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Daily Beast reporter Gerald Posner reported yesterday that Simon Monjack, the much-maligned husband of Brittany Murphy, is only days away from filing a wrongful-death action against Warner Brothers, claiming that the studio is responsible for the unexpected death of the 32-year-old actress last December. Monjack reportedly told Posner, “They killed her.”
“Although the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office hasn’t released a final cause of death,” Posner writes, “Monjack and Brittany’s mother, Sharon, who also spoke to me, are convinced that the once-promising star died of a heart attack from the stress caused by Warner Brother’s canceling of a contract just two weeks before she died. Murphy was excited to have begun production on the sequel to the animated hit Happy Feet, but when she was fired by Warner Brothers, Monjack says, ‘She was devastated.’”
I’m sure she was, but Warner Bros. didn’t kill anyone. The entertainment industry can be uncaring and brutal, but any actor who gets into it not knowing how hot the kitchen can be is a flat-out fool. If you can’t stand dealing with Jeff Robinov or if the pressure is generally too much to bear, I understand. I’ll give you a hug and buy you a drink or take you out to dinner. But take responsibility for yourself.
By Monjack’s standard I should have sued my father for instilling in me a sense of low self-esteem due to his emotional aloofness and alcoholism. (Alcoholics are geniuses at screwing up their kids.) Or I could have whined about about what a prick he was in a “Daddy Dearest” book. Instead I woke up one day and said “fuck him — this is my show. I’ll make it or not make it according to my own steam. If I make it, fine. And if I don’t, it’s my fault and not his.”
As a lawyer, two words jump to mind: “frivolous lawsuit.”
Monjack’s sounding more and more like Paul Schnieder by the day.
And good for you, Wells. I know where you’re coming from there. I haven’t so heartily agreed with you on something since your review of “An Education”.
Does it occur to Moonjack that the stress of having to support a dolt of husband contributed just as much, if not more?
Recently watched Clueless, Don’t Say a Word, and the King of the Hill “Best Of Luanne” clip on YouTube. Murphy was an original. It’s a shame she didn’t have anyone to lean on.
This is as absurd as Don Murphy claiming Quentin Tarantino gave his friend cancer.
Can we also sue his dead wife for causing him to behave erratic?
Monjack should just shut the fuck up and move forward. If he plays his cards right, he can become Carol Channing’s next husband.
“This is as absurd as Don Murphy claiming Quentin Tarantino gave his friend cancer. ”
What the fuck?
sorry, when was she “once-promising”? when she did clueless?
They better not bring this to court because all the dirt will come out….including as someone mentioned above, how she took care of a worthless husband. And for her mom to join in on the lawsuit is insane. I wonder if the mom and the son-in-law were scheming against Murphy?
Their gravy train is dead, they need to get over it.
This is obviously just a ploy. Probably they’re really suing for illegal termination of contract or something, and using this as publicity for their case, trying to pressure WB. No lawyer would bring a wrongful-death suit based on this, and if they did they’d obviously be laughed out of the courtroom.
Punchdrunk:
http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/01/sad_death_of_ni.php
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/01/murphy_on_jayme.php
I don’t think anything speaks to the schizophrenic nature of Hollywood Elsewhere than posting this item on your last day in Sundance.
Come to think of it, this post is doubly schizophrenic: you can’t want film to be art, which in turn requires artists to produce it, and then denigrate them because they don’t have the steel backbones to survive the sick human games found within the industry.
Artists are wired different. Some can deal, some can’t.
By the way Monjack is a LIAR. He says in the piece I live in an awful flat in Hollywood. Bullshit. I live in an awful flat in Pasadena. I may sue him for slander. The bastard. Also, I love the bullshit about him buying Brittany’s mansion. Hilarious.
Why isn’t anyone looking closer into him for Murphy’s death?
The investigation won’t kick in (if there is one) until the toxicology reports come back.
Nothing’s sadder than a suitcase pimp who has lost his meal ticket.
Hickenlooper: For some reason, it’s become a habit that many people-particularly employers-like to refer to Pasadena as Los Angeles.
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