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The 'Petitioning for Polanski' Edition
CANNES -- To sign or not to sign is the big question at this year's Festival de Cannes, and there's not a deal memo in sight. But then a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland in connection with a 33-year-old sex scandal, is always going to set tongues wagging... The petition, posted on a website overseen by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, asks for "justice" from the Swiss authorities...
Roman Polanski petition circulating at Cannes
What manner of "justice" do you think would be appropriate for Roman Polanski?
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easy (thanks, Sam!)... But, no matter...
it's all good... and now, here's something I hope you'll really like!
(thanks, Rocky!)...
DRD astutely analyzed the situation...
Based solely on media reports I have been exposed to over these many years this case has been in the public forum, I think he should be brought back to the jurisdiction charged with adjudicating the complaint for a outcome as to his quilt or innocence. Remember, he did flee the jurisdiction to avoid lawful proceedings to continue! Due to the time lapse from the report of the crime till the present, it is questionable that all pertinent evidence could still be located, witnesses, if there were any reported, would be questioned as to their memory ability over all the years, and so on. So, I feel the only way to see justice done for Mr. Polanski is to bring him back to face his accuser in a court of law and then a verdict rendered by a jury of his peers as to his innocence. Absent these steps, his accuser would not be afforded her day in court and Mr. Polanski would remain an accused man by many for the remainder of his natural life and that would not be justice for Mr. Polanski, or his accuser!
Thanks Bob for another question that Raymond Burr would have been proud to ask! {Ole Ironside}
(Yer welcome, Don... and I agree with you completely... Thanks!)
bebo says...
ya-ta-hey --- there are so many twists & turns with this case from everybody including the original judge in the case, Peter Espinoza, to the victim, that any point would be a valid one. So..... I would first dig-up judge Espinoza to find out if he was in this country legally then hang all the lawyers involved & since judge Espinoza is already dug up, hang him too.
(Aanii... I'm glad that it's you that's gonna dig up that judge. Ack!...)
Paul of Seattle, not a happy camper, writes...
The old saying "justice delayed is not justice", is justified in this case.
When you consider the lack of justice meted out to the hideous bush cabal of war criminals. When you consider the oil boarding that should be administered to BP, Haliburton, and Transocean CEO's and their sycophants. When you consider the lack of justice meted out to the wall street bankers and their puppets in congress.
I could go on. (and you are not alone there...)
Polanski's justice problem is smaller than microbe on an elephant's hide compared to the above. Leave him alone and get after the real evil in the world.
(Um, Paul... So what yer sayin' is that until all the aforementioned evil-doers are brought to whatever justice you deem appropriate, then all the other miscreants on the lam should be ignored? While I understand yer frustration, as the father of two daughters, I respectfully disagree with you.)
maw goes with retribution...
Jail time followed by de-balling.
(How long?... and with or without anesthesia?)
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And that's the name of that tune! (speaking of miscreants)...
Thanks to the responders and all you readers, too, dontcha know...
Don't let the Bastards get ya down... cuz Yer the Best!
BadToTheBoneBob
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New Question
The 'Remake (Mistake?)' Edition
Is CBS seriously taking on a remake? Hawaii 5-0 Remake?
Apparently so. According to the Hollywood Reporter,
CBS has the rights to the original show which aired from 1968 to 1980, and CSI: NY writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will be taking a stab at developing the show and writing the pilot.
And so it goes...
Are there any TV series that you'd like to see resurrected with a 'Remake'?
Send your response to
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: The Old Enemies (nytimes.com)
The Obama administration is facing grass-roots anger, but that anger is being channeled and exploited by corporate interests.
Paul Krugman: On Blaming Bush (nytimes.com)
... one thing is clear: the financial crisis occurred on Bush's watch. To demand that everyone let Bush off the hook for where we are now because 16 months have passed under his successor is to defy the overwhelming evidence of history.
