QuoteKung Fu star Carradine found dead
Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room.
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Rest in peace, young grasshopper/snake charmer.
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He was just undergoing a renaissance, too.
sad. it's being investigated as a possible suicide.
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In honor of the dead, you should post something that they played a good role in; Kill Bill doesn't count for Carradine.
German media say he was found hung with a curtain's rope.
Quote from: garbon on June 04, 2009, 10:44:16 AM
In honor of the dead, you should post something that they played a good role in; Kill Bill doesn't count for Carradine.
Why don't you fuck off and die?
Quote from: Neil on June 04, 2009, 10:50:38 AM
Why don't you fuck off and die?
He had like a 10 minute role in Kill Bill 2, which largely consisted of him and Uma having a heart to heart before she killed him.
Too bad :(
Quote from: garbon on June 04, 2009, 10:52:53 AM
Quote from: Neil on June 04, 2009, 10:50:38 AM
Why don't you fuck off and die?
He had like a 10 minute role in Kill Bill 2, which largely consisted of him and Uma having a heart to heart before she killed him.
He was in the first one a little bit, but he was in the second one quite a bit. He probably had more screen time in Kill Bill 2 than Darth Vader did in Star Wars.
So I repeat: Fuck off and die.
:( He wasn't always wise in his choice of roles, but he always was a welcome sight in anything he was in. RIP, dude.
rip. :(
he was quite fine in Kill Bill, regardless of his screen time. he was lauded by critics. why the hate?
Long Riders is excellent if you want a good western.
His best work was in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Watch this short clip and tell me it doesn't top ANYTHING he did in Kill Bill, or whatever else..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6bov4MvlI
RIP :cry: One of my first heroes.
Quote from: saskganesh on June 04, 2009, 11:20:45 AM
he was quite fine in Kill Bill, regardless of his screen time. he was lauded by critics. why the hate?
No hate at all. I just think it would be better to laud his performance in Kung Fu.
Quote from: saskganesh on June 04, 2009, 10:22:24 AM
sad. it's being investigated as a possible suicide.
Sounds like one to me.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/04/obit.david.carradine/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/04/obit.david.carradine/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)
QuoteAmerican actor David Carradine has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according a Thai police official.
David Carradine became famous in the 1970s after starring in the television series "Kung Fu."
more photos » Carradine, who became famous in the 1970s when he starred as traveling Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the television series "Kung Fu," was 72.
The rope was believed to be from the hotel room curtains, Bangkok Police Lt. Col. Pirom Chanpirom said Thursday.
He said investigators found no sign of forced entry into Carradine's room.
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RIP
RIP bum.
RIP. I even liked Death Race 2000. Of course, I was 10 when I saw it...
Quote from: PDH on June 04, 2009, 03:34:45 PM
RIP. I even liked Death Race 2000. Of course, I was 10 when I saw it...
It's a shame we didn't see more of him in the new Death Race. Although the movie would still probably have been terrible.
You have to be in a pretty low place to think that strangulation hanging is a good way out.
:(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
"Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. "
Oh dear. :huh: :scots:
Quote from: Habsburg on June 04, 2009, 06:41:13 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
"Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. "
Oh dear. :huh: :scots:
Is it suicide, or autoerotic suffocation?
Quote from: Barrister on June 04, 2009, 06:44:54 PM
Quote from: Habsburg on June 04, 2009, 06:41:13 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
"Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. "
Oh dear. :huh: :scots:
Is it suicide, or autoerotic suffocation?
Stop being coy.
Quote from: Barrister on June 04, 2009, 06:44:54 PM
Quote from: Habsburg on June 04, 2009, 06:41:13 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
"Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. "
Oh dear. :huh: :scots:
Is it suicide, or autoerotic suffocation?
Uh sounds pretty obvious to me.
Quote from: Habsburg on June 04, 2009, 06:41:13 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
"Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. "
Oh dear. :huh: :scots:
i read that as other parts IN his body at first :blush:
Quote from: Jaron on June 04, 2009, 11:48:47 AM
His best work was in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Watch this short clip and tell me it doesn't top ANYTHING he did in Kill Bill, or whatever else..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6bov4MvlI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6bov4MvlI)
Wow. That is some truly atrocious action filming.
What a way to go. More memorable than any flick. :lol:
QuoteThai cops: Carradine's death may be accidental
Officials: 'Kill Bill' star found in closet with ropes tied around neck, genitals
BANGKOK - The body of American actor David Carradine, best known for the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu," was found in a hotel room closet with ropes tied to his neck and genitals, and his death may have been accidental suffocation, Thai police said Friday.
The 72-year-old actor's body was discovered Thursday in his luxury suite at Bangkok's Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel. Police initially said they suspected suicide, though Carradine's associates had questioned that theory.
Police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chewprecha told reporters that Carradine was found with a rope "tied around his penis and another rope around his neck."
"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."
Thai police completed an autopsy on Carradine Friday but so far have not released the results.
Dr. Nanthana Sirisap, director of Chulalongkorn Hospital's Autopsy Center, told reporters that the autopsy was conducted because of the "unusual circumstances surrounding Carradine's death," but he did not elaborate.
'Naked, hanging in a closet'
Police Lt. Teerapop Luanseng had said on Thursday that Carradine's body was found "naked, hanging in a closet," and that police at the time suspected suicide.
But one of Carradine's managers, Tiffany Smith of Binder & Associates, dismissed the theory.
"All we can say is, we know David would never have committed suicide," said Tiffany Smith, of Binder & Associates, his management company. "We're just waiting for them to finish the investigation and find out what really happened. He really appreciated everything life has to give ... and that's not something David would ever do to himself."
