>On Friday, October 12, 1984, the cast and crew of Cover Up were filming the seventh episode of the series "Golden Opportunity" on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot. One of the scenes filmed that day called for Hexum's character to load bullets into a .44 Magnum handgun, so he was provided with a functional gun and blanks. When the scene did not play as the director wanted it to in the master shot, there was a delay in filming. Hexum became restless and impatient during the delay and began playing around to lighten the mood. He had unloaded all but one (blank) round, spun it, and—simulating Russian roulette with what he thought was a harmless weapon—he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger.[6]
>Hexum was apparently unaware that his actions were dangerous. Blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gunpowder into the cartridge, and this wadding is propelled from the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause injury if the weapon is fired within a few feet of the body should it strike at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. At a close enough range, the effect of the powder gasses is a small explosion, so although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, there was enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging.[1][7]
>Hexum was rushed to Beverly Hills Medical Center, where he underwent five hours of surgery to repair his wounds.[7] On October 18, six days after the accident, Hexum was declared brain dead. With his mother's permission, his body was flown to San Francisco on life support, where his heart was transplanted into a 36-year-old Las Vegas man at California Pacific Medical Center.[8] Hexum's kidneys and corneas were also donated: One cornea went to a 66-year-old man, the other to a young girl. One of the kidney recipients was a critically ill five-year-old boy, and the other was a 43-year-old grandmother of three who had waited eight years for a kidney. Skin that was donated was used to treat a 3½-year-old boy with third degree burns.[9]
Easton Davis
Loved that show as a kid.
Brody Baker
Never heard of this, I always think of that one where the chopper cuts up that dude holding the kid in the water. Ouchy!
Evan Rogers
I think Brandon Lee died in somewhat the same way, because the gun he got shot with in the movie had real bullets in them instead of fake.
Vic Morrow.
Nolan Stewart
what a dumbass lmao
Robert Parker
I never value actors
Asher Thompson
Lee died because the people responsible for the gun didn't bother buying proper blanks they just turned real bullets into blanks by removing the powder charge, but fucked up the process by leaving the primer. At some point they shot the psuedu-blanks, setting off the primer which had enough force to dislodge the bullet out of the 'blank' but it got stuck in the barrel. Then after a scene where they had inert dummy rounds for a closeup they switched it to blanks, fired the blanks and the force of one of those blanks the stuck bullet out of the gun.
Kevin Carter
HOLLYWOOD AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY KILL ACTORS WHO ARE NOT JEWISH AND A THREAT TO THEIR FUTURE
HOLLYWOOD AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY KILL ACTORS WHO ARE NOT JEWISH AND A THREAT TO THEIR FUTURE
HOLLYWOOD AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY KILL ACTORS WHO ARE NOT JEWISH AND A THREAT TO THEIR FUTURE
HOLLYWOOD AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY KILL ACTORS WHO ARE NOT JEWISH AND A THREAT TO THEIR FUTURE
If they CANNOT control you then they have no use for you
Tyler Turner
Brandon lee died from a gun that wasn’t handled properly because the gun master was gone for the night but the director decided to film anyway, so they had untrained prop guys handle the guns and loads. Basically a bullet from a dummy round fell out of the cartridge and got stuck in the barrel, they didn’t clear the barrel, and then loaded blanks into it to film the shooting scene, so they shot a real powder blank with an actual bullet lodged in the barrel so it was basically the same as a real bullet. this guy got shot through the brain with his own skull, that’s fucking metal
Jason Butler
WOW umm racist and sexist much
Julian Wilson
like every week in the tabloids there was a story about one of the recipients being a criminal or something and he then died of aids
Adam Williams
>Ouchy! You have to leave, this isn't working out.
Jeremiah Butler
Having fun replying to your own post, champ?
Ryan Watson
Sorry bro I 'm in charge here now, post an ouchy or get the fuck out of this board
Matthew Sullivan
I remember some guy died during the 3rd season of sliders
Luis Thomas
Shit like this is why it's all bad CGI now days instead of squibs and blanks.
Sebastian Sullivan
!!!UPDATE!!!
>Hamilton died in March, 1995, from AIDS-related pneumonia.
>The New Jersey-born star’s heart was transplanted into the chest of Michael Washington – a Vietnam war hero who also owned an infamous escort service known as Swinging Suzy’s in Las Vegas, Nevada.
>Washington, who was twice awarded the prestigious Purple Heart for services to his country, became obsessed with the actor towards the end of his life.
>Speaking with The Sun Online, actor and Hexum archivist Doug Eames said that Washington contacted him several times before the war hero died in 2002.
>the prestigious Purple Heart getting shot and not dying is now “prestigious” being a pimp who got wounded twice in Nam now makes you a war hero
Nolan Williams
i need a hero
Justin Hall
no but I think he would have gotten it eventually by some network executive
God I miss squibs. The 80's were a wonderful time for action movies.
