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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Randy Quaid
Loomis_Orange — 15 years ago(December 16, 2010 02:40 AM)
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/01/quaid-201101?curr entPage=4
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land"
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ronnieronb — 15 years ago(February 17, 2011 03:26 PM)
Her eyes say "Coo Coo for Coco Puffs!"
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/randy-quaid-interview
bushtony and his mother suffer from Congential Stupidtiy and they didn't see it coming. -
Loomis_Orange — 14 years ago(October 01, 2011 05:03 PM)
Lost Highway? Randy Quaid has always been such a wonderful actor. I saw him in a movie not so long ago where he had come to arrest a young man and then killed some time by driving him all over his hometown for one last look. At long last he drives him to his Grandmother's place. It's just a wonderful performance. I'm just really sorry he had to get mxed up with some crazy broad who ended up winning him over to the paranoid side. maybe he always hb68ad it in him tho.. can't blame it all on her. Maybe he was more than a little nuts before they met. Most artists are
Accept Loss ~ Jack Kerouac -
TMC-4 — 11 years ago(February 04, 2015 10:13 PM)
http://nypost.com/2010/10/24/what-the-hell-happened-to-randy-quaid/
Its been a harrowing, downward spiral and now actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, have hit rock bottom.
The kooky couple was arrested Wednesday in Vancouver for immigration violations and then arraigned Friday in a bizarre hearing in front of Canadas refugee board, where they begged for protection from a Hollywood hit squad.
Yes we are requesting asylum from Hollywood STAR WHACKERS, the couple scrawled on a piece of notebook paper held up to cameras by their lawyer, Brian Tsuji.
The pudding-faced o2000lder brother to movie star Dennis Quaid was released on $20,000 bail with his wife. They were ordered to appear on Oct. 28 to face outstanding arrest warrants from the United States.
But the Quaids say they need asylum in Canada to stay alive.
Quaid, 60, and Evi, 45, say they live in fear of a shadowy group they believe is responsible for killing eight Tinseltown friends including Heath Ledger, who died of an apparent drug overdose in 2008, and David Carradine, who died last year from apparent autoerotic asphyxiation.
The wacky claim sounds more like something youd hear from Cousin Eddie, Quaids character from the side-splitting Vacation movies for National Lampoon, than from an acclaimed actor who has appeared in more than 90 films.
What the hell happened to Randy Quaid?
Some Quaid intimates trace his grotesque meltdown to Lone Star Love, a 2008 play in Seattle that was going to be an Americanized version of Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor.
Quaid was signed to the lead role of Falstaff. But he wound up blackballed by all 26 other members of the musical cast. They took charges against Quaid to the Actors Equity Association, claiming hed physically and verbally abused his fellow performers.
The show closed rather than head to Broadway because of his oddball behavior, the actors complaint said. Actors Equity fined Quaid more than $81,000 and banned him for life an unfair punishment, he 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, Quaid wrote in a statement.
But the dispute seemed to be the catalyst for increasingly outlandish behavior from the Quaids, who had met in New York in 1989.
Evi was a former model for famed photographer Helmut Newton who was hired to work as a production assistant on Bloodhounds of Broadway, a movie starring Quaid. Her wacky humor and artistic zeal bewitched Quaid, who had divorced first wife Ella Jolly in 1985 after five years of marriage.
When he and Evi married, they carved out an eclectic, nomadic life that seemed to keep them both happy. And Quaids acting star steadily rose.
He had already been nominated for an Academy Award for playing a young Navy sailor on his way to prison in The Last Detail in 1973 and his fame grew as he found a niche playing laughable, comedic roles like Cousin Eddie and the gin-soaked, crop-dusting pilot who helps save the day in the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day.
He also landed the pivotal role of the brutish ranch owner in the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain. But he later sued the producers for $10 million in punitive damages, claiming they intentionally presented the movie as a low-budget, art-house film with no prospect of making any money to lock him in to a lower fee than usual. Quaid dropped the lawsuit after getting a promise of financial restitution in 2006.
But between the Seattle fiasco and the Brokeback lawsuit the first time it appeared that money might be a problem despite Quaids years of steady work darker issues began to play in the couples stunning self-destruction.
Evi, always an intense person ality, had be come so para noid that she hired a private detective to investigate other cast members of Lone Star Love, claiming one of them was making death threats against her.
Evi demanded that I harass [the cast]. I observed Evis paranoia increase and she was convinced someone was going to murder Randy and then Evi to make it look like murder-suicide, investigator Becky Altringer told Radar Online.
Her increasingly bizarre behavior and intense mood swings strained Quaids family relationships, opening a rift that divided him from brother Dennis and their mother, according to published reports.
The couples descent seemed only to quicken in September 2009, when they skipped out on a $10,000 bill at the San Ysidro Ranch Hotel near Santa Barbara.
Arrested within a few hours, Evi tore into the deputies with verbal and physical harassment, authorities said.
The next day, after paying $20,000 bond, Evi left a sign outside the local sheriffs door accusing him of taking bribes; the officer countered with a threat to sue for libel.
Two months later, the Quaids had ignored four California court summonses although Evi reportedly found time to send unsolicited nude pictures of herself to a Seattle ne