Connie Schultz: She's Graduating with Wings (creators.com)
"I am the mother, and you are the child." That's what I told her the day she was born. I repeated it many times over the course of 22 years.
"The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" by Elif Batuman: A review by Benjamin Moser
If you're perusing this magazine, chances are you went through a "Russian phase": that period when a curious, intellectually ambitious young reader, primed to enter literary adulthood, finally takes up 'Crime and Punishment' or 'War and Peace.'
"Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain (O'Reilly's Hacks Series)" by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb: A review by Doug Brown
The O'Reilly Hacks series is mainly for computer folks, consisting of titles like Google Hacks, Windows XP Hacks, etc. The format is made up of little articles, each a couple pages long, each describing a different tip and trick for using a program. In Mind Hacks, each article, or "hack," is a little nugget about how our brains work, from visual processing to memory.
Rosanna Greenstreet: "Q&A: Tina Brown" (guardian.co.uk)
'Most black tie benefits in Manhattan are full of extinct species brought back to life.'
Zach Hinkle: "This Charming Man: An Interview with Adam Green"
Solo artist and former Moldy Peaches member Adam Green talks to PopMatters about his love for film, painting, and having beer with his breakfast.
Farhad Manjoo: The Digital Download Is Dead (slate.com)
How Google's music-streaming venture will change the gadget and entertainment worlds forever.
Reihan Salam: "Daria" (slate.com)
It got the misfits right, but it got the popular kids right, too.
Dear Juliet: the fans who write to Shakespeare's heroine (guardian.co.uk)
Letters are sent to Juliet from all over the world. A new film tells of the volunteers who reply to them. It's not Hollywood fantasy - it's fact, discovers John Hooper.
David Bruce: Wise Up! (athensnews.com)
People do make mistakes. While Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author of "Slaughterhouse-Five," was on a panel at City College, a woman asked him this question: "Why did you put exactly 100 'So it goes's' in 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?" Mr. Vonnegut replied that he was not aware that he had used that exact number. Also on the panel was critic John Simon, who disappeared while everyone had coffee, and then reappeared and said to Mr. Vonnegut, "103."
David Bruce: "Composition Project: Writing a Problem-Solving Letter" (Lulu.com)
Free download at http://stores.lulu.com/bruceb. This free pdf download describes a composition assignment that I have used successfully during my years of teaching at Ohio University. Feel free to make as many copies as you want to for educational purposes.
Susan King: Timothy Brock keeps the score in frame for 'The Cameraman' (Los Angeles Times)
Silence has been golden for conductor and composer Timothy Brock.
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Purple Gene Reviews
"THE WRATH OF GOD"
PURPLE GENE'S MINI REVIEW OF "THE WRATH OF GOD" (1972)
DIRECTED BY RALPH NELSON.
IN BETWEEN WATCHING THE FINALE OF "DANCING WITH THE STARS" AND "2 1/2 MEN" I FLIPPED TO THE WESTERN CHANNEL AND FOUND... "
THE WRATH OF GOD" (1972)
A MEXICAN PERIOD PIECE SET IN A BORDER TOWN IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY...THERE'RE HORSES AND CARS AND DRUNKS AND....ROBERT MITCHUM AS A PISTOL PACKING PRIEST... WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE CARRYING $58,000 IN CASH AND A HAS A DEBT TO SETTLE....BUT HE'S NOT THE REASON I KEPT WATCHING THIS "B" FLICK....
THERE'S THE CRAZY RICH MEXICAN LAND BARON PLAYED BY FRANK LANGELLA (WHO WENT ON TO PLAY COUNT DRACULA, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND RICHARD NIXON)
AND HE WANTS TO SEE THE PRIEST KILLED....BUT HE'S NOT THE REASON I PERSEVERED WITH THE PREPOSTEROUS PLOT....
WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE WHEN PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ACTRESSES TO EVER APPEAR ON SCREEN IS PLAYING A MUTE INDIAN MAIDEN NAMED CHELA WHO HAD BEEN RAPED BY GRINGOS...AND SHE SAVES THE PRIEST FROM THE FIRING SQUAD.....BUT SHE'S NOT WHY I STAYED STUCK TO MY FLAT SCREEN...
THE REAL REASON I DIDN'T SWITCH BACK TO "D.W.T.S". OR "2 1/2" WAS THE HIGHLIGHT ENDING DANCE SCENE OF THE MOVIE WITH MY FAVORITE FEMALE HOLLYWOOD STARLET OF ALL TIME...RITA HAYWORTH IN HER VERY LAST ROLE.....AS THE LAND BARONS WIFE.... SHE LOOKED LOVELY BUT THE SAD TRUTH WAS AT THE TIME OF FILMING SHE KEPT FORGETTING HER LINES...EVERYONE THOUGHT IT WAS BECAUSE SHE WAS DRINKING HEAVILY...BUT IT TURNS OUT SHE WAS ACTING OUT HER REAL LAST ROLE AS A WOMEN SUFFERING FROM SEVERE ALTZHEIMERS...(MY MOTHER WASTED AWAY FROM THE SAME DISEASE IN HER FINAL YEARS)...
THE FINAL SCENES IN THIS ABSURDIST WESTERN HAS A SIX GUN HIDDEN INSIDE A BIBLE, A DIAMOND STUDDED CROSS THAT TURNED INTO A STILETTO AND A CONVERTIBLE MODEL "T" WITH A TREE TIED ON AS A RAMMING ROD...AND MITCHUM TIED TO A CONCRETE CROSS LIKE JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF!
I ACTUALLY SHED A TEAR AT THE END OF THIS MOVIE FOR MY MOM AND RITA!
pURPLE gENE gives "The Wrath of God" 6 sorry confused pesos for being a bad "B" movie
but Rita still gets a 10)
Benny The Rat Doesn't Like 'Em
Progressive Nuns
Progressive Adrian Nuns Under Vatican Scrutiny
They've taught legions of Detroit-area Catholics. They've taken on major corporations. They are watchdog nuns who have urged U.S. companies to be socially responsible. But to the Vatican, the Adrian Dominican congregation of 850 progressive nuns may be a problem, especially under the conservative papacy of Pope Benedict XVI... There has always been at the Vatican a deep suspicion of U.S. nuns because they are educated, outspoken and don't like to be pushed around...
Progressive Adrian nuns under Vatican's scrutiny | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny and cool, but the wind has died down.
Autobiography To Be Published (Finally)
Mark Twain
The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain's dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist.
Scholars are divided as to why Twain wanted the first-hand account of his life kept under wraps for so long. Some believe it was because he wanted to talk freely about issues such as religion and politics. Others argue that the time lag prevented him from having to worry about offending friends.
Mark Twain
Hosting Tony Awards
Sean Hayes
Sean Hayes will be the host of the Tony Awards next month.
The former "Will & Grace" actor is working on Broadway alongside Kristin Chenoweth in "Promises, Promises." He has a Tony nomination for best actor in a musical for the role.
CBS made the announcement Monday. The network is broadcasting the Tonys live from Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 13. The musicals "Fela" and "La Cage aux Folles" dominate the nominations.
With Neil Patrick Harris as host, the Tony Awards audience last year was up 19 percent from 2008 - leading a run of awards shows that scored solidly in the ratings.
Sean Hayes
Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Paul McCartney
The Jonas Brothers, Faith Hill, Stevie Wonder and Jerry Seinfeld are among an all-star lineup that will honor Paul McCartney next month at the White House.
McCartney will receive the third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. It will be presented at a concert June 2 in the East Room of the White House.
Performers announced Monday also will include White Stripes singer and guitarist Jack White, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello and others.
The concert for McCartney will be televised July 28 nationwide on PBS.
