In The End, The Waves Were Just A Gentle Ripple
Jerry Garcia’s widow says the rock legend died the way his fans remember him - with a smile on his face.
“It’s strange to say, but he looked so peaceful,” filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia writes in Rolling Stone magazine.
“I said to the guy at the funeral home, ‘Look, he’s smiling. Did you do that to him?’ And he said, ‘No, that’s exactly the way I found him.”’
She said the Grateful Dead leader, who died of a heart attack in a drug rehabilitation clinic on Aug. 9 at the age of 53, decided last summer to confront his heroin addiction.
“It’s a pain in the butt,” she quotes him as saying. “I don’t want to do it for the rest of my life.”
He checked out of one clinic, then entered another after “wanting to do drugs again because his body hurt so much.”
Loose talk
“Entertainment Tonight” co-hostcum-musician John Tesh, on being called the “King of Cheese” by Spin magazine: “The bottom line is that enough critics will hate me so much that Generation X will start feeling sorry for me and rescue me.” She knows what it’s like at the river’s edge
Ione Skye turns 22 today.
If wishes were horse, he’d be in big trouble
Rock poet-cum-musician-cum-novelist Jim Carroll (“The Basketball Diaries”) says his junkie days are long behind him. “It had kind of disappeared until the ‘Basketball Diaries’ movie,” Carroll said. “It’s just not a part of my life anymore. I can’t even smoke grass. New York City is so fast-paced, I get too paranoid. I wish I could smoke pot.”
She must envy that lucky Lisa Marie Presley
Melissa Etheridge says her recent talk about marrying film director Julie Cypher was simple fantasizing, since same-sex marriages are illegal. Said Etheridge: “I am not entitled to the pursuit of happiness that everyone else is. I cannot marry the one that I love.”
Coming soon to a store near you: R.E.M&Ms
Michael Stipe and R.E.M. have agreed to drop their lawsuit against Hershey Foods Corp. over a show at a Hershey-owned stadium that was billed in a radio promotion as an “R.E.M.-Kit Kat” concert.
Which is why Elton’s always such a spectacle
The latest issue of the Men’s Portfolio of W advises rock stars to always appear in custom-made clothes. “Elton John doesn’t want someone in the audience wearing what he’s got on,” says MTV clothing stylist Jimmy Hanrahan. “The rock ‘n’ roll fantasy is broken.”
Deep thoughts - knee deep, to be precise
Rocker David Bowie on, well, you figure it out (in Out magazine): “It’s almost because there isn’t significant thought now in Judeo-Christian ethics that popular culture is taking up a lot of the slack. Some would say, in a gratuitous manner, with violence and sex, but I wonder if it isn’t really another form of ritualization, an area where fears and hopes and euphoric states and depressions are dealt with.”
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