David Carradine goes nutty at "Bound for Glory" screening; MUCH later, found dead in Bangkok hotel (RIP)

very entertaining, Grasshopper.

"Then Carradine started insulting Wexler's cinematography, at length. 'You got an Oscar for ruining my movie,' Carradine kept telling him. Wexler finally got into it, agreeing that, yes, Hal Ashby had fired him one day, and that he'd responded about the massive amounts of coke being snorted on the set, which got him unfired. Then Carradine denied doing coke with Ashby but defended directors who like their powder -- including Quentin Tarantino! [WIth whom Carradine worked on Kill Bill.]

"After some more back-and-forth shouting Carradine broke into a singalong of the title song, with the audience's nerves too frayed for much of anyone to join in.

Here's an mp3 containing part of the discussion. If you listen closely you'll hear Carradine referring to Tarantino as a "coke freak."

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/03/crazy_carradine.php

more...

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/03/back_to_the_aer.php

carradine sure is a "character"
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/carradine1.html

lolz "abhorant" and a "deviate"!

incestuous relationship with close family member (redundancy sic)

(to be fair, if you are accusing someone of incest, there is really not much risk of overstating your case)

areally close family member

so is it Keith, Robert, Bruce or Martha Plimpton

Reports say Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine has been found dead in a hotel room in Bangkok.

Carradine, 73, was there to shoot a new movie, his agent said.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=6847033

No way, no fucking way!

Found hung ;(

God!

What a downer

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001016/

Went to check a particular film title, but blimey, that's a very long list!

(It probably wasn't him at all: Rookie recruits get lost in a forest, backwoods USA, the 'natives' mostly speak french, they capture one dude who pretends he has no english. and damn it's one of my fav films of all time ...)

Poor grasshopper.

oh no. :(

RIP.

BBC are reporting he's been found semi-clothed with a noose around the neck.

tmz still has him at "natural causes," but i suppose that will change.

rip.

jeez

holy shit

the cognitive dissonance between the first and second halves of this thread is almost painful

yeah, I've petitioned for a thread rename...

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 genitals on Thursday morning.

er...

Well, he was found hung.

Sounds like he's done a Hutchence...

Oh kwaichangpaws

Well hung and snow-white tan.

so can we all just agree that autoasphyxiation is a bad idea and call it a day

They've changed it to "with a rope around his neck and body" now.

slight modification:

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.

xpost actually.

(It probably wasn't him at all: Rookie recruits get lost in a forest, backwoods USA, the 'natives' mostly speak french, they capture one dude who pretends he has no english. and damn it's one of my fav films of all time ...)

― Mark G, Thursday, 4 June 2009 14:00 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it was Southern Comfort, an excellent film, starring his brother Keith. OK, head scratching over.

He was described as behind half naked.

???

He was found hanged, btw.

Damn it. I grew up watching Kung Ku (every kid in the playground doing "Grasshopper" impressions and jumping around doing karate chops). I'm pretty sure my love of over the shoulder bags comes directly from that series. Can't believe he was 72. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pphMecGZQ_s

my co-worker from the "my annoying co-worker" thread is freaking the fuck out about this.

i like how the smoking gun link that is the 3rd post in this thread has Carradine's ex alleging that he took part in:

"deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly"

My annoying co-worker: "He was so good in Revenge of the Nerds!"

I think he's joking.

it didnt take long for the bbc site to change, i came here to post it earlier and saw 2 people had already done so and within 2 mins it was gone from the site.

career highlight (w/ brother Robert) begins around 4:25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXTA0SJsOvg&feature=PlayList&p=7910D66D025AE6DC&index=5

wow. RIP

this sucks

RIP

Anyone heard this:

http://991.com/newGallery/David-Carradine-Grasshopper-427344.jpg

This has been changed from "genitals" to "other body parts" only minutes ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5444839/David-Carradine-found-dead-in-wardrobe-of-Bangkok-hotel.html

i never did see The Serpent's Egg.

damn : (

Damn. RIP.

RIP. The character he played in the 70's Kung Fu series was a powerful formative influence. I know several people who watched that show as kids, got involved in traditional martial arts, and still practice and teach 35+ years later.

The headline of this thread made me think that both events happened together.

xxpost

Neither did Hutchence and Carradine, apparently. (Don't try it on your own, only with someone present who knows the dangers, seems to be the lesson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoerotic_asphyxiation )

make sure the chicken is all that gets choked

I'm tempted to steal that for my Facebook status, but instead I think I'll move on.

x-posts - Clearly I do not. I mean orgasms are pretty great to begin with. How much better could doing something that might result in death (and a ridiculous lol worthy death at that)actual make them?!

