Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

[Wickerman]

1. Classy guy

One of the original personal responsibility poster boys

[quispquake]

2. Weren't the charges against him discredited???

I had heard the charges were dropped, but because his reputation was ruined he descended into alcoholism...a sad story...

[Wickerman]

6. I've heard that, but I have heard whitewash, too

I suppose it depends on which account you read. Some speculation that his fame swayed the jury. From what I've read the facts are him drunk and alone with girl, a bottle, death of said girl. Sad case, certainly.

He was already a big drinker before the incident, loss of career makes a drunk an alcoholic. :shrug:

[Minstrel Boy]

4. He's the poster boy for media irresponsibility.

Seems to me he was a good guy, and innocent of the charges, but crucified by a sensationalist media.

Buster Keaton was a great pal. And anyone okay by Buster is okay by me.

[peekaloo]

5. William Randolph Hearst must have been a hero to young Rupert

Murdoch.

[flamingyouth]

7. He was found not guilty

And I truly believe he wasn't guilty. He was the victim of a horrific media witch hunt led by William Randolph Hearst.

He did make a short comeback as a sound director right before his death. He worked under the moniker "Will B. Good."

[Wickerman]

9. 2-10, 10-2 and aquittal

must have been a pretty wild time. Yeah, lots of media, lots of fault to go around for letting the girl languish in a hotel bed for three days before they took her to a hospital. A nasty story all around.

[flamingyouth]

10. Sadly, even with immediate treatment she would have likely died

Without antibiotics, injuries like that were often fatal. Likewise for Valentino's untimely death from peritonitis.

[RPM]

3. Broken Bottles, Shattered Dreams - the Fatty Arbuckle Story

One day my brother will make this movie.

[JVS]

11. Yup, now keep it under wraps so that Spielberg doesn't steal my idea

[RPM]

12. my bad

:-)

[JVS]

13. If this movie gets made by someone else because of your loose lips...

then I'm going to drunkenly waste away in your basement mumbling incoherently about once being able to be a contender.

[RPM]

14. there's room down there...

and a toilet.

Have to it.

[Solomon]

8. Fascinating story. Yes, the charges against him were discredited.

I think he went through three trials over it, the last one acquitting him. He was the victim of a whore who died from a botched abortion. They blamed it on him, not the doctor.

I still watch his shorts with Buster Keaton. Great stuff.

He's one of the first examples of what the media can do to a person no matter what the facts are.

[RUDUing2]

15. a good paper on him, her and *the* trial..

http://www.phenry.org/text/arbuckle.txt