David Carradine found dead in Bangkok(Apparent suicide)

The Nation ^ | 6/4/2009 | The Nation

[dfwgator]

“They said you was hung.”

“And they was right!”

[Hardastarboard]

I enjoyed him on “Wild West Tech”.

Agreed. Sucks that he's gone now.

[keat]

hanged is a natural cause in Thailand?

Must have used hemp.

[dragonblustar]

THE AMERICAN:
Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don’t know that the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies — doesn’t seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change — don’t you know that when you
Play at this level there’s no ordinary venue

It’s Iceland — or the Philippines — or Hastings — or —
or this place!

COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

THE AMERICAN:
One town’s very like another
When your head’s down over your pieces, brother

COMPANY:
It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

THE AMERICAN:
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town —

COMPANY:
Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

THE AMERICAN:
Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

THE AMERICAN:
Siam’s gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank God I’m only watching the game — controlling it —

I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of mate I’m contemplating
I’d let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours —

COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

[AliVeritas]

Yep, excellent.

[Ticonderoga34]

I liked him on “Wild West Tech” but I also liked him in the movie “The Long Riders” which was one of my favorite movies.

[AliVeritas]

RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLilMtzOUbA&feature=related

[LibertyRocks]

Some of us girls, too... :)

RIP David... I thoroughly enjoyed watching Kung Fu with my Dad when I was young. About the only show he and I both liked...

[Wolfstar]

Thailand?

He was there making a movie.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Now THAT is a jaw-dropping resume!

RIP, Grasshopper.

[BluH2o]

It sounds obvious what happened, but perhaps that’s what we’re supposed to think.,

This is way up there on the kinky index scale ... must be some far east thing.

[Williams]

He was filming a movie in Thailand, failed to join the crew for a meal and was found dead.

[SIDENET]

The very first response.

You're good.

[diverteach]

“CNN reporting he died from the “Five Point Exploding Heart Palm Technique”, whatever that means.”

That’s the way he was finally killed in “Kill Bill vol. 2”

Did CNN also say an APB has been put out for Uma Thurman?

[meyer]

Rest in peace, Grasshopper. Your journey’s finished.

[kabumpo]

Carradine had had the lead in Scorses’s previous movie, “Boxcar Bertha” which salso starred Carradine’s then-wife Barbara Hershey.

[N. Theknow]

Half naked, eh? Which half?

The naked half, silly.

[N. Theknow]

His father had lots of great roles and even played Dracula in Universal’s (1944) House of Frankenstein and (1945’s) House of Dracula.

I remember his father best as Aaron, Moses' brother, in The Ten Commandments.

[beaversmom]

Didn’t realize he was 72.

I didn't either until I looked him up the other day on IMDB. Friend mentioned circus freaks and I brought up the show he does for cable about the Old West. One episode was about circus freaks.

[mikeus_maximus]

Well, I was a skinny, unathletic, awkward geek in junior high when Kung Fu came out. He was my hero. So, naturally, my sister loved to tease me about his interview in which he said he "was a dancer, not a fighter". When I later got into martial arts, I saw he was telling the truth. But in the early 70's, when MA was a new thing to this country, his hokey and slow "kung fu moves" seemed almost magical.

Footnote to that: The concept for the Kung Fu series-- a shaolin monk wandering the Old West-- was created by Bruce Lee, who saw himself in the starring role. But the studio thought he was "too Oriental" for American audiences, and cast David Carradine instead. I'm not sure Lee, with his bad accent and incredible speed and violence, would have made as interesting a character as Carradine's serene and benevolent monk.