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Fresno_Layshaft wrote:They seem to be having some strange paranoid breakdown. I hope it doesn't end in a Duncan/Blake-type situation.
Stephen Morgan wrote:It's not unheard of for people from one Western nation to seek political asylum in another. Kemal Christian Kemal was the first Frenchman to gain asylum in the USA, back in the 90s I believe. Claimed his wife and the French authorities wanted to pimp his daughter to a Satanist cult. American judge, California I believe, believed him. Then one day a federal marshall grabbed his daughter and shoved her on a plane back to France.
Evi Quaid begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator not to force them to return, saying on Friday that eight friends, such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she's worried something will happen to her husband next.
sunny wrote:\<] Very odd. Any indication of why the Quaid's think their friends are being murdered?Fresno_Layshaft wrote:They seem to be having some strange paranoid breakdown. I hope it doesn't end in a Duncan/Blake-type situation.
This is true, and I agree.
sunny wrote:Maybe, but how do the Quaids figure they will be safe in Canada if the 'Star Whackers' want Randy dead on account of ad-sales? I reckon if he's murdered in another country 'they' would still reap the media-blitz benefits. Wasn't Carradine in Thailand when he died?
What "Lone Star Love" audiences saw in September at the 5th Avenue Musical Theatre was not particularly pleasant. Now it seems that what was going on backstage was downright nasty.
The bloated $6.5 million musical had originally been scheduled for a run on Broadway after closing in Seattle. Yet the 5th Avenue show was so disappointing, critically and financially, that the producers canceled the transfer to New York.
One of "Lone Star's" biggest problems was its 6-foot-5-inch star, Randy Quaid.
According to reports on an Actors Equity Association inquiry that looked into charges against Quaid, he was rude, abusive and unprofessional. Twenty-six of his fellow cast members brought charges against him. The result, according to Reuters and the New York Post, is that Quaid has been banned for life from Equity and fined $81,572.
Equity is the professional stage actors union.
New York Post columnist Michael Riedel wrote last week that sources privy to the Equity hearing reported that Quaid was charged with five major infractions:
1. During performances, he smacked a fellow actor on the back of the head.
2. Quaid warned another actor that if he made direct eye contact with the star, he would lose his job.
3. Quaid's "sexually inappropriate" comments included referring to an actress' "gynecological instruments."
4. Along with his wife, Evi, Quaid tried to rewrite the script and eliminate characters.
5. Quaid missed rehearsals. On stage, he improvised lines, song lyrics and movements.
Quaid is best known as a film and TV actor. His movies include "Brokeback Mountain" and "Independence Day." He played the young Lyndon Johnson in "LBJ," a 1987 TV docudrama, and he had recurring roles on "Saturday Night Live." He is the older brother of actor Dennis Quaid.
"Lone Star" was to be Randy's Broadway debut. He was recruited to play Col. John Falstaff in "Lone Star" on the theory that a new Broadway musical needs a famous name above the title in advertisements to draw audiences.
"Lone Star Love" is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's 1597 romantic farce " The Merry Wives of Windsor." A key "Merry Wives" character is Sir John Falstaff, an all-round lecher and con man who hits on married matrons in the hope of getting money out of them. All his elaborate scheme get him is a dousing in a creek and a drubbing by an angry husband.
In "Lone Star," Sir John became Col. Falstaff, a Confederate army deserter. Quaid played the role with a large wad of something or other stuffed into the crotch of his tight pants. His portrayal was not subtle.
In response to the five-member Equity hearing board's decision, Quaid reportedly said, "I am guilty of only one thing: giving a performance that elicited a response so deeply felt by the actors and producers with little experience of my creative process that they actually think I am Falstaff."
Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff comes away from his distinctly unmerry "Merry Wives" adventures with a bad cold and a wounded ego. As for Quaid, being banned for life from Equity means that he can no longer perform in first-class theaters with professional stage actors.
His film and TV career, however, should not be affected except insofar as he gets a reputation for being difficult to work with (film and TV actors are not necessarily members of Actors Equity).
Quaid's fine of $81,572, were it to be actually paid, would be divided up among the 26 cast members who lodged the complaint against him. A prominent member of the "Lone Star" cast was Dee Hoty, who returns to the 5th Avenue this week in the title role of the musical comedy "Mame."
sunny wrote:Maybe, but how do the Quaids figure they will be safe in Canada if the 'Star Whackers' want Randy dead on account of ad-sales? I reckon if he's murdered in another country 'they' would still reap the media-blitz benefits. Wasn't Carradine in Thailand when he died?
Twyla LaSarc wrote:
I'm sorry, Randy and Evi sound unhinged; frankly, Randy doesn't have enough quality cinematic chops to profit from his death in retrospective.
Ex-P.I. warns of Quaid’s wife
By BOB MACKIN
Last Updated: October 24, 2010 7:43pm
VANCOUVER -- A private investigator said the conspiracy theory Evi Quaid hopes will allow her and actor husband Randy to claim refugee status in Canada is fictitious.
“Evi believes the ‘union mob’ is out to destroy them, and that they're going to kill Randy and herself and make it look like a murder-suicide,” said Becky Altringer by phone from La Verne, Calif.
“There is nobody out to kill Randy or Evi. The only one trying to hurt Randy and Evi is Evi, she is really mentally ill.”
Altringer was hired by the Quaids last year to investigate the alleged conspiracy, but ended up quitting and filing a restraining order against the couple, who ran up a $19,000 bill. She said she gave them a place to stay but eventually evicted them over Evi’s behaviour.
“Randy packed up his briefcase and said, ‘I've had enough Evi, I'm leaving, I can't do this anymore’ and started walking away,” Altringer said. “She started screaming at him ‘get back here right now!’ He came back.”
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Altringer said the Quaids are estranged from their families because they’re “terrified of Evi,” who she witnessed using the prescription painkiller Demerol and hyperactivity drug Ritalin. She ultimately fears Evi will kill Randy and then commit suicide.
“Randy, he's going along with all this I think out of fear, he doesn't know what to do,” Altringer said. “I would say that Randy Quaid is being abused by her.”
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