Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Very, very sad.

Appreciations: Spalding Interrupted: "In 'Swimming to Cambodia,' Spalding Gray quotes his mother, who committed suicide when she was 52 and who always said, 'Think of the starving Koreans.' When his obsessions begin to overtake him in that monologue, he reflects on 'the therapeutic joys of living in New York City. It always works. As soon as you think you're crazy, all you have to do is look over your shoulder.' But at a certain point for Mr. Gray, it was no longer possible for him to look over his shoulder for someone worse off than he was. Starving Koreans no longer did the trick. They never do if you're as depressed as Mr. Gray was for much of his life. He disappeared on Jan. 10, and his body was found in the East River on Sunday. "