Paul McCartney
Gets Life Back
Danny Tate
A Nashville songwriter has won a 2 1/2-year legal battle to regain control of his life and make all medical, legal and financial decisions for himself.
A judge on Monday ruled that musician and songwriter Danny Tate is fully capable of managing his own affairs.
The 54-year-old songwriter, who's written a top 10 hit, had been declared disabled at a 2007 hearing where he wasn't present and later was declared disabled again after being denied a request for a lawyer.
It all happened after the songwriter's older brother went to court saying Tate was suffering from a life-threatening drug addiction.
Danny Tate
Staying At Google
Pac-Man
Google on Monday made permanent a playable Pac-Man doodle posted in tribute to the classic arcade game's 30th birthday.
"We've been overwhelmed, but not surprised, by the success of our 30th anniversary Pac-Man doodle," Google vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer said in a blog post.
"Due to popular demand, we're making the game permanently available."
The Pac-Man game, which spent the weekend incorporated into a logo atop the Google online search homepage, was given a new venue at www.google.com/pacman
Pac-Man
CBS Dance Series
Paula Abdul
As Simon Cowell leaves the reality-show judge's chair, his old foil, Paula Abdul, is coming back.
CBS said Monday that Abdul will be a judge on "Got to Dance," a competition expected to make it on the air sometime next season. She'll also be an executive producer for the series, which is based on a successful competition that airs in Britain.
There's no immediate word on when "Got to Dance," which will feature various forms of dancing, will go on the air.
Paula Abdul
Newest Inductees
Country Hall of Fame
Two men who often felt like outsiders in Nashville, even as they took country music to new heights, were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Ferlin Husky and Billy Sherrill were responsible for dozens of No. 1 hits and helped bring the genre to larger audiences over a period of decades that served as country music's formative years.
Yet the 84-year-old Husky waited decades to become a member of the Hall, and the survivor of nine heart bypass surgeries thought he'd die before he would make it.
Sherrill, now 73, was often criticized even as he created some of music's most endearing moments, regardless of genre.
He turned Tammy Wynette and Tanya Tucker into stars and, taking his cues from Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and even Phil Spector, pushed country music into territory once reserved only for pop music. He even put a saxophone on a George Jones record.
Country Hall of Fame
Sues Florida Governor Over Ad
David Byrne
David Byrne is suing the governor of Florida, alleging that he used the Talking Heads' 1985 single "Road to Nowhere" without permission or proper licenses.
Byrne is seeking $1 million in damages from Gov. Charlie Crist, who's also Florida's former attorney general, and his senatorial campaign for use of the song earlier this year in a website and YouTube ad attacking his then-Republican primary opponent, Marco Rubio. Crist has since changed his campaign and is running as an independent candidate.
Byrne told Billboard.com that he learned of the Crist ad from a friend in New York, where the Talking Heads co-founder resides. "I was pretty upset by that," said Byrne, who had Warner Bros. Records contact the Crist campaign, which subsequently stopped using the ad.
But, Byrne contended, "in my opinion the damage had already been done by it being out there. People that I knew had seen (the ad), so it had gotten around. The suit, he added, "is not about politics...It's about copyright and about the fact that it does imply that I would have licensed it and endorsed him and whatever he stands for."
David Byrne
School Board Denies Staging 'Sham' Prom
Constance McMillen
A rural Mississippi school district that was sued by a lesbian student who wanted to bring a same-sex date to the high school prom is denying accusations it routed her to a "sham prom" at a country club while most of her schoolmates partied elsewhere.
The Itawamba County School District addressed the claims made by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Constance McMillen in papers filed Friday with the U.S. District Court in Aberdeen.
It's been nearly two months since McMillen attended a prom at the Fulton Country Club that drew fewer than 10 other students from Itawamba Agricultural High School. Most of her classmates attended a separate event at the nearby Evergreen Community Center, to which McMillen was not invited, and later posted pictures from the dance on Internet sites.
