Thu Jun 4, 2009 1:49PM6 comments ›
Thu Jun 4, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman
David Carradine: 1936-2009
David Carradine,
best known as the star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu who also had a wide-ranging
career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. News reports said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide. He was 72.
Since every other obituary is going to mention his role as as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu and the 1990s spinoff Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as the grandson of his original character, and every other genre site is going to mention his role as Frankenstein in the original Death Race and his role as Bill in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, we'd like to take a moment and remember him for a different role-- as Woody Guthrie in the Hal Ashby film Bound For Glory:
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Comments (6)
Russ Rogers (6:14 PM on Thu Jun 4, 2009)
Carradine is Bound for Glory. RIP.
Russ Rogers (6:16 PM on Thu Jun 4, 2009)
David Carradine is Bound for Glory. RIP.
Andrew Pepoy (8:19 PM on Thu Jun 4, 2009)
News reports I've heard make it sound like it may be murder staged to look like suicide. It's been done before, such as with one of my favorites, poor Adrienne Shelly, a couple years back.
Jarrod Buttery (9:30 PM on Thu Jun 4, 2009)
Not to mention Lana Clarkson :-(
Susan de Guardiola (4:18 PM on Fri Jun 5, 2009)
(trying carefully not to be inappropriate)
I think it looks rather more like an accidental death during autoerotic asphyxiation than a suicide, given the, um, intimate location of the second rope. I don't think most suicides get naked and kinky to enhance the experience.
David K. M. Klaus (10:26 PM on Fri Jun 5, 2009)
When are people going to stop trying this? How many fine, creative people have to die?
I first heard about it with the death of comic artist Vaughn Bode' in 1975, so this is 34 years now that I've been hearing about one creative artist after another whose work I admired killing themselves this way.