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Post by gaz on Sept 15, 2005 11:27:10 GMT -5
It is with tremendous sadness that I inform everyone Malcolm has passed away.
The details are slow in coming but what we know is that he died on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 sometime in the afternoon.
Police are still attempting to contact family members so if anyone knows how to contact Malcolm's relatives, either in Ontario, Canada or in Manchester, England please have them contact Peel Regional Police in Mississauga Ontario, or the Toronto Police Services directly; or through their local authorities.
I promise that as things calm down and we absorb this devasting news that more information will be posted here, but I felt it important to let everyone know what we could.
Those who have been advised already are grieving each in their own way at the loss of this very special man. I hope each of you find solace in your memories of encounters with him, in person and through these channels. We at Titan shall miss him terribly.
Take care everyone. I am sorry to be the bearer of this sad news.
Gary Davidson
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Post by BigHairyKev on Sept 16, 2005 8:59:33 GMT -5
I just got the email from the FSQ Yahoo Group - it's terrible news.
My thoughts are with his family, friends, colleagues & fans.
From BigHairyKev, friend & fan of MX.
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Post by ShowbizPRgirl on Sept 16, 2005 15:35:53 GMT -5
MX meant the world to me and I think he felt the same. We first met just over a year ago through the SPACE message board and formed an immediate bond, seeing as we both shared a few industry friends/co-workers and had many interests in common, most notably our love for comic book superheroes/villans and the vampire/Goth sub-culture.
He was always very charming, polite and friendly with everyone he met in person and online. We flirted shamelessly with each other both on the message boards and privately, through email and phone calls. MX became a big part of my life over the past year and I can honestly say that I loved him.
I created a major character in my TV series (The Black Tower) especially for him and it was my ultimate goal to see to it that he got that role when my show finally went into production. I also worked free of charge as his PR rep., and was in the process of securing his guest appearance at a sci-fi/fantasy convention in Vancouver next summer when I got the horrific news of his death.
Although MX and I had never met in person, we were making plans to do so in Toronto some time before Christmas, so we could discuss the future of our relationship, whatever form that might take. I had so many hopes and dreams for us. My show was going to make him an international megastar, just as X-Files did for David Duchovny and Smallville did for Michael Rosenbaum. He was going to be the front man for the series, helping me organize show conventions, industry get-togethers and fan meet & greets, since he did these kinds of things all the time. MX was also a skilled musician and I had hoped a few of his songs would be included on the show's sountrack CD. It's my ultimate plan that The Black Tower will make me enough money during its expected 4 year run so I can launch a few side-ventures related to the show (comic books, novels, a night club franchise) -- and MX was going to be my partner in all of this. The two of us working together for the next 20 years, partners in love, life and business.
We were going to take this ride together, MX and I. Now all I have is a head full of questions and a heart burning with anger and bitterness, and a longing to have back in my life the man I thought I knew.
Kelly J. Compeau
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Post by gaz on Sept 17, 2005 9:53:54 GMT -5
I've been advised that some information is apparently starting to come in relating to Malcolm's relatives but people attempting to help are being frustrated by a problem I believe I've identified. MALCOLM XERXES was his stage name. I don't think that should come as any surprise to anyone, he was an Actor, it's a common practice. Many of us accepted him as that and never considered there would come a time when we would need to know his real name.
He had two other names. One was his birth name, the other his adoptive name. I cannot tell you which was which but the name on his driver's license was IAN MALCOLM.
I have also heard that his first name might have been Arthur and his last name might have begun with a "G". I believe this would've been his biological name because he rejected many elements of that life.
If you have information about his adoptive parents in Manchester, England; or his biological parents from Jamaica; or his biological siblings in the Greater Toronto Area AND you wish to communite them to the Police, you will need to the use the name IAN MALCOLM.
This is the name he had on his driver's license, as that is the only name they will know him by.
Also, apparently some people have communicated to me that the switchboard at the Police is having a hard time knowing which of the many officers to connect you with.
Although the case may now be in someone else's hands the Peel Regional (Missisauga) Police officer whose card I have identifies him as Constable M. McKenzie #2272.
I hope this helps. The sooner Malcolm's family can be reached the sooner his estate can be settled and their grieving can occur. Understand that everyone who can, is doing everything on the other side of this story that is possible and only time will tell there. Thank you, and please withhold your judgements until the investigation is done as speculation isn't helping anyone.