At the time, McMillen had already sued the district over its policy banning same-sex prom dates and for canceling an April 2 school-sponsored prom after the teenager pressed to bring her girlfriend to the event and wear a tuxedo.
Constance McMillen
Cleared Of DUI Charge
Rip Torn
A Connecticut judge has dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Rip Torn after the actor completed a court-ordered alcohol education program.
Torn was arrested in December 2008 near his home in Salisbury. He was stopped while driving in the breakdown lane with a Christmas tree tied atop his Subaru.
Bantam Superior Court Judge Cara Eschuck dismissed the charge Friday because Torn completed a program that gives drunken-driving defendants a chance to clear their records.
But another case is pending against the 79-year-old: charges that he broke into a bank in January while intoxicated and armed. He returns to court Tuesday in that case.
Rip Torn
New Bracelet
Lindsay Lohan
A judge on Monday ordered Lindsay Lohan to wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and refused to ease restrictions involving drug and alcohol testing so the actress can film a movie in Texas.
Lohan, wearing a dark gray suit, arrived in court seven minutes late and appeared somber and concerned when she conferred with her attorney about the move to attach the bracelet to her ankle and require drug testing every week in the Los Angeles area.
Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, told Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel that Lohan was planning to travel to Texas to film a movie, but the judge suggested the actress may have to delay the project.
Revel offered to spend a half-hour reading Lohan and Holley a list of reasons for ordering the bracelet, drug tests and an alcohol-education program. Holley declined the offer and accepted the judge's decision.
Lindsay Lohan
Wins At Arbitration
Jessica Simpson
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson has won an arbitration to keep an exercise video featuring her from being marketed.
The arbitrator's decision was revealed in a court filing on Friday by lawyers for Simpson, 29. The lawyers asked a New York state court to approve the April arbitration ruling, which bars Speedfit LLC and its owner, Alex Astilean, from using Simpson's name and likeness to promote the 2005 video.
The arbitrator awarded Simpson nothing on her breach-of-contract claim but awarded $357,587 to cover fees and costs. Astilean was ordered to pay Simpson's business manager, David Levin, $50,000 for defamation.
Astilean said in an interview that he plans to challenge the arbitrator's ruling. He said he had countersued Simpson for $10 million.
Jessica Simpson
Green Investment Group
Tony The Poodle' Blair
A Silicon Valley venture capital firm specializing in environmentally-friendly technologies announced on Monday that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined its ranks.
Khosla Ventures said Blair "will leverage his advocacy for environmental issues and his global relationships to help Khosla?s broad portfolio of clean technology companies maximize their effectiveness in achieving their environmental goals."
Established in 2004 by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the venture firm claims an extensive portfolio that includes solar, wind, and nuclear energy along with high-efficiency engines.
"I share a clear vision with Vinod, one of the earliest leaders in cleantech investment, that entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond will have a tremendous impact on our environmental future."
Tony The Poodle' Blair
Produces New Album -- For Wife
Phil Spector
Pioneering music producer and convicted killer Phil Spector has produced his first major recording project in 30 years -- a debut album for his wife Rachelle, her publicist said on Monday.
Spector, 70, who is serving a minimum 19 years in prison for the 2003 shooting death of a Hollywood actress, produced and arranged all 10 tracks for "Out of My Chelle" during his two murder trials.
The album for Rachelle Spector features upbeat, mainstream adult pop with a multilayered feel but which is a "distinct departure" from the "Wall of Sound".
The couple worked on the album for more than two years between Spector's first trial, which ended in a mistrial in 2007, and his second, which ended with his conviction in April 2009.