Carradine had flown to Thailand last week and began work on a film titled "Stretch" two days before his death, Smith said. He had several other projects lined up after the action film, which was being directed by Charles De Meaux.
Carradine was "in good spirits" when he left the United States for Thailand on May 29 to work on "Stretch," Smith said.
"David was excited to do it and excited to be a part of it," she said by phone from Beverly Hills.
Devastated
Filming began Tuesday, she said, adding that the crew was devastated by Carradine's death and did not wish to speak publicly about it for the time being.
Aurelio Giraudo, the hotel's general manager, said Carradine checked into the hotel May 31 and he last saw him June 3. He said Carradine chatted with staff and even played piano a few nights in the lobby as well as flute which the "guests really enjoyed."
"I was a fan. I had a very nice talk with him when he checked in," Giraudo told The Associated Press. "He was very much a person full of life. I mentioned to him that I had seen (the movie) "Crank" with my family and that was the last smile he gave me."
Giraudo said a chambermaid discovered Carradine's body, adding that she knocked and entered after there was no response. Police arrived shortly thereafter.
Carradine, a martial arts practitioner himself, was best known for the U.S. TV series "Kung Fu," which aired from 1972-75. He played Kwai Chang Caine, an orphan who was raised by Shaolin monks and fled China after killing the emperor's nephew in retaliation for the murder of his kung fu master.
Carradine also appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.
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.
You gotta admit, dying by autoerotic asphyxiation while waiting to begin filming a movie entitled "stretch" is a trifle ironic.
Quote from: Malthus on June 05, 2009, 08:40:30 AM
You gotta admit, dying by autoerotic asphyxiation while waiting to begin filming a movie entitled "stretch" is a trifle ironic.
I was talking with my wife about this yesterday. Which of the two do you think carries a bigger stigma: Suicide, or dying by accident during freaky sex?
Quote from: PDH on June 04, 2009, 03:34:45 PM
RIP. I even liked Death Race 2000. Of course, I was 10 when I saw it...
ever play Car Wars?
Quote from: Neil on June 05, 2009, 08:44:08 AM
Quote from: Malthus on June 05, 2009, 08:40:30 AM
You gotta admit, dying by autoerotic asphyxiation while waiting to begin filming a movie entitled "stretch" is a trifle ironic.
I was talking with my wife about this yesterday. Which of the two do you think carries a bigger stigma: Suicide, or dying by accident during freaky sex?
tough. you'd have to apply the dinner party test.
mention suicide or mention auto-asphixiation at a dinner party. do people dive in with relish, or do the awkwardly change the subject?
... I guess it does depend on who you eat dinner with. I can imagine it going both ways.
Quote from: Neil on June 05, 2009, 08:44:08 AM
Quote from: Malthus on June 05, 2009, 08:40:30 AM
You gotta admit, dying by autoerotic asphyxiation while waiting to begin filming a movie entitled "stretch" is a trifle ironic.
I was talking with my wife about this yesterday. Which of the two do you think carries a bigger stigma: Suicide, or dying by accident during freaky sex?
The latter.
The former can play out as a tragedy that is in some cases understandable and even laudable: a old fellow might choose to off himself, for example, rather than facing terminal decline. No shame or disgrace in that.
The latter is always going to be somewhat shame-inducing.
Huh. Didn't know Carradine was a member of the British Conservatives.
Possible thread title: "Hung Fu".
Quote from: Malthus on June 05, 2009, 02:35:19 PM
Possible thread title: "Hung Fu".
"Hung; through"
Quote from: PDH on June 05, 2009, 10:39:39 AM
Quote from: saskganesh on June 05, 2009, 10:08:53 AM
ever play Car Wars?
hell yeah.
Needs to be updated.
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Roadwar 2k was pretty good too
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191493/Carradine-familys-fury-publication-crime-scene-photo.html
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QuoteKung Fu star David Carradine was dressed in a woman's wig and fishnet stockings when he was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, it has been revealed.
Red lingerie was also folded on the bed and an erotic photograph pinned to the wall - supporting theories that he accidentally killed himself during an act of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
The fresh revelations about the four-times-married 72-year-old's passing will further disturb the Kill Bill star's family.
They were shocked yesterday by the publication of what appears to be a crime scene photo showing his body in a Thai newspaper.
A grainy photograph showing a naked man with both hands bound at the wrist and suspended above the head was published in the Thai Rath tabloid.
The face is blacked out and other areas obscured. Thai police believe the photo was taken by a member of the forensic team and leaked to the newspaper.
Keith Carradine, the actor's half brother, said in a statement that the family were 'profoundly disturbed by the release in Thailand of photographs taken at the scene of David Carradine's death,' and threatened legal action against further distribution.
Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.
Since Carradine was found last Thursday there have been conflicting reports on the circumstances of his death.
Family members insist the Kill Bill star would not have committed suicide and his U.S.-based lawyer Vicki Roberts claimed the star had been murdered.
Relatives went on to suggest he had been assassinated for delving into the affairs of secretive martial arts sects associated with crime.
A panel member on the Larry King show on U.S. television said: 'David was very interested in investigating and disclosing secret societies.' ...
Today, we are all cross dressers.
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They were shocked yesterday by the publication of what appears to be a crime scene photo showing his body in a Thai newspaper.
A grainy photograph showing a naked man with both hands bound at the wrist and suspended above the head was published in the Thai Rath tabloid.
The face is blacked out and other areas obscured. Thai police believe the photo was taken by a member of the forensic team and leaked to the newspaper.
Completely not true. The photo is not of David Carradine, it is of a Thai person with a thick head of black hair who tied himself up in a cheap hotel room. Thai police have not claimed anything, it's made up by a reporter.