David Carradine is much on my mind recently, having just finished up his rather excellent “Kill Bill Diary” — a thorough, intellectually rangy and assuredly entertaining read of his time spent on Quentin Tarantino’s two-part revenge epic. A workaholic without necessarily the most discerning taste, Carradine’s sudden death at the age of 72 (in June, 2009, he was found nude in the closet of a Thai hotel room, the result of accidental autoerotic asphyxiation) nonetheless put the brakes on what just might have been one of the more interesting sunset career reinventions of modern Hollywood. After all, here was a worldly, well-read guy with a reawakened fire in his belly…

Quentin Tarantino is bringing his unusual flair for drama to the court room, as he is claiming his next door neighbor’s exotic birds are preventing him from penning scripts, www.tmz.com is reporting. The writer-director has filed a lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court, saying his neighbor, ‘True Blood’ creator Alan Ball, has so many birds that emit “blood-curdling screams” that he can’t concentrate on his work. The ‘Kill Bill’ director is also saying that he personally tried to resolve the matter with Ball, who’s also known for winning an Academy Award for writing ‘American Beauty.’ However, Tarantino also claims that Ball doesn’t want to take down what the ‘Pulp Fiction’…

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed by David Carradine’s widow Anne on June 3 against the French company MS2 S.A., who was handling the production of the actor’s last movie, ‘Stretch,’ the Associated Press (AP) is reporting. The lawsuit claims the company didn’t provide the proper services to protect him. In the lawsuit, Anne also claims MS2 S.A. didn’t provide her husband with the best possible amenities and an assistant to help him navigate Bangkok, where ‘Stretch’ was filming, and where he died, a year ago. Anne s also claiming that he company left her husband behind when everyone else went to dinner the night before his body was found,…

Multiple sources are reporting that David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV show “Kung Fu” as well as an acclaimed film star, was found dead in his hotel room in the Thai capital Bangkok. In the city shooting a film, he reportedly did now show up for a cast and crew dinner on Wednesday night and was discovered the next morning. Michael Turner, a spokesman from the US Embassy, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor, who was part of a family of a venerated Hollywood family, including his father John Carradine and brothers Bruce, Robert, and Keith. Turner said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died…

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