01-10-2009, 04:18 AM
Let's not forget the recent (strange) death of David Carradine.
http://www.maxim.com/movies/articles/840...adine.html
In 1974, while he was starring in Kung Fu, Carradine was convicted of wandering into a neighbor’s home in Laurel Canyon high on peyote, trashing the place, then sitting down to play the piano. (The police apprehended him by following the trail of blood—two pints’ worth—from a broken window.) The same day, Carradine leapt from a car naked and bleeding and attacked a woman he believed to be a witch, beating her and demanding she remove her clothes, for which he was later forced to pay $20,000. This was followed by drug arrests, DWIs, and assault charges too numerous to mention. Carradine’s duality—a healthy lifestyle advocate who smoked two packs a day; a spiritual being whose most prized possession was his Ferrari—carried over to many of the roles he played, from the ass-kicking monk of Kung Fu to the cold-blooded assassin and loving father of Kill Bill.
Carradine was married five times, and within days of his death stories broke in the U.S. press about his robust history of sexual adventurism. Unnamed friends claimed he had a history of engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation, the practice of choking oneself (usually with a noose) to produce more intense orgasms. In divorce papers filed by his fourth wife, Marina Anderson, she cited “abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior.” (She also reported “an incestuous relationship with a very close family member.”) Another of his ex-wives, Gail Jensen, told the New York Daily News that he would construct elaborate bondage devices to tie himself up. A quick call to the Stretch production office reaches someone who identifies himself as “the American,” who says the film is currently “in flux.” Russ Markowitz, who helped finance the film, informs me later that the crew members were all made to sign agreements not to comment on Carradine or Stretch. “From what I was told,” he says, “Carradine was very prepared and professional on set and kept to himself during his time off. I believe he was sched--uled to work the next day.”
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http://www.maxim.com/movies/articles/840...adine.html
In 1974, while he was starring in Kung Fu, Carradine was convicted of wandering into a neighbor’s home in Laurel Canyon high on peyote, trashing the place, then sitting down to play the piano. (The police apprehended him by following the trail of blood—two pints’ worth—from a broken window.) The same day, Carradine leapt from a car naked and bleeding and attacked a woman he believed to be a witch, beating her and demanding she remove her clothes, for which he was later forced to pay $20,000. This was followed by drug arrests, DWIs, and assault charges too numerous to mention. Carradine’s duality—a healthy lifestyle advocate who smoked two packs a day; a spiritual being whose most prized possession was his Ferrari—carried over to many of the roles he played, from the ass-kicking monk of Kung Fu to the cold-blooded assassin and loving father of Kill Bill.
Carradine was married five times, and within days of his death stories broke in the U.S. press about his robust history of sexual adventurism. Unnamed friends claimed he had a history of engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation, the practice of choking oneself (usually with a noose) to produce more intense orgasms. In divorce papers filed by his fourth wife, Marina Anderson, she cited “abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior.” (She also reported “an incestuous relationship with a very close family member.”) Another of his ex-wives, Gail Jensen, told the New York Daily News that he would construct elaborate bondage devices to tie himself up. A quick call to the Stretch production office reaches someone who identifies himself as “the American,” who says the film is currently “in flux.” Russ Markowitz, who helped finance the film, informs me later that the crew members were all made to sign agreements not to comment on Carradine or Stretch. “From what I was told,” he says, “Carradine was very prepared and professional on set and kept to himself during his time off. I believe he was sched--uled to work the next day.”
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