Spalding Gray! Missing!

hmm. are they filming "How High 2" in an undisclosed location, and needed him on set?

Wow, hope he's okay.

he had ect a while back...hes pretty sick

I'm worried.

how terrible.

He has a timeshare/lovenest with Richie Edwards...

(No need to get up, i'll get my coat.)

I would have hoped that comedy castle tryouts could have been saved for another thread.

fuck you custos

(Any bets on how long until the "TS: Rockwell Grey vs Rockwell" thread shows up?)

he attempted suicide not so long ago, no? i'm sure he's dead, which is definitely a shame.

This is horrible.

spalding? rockwell? i can't decide if mr and mrs gray are cruel or genius

The last thing I saw by him was a spoken word piece based on his problems with his eyes. He'd spent a fortune on getting his retina scraped, or something. It sounded pretty awful. I watched it in between two of my own eye operations, and was slightly annoyed that he'd done it, because I couldn't do the same thing without looking derivative.

It's pretty awful if he's dead, because he really is one of the good 'uns. I feel rather the same way about Alan Alda, for some reason.

How horrible. He was the senior speaker the year I graduated from university and we were given an audience with in the last week of college. Mostly the effect he had was a certain kind of Sarah Lawrence student (the sort that wanted to check out Toril Moi because she was competition for those who wanted to fuck Terry Eagleton or AN Other cult stud) thinking he was HOTT. But I like(d) his staccato New England ways.

spalding gray is my best friend.

Hope he's okay.

i saw him perform a couple of times and it was really fantastic, tho this was years ago.

also his bit in "how high" was brilliant, totally the best part of the movie (which is saying a lot)

i hope he's okay too.

I fear the worst here. Supposedly, he left his wallet and driver's license behind. That's never a good sign. The current theory is that he jumped off the Staten Island ferry.

My fave Gray piece is "The Terrors of Pleasure", a monologue he did for HBO (I think) about buying a cottage in the "crotch of the Catskills" wherein to write the great American novel. It's on VHS, and worth seeking out.

its strange, b/c i feel deeply for grey.i have been really depressed lately, and i keep thinking that if he cant make it, with his sucess,how can i.

success <> happiness

success is something you have to define in very personal terms. you can have a successful life w/o a successful career and vice versa.

No further details were immediately available and the investigation was continuing early Tuesday,
Question left unanswered: "did he leave a note?"
Because, oddly enough, If he did, thats a good sign. It's the ones who don't bother leaving a note that have truly given up hope and aren't secretly trying to get saved.
Or so the current consensus amongst headshrinkers is, the last time I checked.

Normally I feel rather disgusted (in that annoyingly superior "I'm more mature than you" way) when people talk about being genuinely sad or otherwise emotionally disturbed by the death or actions of a "celebrity." And now, with this news of the possible suicide of Mr.Gray, I find myself joining the crowds who are upset by his (likely) being dead.

But I'll be damned if I can pin-point exactly why I feel this way about him and not about other actors - except that, maybe, he has always struck me as being a decent guy and someone that it would be fun to get stuck next to on an absurdly long plane flight.

His family must be feeling ill - I know that the not knowing is much worse than getting the call from the authorities.

It seems that this story has dropped right off the radar. Have there been any developments?

he's in my belly composing his next opus "love and the latino digestive system"

Most recent relevant story I could find on news.ggle

http://www.tribnet.com/entertainment/story/4715128p-4665288c.html

Ms Laura, maybe because in some way he isn't an "actor"? His material is generally taken directly from life, from what I remember.

Spalding Gray's disappearance was featured on an episode of "America's Most Wanted" in late January. That's the last thing I've heard of this case (incidentally, just two days after MsLaura posted in this thread). Just by looking at the specifics on this missing person's case, I feel very strongly that Gray successfully committed suicide and that in a month or so his body will be found, possibly after washing up on some shore somewhere. Of course, he could also very well show up one day still alive, as has occasionally happened with people with this severe a case of depression, but unfortunately that's not what happens most of the time.

mega :(

woah, I'd never heard about this at all! Jesus.

Police, wife wait for answers in actor-writer Spalding Gray’s disappearance
By Justin Glanville
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two months after actor-writer Spalding Gray walked out of his Manhattan apartment and disappeared, his wife holds out hope that he will return unharmed.
“Everyone that looks like him from behind, I go up and check to make sure it’s not him,” Kathleen Russo said in a recent phone interview.
Police said they have received 36 tips since Gray’s disappearance Jan. 10, including several accounts from reliable witnesses who believe they saw Gray on the Staten Island ferry the night he vanished. Russo has said she fears he may have tried to jump off the boat.
Gray tried suicide several times, including an attempt in late 2002 to jump off a bridge near his second home in Long Island. A passer-by talked him down.
Most of the tips, however, have led nowhere, officials said.
One came from a former police officer who thought he saw Gray in a diner in Newburgh, New York, about 95 kilometres north of New York City. But when police reviewed tape from the diner’s surveillance camera from that day, they saw no sign of the actor.
A woman in Beverly Hills, Calif., snapped a photograph of a man she thought was Gray and sent it to Russo. It wasn’t him.
“Spalding had one of those faces. People often told him, ‘You look really familiar.’ He looks like a professor they once had or something,” Russo said.
With his wiry grey hair and intelligent eyes, Gray, 62, projected an academic air in the 18 theatrical monologues he wrote and performed beginning in 1979. Several were made into films, including Swimming to Cambodia (1987), which begins as a memoir of his appearance in the film The Killing Fields; and Gray’s Anatomy (1996), a humorous recounting of his quest to cure an eye condition. He also played roles in feature films and on Broadway.
His monologues were intensely autobiographical but did not convey the depths of his periodic depressions, according to Richard Schechner, founder of The Performance Group, a downtown Manhattan theatre troupe Gray joined in 1970.
“His theatrical persona was of someone who always saw the humour and irony in life, but as an actual person, he battled depression and fears,” Schechner said after Gray’s disappearance.
Gray addressed those inner conflicts in the monologue, It’s a Slippery Slope, in which he tells the audience he had to overcome a deep depression associated with his turning 52 — the age of his mother when she committed suicide.
More recently, Gray acknowledged that a head-on car crash in 2001 left him particularly despondent about his physical limitations.
Russo has two sons — ages 11 and six — and a stepdaughter with Gray. She has been frustrated that she has nothing to tell them beyond “Dad’s missing and the police are looking.”
The lack of certainty has been equally painful for Russo. She and Gray spent much of every day together since their marriage 10 years ago, sharing meals and often hiking or biking.
She has relied on the companionship of relatives and friends, and has been reading books about other people who have lived through the disappearance or suicide of a loved one. She also tries to be “as present as possible” for her children, with whom she has been planning a vacation to Arizona.
Though she still hopes that Gray will turn up unscathed, Russo said her rational side now believes “he’s had some kind of accident, either intentional or not.”
But in the absence of news, the family can only wait.
“If you can imagine, it’s pretty awful,” she said. “There’s no closure, no answers — no definitive outcome right now.”