Jake Gyllenhaal Looks Back at the Stigma of Playg Gay 'Brokeback'

Contents:

• JAKE GYLLENHAAL DISCS GAY RUMORS, HEATH LEDGER DURG ‘INSI THE ACTOR’S STUD’ (VIO)
• 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID HEATH LEDGER REFED TO PRENT AT THE OSRS BEE THE AMY WANTED THEM TO MAKE GAY JOK ABOUT 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAYS HEATH LEDGER HATED 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' GAY JOK: 'HE WAS LIKE, "NO. THIS IS ABOUT LOVE."'
• HEATH LEDGER WAS ‘EXTRAORDARILY SER’ ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BROKEBACK MOUNTA
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'
• HEATH LEDGER H BACK AT HATERS OF 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'S GAY LOVE: 'IT'S TWO SOULS LOVE'
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
• HEATH LEDGER BASED HIS “BROKEBACK” CHARACTER ON HOMOPHOBIC GAY UNCLE
• HEATH LEDGER H BACK AT HATERS OF 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'S GAY LOVE: 'IT'S TWO SOULS LOVE'
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'
• GAY CULTURE: HEATH LEDGER AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON PLAYG GAY COWBOYS
• THE QUAID CONSPIRACYTHEY’RE SPENDG NIGHTS THEIR R, ON THE N OM THE SAME SHADOWY BAL—“THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS”—WHO MAY HAVE KILLED HEATH LEDGER, POSSIBLY SABOTAGED JEREMY PIVEN, AND ULD NOW BE TARGETG LDSAY LOHAN. NO, THIS IS NOT THE PLOT OF OSR NOMEE AND GOLN GLOBE WNER RANDY QUAID’S LATT MOVIE. IT IS WHAT HE AND HIS WIFE, EVI, SWEAR IS REALLY HAPPENG TO THEM. WH THE QUAIDS CANADA, THE THOR PROB THEIR NIGHTMARE REALY, WHICH HAS ALIENATED IENDS AND FAY, AND TURNED THE UPLE TO OUTLAWS.BY NANCY JO SALPHOTOGRAPHY BY SAM JONDECEMBER 1, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEEVI QUAID LLED OM A PAY PHONE VANUVER TO SAY THAT SHE AND HER HBAND, RANDY, THE ACTOR, HAD TRIED TO DRIVE TO SIBERIA, BUT THEY “ULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THERE.” SHE SAID, “WE’RE NNG FOR OUR LIV.” SHE WANTED ME TO MEET THEM THE NEXT DAY VANUVER’S CHATOWN—WHICH ULDN’T BE ARRANGED ANY OTHER WAY, AS THE QUAIDS DON’T E CELL PHON ANYMORE, BEE, EVI SAID, “THEY’RE TRACKG .”“THEY” WERE “THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS” THE UPLE HAD BEEN TALKG ABOUT TELEVISN TERVIEWS EVER SCE THEY ARRIVED CANADA OCTOBER, SEEKG ASYLUM. THE “WHACKERS,” THEY SAID, WERE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE “KILLED” DAVID CARRADE AND HEATH LEDGER, POSSIBLY SET UP ROBERT BLAKE, AND ULD NOW BE TARGETG BRNEY SPEARS AND LDSAY LOHAN. “ARE EHER OF YOU MENTALLY UNSTABLE, SCHIZOPHRENIC, OR ON DGS?,” ANDREA CANNG ASKED ON GOOD MORNG AMERI. “DO YOU THK WE ARE?” MAND EVI. “NO!” SAID RANDY.I FOUND THE QUAIDS STG THEIR R OUTSI A CHE TEAROOM ON A BLOCK GLOWG WH RED AND YELLOW NEON LIGHTS. NOBODY WAS AROUND. IT WAS NIGHT. THEIR R, A BLACK PRI, WAS CRAMMED WH