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Post by gaz on Sept 19, 2005 6:30:43 GMT -5
Thank you everyone who has been so diligent in getting the word out about what happened.
Someone who knew more precise information regarding Malcolm's adoptive parents in Manchester contacted me and I was able to give them precise instructions on who at Peel Regional Police to contact.
Malcolm's landlady has advised me that the Police informed her they've made contact with them. They, of course, are shocked by the news and saddened. The police have given his current landlady this information.
But I thank you, those on the internet, who spread the word. I honestly believe that our efforts resulted in helping to close off at least one small part of this awful tragedy.
Take care of each other.
Gary Davidson
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Post by moj on Sept 23, 2005 21:55:38 GMT -5
I have joined your forum in response to all the postings about Malcom Xerxes's suicide. I do not have anything substantive to add to this sad chain of events, except to say that I was a long-time aquaintance of Malcolm's from the theatre here in Toronto. I really had no idea of the vast network of friends and colleagues he had established thru the net, though I knew he was a multi-faceted person. However, to those of us who knew him in his everyday life, I am sad to report that it is not really a surprise that events have unfolded as they have. Malcolm, I believe, had a fine mind and loving heart buried beneath a huge amount of anger and an almost pathological inability to establish real, breathing relationships with people, though he tried. My sense was that he had a truly troubled and bizarre childhood, and it warped his caring, intelligent nature badly. As a mutual friend commented to me last week, Malcolm was perhaps the only person he knew who appeared completely fictitious in person but completely real on stage. A fitting epitaph, perhaps. At any rate -- RIP, Malcolm: I hope you're happier in the next world then you were able to be in this one. My sincerest hopes for a sustainable recovery for his victim, who I understand is now blind, at the very least. My best hopes for her two children and the rest of her family.
And to Kelly J. Campeau -- please get a grip: movies and tv are media: the internet is mediated: -- life is sometimes slow and messy and more real than your dreams. That being said - I mourn with you.
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Post by gaz on Sept 25, 2005 6:43:09 GMT -5
My feeling has always been that everyone grieves, each in their own way, and as long as no one gets trapped in grief it's all good. The thing about the internet is that, in some small way, you leave record of everything you say - good or bad. We shouldn't react to something someone said days or even hours ago. And I hope no one edits past comments on this subject simply because they said something they shouldn't have. I have seen posts that have, at that moment, exactly captured my feeling and others that have made me think and sometimes, yes, even worry about people, but in the end each of these threads seems to follow a similar path, a path of a community coming together and mourning their loss. Malcolm was the same guy in his posts as he was in real life. Larger than life and if you weren't prepared for it that could touch you the wrong way. The one thing I heard over and over at the service yesterday from all these different people, about a man who seemed more compartmentalized than most of us, were the same things. That almost never happens at a memorial but everyone's stories were about the same guy and I doubt if anyone there heard anything from anyone that didn't match the guy they knew. It didn't matter if you only met him a few times or knew him for 22 years. He was the same guy. Malcolm was his board persona, but his board persona was only part of him. Malcolm was the fan you met at the conventions, but that fan was only part of him. Malcolm was a good friend, but that friendship was only part of him. Yet each facet of this person never waivered, he was consistent to the end, and I grieve MY loss. I keeping ending these posts with "Take care" and "Take care of each other" and there's a reason for it. Take these words for what they are but six years ago yesterday I lost my Mother, and at that time I realized something that has been the fuel for my engine during this intense period: I know why we need God. But the only reason I think of why God needs us, is to take care of each other during times like this. Take care of each other, Gary
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Post by ladytass2001 on Sept 25, 2005 12:03:51 GMT -5
Gary, Thank you for that,it does help. I wish that I had been able to get there to be with all of you,I thank you for keeping us all updated on what is going on. We as a community really do appreciate it. Love ya all ~~Tass~~
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Post by moj on Sept 25, 2005 13:06:30 GMT -5
Yes, thanks, Gary. Your sensitivity and inclusiveness is noted. Apologies for any hurt visited upon Kelly at this time. Wasn't able to attend service myself -- glad to hear it was meaningful. Again, my thoughts at this time go out to Malcolm's victim and her family. Such a deep shame...
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Post by spider01 on Sept 25, 2005 22:44:52 GMT -5
Gary, Thank you for all you have done with Malcolm for this terrible incident and after.
You take care of yourself too.