I mean it's still sad RIP and all that but . . . yeah.

"actually"

(croaking, poking, stroking, joking) xxxpost

Who is the 3rd besides DC and Hutchence?

― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, June 5, 2009 10:12 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the guy who wrote all our fave sheryl crow songs of course

btw - "Sada Abe killed her lover, Kichizo Ishida, through erotic asphyxiation in 1936, proceeding to cut off his testicles and carry them in her handbag for a number of days. The case caused a sensation in 1930s Japan and has remained one of the most famous Japanese murder cases of all time."

These are dudes who aren't turned on by the most beautiful women in the world since they could (and have) easily get them. So they turn to more dangerous stuff. But then THAT gets boring. So they end up at this kind of Lost Control near death crap :-/ (xxpost) (it's the stepping stone theory of sex! Don't start it at all and you won't end up dead!)

xp well then

I know but it's still sort of incomprehensible if it isn't, you know, your "thing".

so did she write "a change could do you good" ?

I'm lost now.

( also search: hypoxic euphoria )

Yeah no I understand the mechanism of how/why it works but the whole RISK OF DEATH thing sorta kills the appeal for me.

I reject StanM's theory. Pulling your pud is not a gateway drug.

its the whole doing it alone in the closet aspect thats so wtf - i mean couldnt carradine et al just ask someone to choke them - thats how normals do it

RISK <- that's probably 95% of the whole deal right there.

eh seems just so lame and not at all freaky dangerous

xxpost

He did! And then she divorced him and told the judge! (read the third post in this thread - "Marina accused Carradine of "deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly")

x-posts Yeah cause at least then it would be a lot safer unless your partner is a Japanese lady who like to carry balls in her bag. Then you might be in trouble.

xpost

Yeah but surely there would be a lot of other ladies out there who would be willing to take part and keep quiet about it since they'd be sleeping with Grasshopper.

He did! And then she divorced him and told the judge! (read the third post in this thread - "Marina accused Carradine of "deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly")

― StanM, Friday, June 5, 2009 10:34 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fine then ask someone else - worst comes to worst you cant toss a lasso w/o snaring a prostitute in bangkok

it seems you can.

i was gonna say, ffs dude was in bangkok

That's a really good point. I hadn't even really thought about the fact that he was in Bangkok of all places!

otoh trusting a prostitute not to tighten the noose and make off with your wallet ...

^^^preferable to choking yourself alone in a gd closet

it seems you can.

― Mark G, Friday, June 5, 2009 4:38 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

LOL

(of course, it's possible someone else was there and didn't stick around.)

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/michaelwalford/2008/04/27/uma_thurman_kill_bill_1.jpg

naming an "icon" not derived from shitty TV was the motherfucking point, Ed III; have some coffee

RIP thread

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:00 (2 hours ago)

ok I have had my coffee, can you stir some klonopin into yr metamucil

2 hours drinking coffee?

I have just talked to someone who missed the "around his neck" part of the story and didn't understand how men can choke by tying a rope around their genitals.

*sigh*

some PEOPLE.

it was a big coffee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Bode

The man may be dead but The Legend Continues!!

albert dekker supposedly died in the same manner (character actor, last role was harrigan in 'the wild bunch')

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Dekker

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2009/06/Post%20Hung%20Fu.png

'suicide'

wau @ ny post

that's low even for them

Gross to read about this. WTF.

Picture leaked in a Thai newspaper: DO NOT VIEW if you don't want to see his (pixellated) body hanging in the closet where it was found.

Extra security measure: change 1234 to 2009 in the following URL

http://www.thairath.co.th/media/content/1234/06/06/11026_20_2.jpg

:-/

Somehow, putting in a little mug shot in the corner of the aftermath of one's death cracks me up a little.

I know it's a bit disrespectful to say that, but this other example had me going after the recent Buffalo airline crash:

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ap_renslow_plane_090511_mn.jpg

It's like some real-life Toonces the Cat drama.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/aadis.jpg

i was gonna suggest someone put arshavin in with the Carradine corpse photo but maybe a bit morbid?

i'm v conscious of netiquette.

I don't think that picture should be shown without warning - even though it is on several newspaper sites over here (Belgium)

that link doesn't seem to work anymore, stan. :-( and my google skillzors are rub

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b226/fosse8/et23.jpg