STUFF—CLOTH, ATS, SHO, PAPERS, A PILLOW, BLANKETS, AND AN EXCABLE ATRALIAN TTLE DOG NAMED DOJI, WHO WAS HOARSE OM BARKG WHILE HE WAS THE POUND WHEN HIS OWNERS WERE BEG TAED BY CANADIAN IMMIGRATN.THE R SMELLED OF FAST FOOD AND DOG PEE AND RANDY’S CIGARS. I ASKED THE QUAIDS IF THEY WERE LIVG THEIR R. “ONLY ON NIGHTS WHEN WE’RE TOO TERRIFIED TO LEAVE OUR STUFF OR DON’T FEEL SECURE,” EVI SAID. “WE ED TO HAVE A MERCES. THIS WHOLE ORAL HAS FORCED TO BEE CREDIBLY GREEN.”“PRI ARE CEPTIVELY ROOMY,” DRAWLED RANDY, WHO’S ORIGALLY OM HOTON. “WE’RE TALL PEOPLE, AND THE LEGROOM IS IMPORTANT.”RANDY QUAID, WHO IS 60, WAS NOMATED FOR AN OSR FOR THE LAST DETAIL (1973), WON A GOLN GLOBE FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS LYNDON JOHNSON LBJ: THE EARLY YEARS (1987), AND HAS APPEARED MORE THAN 70 OTHER FILMS, CLUDG INPENNCE DAY (1996) AND BROKEBACK MOUNTA (2005). HE HAS WORKED WH UNTLS LEGENDS OF THE FILM DTRY (JACK NICHOLSON, MARLON BRANDO, MILOS FORMAN, HAL ASHBY), MEANWHILE EARNG A REPUTATN AS A GREAT ACTOR. HE IS PROBABLY BT KNOWN, HOWEVER, FOR HIS OVER-THE-TOP ROLE AS “CO EDDIE,” CHEVY CHASE’S SCHLEMIEL --LAW THE VATN EDI—SOMETHG WHICH IRKS HIM.WHEN I ME UPON HIM, QUAID—WHO IS SIX FEET FOUR WH A PUDDG FACE AND LARGE, FLAT GREEN EY—WAS WEARG BUDDY HOLLY GLASS, A BLUE SHIRT, AN ARMANI BLAZER, AND A PURPLE TIE; HE LOOKED SLIMMER THAN YEARS PAST AND SURPRISGLY STYLISH FOR A MAN ON THE N. “I LL ‘THE FAILURE-TO-APPEAR DIET,’ ” HE SAID, JOKG ABOUT HIS AND HIS WIFE’S NOT SHOWG UP FOR A STRG OF URT DAT SANTA BARBARA.THE QUAIDS WERE ARRTED SEPTEMBER OF 2009 FOR DG AN NKEEPER, NSPIRACY, AND BURGLARY AFTER SKIPPG OUT ON A $10,000 BILL AT SANTA BARBARA’S SAN YSIDRO RANCH HOTEL; SEPTEMBER OF 2010 THEY WERE ARRTED AGA, FOR RINTIAL BURGLARY AND ENTERG A NONMERCIAL BUILDG WHOUT NSENT, AFTER SQUATTG A HOE MONTECO, CALIFORNIA, WHICH THEY HAD FORMERLY OWNED. THERE WAS A WARRANT OUT FOR EVI’S ARRT ON THE SEND SET OF CHARG. (THE FIRST SE WAS ROLVED, WH THE CHARG AGAST RANDY DROPPED AND EVI GETTG THREE YEARS PROBATN AND 240 HOURS OF MUNY SERVICE AFTER THEY SETTLED THEIR HOTEL BILL.)EVI HAD ALSO BEEN CHARGED WH RISTG ARRT AT THE MONTECO HOE. “THEY HOG-TIED ME!” SHE TOLD ME.EVI, 47, A FORMER HOLLYWOOD “IT GIRL” WHO ONCE MOLED NU FOR HELMUT NEWTON AND PUT UP A SHOW A GALLERY L.A. NSISTG OF GIANT PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER PIERCED VAGA, WAS DRSED A BLACK YSL BLAZER, VT, PANTS, AND BAT BOOTS—FUGIVE CHIC. SHE WAS WEARG A BEJEWELED PRADA BELT THAT LOOKED EXPENSIVE. SHE WAS VERGG ON EMACIATED, TENSE AND JTERY.“WE HAVEN’T EATEN AT A TABLE A RTRANT LIKE THIS 18 MONTHS,” RANDY SAID AS WE SETTLED TO A RNER OF THE BRIGHTLY L TEAROOM, WHICH WAS OTHERWISE EMPTY. BOTH QUAIDS WERE GLANCG NERVOLY AROUND.“THEY’RE HUNTG ,” EVI SAID. “IT’S REALLY HAPPENG. THEY’VE GOT A SPIRAL. ‘DON’T LET UP ON ’EM. DRIVE ’EM OFF THE ROAD. STARVE ’EM TO ATH.’ ” SHE WAS SLAPPG HER HANDS TOGETHER FOR EMPHASIS. “ ‘PULL THEIR MONEY OUT OF THEIR BANK ACUNTS.’ ”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“I GUS I’M WORTH MORE TO ’EM AD THAN ALIVE,” RANDY SAID DLY.EVIL MAYBERRYPEOPLE STARTED NOTICG THERE WAS SOMETHG SERLY AMISS WH THE QUAIDS ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN RANDY LEFT THE BROADWAY-BOUND MIL LONE STAR LOVE AND WAS THEN BANNED FOR LIFE OM THE ACTORS’ EQUY ASSOCIATN, THE STAGE UNN, FOR PHYSILLY AND VERBALLY ABG HIS FELLOW PERFORMERS. THEN ME THE ARRTS AND THE UPLE’S BIZARRE APPEARANC AT VAR URT DAT: THEY WORE PK HANDCUFFS. EVI RRIED RANDY’S GOLN GLOBE AND HAD A “VALID CRED RD” AFFIXED TO HER FOREHEAD.BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED CANADA, LLG THEMSELV “REFUGE” AND CLAIMG THEY WERE TARGETS OF AN ASSASSATN PLOT, THE QUAIDS HAD GONE VIRAL.I ASKED THEM WHEN THEY BELIEVED THEIR TROUBL BEGAN. THEY SAID WAS MARFA, TEXAS, THE RAL ARTISTS’ MUNY WHERE GIANT WAS SHOT. THEY SAID THEY HAD TRAVELED THERE THE SUMMER OF 2009 TO “LOOK AT RANCH AND STUFF” AND ERECT A “RANDY QUAID MM.” (THEY’D BEEN FIXG UP A BUILDG THE MIDDLE OF TOWN—REPORTEDLY WHOUT THE PROPER PERMS.)ALREADY, EVI SAID, “SOMETHG REALLY WEIRD HAD STARTED HAPPENG WH RANDY’S MAIL. HIS ROYALTY AND RIDUAL CHECKS WEREN’T G. WE WERE REALLY, TLY PANICKED.” ADDG TO THEIR UNRT WAS THE RECENT MISE OF THE ACTOR DAVID CARRADE, A IEND OF RANDY’S WHOSE ATH OM APPARENT TO-EROTIC ASPHYXIATN THAILAND THE QUAIDS BELIEVED TO BE SPIC.“THEY”—THE AFOREMENTNED HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS—“CI, O.K., IF WE KNOCK OFF DAVID, THEN WHAT WE N DO IS SIMPLY LLECT THE SURANCE VERG HIS PARTICIPATN THE TELEVISN SHOW HE WAS WORKG ON OVERSEAS,” EVI SAID. “IT’S ALMOST MORONIC, ’S SO SIMPLE.”SHE SAID SHE ALSO SPECTED JEREMY PIVEN’S FALLG ILL OM MERCURY POISONG WAS ANOTHER SIGN OF A DASTARDLY PLOT BY THE BROADWAY PRODUCERS OF SPEED-THE-PLOW TO LLECT SURANCE MONEY. “IT WAS AN ORCHTRATED H,” SHE SAID. “THEY ULD HAVE PUT MLE HIS WATER BOTTLE.” JEFEY RICHARDS, ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OF THE PLAY, CLED TO MENT.WHILE THE QUAIDS WERE MARFA, EVI, ALWAYS A LORFUL PERSONALY, BEME EMBROILED A LOL BATTLE BETWEEN THE POLICE AND SHERIFF’S PARTMENTS. AT A TOWN-UNCIL MEETG, “SHE’S GETTG THE MAYOR’S FACE,” SAID RANDY, GRNG AFFECTNATELY. HE LLS EVI “A CHARACTER.” THE QUAIDS WERE ON THE SI OF THE MARFA PS, WHICH MA ALL THE MORE AWKWARD WHEN A PUTY SHERIFF ME OUT TO ARRT THEM AFTER BEG RMED THAT THEY WERE WANTED BY THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOR DG AN NKEEPER. IT WAS NOW SEPTEMBER.