Posted by Ugly Red Honda at user-38ld7ls.dialup.mindspring.com on November 21, 2001 at 01:06:57:
In Reply to: You should watch KURT AND COURTNEY posted by Vincent on November 20, 2001 at 23:31:45:
: It shows quite graphically just how stupid and insane the "Kurt was murdered" contingent really is, and makes it pretty damn clear that he killed himself.
Vinnie - I don't see how anyone could draw a clear conclusion from that movie.
Nick Broomfield spent *TWO WEEKS* trying to figure out what happened, all the while trying to secure money to continue his little escapade. He drove where the moment took him, filmed it, then tried to draw conclusions from the resulting footage.
Essentially, it's a bad knock-off of the Blair Witch Project concept.
A much better analysis can be found in the book "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" by Halperin and Wallace. The authors went the long haul with the evidence to figure out what Tom Grant was talking about. For example, they forced him to play the tapes where Rosemary Carroll (Kurt and Courtney's lawyer) confirmed that Kurt was planning to divorce Courtney and that they'd started a new draft of his will. And that's just the tip.
Not to mention that the writing at the bottom of Kurt's suicide note was written by someone who was right-handed, and that the heroin level in his blood was three times the lethal limit.
Also, not to mention that Cali, their live-in nanny, was living at the house at the time of Kurt's death, was Kurt's regular heroin connection, and very easily could have given him an ultra-high dosage of heroin in the guise of a normal dosage and set the rest up from there.
Also not to mention that the cops had stopped investigating and declared it a suicide long before the unusual toxicology report came back.
There's a whole TON of stuff that Nick never found out, because he COMPLETELY failed to do adequate research before heading out on the road with a camera. It has to be one of the poorest organized filmed documentaries of the last twenty years.
I can't think of one that was worse. "Year of the Horse", maybe?
-URH