Chris Farley biography Options

[elk]

This book just came out this week. Looks pretty good, if not a bit sad.

Anyone check it out yet?

Defamer

[FrankD]

here's an except -

"Hey, remember that time when Chris chugged a keg of beer? I forget what kind of beer it was but it might have been Coors. Remember? Remember that? That was funny."

[Charlemagne]

[WTF Jones]

Cocaine, crack, PCP and heroine is a helluva drugs.

[lansdowne]

I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE BUT NEVER NOTICED DID OL' CHRIS HAVE ROSARY BEADS IN HIS HAND?

[Dook of Oil]

I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE BUT NEVER NOTICED DID OL' CHRIS HAVE ROSARY BEADS IN HIS HAND?

He used them to tie himself off...

[Danny Vermin]

I never really found him funny. At all. John Belushi did this act much better the first time around.

[elk]

I never really found him funny. At all. John Belushi did this act much better the first time around.

Oh, come on. He had some good moments.

[DanPM]

Farley was hilarious and seemed like an awesome guy. It sucks that he died but Horation Sanz is still kicking around.

[dodo]

I'm not "camera friendly", I don't "wear clothes that fit me", I'm not a "heartbreaker", I haven't had "sex with a woman", I don't know "how that works", I don't "fall in line", I'm not "hygienic", I don't "wipe properly", I lack "style", I don't have "self-esteem", I have no "charisma", I don't "own a toothbrush", I don't "let my scabs heal", I can't "reach all the parts of my body", when I sleep I sweat profusely. But I guess the powers that be will keep signing my pay check until Jack and Jane K. Viewer start to go for the remote so they can get back to commentators who don't "frighten children", who don't "eat their own dandruff", who don't "pop their whiteheads with a compass they used in high school".

[DanPM]

who don't "pop their whiteheads with a compass they used in high school".

love that one

[WTF Jones]

I liked Farley but he was definitely on the down-slope when he died. "Almost Heroes" was just awful.

I've always said that the John Belushis of the world are cult figures because they died while on top. But if John Belushi were still alive, he'd probably be starring in the sitcom, "According to John."

Same deal for Farley. But I can watch Tommy Boy pretty much any time it's on.

[Charlemagne]

I liked Farley but he was definitely on the down-slope when he died. "Almost Heroes" was just awful.

I've always said that the John Belushis of the world are cult figures because they died while on top. But if John Belushi were still alive, he'd probably be starring in the sitcom, "According to John."

Same deal for Farley. But I can watch Tommy Boy pretty much any time it's on.

I doubt Belushi would be that middle of the road. I mean, he knew when he had to get a paychek (1941) but he was also very much an artist striving to be better. I read a bit of "Wired" over the weekend. Granted the book is said to have some flaws but it does reveal that Belushi really wanted to do some things outside the Hollywood mainstream (which he grew to despise). He was a huge fan of punk and was hoping to do some projects that were more "underground". Of course, by 1980 or so his cocaine habit was so out of control that he could just about get himself under control to make a film. Belushi was a true comedic genious. It is so sad that he was so addicted.

[elk]

BTW, has anyone read the book yet?

[DanPM]

BTW, has anyone read the book yet?

Nope. I'm thinking about picking it up though.

[lisalisa]

I was searching for pic of one of his characters and came across this. I guess the baby isn't related.

[Look Sharp!]

I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE BUT NEVER NOTICED DID OL' CHRIS HAVE ROSARY BEADS IN HIS HAND?

i remember reading the first 10 pages of this book online (it was a promotion)

it was a while ago though

anyway, i read that he was grew up catholic and was really into it even in college

the story i read says that he would pile into the car with a ton of booze for a road trip and say hail marys at the beginning, blessing the car

then he would be all "it's up to God now" and then get all fucked up on drugs and shit

[Thunder Horse]

I never really found him funny. At all. John Belushi did this act much better the first time around.

ok... but you think Will Ferrell is funny

it's too bad Farley never came up with something as funny as "lets go streaking"

[Charlemagne]

Here is some info about Farley's last day.

His last day was Wednesday December 17th, 1997. He spent it primarily with a hooker called Heidi. Chris hired hookers regularly. Heidi was hired for Farley by a friend for $2,000. She joined Farley at a party in Lincoln Park (in Chicago) at 11 AM. There were drugs going around. Later that day, Heidi took Farley back to her apartment – where they continued to smoke crack and snort heroin. January 2008 Findadeath pal Pete Hertzberg sends this picture, which is most likely the door they used. Chris claimed he’d been up for 4 days, without sleep. They tried to have sex, but Chris couldn’t. Cut to 11 PM – Chris and Heidi were back at his apartment in the Hancock building. She was getting pissed off because she wanted to get paid, and Chris claimed that the friend was supposed to pay her. They supposedly tried sex again, unsuccessfully, and finally at 3am she decided to take off. Farley was clearly inebriated, and as she was leaving his apartment, he collapsed about 10 feet from the door. Heidi claimed she could hear that he was having difficulty breathing. He said to her, "Don't leave me." Figuring he had finally passed out, she snapped a photograph of him lying there and then left.

