LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Ted Demme, director of last year's cocaine drama "Blow" and nephew of Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, suffered an apparent heart attack while playing basketball and died at age 38, officials said Monday.
Demme collapsed while taking part in a celebrity basketball game Sunday at the private Crossroads School in Santa Monica and was rushed by paramedics to the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center in full cardiac arrest shortly after 6 p.m. MST, hospital spokesman Ted Braun said.
Efforts to revive Demme failed and he was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later, Braun said.