What Happened to Jon Heder?, is a death rumor.

Jon Heder, the star of Napoleon Dynamite, was rumored to have died in tragic fashion.The Grim Reaper came to him in the form of a drug overdose, most commonly cocaine or crack cocaine, according to some people.

The young man is alive and well.He was a guest on The Tonight Show on February 2, 2005.Just Like Heaven is one of the films he is working on.Heder said in a news article that the rumor of his death was not true.

There was a movie that came to the attention of the public at the festival.It was made for $400,000 by a film student at a university and went on to make over forty million dollars in the United States.

In high schools across the nation, lines from it are being quoted.liger, a word that entered the English language in 1938, was introduced to a generation of newly-minted moviegoers by the film.Ligers are real felines that can result from the mating of male lions and female tigers.

The rumor of the actor's death is said to have been created in February 2005 on a web page.It has been discussed on various message boards, including in this thread and on Fox Searchlight.

It is anyone's guess how the whispers started.While they might have been manufactured to create buzz for an offering new to the DVD/ home video market, such a theory stumbles on the pre-rumor success of the film: it sold 1.35 million copies on its first day in stores in December 2004, and was the top-selling DVDIt remains in the Top 10 list of rentals and sales.A combination of the actor's religious background, a recurring element in contemporary lore, and some old-fashioned mishearing and garbling is a more likely wellspring for the fiction.

Jon Heder is a Mormon, and popular culture regards the young male members of that religion to be clean-living and upstanding.Not only would a promising newcomer to the film industry be affected by his sudden demise, but it would also be regarded as a double tragedy.

A person of presumed moral fiber and virtue would be lost to the world.We feel a sense of anguish over the passing of young people because their lives have ended before they have begun.In cases where the short-lived decedent had already been dealt more than a rightful share of tragedy during his or her existence, or was a singularly likeable or praiseworthy person, this evocation of mourning gets elevated to an even higher level.

While his talent and youth work to fuel the rumor of his demise, it is the presumption of a saintly lifestyle that gives it an extra push.Gossip so loves to feast on a fallen angel, and Expiring in either of the manners described would tend to topple him from the pedestal widespread stereotyping would place him upon.Death by overdose of an illegal drug is a hobby that would poke holes in a choirboy image.The smell of reckless behavior on the part of a young celebrity who died in a car crash is the supposition of the deceased's having been driving too fast.It is believed that fame had gone to the lad's head, with success on the screen leading to fast cars and foolish living, and ultimately a pine box.

Pop culture icons deemed too young to have passed away are the subject of fabrications.The belief that Paul McCartney is dead began in 1969 and continues to this day.Other famed personages had pushing up daisies even as they themselves continued to traverse this mortal coil include William Hung of American Idol fame, Subway pitchman Jared Fogel, children's television host Steve Burns, and even the dog from the taco Bell commercials.

The sources areConnors andJoanna.The Plain Dealer said thatQuirky Hit is giving teen fans something to talk about.January 2005, p. F1.