According to RadarOnline, 76-year-old Zelda Rubinstein has only a short time left to live after being taken off life support at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. It seems she has been in the hospital for over a month, and has now been taken off life support after the failure of two major organs. Their source, said to be a friend of the actress, says: "Her lungs and kidneys have failed and she's in and out of consciousness. It's only a matter of time now -- she doesn't have long to live."

While she's had a number of roles over the years -- Dr. Katarina Kuntzler in Southland Tales, the Organist in Sixteen Candles -- Rubinstein is best known for her role as psychic medium Tangina Barrons in Poltergeist and its subsequent sequels. (Standing only four-feet tall [the result of a pituitary deficiency], Rubinstein most often played the psychic, eclectic older woman.) When the Freeling's house spirits continue to torment them, they bring in Tangina, who sorts out the other-worldly inhabitants of the house and helps coax them away (watch a clip after the jump).

Our thoughts are with you, Zelda.

http://www.cinematical.co...e-support/

"I am addressing the living?"

I remember her in Teen Witch

toots said:

LOVE THAT

Poltergeist may be my fave horror film ever. I've seen it at least 200 times.

Awwww. I loved her.

I know she was trying to be serious but her narration on the show SCARIEST PLACES ON EARTH crack me up.

damn she was my shoe in for deathlist 2010.

lazycrockett said:

Loretta Lynn is still on my list.

That's a shame. Wasn't she in the 'Dead Celebrities' episode of South Park recently?

lazycrockett said:

it'll be close

Very sad. My favorite aunt who passed away a few years ago looked and talked very much like Zelda. She used to tell stories of how people would ask her if she was in "Poltergeist" and she got an autograph from Stephen King once who was just astounded how much she looked like her.

RIP

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

OMG i loved that show! lol... I used to drive my kids INSANE by mimicing everything she said in that voice during the show!

toots said:

love that movie!

Adisa said:

I feel the same way. It must have been something do to with growing up in suburbia.

Bitch aint dying, shes been off support for almost a week, and now I'm reading that she may wake up and be alright. That woman was my death list shoe in.

Damn old broad.

lazycrockett said:

I was just checking up on her a moment ago, and found this.

POLTERGEIST STAR NOT NEAR DEATH

Friends of POLTERGEIST star ZELDA RUBINSTEIN have dismissed reports the actress is close to death after a month-long health battle, insisting she's well on the way to recovery.
Internet reports have suggested the 76 year old, who played creepy spirit talker Tangina in the cult 1982 film, had been taken off a life support machine after spending December (09) at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The actress was admitted when two of her major organs failed.
But sources insist things aren't as bleak as reports suggest.
A friend tells MovieHole.net, "She's OK. Vitals are good. She's apparently doing better. Internet sources exaggerated the story."

ernestsewell said:

I hope this is true.

To go into the light or to not go into the light? That be the question...

Vendetta1 said:

When I searched, they all seemed to say the same thing. But I have to question, if two of her organs stopped working, how is she alive? Or at least "on her way to recovery". It's all a bit odd, but apparently the old gal is still kicking.

She's dead....for real real, not for play play: http://prince.org/msg/100/328997