Salman Khan's Dabangg 3 released this Friday and earned Rs 24.5 crore on day one at the box office. While his last three films Bharat, Race 3 and Tiger Zinda Hai had bigger opening and made a business of Rs 41 crore, Rs 27 crore and Rs 34 crore, respectively on the first day of their release, Dabangg 3 business is said to be largely affected by the ongoing CAA protests across the country.
Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter to share the details. "Dabangg 3 hits ?20 cr+ on Day 1 thanks largely to #SalmanKhan’s star power... Day 1 biz would’ve easily been much, much higher had it not been for the protests... Resultantly, biz kept fluctuating throughout the day... A substantial sum was lost due to this reason," he wrote in his tweet.
#Dabangg3 hits ? 20 cr+ on Day 1 thanks largely to #SalmanKhan’s star power... Day 1 biz would’ve easily been much, much higher had it not been for the protests... Resultantly, biz kept fluctuating throughout the day... A substantial sum was lost due to this reason..
#Dabangg3 hits ₹ 20 cr+ on Day 1 thanks largely to #SalmanKhan’s star power... Day 1 biz would’ve easily been much, much higher had it not been for the protests... Resultantly, biz kept fluctuating throughout the day... A substantial sum was lost due to this reason...
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
#Dabangg3 Fri ₹ 24.5 cr. #India biz. Note: ALL VERSIONS.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
He also gave away first day box office figures of the actor's films from 2010 to 2019.
Also read: Will Dabangg 3 Turn Out to be Salman Khan's Biggest December Release at the Box Office?
#SalmanKhan versus #SalmanKhan... *Day 1* biz... 2010 to 2019...2010: #Veer ₹ 7 cr2010: #Dabangg ₹ 14.50 cr2011: #Ready ₹ 13.15 cr2011: #Bodyguard ₹ 21.60 cr2012: #EkThaTiger ₹ 32.93 cr2012: #Dabangg2 ₹ 21.10 cr2013: #JaiHo ₹ 17.75 cr2014: #Kick ₹ 26.40 crcontd.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
#SalmanKhan versus #SalmanKhan... *Day 1* biz...2015: #BajrangiBhaijaan ₹ 27.25 cr2015: #PRDP ₹ 40.35 cr2016: #Sultan ₹ 36.54 cr2017: #Tubelight ₹ 21.15 cr2017: #TZH ₹ 34.10 cr2018: #Race3 ₹ 29.17 cr2019: #Bharat ₹ 42.30 cr2019: #Dabangg3 ₹ 24.50 cr#India biz.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
Dabangg 3 is a mix of old and new characters. Salman and Sonakshi Sinha will reprise their characters Chulbul Pandey and Rajjo, respectively. Whereas, Kiccha Sudeep as Bali and Saiee Manjrekar as Khushi are being introduced in the film. With action, drama and comedy, the film narrates the origin story of cop Chulbul Pandey and how he took up the profession.
The film has opened to mixed reviews. Rajeev Masand of News18 called the film excruciating bore in his review and wrote, "In 2010 under the direction of Abhinav Kashyap, it seemed like Salman Khan had found his superhero alter ego. Charming rogue cop Chulbul Pandey, with his cheeky one-liners, oddball quirks, and cartoonish but effective fight moves was the actor’s best realized character in years. Even 2012’s decidedly mediocre sequel Dabangg 2, directed by Arbaaz Khan, had stray moments of inspired lunacy that suggested some promise. But this third installment, directed by Prabhudeva and scripted by Salman Khan himself, is irredeemable."
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Bollywood Continues to be Divided over CAA Protests
While several celebrities have spoken out against the controversial CAA and defended the countrywide students' protests, others have shown support in favour of the government's decision to impose the Act.
IANS Updated: December 21, 2019, 7:24 PM IST
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Bollywood Continues to be Divided over CAA Protests
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The film fraternity continues to be divided over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has resulted in massive nationwide protests.
While several celebrities have spoken out against the controversial CAA and defended the countrywide students' protests, others have shown support in favour of the government's decision to impose the Act.
Veteran actor Anupam Kher on Friday took to social media and posted a video, appealing students to carry out peaceful demonstrations.
"My appeal to all wonderful students of India - Protest is your right. But Protecting India is your duty," Kher tweeted, along with a video message.
"Seeing the situation of the country for the last few days, something strange is happening in the mind. The mind is very disturbed by seeing the scenes which are being seen through social media and television. I will not comment on the students' movements, but will also say that this is their right in Independent India.''
"But when such elements who want to harm the country, start participating in the student movements and harm the country for their selfishness, then all these can prove to be harmful for the country," Kher said in the video.
The veteran actor, whose wife Kirron Kher was elected to Lok Sabha as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Chandigarh in 2014, urged people to first get a clear understanding of the Act before reacting.
Actor Paresh Rawal, who was elected to Lok Sabha as a BJP MP from Ahmedabad (East) in 2014, has also been tweeting in favour of CAA.
Rawal compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sardar Patel, Independent India's first Home Minister. According to him, Modi will never let India "disintegrate".
Sardar Patel had Unified India and @narendramodi Will Never Let it Disintegrate.
— Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) December 19, 2019
"Sardar Patel had unified India and @narendramodi will never let it disintegrate." Rawal had tweeted.
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and producer Ashoke Pandit, known to be open supporters of the BJP government, have also favoured CAA.
However, other celebrities including Farhan Akhtar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anurag Kashyap, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Shabana Azmi, Kabir Khan, Swara Bhasker , Sushant Singh, and Siddharth have outright denounced the amended citizenship law. Many of these celebrities even attended protests and joined the students in raising voices against against CAA.
"To raise your voice against something is democratic right, people are raising their voices and I'm of view that there seems to be a certain amount of discrimination in what is happening", Farhan said.
Parineeti Chopra described the police action against students as "Barbaric" and was dropped as Haryana's brand ambassador of 'Beto Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign.
"If this is what's gonna happen every-time a citizen expresses their view, forget #CAB, we should pass a bill and not call our country a democracy anymore! Beating up innocent human beings for speaking their mind? BARBARIC," Parineeti had tweeted.
Sushant Singh, who recently joined an anti Citizenship Amendment Act rally at Kranti Maidan in Mumbai earlier this week, was dropped the next day as host of the popular crime show, "Savdhaan India".
"I went to August Kranti Maidan to show solidarity with people who are afraid because of this new Act. There is a lot of confusion and there are a lot of questions in people's mind regarding the Act, and that includes me. We are trying to raise our voice so that the government does something about it. It was a peaceful and wonderful protest. All of them were raising their voice for the country. I felt so proud of my fellow Mumbaikars, and Mumbai Police also handled the situation really well," said Sushant.
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap called the current government fascist.
"This has gone too far.. can't stay silent any longer. This government is clearly fascist .. and it makes me angry to see voices that can actually make a difference stay quiet," Kashyap had tweeted.
New generation stars Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha and Ishaan Khatter posted pictures of the Preamble of the Constitution. While Alia said we should "learn from the students", Sonakshi reminded what India essentially was, is and will always be -- a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic.
Hrithik Roshan had expressed sadness over the unrest at various universities all over India while Priyanka Chopra condemned the brutal police action on students.
"Education for every child is our dream. Education is what empowered them to think independently. We have raised them to have a voice. In a thriving democracy, to raise one's voice peacefully and be met with violence is wrong. Every voice counts. And each voice will work towards changing India. #HaveVoiceWillRaise #HaveVoiceMustRaise," she had tweeted.
Hrithik wrote: "As a parent and a citizen of india , I am deeply saddened by the unrest across various educational institutions of our country. I hope and pray for peace to return as soon as possible. Great teachers learn from their students. I salute the worlds youngest democracy."
Earlier, Kangana Ranaut had reportedly called a section of the film fraternity "cowards" for not speaking up on the current issue.
Many like Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khurrana stuck to carefully crafted tweets that spoke of the need for peace and denouncing violence.
Amidst the ongoing unrest, Bigwigs such as Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have maintained silence on the matter so far.
Akshay Kumar liked a tweet mocking the attacks on Kamia sttudents and then quickly disowned his view saying he had liked it by accident. He was trolled for his action, with a netizen calling him "spineless" -- a comment Anurag Kashyap endorsed on Twitter.
Actors like Taapsee Pannu and Varun Dhawan refrained from expressing their views saying they did not have adequate knowledge on the subject.
Varun recently said: "We are sitting here in Mumbai, right now something else is happening in other parts of the country. It's wrong of us to comment about what's happening over there until we don't see that, until we are 100 per cent aware what's happening."
Taapsee said: "I haven't expressed my views on CAA because I haven't studied about it. But the visuals which I saw in Jamia, I didn't feel those were pleasant. I felt really sad when I saw the videos where students were talking about their plight. I feel something big has happened or something big is going to happen."
Richa Chadha and Pulkit Samrat were seen engaging in a Twitter war with Ashoke Pandit over CAA.
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Brittany Murphy Was Murdered, Claims Her Half-Brother Tony Bertolotti
Bertolotti has been investigating Brittany's death for 10 years after she collapsed at her home here on December 20, 2009. It was reported that she died from pneumonia and drug intoxication at an age of 32.
IANS Updated: December 21, 2019, 7:16 PM IST
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Brittany Murphy's half-brother Tony Bertolotti claims the actress was murdered, adding that sometimes an actress is worth more dead than alive.
Bertolotti has been investigating Brittany's death for 10 years after she collapsed at her home here on December 20, 2009. It was reported that she died from pneumonia and drug intoxication at an age of 32.
Bertolotti, a sibling from their father Angelo's first marriage, feels her death is connected to her husband and screenwriter Simon Monjack, who died just five months later, reports dailymail.co.uk.
The Los Angeles coroner Ed Winter ruled the deaths were due to pneumonia, anemia and drug intoxication, which was supported by the presence of dozens of prescription pills in their systems.
"If you look at it from a distance, it's like here's this young lady, a fairly healthy girl, she's home with her supposed husband and mother, and she died. How absurd is it? It's only in Hollywood that it's considered another day at the zoo. No one takes her to a hospital, which is just four miles away," Bertolotti said.
"I spent years looking at this, suppressing my own anger. I think Brittany was taken out. Who killed Brittany? She didn't die of natural causes," he added.
Monjack failed in Hollywood and had business debts. Bertolotti believes that their deaths are connected to Monjack's business dealings.
"I don't know what business decisions they were making at that time, but it (the deaths) sound business-related to me. I've heard all sorts of cr*p, so what is true? I don't believe the drugs line that much, I don't buy it. I'm sure there was experimentation. But Brittany was conservative with that stuff, she was a bright girl. Then there's the fan club that something nasty happened to Brittany and I believe it with all my heart. You have to go back to the money. Jimmy Hendrix died, but the money kept flowing for many, many years afterwards. Sometimes an actress is worth more dead than alive.
"You've got to look at who's collecting the money now? I don't know. Every time the movie comes on, someone is getting paid. Whoever's got the money knows the truth. There was a group of at least 15 to 30 people around Brittany, and you tell me that no one knows nothing? Are you kidding? If I had the money to properly investigate her death, I'd go round all of them, but they wouldn't speak to me," he said.
Bertolotti continued: "My father was up to it like a hound dog, but then got sick and had a stroke. Til his dying day he was obsessed with finding out what happened. He went up to a bunch of these people, but no one would talk to him. We couldn't find out anything. What's it all tell you? The thing is locked down."
"All of them who had personal contact with her in the last two, three weeks of her life could speak out, so I could understand this, but you'll find that no one wants to talk. I think it's one of the biggest conspiracies in Hollywood like Hendrix. Some day someone might find something, but it won't be me or my other brother Jeff, we're too old for that now," added the 70-year-old.
Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter to share the details. "Dabangg 3 hits ?20 cr+ on Day 1 thanks largely to #SalmanKhan’s star power... Day 1 biz would’ve easily been much, much higher had it not been for the protests... Resultantly, biz kept fluctuating throughout the day... A substantial sum was lost due to this reason," he wrote in his tweet.
#Dabangg3 hits ? 20 cr+ on Day 1 thanks largely to #SalmanKhan’s star power... Day 1 biz would’ve easily been much, much higher had it not been for the protests... Resultantly, biz kept fluctuating throughout the day... A substantial sum was lost due to this reason..
#Dabangg3 hits ₹ 20 cr+ on Day 1 thanks largely to #SalmanKhan’s star power... Day 1 biz would’ve easily been much, much higher had it not been for the protests... Resultantly, biz kept fluctuating throughout the day... A substantial sum was lost due to this reason...
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
#Dabangg3 Fri ₹ 24.5 cr. #India biz. Note: ALL VERSIONS.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
He also gave away first day box office figures of the actor's films from 2010 to 2019.
Also read: Will Dabangg 3 Turn Out to be Salman Khan's Biggest December Release at the Box Office?
#SalmanKhan versus #SalmanKhan... *Day 1* biz... 2010 to 2019...2010: #Veer ₹ 7 cr2010: #Dabangg ₹ 14.50 cr2011: #Ready ₹ 13.15 cr2011: #Bodyguard ₹ 21.60 cr2012: #EkThaTiger ₹ 32.93 cr2012: #Dabangg2 ₹ 21.10 cr2013: #JaiHo ₹ 17.75 cr2014: #Kick ₹ 26.40 crcontd.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
#SalmanKhan versus #SalmanKhan... *Day 1* biz...2015: #BajrangiBhaijaan ₹ 27.25 cr2015: #PRDP ₹ 40.35 cr2016: #Sultan ₹ 36.54 cr2017: #Tubelight ₹ 21.15 cr2017: #TZH ₹ 34.10 cr2018: #Race3 ₹ 29.17 cr2019: #Bharat ₹ 42.30 cr2019: #Dabangg3 ₹ 24.50 cr#India biz.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) December 21, 2019
Dabangg 3 is a mix of old and new characters. Salman and Sonakshi Sinha will reprise their characters Chulbul Pandey and Rajjo, respectively. Whereas, Kiccha Sudeep as Bali and Saiee Manjrekar as Khushi are being introduced in the film. With action, drama and comedy, the film narrates the origin story of cop Chulbul Pandey and how he took up the profession.
The film has opened to mixed reviews. Rajeev Masand of News18 called the film excruciating bore in his review and wrote, "In 2010 under the direction of Abhinav Kashyap, it seemed like Salman Khan had found his superhero alter ego. Charming rogue cop Chulbul Pandey, with his cheeky one-liners, oddball quirks, and cartoonish but effective fight moves was the actor’s best realized character in years. Even 2012’s decidedly mediocre sequel Dabangg 2, directed by Arbaaz Khan, had stray moments of inspired lunacy that suggested some promise. But this third installment, directed by Prabhudeva and scripted by Salman Khan himself, is irredeemable."
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Bollywood Continues to be Divided over CAA Protests
While several celebrities have spoken out against the controversial CAA and defended the countrywide students' protests, others have shown support in favour of the government's decision to impose the Act.
IANS Updated: December 21, 2019, 7:24 PM IST
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The film fraternity continues to be divided over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has resulted in massive nationwide protests.
While several celebrities have spoken out against the controversial CAA and defended the countrywide students' protests, others have shown support in favour of the government's decision to impose the Act.
Veteran actor Anupam Kher on Friday took to social media and posted a video, appealing students to carry out peaceful demonstrations.
"My appeal to all wonderful students of India - Protest is your right. But Protecting India is your duty," Kher tweeted, along with a video message.
"Seeing the situation of the country for the last few days, something strange is happening in the mind. The mind is very disturbed by seeing the scenes which are being seen through social media and television. I will not comment on the students' movements, but will also say that this is their right in Independent India.''
"But when such elements who want to harm the country, start participating in the student movements and harm the country for their selfishness, then all these can prove to be harmful for the country," Kher said in the video.
The veteran actor, whose wife Kirron Kher was elected to Lok Sabha as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Chandigarh in 2014, urged people to first get a clear understanding of the Act before reacting.
Actor Paresh Rawal, who was elected to Lok Sabha as a BJP MP from Ahmedabad (East) in 2014, has also been tweeting in favour of CAA.
Rawal compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sardar Patel, Independent India's first Home Minister. According to him, Modi will never let India "disintegrate".
Sardar Patel had Unified India and @narendramodi Will Never Let it Disintegrate.
— Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) December 19, 2019
"Sardar Patel had unified India and @narendramodi will never let it disintegrate." Rawal had tweeted.
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and producer Ashoke Pandit, known to be open supporters of the BJP government, have also favoured CAA.
However, other celebrities including Farhan Akhtar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anurag Kashyap, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Shabana Azmi, Kabir Khan, Swara Bhasker , Sushant Singh, and Siddharth have outright denounced the amended citizenship law. Many of these celebrities even attended protests and joined the students in raising voices against against CAA.
"To raise your voice against something is democratic right, people are raising their voices and I'm of view that there seems to be a certain amount of discrimination in what is happening", Farhan said.
Parineeti Chopra described the police action against students as "Barbaric" and was dropped as Haryana's brand ambassador of 'Beto Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign.
"If this is what's gonna happen every-time a citizen expresses their view, forget #CAB, we should pass a bill and not call our country a democracy anymore! Beating up innocent human beings for speaking their mind? BARBARIC," Parineeti had tweeted.
Sushant Singh, who recently joined an anti Citizenship Amendment Act rally at Kranti Maidan in Mumbai earlier this week, was dropped the next day as host of the popular crime show, "Savdhaan India".
"I went to August Kranti Maidan to show solidarity with people who are afraid because of this new Act. There is a lot of confusion and there are a lot of questions in people's mind regarding the Act, and that includes me. We are trying to raise our voice so that the government does something about it. It was a peaceful and wonderful protest. All of them were raising their voice for the country. I felt so proud of my fellow Mumbaikars, and Mumbai Police also handled the situation really well," said Sushant.
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap called the current government fascist.
"This has gone too far.. can't stay silent any longer. This government is clearly fascist .. and it makes me angry to see voices that can actually make a difference stay quiet," Kashyap had tweeted.
New generation stars Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha and Ishaan Khatter posted pictures of the Preamble of the Constitution. While Alia said we should "learn from the students", Sonakshi reminded what India essentially was, is and will always be -- a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic.
Hrithik Roshan had expressed sadness over the unrest at various universities all over India while Priyanka Chopra condemned the brutal police action on students.
"Education for every child is our dream. Education is what empowered them to think independently. We have raised them to have a voice. In a thriving democracy, to raise one's voice peacefully and be met with violence is wrong. Every voice counts. And each voice will work towards changing India. #HaveVoiceWillRaise #HaveVoiceMustRaise," she had tweeted.
Hrithik wrote: "As a parent and a citizen of india , I am deeply saddened by the unrest across various educational institutions of our country. I hope and pray for peace to return as soon as possible. Great teachers learn from their students. I salute the worlds youngest democracy."
Earlier, Kangana Ranaut had reportedly called a section of the film fraternity "cowards" for not speaking up on the current issue.
Many like Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khurrana stuck to carefully crafted tweets that spoke of the need for peace and denouncing violence.
Amidst the ongoing unrest, Bigwigs such as Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have maintained silence on the matter so far.
Akshay Kumar liked a tweet mocking the attacks on Kamia sttudents and then quickly disowned his view saying he had liked it by accident. He was trolled for his action, with a netizen calling him "spineless" -- a comment Anurag Kashyap endorsed on Twitter.
Actors like Taapsee Pannu and Varun Dhawan refrained from expressing their views saying they did not have adequate knowledge on the subject.
Varun recently said: "We are sitting here in Mumbai, right now something else is happening in other parts of the country. It's wrong of us to comment about what's happening over there until we don't see that, until we are 100 per cent aware what's happening."
Taapsee said: "I haven't expressed my views on CAA because I haven't studied about it. But the visuals which I saw in Jamia, I didn't feel those were pleasant. I felt really sad when I saw the videos where students were talking about their plight. I feel something big has happened or something big is going to happen."
Richa Chadha and Pulkit Samrat were seen engaging in a Twitter war with Ashoke Pandit over CAA.
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First Published: December 21, 2019, 7:24 PM IST
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Brittany Murphy Was Murdered, Claims Her Half-Brother Tony Bertolotti
Bertolotti has been investigating Brittany's death for 10 years after she collapsed at her home here on December 20, 2009. It was reported that she died from pneumonia and drug intoxication at an age of 32.
IANS Updated: December 21, 2019, 7:16 PM IST
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Brittany Murphy Was Murdered, Claims Her Half-Brother Tony Bertolotti
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Brittany Murphy's half-brother Tony Bertolotti claims the actress was murdered, adding that sometimes an actress is worth more dead than alive.
Bertolotti has been investigating Brittany's death for 10 years after she collapsed at her home here on December 20, 2009. It was reported that she died from pneumonia and drug intoxication at an age of 32.
Bertolotti, a sibling from their father Angelo's first marriage, feels her death is connected to her husband and screenwriter Simon Monjack, who died just five months later, reports dailymail.co.uk.
The Los Angeles coroner Ed Winter ruled the deaths were due to pneumonia, anemia and drug intoxication, which was supported by the presence of dozens of prescription pills in their systems.
"If you look at it from a distance, it's like here's this young lady, a fairly healthy girl, she's home with her supposed husband and mother, and she died. How absurd is it? It's only in Hollywood that it's considered another day at the zoo. No one takes her to a hospital, which is just four miles away," Bertolotti said.
"I spent years looking at this, suppressing my own anger. I think Brittany was taken out. Who killed Brittany? She didn't die of natural causes," he added.
Monjack failed in Hollywood and had business debts. Bertolotti believes that their deaths are connected to Monjack's business dealings.
"I don't know what business decisions they were making at that time, but it (the deaths) sound business-related to me. I've heard all sorts of cr*p, so what is true? I don't believe the drugs line that much, I don't buy it. I'm sure there was experimentation. But Brittany was conservative with that stuff, she was a bright girl. Then there's the fan club that something nasty happened to Brittany and I believe it with all my heart. You have to go back to the money. Jimmy Hendrix died, but the money kept flowing for many, many years afterwards. Sometimes an actress is worth more dead than alive.
"You've got to look at who's collecting the money now? I don't know. Every time the movie comes on, someone is getting paid. Whoever's got the money knows the truth. There was a group of at least 15 to 30 people around Brittany, and you tell me that no one knows nothing? Are you kidding? If I had the money to properly investigate her death, I'd go round all of them, but they wouldn't speak to me," he said.
Bertolotti continued: "My father was up to it like a hound dog, but then got sick and had a stroke. Til his dying day he was obsessed with finding out what happened. He went up to a bunch of these people, but no one would talk to him. We couldn't find out anything. What's it all tell you? The thing is locked down."
"All of them who had personal contact with her in the last two, three weeks of her life could speak out, so I could understand this, but you'll find that no one wants to talk. I think it's one of the biggest conspiracies in Hollywood like Hendrix. Some day someone might find something, but it won't be me or my other brother Jeff, we're too old for that now," added the 70-year-old.


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