Film and TV director Ted Demme, whose work includes the 2001 feature “”Blow,”” died Sunday after collapsing during a celebrity basketball game in Los Angeles and suffering a cardiac arrest. He was just 38 years old.
Demme, nephew of fellow helmer Jonathan Demme, was rushed to the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead 20 minutes later. Cause of death is as yet undetermined, but an autopsy is planned.The Gotham-born director’s other projects include 1996’s “”Beautiful Girls,”” the 1994 Denis Leary comedy “”The Ref”” and several episodes of the critically acclaimed NBC police series “”Homicide: Life on the Street.”” Demme lived in West Hollywood.