Josiah Clark
>On June 3, 2009, at the age of 72, David Carradine was found dead in his room at the Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit Road, in central Bangkok, Thailand.[1][99] He was in Bangkok to shoot his latest film, titled Stretch.[99] A police official said that Carradine was found naked, hanging by a rope in the room's closet, causing immediate speculation that his death was suicide.[100][101] However, reported evidence suggested that his death was accidental, the result of autoerotic asphyxiation.[102] Two autopsies were conducted, one involving the celebrity pathologist Pornthip Rojanasunan, and both concluded that the death was not a suicide.[103][104][105][106] The cause of death became widely accepted as "accidental asphyxiation."[107]
>Immediately following his death, two of Carradine's former wives, Gail Jensen[108][109] and Marina Anderson,[110][111] stated publicly that his sexual interests included the practice of self-bondage. Anderson, who had plans to publish a tell-all book about her marriage to Carradine, said in an interview with Access Hollywood, "There was a dark side to David, there was a very intense side to David. People around him know that." Previously, in her divorce filing, she had claimed that "it was the continuation of abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly."[112]
>Photographs of Carradine at the death scene, as well as photographs of his autopsied body, were circulated in newspapers and on the Internet.[113] His family, represented by his brothers, Keith and Robert, pleaded with the public and the press to let them mourn their loved one in peace.[114]
GOING OUT LIKE A BOSS
Luke Brown
The lead singer from the electroband Ou est le Swimming Pool
Jeremiah Perry
Didn't his dad's brain explode from taking an aspiring?
Christian Sanchez
*Aspirin
Leo Morris
i can see why tarantino chose to not use this ending in kill bill. there is already too much fetishist imagery in the film with all the feet stuff
Andrew Flores
>The machine gun attack on Tom Powers and his best friend Matt Doyle actually used real machine gun bullets. An expert with the gun stood on a raised platform 15 to 20 feet away from the target, and when James Cagney's face disappeared behind the corner of the wall, he opened fire and created that tight circle of machine gun bullets.
Matthew Rogers
jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/personnel/Peabodys_Place-4.html I hate John Landis so much so fucking much >Ten years later, Vic was dead because he worked on a movie in which key personnel were either drunk or stoned on coke, or both. He was decapitated by the rotor of a helicopter which contained, besides the pilot and a camera operator, a cockpit full
>He was in jeopardy from the moment he agreed to do an irresponsibly dangerous shot for a director (John Landis) who had no regard for Vic's safety or for the safety of two illegally hired children. A director, who some crew members say, was out of control and kept screaming at the helicopter pilot over the bull horn, "Fly lower. LOWER!" over the heads of Vic and the children and the massive explosions that were being detonated.
>All of this carnage was shot under the supervision of a producer (Steven Spielberg) who, despite eyewitness statements of crew members to the contrary, maintains that he was not on the set that night.
>Vic's last words in life, while holding two children and waiting for the director to say "action," were, "I've got to be crazy to do this shot. I should've asked for a double."
Nathaniel Turner
well his brain was swelling a lot so they gave him aspirin and a tranquilizer but I think it was the cerebral edema
Landon Miller
that guy from spartacus did that
Parker Rivera
great art demands sacrifices. deal with it
Alexander Moore
>A thin, bearded man was coming down the aisle, seemingly unable to walk without assistance. He was supported by a woman and another man (Mrs. John Landis and George Folsey, Jr., the production manager of the "Twilight Zone" movie). The bearded staggerer was "Twilight Zone" director, John Landis.
>His stooges helped him to the lectern and he began a rambling eulogy --unplanned, unrequested, unwanted and shocking to Vic's family and friends. His mere presence at the funeral was offensive to them. He did this, presumably, on the advice of his attorney.
>The most obnoxious remark he made, among many, was that he was "proud to have directed Vic in what Vic, himself, considered the best performance of his career."
lmao
Liam Martinez
No, he took an upper his lover at the time, Betty Ting, gave him at her apartment in Hong Kong. He was fairly opposed to drugs, so he had no immunity to the harder stuff Ting had.
>Hexum was declared brain dead I am sure that doctors would pronounce him brain dead long before the accident.
Adrian Perry
This dude looks like if Clint Eastwood and Alain Delon had a son
Dominic Gray
>At the controls of the helicopter that was “bombing” the village was Dorcey Wingo, an actual Vietnam veteran. Wingo was new to the movie business, so even when the rehearsal explosions that buffeted his chopper scared him witless, he swallowed his concerns, especially as Landis, who had a reputation for being dictatorial on set, screamed expletives into the California night. (The shooting was taking place at a disused motorcycle track at Indian Dunes Park, a few miles north of Los Angeles.)
>When the cameras rolled, pyrotechnic fireballs engulfed Wingo’s helicopter, forcing him down into a river where the actors waded. As a hundred or so people looked on, the right skid of the aircraft crushed 6-year-old Renee, who was a few feet from Morrow (the aging star had dropped her). The helicopter then toppled over, and its main blade sliced through Morrow and 7-year-old Myca. According to Stephen Farber and Marc Green’s exhaustive book on the incident, Outrageous Conduct, there was shocked silence until Renee’s mother started shrieking as she kneeled over her daughter’s lifeless body. Morrow never got to deliver his scripted line: “I’ll keep you safe, kids. I promise. Nothing will hurt you, I swear to God.”
>(And Landis had bullied his way through The Twilight Zone: According to Outrageous Conduct, the director grew frustrated as lighting the fatal scene grew difficult. The job required grips to climb scaffolding thirty feet in the air while being buffeted by rotor wash from the helicopter. When some techs hesitated, Landis demanded, “Is there somebody on this electrical crew who’s not too chickenshit to do the job?”) I think Spielberg and Landis strung up on gallows and their bodies publicly gibbetted would be an acceptable sacrifice for the sake of art. but unfortunately both men are members of a certain untouchable tribe who can get away with anything
Camden Fisher
Wtf, was this movie going to be a huge blockbuster?
Sebastian Morales
it was shit, just absolute shit. Every story in it was shit, or a shittily done remake of an old twilight zone episode. It was just an attempted easy cash grab like most modern day movies
