Gary Coleman - more opportunities than ever before & this time nothing to complain about!
Wrongful death is the theme as Gary Coleman's parents take it to the next level. They started asking all sorts of questions following their estranged son's suspicious death. Now Coleman's parents made it clear that they weren't blaming Gary's ex wife Shannon Price. Explicitly not blaming a person is the sneaky way of blaming them - as if by pointing out that suspecting the person would be the reasonable thing to do but your not going to do it in spite of that. Besides they merely want closure.
Well spite aside, Gary's parents now are suing for custody of the remains. That sounds a little odd since they were to interested in Gary while he was still alive and among us. In fact their had been a 25 year separation between them. Now that he's gone they seem making up for lost time.
So what interest could they have in Gary Coleman's body (besides releasing the autopsy video for cash?). Perhaps they wanted it tested to see if Shannon was poisoning him or something. That is unless they actually planned to have Coleman's corpse stuffed and then taken on tour, in a last ditch effort to wring more money out of the hapless fellow. I will say this - fighting over the body is a poor way of getting closure. Another thing, this is something that Sophocles never anticipated in Antigone. Then again for clear portrayal of human nature inaction you have to resort to the Bible.
In other news David Carradine's widow is suing over his death. Carradine was found in a Thai hotel hung by the neck in what appeared to have been a sex stunt gone wrong. Carradine had a history of sex related weirdness including trying to shoot him self in the groin with a blank cartridge. Carradine later commented on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson that he'd screwed up a perfectly good tattoo over that stunt.
History didn't stop the conspiracy theories from growing. Soon kung fu message boards were posting that Carradine was a rogue shaolin master gone to Hong Kong to crush the Chinese mafia. He had been assignation on the way by black hand Taoists masters as Bruce Lee had been when he tried the same stunt decades earlier. Or so the story goes.
Well no his widow is getting in on the act. She's suing the production company over wrongful death. I'm not sure what the basis for the suit is but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Kung fu conspiracies. It may not even have much to do with hotels letting in underage hookers - but the production company has more cash than the hookers. I guess the Widow Carradine has been in Hollywood too long to believe in conspiracies, & especially when there's a buck to be made (to which she may even be entitled). There's no people like show people, you know!
truths, half truths, and utter bull shit:
Wondertrash would like to confirm that the rumors are in fact true: Mel Gibson did briefly work in Australia under the screen name Randy Gibb!
"Bridge on the captain!"
—William Shatner, after filming his death scene in Star Trek Generations.
Allegedly. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3673712/William-Shatner-The-man-who-fell-to-Earth.html
Allegedly. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3673712/William-Shatner-The-man-who-fell-to-Earth.html