Spider/Gary
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Post by christian on Oct 9, 2005 21:43:29 GMT -5
Today is Oct 9.It was only yesterday that I heard the news.My heart is broken right now and I can't believe whats happened and that I heard the news so late.I have been close friend Malcoms for 30 yrs.I met him in grade school when he first got here for England.Ian Anthony Malcolm was one of a kind and if you were lucky enough to know him you where blessed.I had so many good times growing up with him,I was there from the begining,we where in at least a dozen bands together...I can't believe whats happened.His old school brothers and sisters have only just this weekend have found out and we all are reflecting on the magical times we had together with Malcolm.I don't have much info on what happened,but from what I know and from the vibe I got from him back in August and just from knowing Malcolm so well,I kind of figured it out.This was not a suicide,a situation got out of hand and emotions flared and it went to far with the most tragic outcome.Malcolm was an actor musician from day one,complex kind funny and jaded like all great artists.I'll miss so much...Christian.Robertson
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Post by gaz on Oct 10, 2005 8:10:18 GMT -5
Christian,
As Malcolm would dutifully say "welcome to the domain".
These are, of course, the worst circumstances for that and my heart goes out to you for the journey that so many of us are already too far along.
We had a memorial for Malcolm on Sept 24th but his agent is still working to become legal executor to his estate so there hasn't yet been a funeral.
I will post information on that here once details are released.
Take care, Gary Davidson
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Post by joopdog on Oct 10, 2005 17:37:31 GMT -5
October 10, 2005
I’m living in Florida and just found out about Malcom. I know him as Ian Malcom, him and I grew up in the mid seventies when he first moved to Canada. He was so intelligent and gifted at the age of 11, my mother, God bless her soul, wanted me to hang out with Ian. Ian living two doors down, was different from the other kids. He was smart, I wanted to be just like him. At the age11, he knew books, Shakespeare, Ian Fleming, Comic books. Not only he knew the stories, but he knew the writers and where they came from. I said to myself “WOW I gotta hang with this guy”. He and I were inseparable.
He and I would read James Bond books together. We would compete in school who was the better Bond, who played the better Bond, Sean Connery or Roger Moore. Of course, Ian was right Sean was the better Bond.
He was beyond his years. I tell you this, he was the first one to carry a knapsack or backpack to school when everyone else carried the "Adidas duffle bag". And today, everyone carries a backpack, including my daughter.
As kids, we’d talked about everything. Again, we compete about comic books. We’d read every comic books from dark horror to superhero. He loved Batman because Bruce Wayne was a normal intelligent person, only brain power. And I like Spiderman, spider power from a bite. It wasn’t until Ian discovered The Punisher Comic back in ‘76, it was all over. The Punisher was the best. He began acting out The Punisher. It was so cool.
We even started a band together in the early 80’s, he played drums and I played keyboards. I’m sure Mark D., Chris R., Dino M., Billy G. and Darren E. remembers. Our High School had four of the best drummers in the county(Ian, Trevor, Darren and Ken), and Ian Malcolm was tops. Then he discovered jazz in his teen years. Again, WOW!
During High School he would talk about acting. He was so eccentric in his ways, Ian would act out the comic books, Othello, King Crimson. By God, I loved this man. We drifted apart when I went to college. He began the acting career. I knew he’d make it. He had that pinash about him, that aura, that allure, the right chemistry for acting.
When Dino emailed me today about Ian, he didn’t tell me what it was about. I thought it must be great news, Ian’s finally in Hollywood. Then Dino called my home here in Florida. My wife called to tell me Dino called. Again, this must be some news, Ian's gotta big part in a movie. I called Dino immediately.
My mother died seventeen years ago to the day. Ian and I must have some invisible connection. Three weeks ago my daughter asked what’s wrong? I said I don’t know? But I felt something was missing. Like space without the stars. A forest without the leaves.
My mother wanted me to be like Ian Malcom. In ways, I am. Ian has given me so much. He’s taught to be a better man, the right man, a God-fearing man. He’s taught me to never give up. Take a beating like The Punisher, then came back like mad possessed on wheels. Never give up your dreams. God, take care of Ian as you do my mother. Love you Ian. Phillip G. Vassall
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Post by TOPPER on Oct 11, 2005 6:14:55 GMT -5
Joopdog, Welcome to the domain! And thank you for sharing those words with us. Take care
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Post by listerineman on Oct 13, 2005 9:57:32 GMT -5
Joopdog, thanks for insight into Malcolm. I could really see him as a kid, what a great story. as Malcolm would say "thanks for the intel" -Dan
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