David Carradine found dead[views:7896][posts:35]______________________________ [Jun 4,2009 10:29am - Yeti ""] http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/04/obit.david.carradine/index.html RIP. Deathrace 2000 for the win. |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 10:30am - largefreakatzero ""] You have failed, Grasshopper. RIP |
| _________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 10:31am - oscarct ""] shitty. hung himself |
| _________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 10:34am - RustyPS ""] oscarct said:shitty. hung himselfholy shit really? |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 10:42am - boblovesmusic ""] weird, I was just looking at the list of notable deaths before I found out about this. Bummer. |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 11:01am - the_reverend ""] lame. |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 11:02am - thuringwethil ""] Nooooooooooooooooo!!! |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 11:10am - metal_church101 ""] Where did it say that he hung himself. Bummer. RIP, Grasshopper. |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 11:17am - metal_church101 ""] Looks like Bruce Lee got his revenge for not getting the role in the TV Series KUNG-FU. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 11:28am - oscarct ""] waiting for the photoshopped kill bill cover with a noose. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 1:01pm - the_reverend ""] they are talking about a rope around his neck on the radio |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 1:05pm - Melba_Toast ""] [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 1:08pm - SkinSandwich ""] yellowbook.commmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 2:31pm - Masshole ""] Bill has been killed |
| ________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 2:36pm - oscarct ""] Masshole said:Bill has been killed cmon you could do better |
| __________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 3:17pm - SMAGGLER ""] metal_church101 said:Where did it say that he hung himself. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/04/obit.david.carradine/index.html |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 3:32pm - the_rooster ""] "This is me at my most masochistic." |
| ________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 3:44pm - oscarct ""] BANGKOK - Actor David Carradine, a born seeker and cult idol who broke through as the willing student called "grasshopper" in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" and decades later as leader of an assassin squad in "Kill Bill," was found dead Thursday in Thailand. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself. The officer responsible for investigating the death, Teerapop Luanseng, said the 72-year-old actor was staying at a suite at the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel. "I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police suspected suicide. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family. Carradine came from an acting family. His father, John, made a career playing creepy, eccentric characters in film and on stage. His brothers Keith, Robert and Bruce also became actors. Actress Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine's daughter. "My Uncle David was a brilliantly talented, fiercely intelligent and generous man. He was the nexus of our family in so many ways, and drew us together over the years and kept us connected," Plimpton said Thursday. Carradine was in Bangkok shooting the movie "Stretch," said his manager, Chuck Binder. "We're very saddened, he was a wonderful guy," said Lori Binder, a partner in the agency that represented Carradine. "It is shocking to me that he is no longer with us," said Michael Madsen, who played an assassin in "Kill Bill." "I had been thinking about calling him for the last several days. ... I have so many great memories of David that I wouldn't even know where to begin. He has a very special place in my heart." The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid Thursday morning. It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the suite's curtains. It cited police as saying there was no sign that he had been assaulted. Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy that would be done Friday. Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his early film roles was as folk singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic, "Bound for Glory." But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75. "I wasn't like a TV star in those days, I was like a rock 'n' roll star," Carradine said in an interview with Associated Press Radio in 1996. "It was a phenomenon kind of thing. ... It was very special." Actor Rainn Wilson, star of TV's "The Office," tweeted about Carradine's death on Twitter: "R.I.P. David Carradine. You were a true hero to so many of us children of the 70s. We'll miss you, Kwai Chang Caine." Carradine reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues." He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill." Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill - Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill. In "Kill Bill - Vol. 2," released in 2004, Thurman's character catches up to Bill. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor. Bill was a complete contrast to Caine, the soft-spoken refugee from a Shaolin monastery, serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West. He left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself. "David's always been kind of a seeker of knowledge and of wisdom in his own inimitable way," his brother, actor Keith Carradine, said in a 1995 interview. After "Kung Fu," Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick "Death Race 2000." He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western "The Long Riders." But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films. Tarantino's films changed that. "All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one," Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004. "There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do," he said. "All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight." One thing remained a constant after "Kung Fu": Carradine's interest in Asian herbs, exercise and philosophy. He wrote a personal memoir called "Spirit of Shaolin" and continued to make instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts. In the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes. "I didn't like the way I looked, for one thing. You're kind of out of control emotionally when you drink that much. I was quicker to anger." "You're probably witnessing the last time I will ever answer those questions," Carradine said. "Because this is a regeneration. It is a renaissance. It is the start of a new career for me. "It's time to do nothing but look forward." ___ Associated Press writer Polly Anderson in New York contributed to this report. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 3:48pm - the_reverend ""] wow... stretch must have really sucked. |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 4:03pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] ha he was in a movie called "My Suicide" i would say thats ironic. |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 4:12pm - largefreakatzero ""] Maybe it's that thing that killed that fag from INXS -- you know when people strangle themselves while masturbating? Seems unlikely since the guy was 72, but you never know... |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 4:14pm - Conservationist ""] Autoerotic asphyxiation. Possibly. Either that, or it's a mob hit. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 6:27pm - rotivore ""] break boards.....not neck |
| ________________________________ [Jun 4,2009 9:34pm - oscarct ""] I was an extra in a movie david caredine was in haha |
| ________________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 5:20am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""] THIS IS BAD MAAAAAAAN! CALM DOWN RIPA! HEY OLD MAN, HOW'D YOU LIKE TO BUY SOME PANDA MEAT? Murray Head is pleased. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 8:15am - goatcatalyst ""] I keep misreading this as "David Coverdale found dead" and really bumming myself out. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 8:17am - SkinSandwich ""] He had cord wrapped around his twigs and berries. This is not a suicide. ""The two ropes were tied together," he said. "It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not or he died of suffocation or heart failure due to an orgasm." |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 9:32am - goatcatalyst ""] Twigs? If I had two, suicide would be the last thing to cross my mind. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 9:46am - dreadkill ""] hahahahahahaha, great post goat |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 9:50am - FuckIsMySignature ""] death by orgasm has to be the best possible way to go out |
| _________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 10:17am - oscarct ""] FuckIsMySignature said:death by orgasm has to be the best possible way to go out coming and going |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 10:21am - the_reverend ""] when I was a kid, my dad freaked out when he found a tie in my shirt draw cause one of his co-workers kids died doing that. I had never heard about it before, but the way he described it, it was to die for. |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 5,2009 10:54am - largefreakatzero ""] Hey, I know what I'M doing tonight. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jun 10,2009 6:28am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] [img] |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 10,2009 7:06am - SkinSandwich ""] They covered his kung fu junk! |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 10,2009 9:47am - the_reverend ""] that's sum shit right there. |