David Carradine Dead In Bangkok; Early Reports Suggest Suicide

@Spirit Fingers: Wait a minute. I thought everybody assumed it was RWagner.

@otherginger: For years Nashville was one of my fav movies. I still think it stands up well to the passage of time.

Did not know that ab MPlimpton.

Oh. No. Grasshopper.

RIP DCarradine. Loved you in Kung Fu. And Kill Bill, of course.

@Spirit Fingers:

Word. An oddball; an interesting character-actor, an obviously unhappy soul.

"Hanging in a closet"? I hope that's not true. He deserved a warrior/survivor's death. Like as a an actor, cacking in on a hotel pillow one night.

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Many years ago he was arrsted in Toronto for kicking in (kung-fu?) the shatterproof glass of a huge theatrical venue here. Tch.

Pay no attention Cricket....

e.varden

@once: Thank you! Totally had the same thought.

In my opinion a hell of a lot more respectable way to go out... especially for a 72 year old. I hate it when they label that stuff suicide. If this ends up being the case.

Cutting Makes You Sexy

@TillieHarper: We the Blacks...Niggmata (I Have Holes in My ...: Well, Koko lived a long life. And Exene sounds like she's ready to fight it. And Carradine lived to 72. All sad, but not tragic. Life ends, life goes on.

SarahHeartburn

god bless him. i'm just going to assume he went out having a hell of a time. for my inside smiles.

@sweetbeans: check the BBC online front page news:

[news.bbc.co.uk]

"Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found naked by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body."

What's weird is that early this morning "other parts of his body" read "genitals" - the BBC has changed it since

once

@Thatcornellguy: Oh christ dude, fuck off. I mean, are you fucking kidding me? This is Gawker. If you're gonna be a self righteous dick, you're in the wrong place. So fuck off.

El_Gato

I'm pretty sure being found hanging is never a natural way to die. This sucks. He just seemed like a nice guy.

@once: Where did you hear that the rope was around his genitals? I don't see it in the Thai article or the AP...

You know that feeling when you feel like you're about to shit out all of your internal organs and your eyes widen and your jaw drops?

That just happened.

@rudi_freude: I'm thinking on Walken's deathbed he'll finally tell whether or not he killed Natalie Wood.

Spirit Fingers

The Legend....stops.

Not now, grasshopper.

timeoutofmind

@El_Gato: I know what you're trying to get at, but please, have some goddamn respect.

it's going to be serious waterworks next time i watch kill bill 2 and we hit the final exchange between carradine and thurman. one of my all time favorite movie moments.

Bill: "How do I look?"

wattwatt

What a bummer of a week.

YESTERDAY:

KoKo Taylor, QUEEN OF THE BLUES, died.

Not as popular as David Carradine, but had an amazing career.

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TUESDAY:

Exene Cervenka, (lead singer of X) announces she has multiple sclerosis.

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TillieHarper: We the Blacks...Niggmata (I Have Holes in My Soul)

@DinaRonson : Desperately Seeking Snark:
Name names or I call shenanigans.

rudi_freude

@katastic: They took your star?

This is an outrage. I want heads rolling!

@Cafezinha: Celebs die in three's. My "dead-pool" friend has predicted her next two already.

DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I presume

@rudi_freude: When Walken God forbid does pass, it better be a New Orleans style funeral and I wanna wear a big hat.

MissFiFi

One night in Bangkok does make the hard guys tumble.

RIP David.

I>his agent in L.A. says it was "natural causes."

ropes, bedsheets and belts come from things made in nature, so it's technically true

Isn't every older white man who dies in Thailand found with a rope around his neck & genitals?

El_Gato

I'm sad to hear this. I once worked with him on a film back in 1998. I didn't have a very high opinion of his acting before then but after watching him give very strong performances during rehearsals, the dense director of the film told him to "just say the line". The result made the scene utter crap out of something that could have been entertaining!

On the other hand, an ex of mine had been a stuntman who worked him on "Kung Fu-the Legend Continues" and the only fight preparation they had with him was this instruction, "Whatver David does, just fall down"!

taffy

That's really sad. I grew up on Kung Fu, watching him trying to snatch the pebble from from his master's hand.

@Cheap Shot: His half brother is Keith, star of Deadwood (Wild Bill), Nashville, etc.

Martha Plimpton is Keith's daughter/David's niece.

otherginger

@once: Like his manager said, natural causes...

otherginger

That Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique is no joke.

Rip, Kane.

@Cafezinha:
I assure you, my precognitive powers merely involve predicting losing lottery tickets and angry outbursts of lovers.

I still demand that Christopher Walken outlive the universe.

rudi_freude

What a shame. His voice and diction were incredible. We won't hear another.

He drank one too many Grasshoppers.

Oh, no! I met him once. He was a very nice guy.

@rudi_freude: In high school, I had a friend who would often ponder aloud whether or not X celebrity or historical figure was actually still alive, and without fail, within a week or two, said person would die and be in the news.

I sincerely hope you are not secretly her, because if you are, Mr. Walken better get his affairs in order tout de suite.

Goodbye, Grasshopper.

@Artie Fufkin: As Asian as his father, John Carradine.

Sad news indeed. He'll be remmebered forever for his Kung Fu series. His brother is the lead nerd in Revenge of The Nerds FYI.

@j.blo: I wonder what "the Bride" was doing at the time of his death...

@rudi_freude: You ain't kidding.
Can he walk just around as "The Horseman". Classic look for him.

DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I presume

@rudi_freude: He needs to be frozen, like, now!

Bill Killed

j.blo

He has so many projects in postproduction right now, he had been working all the time evidently.
Mr. BL interviewed him one or two times, he was a gentleman and could talk about any topic under the sun. A fascinating actor. I think the first movie I saw him in was Death Race 2000. This is a terrible loss.

RIP.

Carradine was found in a closet by a Thai maid w/ a rope around his neck & genitals - sounds more like a sex game gone wrong

once

@Artie Fufkin: Nope. Not for about 73 years.

Spirit Fingers

Christopher Walken better live forever.

rudi_freude

Oh, crud. That sounds just awful and yet strangely not surprising. I dunno. He always seemed like some sort of inner tortured soul. Maybe it was the roles he took. Or maybe it resulted in the roles he took, either way, farewell thee Caine.

Spirit Fingers

Wait, he was not Asian?

This is sad. Another strange guy giving way to waxed chest cookie-cutter "stars".

transbastard

Oh man, what a bummer. He's one of my favorites.

Shaden9

isn't he on mental next week? I wonder how that episode will go.

m4ximusprim3

This had to be an accident.

A lot of Men practice these sort of fetishes. It's supposed to give a man the most intense orgasm they've ever experienced.
Now I'm curious...

You've got to figure that a man like Mr. Carradine would be pushing his own sexual envelope in to his 70's. The guy is a risk taker and a role model. No way he took the gas pipe. No fucking way.

Years ago I read someplace that he ate the placenta of one of his children during some sort of new age ceremonial birthing thing..

The world is now short one more interesting citizen.
We're running low on interesting citizens.

stanhalen

@Cafezinha: cafezinha, are you my best friend from high school? that used to happen to me all the time in hs and i thought i had terrible powers

Not to be entirely glib, but I keep picturing this scenario beginning with a frenzied night of Thai hookers, drugs, and lots of sweating.

So, I have seen a couple of movies...

Adiphyte

Goodnight, sweet prince.

shortskid

I used to watch him on Kung Fu when I was little with my dad...I'll miss him!