POST BY PADDY JOHNSON
Jeremy Blake, Angel Dust, 20 minutes, digital film still. Image via: Greg.org
The Guardian reports director Gus van Sant (of Milk) will pair with American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis to write a film about the lives and deaths of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. I suspect, amongst other things, that this will mean the continued, if not increased, presence of the number of Duncan impersonators over Twitter.
Apparently the script will be based off last year’s Vanity Fair profile by Nancy Jo Sales detailing the couple’s relationship and prolonged paranoia. Shortly after their death occurred, a friend formerly close to the couple told me he thought this was a result of a pro-longed methamphetamine addiction, but no details were ever released supporting that conjecture.
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I’d had a number of people tell me about drug use (meth was mentioned), but I didn’t have anyone willing to go on the record. Alcohol–yes–lots of people talked about heavy drinking, but it didn’t seem that either Duncan or Blake were incapacitated by drinking (although I did wonder if she’d had liver damage and that’s why the Tylenol/bourbon combo proved to be lethal, which I don’t believe was her intention.)
THE VF piece is very romanticized (although the original version, which wasn’t written entirely by Sales, was more investigative.) I wonder who’ll play Father Frank?
I’d had a number of people tell me about drug use (meth was mentioned), but I didn’t have anyone willing to go on the record. Alcohol–yes–lots of people talked about heavy drinking, but it didn’t seem that either Duncan or Blake were incapacitated by drinking (although I did wonder if she’d had liver damage and that’s why the Tylenol/bourbon combo proved to be lethal, which I don’t believe was her intention.)
THE VF piece is very romanticized (although the original version, which wasn’t written entirely by Sales, was more investigative.) I wonder who’ll play Father Frank?
Sounds like a terrific collaboration- I’d love to see anything done with both Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis, but with an already compelling story it sound be amazing.
Sounds like a terrific collaboration- I’d love to see anything done with both Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis, but with an already compelling story it sound be amazing.
Methamphetimine addiction?
It never ceases to amaze me how even over two years later, none of those “friends” have the balls to go on the record.
I don’t subscribe to “the dead are off limits” in terms of speculation, but until someone’s willing to speak plainly and show proof about this alleged “methamphetimine addiction”, I’m going to assume that those “friends” of theirs–(and you, too, Kate and Paddy, for spreading this rumor) are full of crap.
Methamphetimine addiction?
It never ceases to amaze me how even over two years later, none of those “friends” have the balls to go on the record.
I don’t subscribe to “the dead are off limits” in terms of speculation, but until someone’s willing to speak plainly and show proof about this alleged “methamphetimine addiction”, I’m going to assume that those “friends” of theirs–(and you, too, Kate and Paddy, for spreading this rumor) are full of crap.
I expect this will have as much to do with the actual Jeremy and Theresa as Last Days had to do with the real Kurt Cobain.
I expect this will have as much to do with the actual Jeremy and Theresa as Last Days had to do with the real Kurt Cobain.
Katherine–I’m sorry that the nice fairy story cooked up by people who didn’t know them isn’t true.
Katherine–I’m sorry that the nice fairy story cooked up by people who didn’t know them isn’t true.
Maybe they could get Bret Easton Ellis’ Bennington
college alumni Anna Gaskell to play Theresa…
But who will play Kate Coe?
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”
–Hassan I Sabbah
Maybe they could get Bret Easton Ellis’ Bennington
college alumni Anna Gaskell to play Theresa…
But who will play Kate Coe?
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”
–Hassan I Sabbah
As one by one
The masks fall away
Who will be left
To peer back
From the looking glass?
As one by one
The masks fall away
Who will be left
To peer back
From the looking glass?
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