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David Carradine found dead in Bangkok(Apparent suicide)
The Nation ^ | 6/4/2009 | The Nation

Posted on 06/04/2009 6:48:54 AM PDT by jcb2009

Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine was found hung in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said. "Kung Fu" and "Kill Bill" star David Carradine was found hung himself in a closet in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: autoerotic; bangkok; carradine; davidcarradine; hollywood; thenation
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To: jcb2009

“They said you was hung.”

“And they was right!”


121 posted on 06/04/2009 8:43:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
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To: P8riot
I enjoyed him on “Wild West Tech”.

Agreed. Sucks that he's gone now.

122 posted on 06/04/2009 8:46:21 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (I long for the days when advertisers didn't constantly ask about the health of my genital organs.)
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To: GeronL
hanged is a natural cause in Thailand?

Must have used hemp.

123 posted on 06/04/2009 8:52:12 AM PDT by keat
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To: A_Former_Democrat

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


124 posted on 06/04/2009 8:57:18 AM PDT by dragonblustar ("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: RandallFlagg

Yep, excellent.


125 posted on 06/04/2009 9:01:24 AM PDT by AliVeritas (I wake up, the evil one cries.)
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To: jcb2009

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.


126 posted on 06/04/2009 9:09:21 AM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (A Community Organizer is the 21st century version of a Ward Heeler.)
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To: jcb2009

RIP

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


127 posted on 06/04/2009 9:11:44 AM PDT by AliVeritas (I wake up, the evil one cries.)
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To: sazerac

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...


128 posted on 06/04/2009 9:16:36 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: neodad
Thailand?

He was there making a movie.

129 posted on 06/04/2009 9:22:54 AM PDT by Wolfstar (In politics, you never, ever, EVER win by deliberately losing in order to send a "message.")
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To: a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

Now THAT is a jaw-dropping resume!

RIP, Grasshopper.


130 posted on 06/04/2009 9:35:28 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: FubarTheElder
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.

131 posted on 06/04/2009 9:46:32 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: ichabod1

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


132 posted on 06/04/2009 9:48:00 AM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
The very first response.

You're good.

133 posted on 06/04/2009 9:51:30 AM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: FreepShop1

“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?


134 posted on 06/04/2009 10:07:00 AM PDT by diverteach (http://www.slapobama.com/)
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To: jcb2009

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


135 posted on 06/04/2009 10:08:32 AM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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To: Clemenza

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


136 posted on 06/04/2009 10:11:47 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Glenn
Half naked, eh? Which half?

The naked half, silly.

137 posted on 06/04/2009 10:18:13 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: Monterrosa-24
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.

138 posted on 06/04/2009 10:23:01 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: nuconvert
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.

139 posted on 06/04/2009 10:24:13 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: LibertyRocks
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.

140 posted on 06/04/2009 10:39:43 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (Be a good little white boy--get an education, use your talents, work hard, then give us your money.)
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