Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Commonplace Book: Hollywood Suicides

George Sanders?...Pills. April 25, 1972, in a Costa Brava hotel room...Pier Angeli, 1971 or '72, also pills. Donald "Red" Barry, shot himself in 1980. Charles Boyer, 1978, pills again. Charles Butterworth, 1946, I think. In a car. Supposedly, it was an accident, but, you know, he was distraught. Dorothy Dandridge, pills, 1965. Albert Dekker, 1968. He hung himself. He wrote his suicide note in lipstick on his stomach. William Inge, carbon monoxide, 1973. Carole Landis, pills again. I forget when. George Reeves, "Superman" on TV, shot himself. Jean Seberg, pills, of course, 1979. Everett Sloane - he was good - pills. Margaret Sullavan, pills. Lupe Velez, a lot of pills. Gig Young, he shot himself and his wife in 1978. There are tons more.

Tobey Maguire as James Leer, Wonder Boys

"But, you know, he was distraught." Classic.

By the way, Wonder Boys, what an amazing film, Michael Douglas never better.

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