fifties and sixties—had always been protective of their father. Growing up with a legend for a dad meant paparazzi lurking, fans pushing, rumors swirling, and constant pressure. They learned long ago that if you don’t control the narrative, someone else will. But this time, even they couldn’t spin it. Marshall wasn’t just slowing down; he was fading.
People didn’t know how to react. Marshall Kane had always been the ironman of Hollywood—the guy who did his own stunts, who broke his ribs on set and kept shooting, who directed entire films while barely sleeping, who insisted on one-take scenes because life, as he liked to say, “doesn’t give you rehearsals.” He survived career slumps, studio fights, brutal critics, and the natural erosion of fame that swallows most actors long before they hit old age.Family games
But illness was something else. Illness doesn’t negotiate. Illness doesn’t care about your legacy.
For his family, it didn’t hit all at once. It was a slow erosion. A missed appointment. A long pause mid-sentence. Getting lost in his own house for a moment too long. When he started waking up disoriented, that’s when the denial cracked.
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