Phil Spector
Britain Bans Doctor
Dr. Andrew Wakefield
A doctor who persuaded millions of parents worldwide that a common vaccine could cause autism was barred from practicing medicine in his native Britain on Monday after the country's top medical group found he conducted his research unethically.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first researcher to publish a peer-reviewed study suggesting a connection between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. That prompted legions of parents to abandon the vaccine in moves that epidemiologists feared could lead to outbreaks of the potentially deadly diseases.
Vaccination rates in Britain and other rich countries have not fully recovered since Wakefield and his colleagues' research was published in 1998 and there are measles outbreaks across Europe every year. There are also sporadic outbreaks of the disease in the U.S.
His study in the medical journal Lancet was widely discredited, however, after Britain's medical regulator found it did not meet ethical standards; other studies found no link; and a British journalist revealed Wakefield had been paid by lawyers of parents who suspected their children were harmed by the vaccine.
Wakefield, 53, moved to the U.S. in 2004 and set up an autism center in Texas, where he gained a wide following despite not being licenced as a doctor there, and faced similar skepticism from the medical community. He quit earlier this year.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield
City Kids & Rural Kids
Guns
Children in the most rural areas of the United States are as likely to die by gunshot as kids in the biggest cities, a new analysis of nearly 24,000 deaths finds.
Not surprisingly, murders involving firearms are more common among city youth. But gun suicides and accidental fatal shootings level the score: They are more common among rural kids.
"This debunks the myth that firearm death is a big-city problem," said lead author Dr. Michael Nance of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This is everybody's problem."
The researchers analyzed data on nearly 24,000 gun-related deaths among children 19 and younger from 1999 through 2006. That included about 15,000 homicides, about 7,000 suicides and about 1,400 accidental shootings for the eight-year period.
Guns
Museum Honours Forger
Han van Meegeren
An art forger who sold a fake to Nazi air force chief Hermann Goering is finally getting the recognition that eluded him in life -- from a museum he famously conned out of a small fortune seven decades ago.
The Boijmans van Beuningen museum in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam has swallowed its wounded pride to host an exhibition focusing on the tricks and tools of Han van Meegeren, one of history's most successful art forgers.
One of his greatest achievements came in 1937 when he persuaded the museum to part with 540,000 guilders, about 4.5 million euros (5.6 million dollars) today, for what it believed was a previously unknown work by the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
Entitled "Van Meegeren's Fake Vermeers," the exhibition showcases some of the forgeries he sold before he died in 1947 aged 58, test canvasses found in his studio, and some of his ingenious forging methods.
Han van Meegeren
In Memory
Simon Monjack
The husband of Brittany Murphy was found dead by his mother-in-law late Sunday at the Los Angeles home he shared with the late actress, the coroner's office said.
Simon Monjack's death was reported as a possible heart attack and appeared to be from natural causes, Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said. Monjack was 39.
There were no signs of foul play or physical injury to his body, Winter said.
Prescription medications belonging to Monjack were found in his bedroom, but there was no immediate indication that he overdosed, Winter said.
An autopsy was planned Tuesday, but a final cause of death would await results of planned toxicology tests, Winter said.
Monjack is credited as producer and co-writer of the 2001 film "Two Days, Nine Lives" and executive producer of the 2006's "Factory Girl."
Simon Monjack
In Memory
Paul Gray
Paul Gray, the bassist for Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday in an Iowa hotel room, police said.
A hotel employee found Gray, 38, dead in a room at the Town Plaza Hotel in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines, police said in a statement. Foul play isn't suspected, and an autopsy is planned for Tuesday.
Amy Sciarretto, a publicist at the band's record company, Roadrunner Records, confirmed Gray's death but declined further comment. Most of the band's members grew up in the Des Moines area.
Slipknot's self-titled debut in 1999 sold more than a million copies.
Known for its grotesque masks, trashing sound and aggressive lyrics, the band won a Grammy in 2006 for best metal performance for the song "Before I Forget." Concert industry trade publication Pollstar ranked Slipknot 18th in its Top 20 Concert Tours list in 2009.
Paul Gray
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