By David Comfort
At Eastertime, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found in a storage room, a gunshot hole in his head, a heroin hypodermic hole in each arm. Suicide or murder? After 16 years of heated argument, authorities and amateur sleuths are no less divided on the question. Supporters of the Seattle Police Department’s suicide ruling include Cobain biographers, Charles R. Cross and Christopher Sandford, as well as journalists Charles Rawlins, Bradley Spears, and many others. Supporters of a murder conspiracy include biographers Max Wallace and Ian Halperin, as well as Courtney Love’s private detective, T...
At Eastertime, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found in a storage room, a gunshot hole in his head, a heroin hypodermic hole in each arm. Suicide or murder? After 16 years of heated argument, authorities and amateur sleuths are no less divided on the question. Supporters of the Seattle Police Department’s suicide ruling include Cobain biographers, Charles R. Cross and Christopher Sandford, as well as journalists Charles Rawlins, Bradley Spears, and many others. Supporters of a murder conspiracy include biographers Max Wallace and Ian Halperin, as well as Courtney Love’s private detective, T...
- 4/5/2010
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
For a portrait of an unfinished life, Christopher Sandford's biography of director Roman Polanski feels unnaturally cyclical. While Sandford certainly isn't the first to connect Polanski's 2002 Oscar win for the Holocaust tale The Pianist with his childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland, he couples that scene of triumph and several others with a hopeful repetition of tabloid rumors that Polanski will soon settle his legal troubles with America connected with his 1977 sexual assault on a minor. Mostly, it feels like a device that Polanski would never use, and at odds with Sandford's largely cool and even-handed appraisal of his life. Sandford's unauthorized Polanski: A Biography relies on hundreds of interviews in retelling Polanski's life, beginning in wartime Warsaw. His old friends suggest that the duplicity he used to evade capture also helped preserve his reputation as the enfant terrible of the state's film school as he plotted his...
- 9/4/2008
- by Ellen Wernecke
- avclub.com
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