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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on December 11, 2008, 08:39:58 AM
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good GOD! this is the strangest story I have heard in a while.
Actor cuts throat on Vienna stage
An actor narrowly escaped death after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife, instead of a blunt stage-prop blade.
Daniel Hoevels slumped to the floor with blood pouring from his neck during a performance at Vienna's Burgtheater.
He was rushed to hospital with a deep slice to his throat which fortunately missed his main artery.
Austrian police are investigating whether the incident was a mistake or a deliberate attack on the actor.
"If the actor had put a little more pressure on the knife or even struck an artery, he would probably have bled to death on the stage," a doctor who treated Mr Hoevels, 30, told the newspaper Oesterreich.
The real-life drama happened last weekend during a performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots.
Mr Hoevels's character was supposed to commit suicide and the actor used what he thought was a blunt prop weapon.
More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7777086.stm)
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It's like some real life Agatha Christie mystery.
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Maybe he's just a reeeaallllly dedicated thespian.
***Someone makes a 'sexual preference' joke in 3.....2.....1...***
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I think I've seen this on Monk.
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Maybe he's just a reeeaallllly dedicated thespian.
***Someone makes a 'sexual preference' joke in 3.....2.....1...***
or maybe the prop manager just sucks really, really bad. :-)
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This is reminiscent of what happened to Brandon Lee, except that in Lee's case, it wasn't self-inflicted.
Myth #11 (http://www.b-independent.com/production/12firearmmyths.htm)
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This is reminiscent of what happened to Brandon Lee, except that in Lee's case, it wasn't self-inflicted.
Myth #11 (http://www.b-independent.com/production/12firearmmyths.htm)
Or that idiot who put a gun with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger as a joke or something, not realizing that the force of the blank being fired was enough to shatter his fool skull.
Edit: this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
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Method actors...
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Yeah. You just can't fix stupid.
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Or that idiot who put a gun with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger as a joke or something, not realizing that the force of the blank being fired was enough to shatter his fool skull.
Edit: this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
Isn't that what killed Brandon Lee?
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Isn't that what killed Brandon Lee?
IIRC that was a projectile that had stuck in the barrel in some earlier event. The weapon obviously wasn't inspected after (or before) use. They then did a take using blanks and the charge was enough to fire the stuck round.
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Crap, I thought it was about Alec Baldwin...........
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Crap, I thought hoped it was about Alec Baldwin...........
Fixorated. :II: