RIP, MRS. WORMER: Verna Bloom, Dean Wormer’s cheating wife in Animal House, has died at age 80. “Bloom, the actress who played debauched wife Marion Wormer in ‘Animal House’ and later portrayed Jesus’ mother in ‘The Last Temptation of Christ,’ has died at age 80.”

Bloom was also the co-star of Haskell Wexler’s innovative 1969 cinéma vérité look at the violence surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Medium Cool.