Celebrity Suicide and Death!

Dateline: 11.21.05, 4 am.

From the great film, Wonder Boys:

Hannah Green (Katie Holmes): James will know about George Sanders.
James Leer (Tobey Maguire): George Sanders?
Hannah Green: Mr. Crabtree was saying how George Sanders killed himself, only he couldn't remember how.
James Leer: Pills. April 25, 1972, in a Costa Brava hotel room.
Terry Crabtree (Robert Downey, Jr): How comprehensive of you.
Hannah Green: James is amazing. He knows all the movie suicides. Go ahead, James. Tell him.
James Leer: There are so many.
Hannah Green: Well, just a few. The big ones.
James Leer: 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 Sullivan, pills. Lupe Velez, a lot of pills. Gig Young, he shot himself and his wife in 1978. There are tons more.
Hannah Green: I haven't heard of half of them.
Terry Crabtree: You did them alphabetically.
James Leer: It's just how my brain works, I guess.

Dateline: 04.22.02, 2 am.

Someone just called me on the phone. It's 2am. He said that "suicide isn't funny, man."

I was like, "HUH?" He said he found my website on the internet, and that why do I think suicide is funny? I was thinking it was my brother joking around at first. But then the guy said that my page on celebrity suicides and deaths wasn't funny.

Then he was like, "do you think suicide is cool?" And I say, "huh? who is this?" Then he said, "how old are you?" I said, "I have to go, bye." He sounded real disappointed that he couldn't talk me out of thinking suicide was cool.

I don't think suicide is cool. But I do think that celebrity suicide is fascinating. Not cool.

Awesome celebrity suicides and deaths! More coming in soon!!! Doesn't suicide and strange/sad death rule!??! Especially in Hollywood!!