| Comedian Rodney Dangerfield slipped into a coma while recovering from heart surgery in recent weeks but 'is starting to show signs of awareness,' his wife Joan said on September 20, 2004. The 82-year-old performer, who was reported by his spokesman to have been hooked to a respirator in intensive care since undergoing a heart-valve replacement on August 25, was able to breathe on his own for the past 24 hours, she said. Dangerfield is shown May 7, 2003. |
