was an American entertainer Hank appeared numerous times on The Howard Stern Show and on the televised studio segments which aired on the E channel He was a member of the shows Wack Pack His career began August 16 1996 when he entered Sterns studio at radio station WXRK KRock in New York City Hank was 4 ft 1 in 124 m tall and weighed 95 lb 43 kg 68 st Hank received widespread media coverage in 1998 when he won a People magazine online poll asking the public to vote for the most beautiful person in the world as part of the run up promotion for the magazines 50 Most Beautiful People issue When the public was given the option to submit a writein candidate the magazine had not counted on 230169 votes for Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarfbeating out assorted celebrities by a wide margin In third place was Leonardo DiCaprio with 14471 votes In the relatively still early years of public participation on the Internet various media critics picked up on this wondering whether this was evidence of an emerging digital democracy Talk of Hanks death in the media was cut short by the events of 911 Early in the 8 OClock hour of the Stern Show on 911 Stern was interviewing an executive from the E channel who said that they were going to produce an E True Hollywood Story about Hank and that Hank actually had quite a few friends in the entertainment industry The first plane crashed into the World Trade Center at 846am The episode Hank the Angry Dwarf aired February 20 2002 according to TV Guide On the afternoon of September 4 2001 Hank died in his sleep at the home he shared with his parents in Fall River His mother discovered that he had died when she went to wake him He was 39 years old His death certificate listed his immediate cause of death as a seizure disorder with ethanol abuse and chondrodystrophy as contributing factors Hank is buried at the Notre Dame Cemetery in Fall River Massachusetts The next day Howard Stern devoted most of the show to Hank Hanks mother Claudette called into the Stern Show on September 10 2001 to publicly thank everyone who attended Hanks funeral and wake She also thanked everyone who emailed and sent their condolences She told an anecdote about how someone in the family had put a can of beer in Hanks casket She said that someone else slipped a bottle of Jack Daniels in under Hanks coat41 She ultimately left the items in the casket because she said thats what Hank would have wanted
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