Chris Farley’s brother John found him the next afternoon. Chris was still lying 10 feet from the door, wearing sweat pants and an open button down shirt. He was supposedly clutching a baseball cap and rosary beads. There was a blood-tinged fluid coming from his nose, and a white, frothy fluid coming from his mouth. John called 911. Chicago Fire Fighters received the call just after 2pm, and Farley was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 33 years old. So was Belushi. So was Jesus Christ.

One version says that a search of his apartment turned up no illegal drugs, but plenty of prescription drugs. Another version is that it was littered with booze bottles and bags of white powder. Chris’s body was taken to the medical examiners, was given an autopsy, and samples were sent for toxicology testing. When the results came back, his death was ruled as accidental. "Chris Farley died of opiate (morphine) and cocaine intoxication and his death was determined to be accident." Other things in his system that did not contribute to his death include Prozac, morphine, marijuana and the antihistamine fluoxetine. Kathleen sent this update in "Fluoxetine is not an antihistamine, it's the generic name for Prozac. Whoever provided the info might have meant to put fexofenadine, the generic name for the antihistamine Allegra.
His weight (296 pounds) created a narrowing of three coronary arteries, which was a contributing factor in his death. He also had an enlarged heart and his liver also showed fatty changes consistent with heavy drinking.

Here's some more science, courtesy of Findadeath.com friend Scott Williams:

Heroin is metabolized into morphine in the blood stream and is the "opiate" found upon autopsy when someone dies of a "speedball"; classically heroin and Cocaine, (sometimes Heroin and Methamphetamine). Given the world of street-corner pharmacists, I can assume by the stated findings that heroin, not morphine, was the fatal ingredient. (Heroin is a Hell of a lot easier to get on the streets of New York than pharmaceutical Morphine, it adds up). It looks like Chris Farley followed his idol, John Belushi's, example to the end. Not only in his career, but in death, including, age, drugs, and
manner of death. Sad. Very sad.

Speedballs are now more common than straight Heroin overdoses in EMS. We paramedics administer "Narcan" to reverse the effects of a Heroin OD and sometimes find ourselves fighting with people who have been brought from under the opium overdose and coma, to tweaked, psychotic battles with the remaining rage of the speedy drugs that were ingested with them. There is another syndrome with Heroin, not necessarily in overdose enough to cause respiratory depression as in most Heroin deaths, but a reaction to Heroin that causes an altered cellular wall permeability in the alveoli (Lung sacks) that allows fluids, plasma, blood cells, to flood into the lungs and drown the user with astonishing speed, and no medical treatment can prevent rapid death. The result is a pink, blood tinged, frothy sputum from the mouth and nose (blood and plasmids) with rapid death to which no medical treatment can mitigate.

In any case, Chris wanted to follow John, his hero, in life. He did so to the end. No doubt.

At 3pm on Friday, his body was then taken to the McKeon Funeral Home, 634 W. 37th Street, on the south side of Chicago. No doubt his casket passed through these doors. On the 20th, he was taken to the Johnson Williams Funeral Service in Madison, Wisconsin, where a private funeral was held on Tuesday.

On Tuesday the 23rd of December, there was a funeral mass held at Our Lady Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church (thanks Beca), in Madison. Over 500 attendees included Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd (who wore a leather jacket over his suit, same as he did at Belushi’s funeral), John Goodman, Tom Arnold, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, George Wendt and Rob Schneider. The funeral program contained the serenity prayer, from AA, and the Clown’s prayer (What - that they go away?).

[DanPM]

Heidi claimed she could hear that he was having difficulty breathing. He said to her, "Don't leave me." Figuring he had finally passed out, she snapped a photograph of him lying there and then left.

nice gal

[lisalisa]

nice gal

He was probably too far gone, but it would have been worth a shot to save him. That still must be very hard for his family to live with.

[Look Sharp!]

nice gal

whore

[Charlemagne]

nice gal

She sold them to the tabloids I believe. Yeah, pretty shitty. Anyway, looking at some of those photos (Findadeath.com), one can see lots of bloody tissues on the floor next to Farley's corpse. I wonder if Heidi was trying to stop the bleeding and fluids (coming up for his lungs?) or if that was Farley himself who was doing that? If it was Farley, it would indicate that perhaps he had a few desperate minutes of conscious struggle before he died.

[lisalisa]

ugh charlamagne you are bumming me out today. I have to move on to another thread.

[Charlemagne]

ugh charlamagne you are bumming me out today. I have to move on to another thread.

Sorry. I have to say that Farley's death has long fascinated me. There is something so desperate and sad about it. His "partying" at the Cheesecake Factory (of all places) just seems to make it even worse.