Missing…

Monolguist Spalding Gray has been reported missing. His brother last reported seeing him around Christmas and Gray, who attempted suicide last year, has a long history of depression and lingering injuries sustained in a 2001 auto accident in Ireland. Grey is known for his one man plays and films Gray’s Anatomy and Swimming to Cambodia.

Much as I’m a fan of Unsolved Mysteries, I still find this sort of thing creepy and sad. I hope he turns up soon. And not just in a ditch somewhere.

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6 Replies to “Missing…”

  1. I’m worried too. I found out about this last night on Neil Gaiman’s blog. So sad. I didn’t realize how much depression he’d been through in the past few years. Poor guy.
    Take care of yourself, everybody. And here’s hoping Spaulding finds his way home.

  2. I’m worried too. I found out about this last night on Neil Gaiman’s blog. So sad. I didn’t realize how much depression he’d been through in the past few years. Poor guy.
    Take care of yourself, everybody. And here’s hoping Spaulding finds his way home.

  3. Valerie Trammell January 18, 2004 at 10:00 pm

    Spaulding was a leader in the industry in that he took painful personal experiences and made them performance art. He was always sharing the worst and best of himself and his relationships with others PUBLICLY. This cathartic type of psycho-analysis made the audience his doctor and healer — something that some, like John Leguizamo and Margaret Cho followed up and obtained success by. If it weren’t for Spaulding’s bold, tho be it, neurotic storytelling abilities, we would never know the other side of the story of “The Killing Fields” something I have found remarkably telling. His last monologue filmed: Gray’s Anatomy, I felt showed his own ability to survive even when his worst fears were surfacing. I was hoping for Spauld that he had learned and was teaching the: “take lemons and make into lemonade” lesson. I pray we haven’t lost this remarkable storyteller and sharer of untold thoughts. He was and IS a hero of mine. As a published author and actress myself, I admire his courage and talent and never could get enough of it. Please Spauld, come home.

  4. Valerie Trammell January 18, 2004 at 10:00 pm

    Spaulding was a leader in the industry in that he took painful personal experiences and made them performance art. He was always sharing the worst and best of himself and his relationships with others PUBLICLY. This cathartic type of psycho-analysis made the audience his doctor and healer — something that some, like John Leguizamo and Margaret Cho followed up and obtained success by. If it weren’t for Spaulding’s bold, tho be it, neurotic storytelling abilities, we would never know the other side of the story of “The Killing Fields” something I have found remarkably telling. His last monologue filmed: Gray’s Anatomy, I felt showed his own ability to survive even when his worst fears were surfacing. I was hoping for Spauld that he had learned and was teaching the: “take lemons and make into lemonade” lesson. I pray we haven’t lost this remarkable storyteller and sharer of untold thoughts. He was and IS a hero of mine. As a published author and actress myself, I admire his courage and talent and never could get enough of it. Please Spauld, come home.

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