Anya ,'Touched'
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They are now saying that Carradine died not from suicide, but from autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong.
(Clyde Bruckman!)
While I am still sad he died, a part of me is thinking, "72 years-old, and he went out, still flying his freak flag high. Way to go, dude!"
Way to go, dude!
It certainly is quite a way to go.
It has a bit more cachet than the usual drug overdose thing.
A sick part of me would like to do a LOLCAT of D. Carradine, Fox Mulder, Michael Hutchense and Vaughn Bode with the message of "Auto-Erotica: UR Doin it Worng!"
Don't read The Smoking Gun site, if you don't want to be disillusioned about Carradine's "freak flag".
Oh and this is just for Aims :)
Robert De Niro to Drunk: You Walk in to Me?
Posted Jun 6th 2009 1:45AM by TMZ Staff
Police say Robert De Niro was the victim of a drunken hit-and-walk yesterday -- when an overly inebriated woman happened to stumble on the set of his new movie.
Police says Carlyn Campbell was able to walk a semi-straight line directly into the actor, after she bypassed security that had shut down the sidewalk.
De Niro was fine, but according to the police report, the lady was as drunk as Gary Collins driving a motor home -- meaning she blew a .29 when cops made her take a Breathalyzer.
Lucky for her, the cops just took her to a local hospital instead of taking her to jail.
geez jimi. Carradine sounds like he was an asshole to boot.
::puts up protection sign against speaking ill of the dead::
I used to work with a fellow who was Carradine's body double for a few years. They'd met in a martial arts studio and the guy I knew looked eerily like Carradine. He had absolutely nothing good to say about the actor except that he was physically gifted in the arts.
You'd think that all that zen would have made him less of a dick. Apparently not.
Rumor has it that in the Chuck Norris movie "Lone Wolf McQuade", Carradine beat Barbara Hershey on screen and off and that, in a pivotal scene in the film, actually broke her jaw.
Movies like Labyrinth, Willow, Legend, Last Unicorn, and Ladyhawke all rank high on my special list, because I fell in love with them as a kid, and I think that viewing them at that age imbued them with a warm fuzzy nostalgia as well as an extra dose of magic. Although Willow is a little too knowingly goofy to have that magic, I still enjoy the heck out of it, and own all of them on DVD.
I remember back in '98 I developed an insane hankering to see Labyrinth again, but no video store had them, nowhere could I find it. I pestered my friends and family for sightings of a copy. So notorious was my desire for this movie that I ended up with three copies of it when it finally came out on DVD in '00 or '01. One from my Mum, one from my college roommate, and one from my BF. I was quite scared to watch it, because obsessing and not-getting for two or three years can build up a lot of expectations!
I love that movie to itty bitty bits, even the scary grey tights and the fake baby.
WOOHOO!! My hometown on TMZ and it's not me!!
t does dance of yay!