06.04.09 CARRADINE UPDATE: UNNATURAL CAUSES
So quickly the stories change… What was just a few minutes ago “natural causes” now appears to be “suicide by hanging.”
Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body on Thursday morning [is wardrobe British for closet? does that mean he hung himself sitting down? that's willpower. and why would the rope be around his body?]. The US star was in Thailand filming his latest film Stretch, [don't even say it...] according to his personal manager Chuck Binder.
Mr Binder said the news was “shocking”, adding: “He was full of life, always wanting to work… a great person.”
Carradine was part of an acting dynasty which included his father, John Carradine, and brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert.
The star was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, which spawned sequels in the ’80s and ’90s. He is survived by his wife, Annie Bierman, and four children. [BBC]
Man, this sucks. Why does David Carradine hang himself while Seltzer and Friedberg go on making movies? But the fact that the story keeps changing gives me hope that maybe this will turn out to be just another wacky Brüno stunt.
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CARRADINE UPDATE: UNNATURAL CAUSES
Well, it’s a good thing we’re not jumping to any fucking conclusions based on what Charlie in a Halloween police costume tells the press.
I heard Jimi Hendrix’s manager did it.
Does Courtney Love have an alibi?
i near shit my pants with excitement….i thought it said “david caruso dead”……..i guess you see what you want to see
Thai police are now reporting Carradine had arranged for 2 elephants to be exported to his natural wildlife preserve at his Hollywood mansion. Oh, and there’s a BOLO out on Tony Jaa.
I don’t know about acting “Dynasty”… maybe “Staged Coup” or “Synopsis”
could have been the old asphyxi-wank gone wrong …
Nice-guy – that was my thought. Bangkok, sitting in a closet. Yeah. Wow.
eddie: isn’t it usually 15 yr olds who die from auto-erotic asphyxiation? I would think by 73, he’d have a fool-proof technique.
Why Kwai Chang Caine hang?
BTW, in Thailand they call autoerotic asphyxiation “bangkok dangerous.”
New Up, less filthy VC lies.
If anyone is wondering why he would commit suicide, the last line of his Wikipedia entry holds a possible clue…
Quote:
He also worked with the Jonas Brothers in their video Burnin’ Up, playing a Kung Fu Master, and planned to work with Miley Cyrus.
Bruce lee can finally get some afterlife payback for carradine stealing the roll of cain.
told ya so
Quote: “He was full of life…”
No shit, Sherlock.
Great, now who am I gonna watch make awkward puns on Wild West Tech?
SCENE: Cloudy Heaven-like place. Carradine sits up out of the cloud bank, with a confused look on his face. He sees a bar, and being who he is, immediately enters it.
He sits at the bar, and looks around. Chris Farley is on stage, telling jokes, warming up for Sinatra. Keith Moon is on drums, and follows each joke with a rim shot. Hendrix is tending bar, and asks him what he’ll have.
“The same as me” says Michael Hutchence with a laugh, and winks at Carradine.
END OF SCENE
I had a friend commit suicide like that. Essentially you wrap the rope/belt around your neck and attach it to the bar in the closet. Some closets have those weird midget bars, so you can attach it to that and get on your knees. You then proceed to get drunk/high and when you pass out you end up hanging yourself.
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