Grasshoppa no Longa

[Saniflush]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31103217/?GT1=43001

Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.

The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room and is believed to have committed suicide.

Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.

In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.

But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series “Kung Fu,” which aired in 1972-75.

He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine’s grandson in the 1990s syndicated series “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.”

He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino’s two-part saga “Kill Bill.”

[Snaggletiger]

Man, that sux.  Dude played some cool roles over the years. 

[Tiger Wench]

Read this on another blog:

Some thoughts on David Carradine:
How is it that celebrities hang themselves from the shower curtain rod, but when I put two towels over mine, it falls down?
Will David Carradine be buried with a pebble in his hand?
Someone in Bangkok knows the Five Pointed Palm Heart Exploding technique, apparently.

[JR4AU]

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He was found dead with a rope around his neck and genitals.

[Snaggletiger]

He was found dead with a rope around his neck and genitals.

No question that's an accident.  See, normally when you tie the rope around the neck and genitals, you're supposed to tie the knot in a way that...wait, what?

[wesfau2]

No question that's an accident.  See, normally when you tie the rope around the neck and genitals, you're supposed to tie the knot in a way that...wait, what?

He must have forgotten the safe word.

[JR4AU]

He must have forgotten the safe word.

Might have been safer to just not order a "Spicy Thai Choked Chicken" from those two hookers.

[Talon]

This was one occasion when the chicken choked back.

[boartitz]

Did he jump or was he pushed? May be something sinister behind this.

[CCTAU]

I heard he was run over by a car in the new Death Race 2000. 150 points.

[Kaos]

The Bangkok police are clearly overlooking the obvious suspect.  Blonde chick named Beatrix. 

[Ogre]

This was one occasion when the chicken choked back.

Well played, sir.

[boartitz]

Ironic where he died.

[Ranger12]

I just found out about this tonight. I was watching Robot Chicken and it showed some guy hanging himself and then jerking off. My wife was like "OMG, that is what they think happened to David Carradine!". I looked it her with a "WTF are you talking about" look because I had no clue.