Mystery abounded last night at Hollywood’s members only private club, the Magic Castle. Police were called in when, reportedly, a man’s body was found in a closet with a bag over his head, wearing only his underwear. They are saying this morning that the deceased was a magician, though no name has been released and while authorities suspect suicide, foul play has not been ruled out.
More about the Magic Castle Here
I hope child-molesting had nothing to do with this. But it is Hollywood, so…
Shades of David Carradine?
Still waiting for the big reveal.
Taaadaaaah!!!…(glurk!)…
I was thinking this morning that this would be the perfect basis for a Columbo episode.
Forty-One winks verifies proper closet ventilation
http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/2011/10/31/182958-a-firefighter-is-seen-on-the-roof-of-the-magic-castle-after-an-attic-f.jpg
The closet was hermetically sealed from one side or the other
5.5% chance it wasn’t an accident
My heart is broken. It reminds me of a report I read in a 1976 copy of “Construction Magazine.” where workers renovating a building in Victoria, Australia found a skeleton of a man wedged between studs in a house. A forensic investigation revealed that, brace yourself,
the man was the 1956, Melbourne Olympic, “Hide and Seek” Champion from Kenya.
I shit you not.
Now you see me, now you don’t. Tada!
Dr Tar: It WAS a Columbo episode. There was a Columbo episode filmed at the Magic Castle featuring Jack Cassidy as the magician and Nehemiah Persoff as the club owner.
@Moe Tom: You shit us yes. Yes you do.
😉
@SineWaveII
A Guillotine has not yet been found or verified as of this rumour yet.
Inigo beat me to my joke. The suicide note read, “Ta-daaa!”
@SineWavell I found it on YouTube
It’s called “Now You See Him”
Thanks for remembering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-BqUfEcozY
Vietvet. A little levity is a good thing. I know more lies than all the Clintons combined. Semper Fi.
I could list quite a few Hollywood types whom I’d like to see give autoerotic asphyxiation a try.
It was Professor Plum.
In the library.
With a rope.
If I didn’t think a little levity was a good thing, I wouldn’t make 99% of the comments that I do. I had to pick at you for that old joke, though. No offense intended, of course. Your comments are the best. Better than mine, anyway. Which isn’t saying much.
🙂
Previous comment was to Moe Tom, but I forgot to specify. Sorry.
My ex-husband is a performer there.
I can’t claim it, but it fits: “Abra-cadaver!”
The police investigation has been slow because, at first, they thought he was a clown…..the closet smelled funny…
Vietvet. I got you. Did you ever hear about the Priest and the Rabbi who…. Ah I’ll tell you some other time.
I think IOTW should have a JOKE NIGHT every now a again. Just to get away from the news. Whadda youse think?
@Moe Tom
Ur joking right?
🙂
Please say it was Nobama, puuulleeeeese!
Nothing up his sleeve – police mystified.
Perspective; Ya think I’m shitten ya? Just this year, a fourteen year old snowflake cousin of mine in County Offaly complained to my dear sister Margaret, his mother, that she did not treat him as well as she did his brothers at their Christening. He pouted, You skated Sean and Dermot across the lake to the church, with a big parade. And you only drove me to the church in the Opel.
That, my sister said, is because Sean and Dermot were born in January, and you, you little prick, were born in August
That’s my sister.
You’re right Moe Tom. We need a joke thread now and then.
And another thing…I would love to hear some of your stories from your years in Italy.
Maybe we need a story-teller thread too. A MoeTom ‘There I was” story of Italy during your Army years could be fun. ‘There I was” soldier stories are always a blast.