Subject:

David Carradine

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Nancy Cartwright and Karen Black Announced For 'Writers of the Future' Gala -- a Direct Response to the Voice?

    Last week, we brought you several moments from Scientology's big L. Ron Hubbard birthday event that was held on March 10 in Clearwater, Florida. Here's another few minutes from that celebration that we alluded to earlier, during which church leader David Miscavige uses the church's "Writers of the F ... More >>

  • Film

    May 11, 2011

    Epic: True Legend and the Drunken Venom Fists of Fury

    Last week, we brought you several moments from Scientology's big L. Ron Hubbard birthday event that was held on March 10 in Clearwater, Florida. Here's another few minutes from that celebration that we alluded to earlier, during which church leader David Miscavige uses the church's "Writers of the F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Man Named 'Zen' Accused of Attempted Murder With Samurai Sword

    The late David Carradine.​Hemet, California's Zen Timothy Singleton is in jail after allegedly chasing his in-laws through the streets with a samurai sword. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that his father-in-law was slashed in the leg and his brother-in-law was wounded by glass shattere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    People Who Died, Circa 2010

    Jay Reatard, gone but not forgotten.​It is depressing but accurate to note how inexorably the internet bends toward death, and how much of the work of professional critics these days is announcing it, verifying it, and making sense of it (often in that order, unfortunately). Michael Jackson, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Live: Iron Maiden Murders Madison Square Garden

    Nate "Igor" SmithA few of the many Iron Maiden fans Igor photographed last night. Iron Maiden Monday, July 12 Madison Square Garden There is, still to this day, an Iron Maiden dress code. It consists of denim. A black T-shirt with the band's logo in that inimitable Metal Lord font. And somewhere i ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Michael Jackson and the Endless Summer of Death

    What the King of Pop left behind, and what he took with him

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Which Celebrities Had The Most Macabre Deaths?

    ​There's a new book that's to die for! It's Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of The Famous and Infamous by Alan W. Petrucelli, and it's a Hollywood Babylon-style rundown of the best (as in worst) star deaths--how they croaked, what they last ate, what they last said, and who smoked the ... More >>

  • Music

    July 22, 2009

    Introducing Antibalas Offspring Fu-Arkist-Ra

    Fearlessly combining Afrobeat with Chinese mysticism

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Make The Dying Stop!

    2009 will surely go down as the dyingest year in celebrity history, when the only gossip about stars was that they'd suddenly stopped breathing. It's only July, and so far we've already lost the lustrous likes of:

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    David Carradine Died of Asphyxiation, Says Forensics Expert

    The results of the second David Carradine autopsy is out. His examiner, forensics expert Dr. Michael Baden, says he was asphyxiated. We figured. What else has Dr. Baden got? "Now why that happened is still what we're working on," he offers. He says Carradine wasn't a suicide, the hands tied behind h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    David Carradine Cross Dressing Nugget

    If David Carradine really died in drag, as the New York Post reported, it wasn't the first time. In full cross-dress regalia, he played Pearl, a co-kidnapper of a screaming baby, in the obscure 1989 film Sonny Boy. Leonard Maltin describes the movie as a "repulsive, socially unredeemable waste of ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    Letters: June 17, 2009

    If David Carradine really died in drag, as the New York Post reported, it wasn't the first time. In full cross-dress regalia, he played Pearl, a co-kidnapper of a screaming baby, in the obscure 1989 film Sonny Boy. Leonard Maltin describes the movie as a "repulsive, socially unredeemable waste of ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 17, 2009

    Talk Show Host Thrown Out of Gay Bar!

    Poisonous chatter, but the ending will leave you in Stritches.

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    On Third Avenue. Albany went coup-coup! Pedro Espada Jr. seized the state senate with the help of Hiram Monserrate and billionaire Tom Golisano. After some skirmishes, which saw Tom Duane appearing to lean GOP to save gay marriage, the Dems locked the chamber, but Espada got the key and the GOP w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    New Autopsy: Carradine's Death Not a Suicide

    The independent autopsy is over, and Dr. Michael Baden has determined that Kung Fu actor David Carradine's death was not a suicide after all. (That was the original conclusion by Thai authorities when they found him all trussed up last week; later came the auto-erotic asphyxia scenario.) The next st ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 10, 2009

    The Low Point in the David Carradine Coverage

    Fighting off the recession with priceless gems. Plus, a few Debbie taunts.

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    This Week's Voice: Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth's The Eternal, Coppola's Tetro, Sigmar Polke, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

    Vincent Gallo in Tetro In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla testifies to the alternating agony and ecstasy of Brooklyn's own art-rock lobsters, the Dirty Projectors. Cristina Black talks with downtown ingenue Regina Spektor. Dan Weiss on Sonic Youth's newest, The Eternal. Don ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Who Was The Original David Carradine?

    Way before David Carradine's sad and possibly kinky death by strangling, obscure character actor Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops) met a similar freaky fate. According to an upcoming book called Morbid Curiosity by Alan W. Petrucelli, in 1968 Dekker was found not only dead, "he was naked, kneeling in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Weird Sex Strangle Death Launches David Carradine Dirtfest

    We're going to milk this fucking David Carradine thing for all it's worth. For one thing he's a celebrity nude as well as a celebrity corpse. For another, there are shocking new revelations: The Smoking Gun has divorce papers from Carradine's fourth ex-wife which accuse him of "deviant sexual behavi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    David Carradine Sex Strangle Theory Deeply Disturbing to Some

    Hmm. The presumption was suicide, but now it is being suggested that David Carradine's death might be homicide, or just a good time gone wrong. Police in Bangkok say the now-famous curtain cords were tied around Carradine's neck and genitals, suggesting auto-erotic asphyxia. A Thai forensics specia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    President Obama graciously escorted GM into bankruptcy.Enemies decried his kind words and big speech to the Muslim world, but it still went over big. Can't touch this! We're beginning to think that Obama's letting total lunatics attack him on a government website just for the laughs. Patriots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

    In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

  • Film

    April 15, 2009

    Join The Golden Boys for Kvetching and Kibitzing

    In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

  • Film

    April 15, 2009

    Crank: High Voltage, the Gremlins 2 of Action Cinema

    In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

  • Film

    August 5, 2008

    Hell Ride: A Vulgar Homage to Cheapie Biker Movies

    In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

  • Film

    May 15, 2007

    Kon's Cure for Cinema

    Paprika dreams a little crazy dream

  • NYC Life

    April 17, 2007

    White Like Me

    Victor Varnado is a white black man. And he wants you to crack up about it.

  • NYC Life

    May 2, 2006

    The Gentle Combat of Mapes Avenue

    At a jujitsu program in the Bronx, soft is hard and surviving is victory.

  • Film

    April 6, 2004

    Vengeance Is Hers

    Ethereal yin to Vol. 1's visceral yang, Tarantino's epic ends in a breeze of sweet reason

  • Columns

    January 27, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Ethereal yin to Vol. 1's visceral yang, Tarantino's epic ends in a breeze of sweet reason

  • News

    September 30, 2003

    Faster, Pussy Wagon! Kill! Kill!

    Back from the dead with the new Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino exposes the dick drive, movie ultraviolence, and his foot fetish

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Browse Voice Nation
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy