We stop by Gray's grave, laugh at the self-portrait quoted on his tombstone ('Inner-directed, troubled and can-not type'), and all the way back, Theo animatedly tells me ghost stories. I think it was just a Yamaha sequencer or something at the time. The road and fake trees leading into the town of Spectre, and the buildings, mostly just facades, were never demolished but were left to the elements. Sat 25 Dec 2004 21.23 EST His monologues were based on his own life: his small role in the movie The Killing Fields (1984) formed the basis for the stage monologue Swimming to Cambodia, which in turn became a hit film in 1987. This time, there was nothing. He seemed to be another person.". 'He may have ruminated on it in a neurotic way,' Gray's brother continues. She's the executive producer of a documentary about Gray, to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, and she's thinking about publishing his journals. "'Why water, why drowning?' Mr. Gray, 62, practiced the art of storytelling with a quiet mania, transforming his travels, fascinations and traumas into such acclaimed works as ''Swimming to Cambodia'' and ''Monster in a Box.'' I just remember going out on the street and crying.'. (Photo by Paula Court; courtesy of Washington Square Arts) The night before Spalding Gray went into the chill darkness of New York Bay somewhere between Manhattan and Staten Island, … "That was my father's final joke, I guess. His current state, he felt, was different. 'I cried for years when he got sick,' Ken Kobland says. Or could one reasonably claim that Big Fish killed Spalding Gray, as some web sites suggested? Still, our story brains want the movie to be the cause. 'I didn't ever consider him a suicidal person until this last illness. Gray described himself as a “failed suicide,” and was hospitalized several times. After the accident, things were never the same, though it became hard to tell whether Gray was suffering from depression as a result of the physical trauma, or from some form of brain damage. His ten-year-old son and his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter were distressed, feeling that their father had been “transformed” and was “no longer himself.”. Gray’s suicidal thoughts had arisen years earlier, and despite the efforts of Gray, his family and his doctors, the impulse to drown himself ultimately won out. We stop by Gray's grave, laugh at the self-portrait quoted on his tombstone ('Inner-directed, troubled and can-not type'), and all the way back, Theo animatedly tells me ghost stories. I call it phobic. It does seem as though he did repeat my mother's actions, on the face of it, and that is strange.". She was a very caring, loving parent.'. It was a testament, perhaps, to his status as an American institution - or an 'Un-American original' as he himself had put it - that so many people thought they recognised him. While his performances resembled -- and influenced -- the confessional style of contemporaries like Eric Bogosian and John Leguizamo, Mr. Gray's work had a search for larger meaning -- a quest, as he put it, for ''the perfect moment.''. These are the last lines of Tim Burton's Big Fish, a film Spalding Gray went to see with his two sons on the last afternoon of his life. Elizabeth LeCompte, collaborator on his first performance, was deeply disturbed by this last. (Photo by Paula Court; courtesy of Washington Square Arts) The night before Spalding Gray went into the chill darkness of New York Bay somewhere between Manhattan and Staten Island, …
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