Remember the very bizarre, very tragic and sad story of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan who both committed suicide ? (She died of an overdose thought to be suicide, but never proved concretely, and a distraught Blake took his own life by swimming in the Atlantic near Rockaway beach until he drowned).
Blake made the pixelated visuals for both Beck’s Sea Change cover, the album’s “Round the Bend” video and created the hallucinogenic dream sequence visuals for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love.”
Though the couple weren’t actually Scientology members, they claimed that L. Ron Hubbard’s religion was harassing and following them up until the time of their deaths. Then the story started involve L.A. junkshop singer Beck, a Scientologist who apparently wanted to leave the religious sect, at least according to an article in Newsweek that alleged Beck had told Duncan this information and knowing this info put her at risk.
Apparently the bizarre story is ongoing and now a new Vanity Fair article in the January issue bares bares e-mails written by Duncan alleging Beck pulled out of her beloved movie project, “Alice Underground” and implying that doing so made her distraught and suicidal.
“Beck and I met repeatedly to discuss the film,” Duncan wrote to a friend in early 2003.
But Duncan said the Los Angeles-based Beck backed out, fearing that his Scientologist handlers wouldn’t like the movie, Vanity Fair reported.
“[Beck] really, really tried to get away . . . [by] using going to NY to be in ‘Alice Underground,’ ” Duncan e-mailed a friend in late 2006.”He told me he wanted to leave the cult desperately, and this what they do when someone knows that.”
Beck is denying all of it. “That’s ridiculous. Totally false. We never met to discuss the film,” Beck said. “I did explain to her I wasn’t looking to act right then, and with the album, tour schedule, and a baby on the way, it wouldn’t be feasible.”
This story keeps getting weirder and weirder.
I am convinced that the film is a big part of why she committed suicide, but there is more to it than pinning the suicide solely on Beck.
Scientology is at the heart of this tragedy. Duncan and Blake were NOT scientologists. Blake was in the process of filing a lawsuit against Scientology and possibly certain scientologists (including Beck, who IS a scientologist) when Duncan killed her self.
It is my suspicion that Blake’s stepfather, Arthur Delibert, Esq. persuaded Blake to back off and Theresa was despondent over this decision. I contend that Delibert’s firm and their experience in trying to defend the appeal of the old Cult Awareness Network, against Scientology’s attempts to close them down, found that scientology is a ruthless and hyperlitigious organization not worth fighting unless you have plenty of resources and are willing tobe attacked and harassed. Theresa’s last post in July on the morning of her death substanciates this.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Storytelling On The Staircase
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/2007/07/storytelling-on.html
You can read further specifics on Duncan, Blake and the information on the lawsuit and along with information on his his parents, Mr & Mrs Delibert here:
Friday, August 10, 2007: Were Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan “Paranoid” or Did Scientology Stalk and Harass the Couple as They Claimed?
http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com/2007/08/were-jeremy-blake-and-theresa-duncan.html
Monday, August 27, 2007: Message to Kate Coe: How You Got the Theresa Duncan Story – Wrong, Again
http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com/2007/08/ok-ive-away-from-blog-regarding-theresa.html
I read the VF article. Although the couple did seem paranoid; when it comes to the Church of Scientology,anything is possible. Scientology has been known to intimidate and harass; and has been linked to other suicides/mysterious deaths-recently the slimy David Hans Schmidt who attempted to extort Tom Cruise:
http://tabloidbaby.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-killed-david-hans-schmidt.html
Schmidt was an extortionist and severely in debt at the time of his suicide, but Cruise’s lawyers probably helped contributed to him going over the edge.
Scientology is responsible for many unexplained deaths and suicides, mostly members or former members. Lisa McPherson is one, Margarit Winkelmann is another, just to name a few of the many. You can read about these deaths at these two pages.
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/lisa_mcpherson/tt971208.html
Scientology saved me from killing myself!
Only she know why she killed herself.
Focus on your own life.
Millions of lives have been saved because of Scientology.
But if you need something or something to blame…
Scientology Rocks!!!