“IT WAS EVIL MAYBERRY,” SAID RANDY.THE QUAIDS MATA WAS ALL PART OF AN SID PLAN. “IT’S A NSPIRACY WH THE POLICE SANTA BARBARA,” EVI SISTED, CLAIMG THE SAN YSIDRO RANCH (WHERE SHE AND RANDY WERE MARRIED 1989) HAD TRICKED THEM TO SWCHG TO A MORE EXPENSIVE ROOM WHEN THEY STAYED THERE JUNE OF 2009, AFTER WHICH THE HOTEL REPEATEDLY PUT THROUGH CHARG OF $73,000 ON THEIR CHASE CRED RD, SHE SAID, RENRG PABLE OF PROCSG PAYMENT.SHE SAID SHE NEVER RECEIVED THE BILL FOR THEIR $10,000 STAY, AS SHE BELIEVED RANDY’S MAIL WAS ACTUALLY BEG REROUTED TO A PHONY PROBATE FILE SET UP BY THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS THE NAME OF “RONDA L. QUAID”—BUT MORE ON THAT LATER.A SPOKMAN FOR THE SAN YSIDRO RANCH NIED ALL OF THE QUAIDS’ CLAIMS, SAYG, “WE ATTEMPTED TO NTACT THEM FOR PAYMENT MANY TIM, VIA PHONE AND MAIL. WE NTACTED THE POLICE ORDATN WH A LLECTNS AGENCY.”ROD FORNEY, THE SANTA BARBARA TECTIVE WHO HANDLED THE WARRANT FOR THE UPLE’S ARRT, SAID HE HAD FIRST TRIED TO SETTLE THE PROBLEM ON THE PHONE WH EVI, BUT SHE “HUNG UP ON ME. SHE WAS VERY .”“FORNEY WAS HEAVILY VOLVED THE MICHAEL JACKSON SETUP,” EVI ALLEGED—THIS WAS SOMETHG SHE’D TERMED AFTER SEEG THE TECTIVE’S PICTURE ON GOOGLE IMAG, WHERE THERE IS A SHOT OF HIM GOG TO TTIFY AT JACKSON’S 2005 TRIAL FOR CHILD-MOLTATN, WHICH HE WAS LLED AS A WNS FOR THE PROSECUTN.FORNEY LLED THE ALLEGATN “RIDICULO,” SAYG, “I WAS NEVER NEAR MICHAEL JACKSON, EVER. I WASN’T EVEN THE ONE ASSIGNED TO THE SE. I [JT] HELPED SERVE THE SEARCH WARRANT ON MICHAEL JACKSON’S PRIVATE VTIGATOR.”“YOU HAVE TO KEEP MD THAT DAVID [CARRADE] HAD JT DIED,” EVI SAID, “AND ROBERT BLAKE—THE WHOLE THG WAS FAKE. I BELIEVE HE WAS SET UP. AND I WAS REALLY NVCED AND STILL AM THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE TRYG TO KILL , REALLY KILL .” SHE TOLD ME THAT ONE DAY WHEN SHE WAS VISG A RANCH OUTSI MARFA AND TALKG ON HER CELL PHONE SHE HAD HEARD A VOICE SAY, “IF YOU KILL HER, THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY .”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“SOMEONE CUT TO HER PHONE,” OFFERED RANDY.A SOURCE WH THE SANTA BARBARA P.D. EXPLAED THAT THE REAL REASON THEY HAD GONE AFTER THE QUAIDS SO AGGRSIVELY WAS THAT THEIR VTIGATN HAD TURNED UP OTHER STANC WHERE THE UPLE HAD N OUT ON HOTEL BILLS CALIFORNIA. THEY REPORTEDLY HAD UNPAID CHARG AT THE BEL-AIR BEVERLY HILLS ($17,000), THE BILTMORE MONTECO ($500), AND SAN FRANCIS’S NOB HILL HOTEL ($55,243). “THIS ISN’T JT A HOTEL TRYG TO SCREW THE GUYS,” THE SOURCE SAID. “THIS IS A BEHAVR. IT’S A PATTERN.”EVI SISTED, MEANWHILE, THAT THEY HAD PAID ALL THE BILLS FULL.ALL ABOUT EVI‘WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO RANDY QUAID?” ASKED THE NEW YORK POST OCTOBER, AFTER THE QUAIDS FLED TO CANADA. IT’S A QUTN NO ONE WHO KNEW THEM BEFORE THEIR MELTDOWN SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER. EVI WAS “OUT THERE, BUT YOU DIDN’T SEE THIS G,” SAYS A LOS ANGEL SOCIALE WHO MET THE QUAIDS THE 90S SOON AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED.RANDY AND EVI MET 1988 WHEN HE WAS SHOOTG BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY, A MADONNA VEHICLE FILMED NEW YORK. EVI, 24 AT THE TIME, WAS A PRODUCTN ASSISTANT ASSIGNED TO DRIVE ACTORS TO THE SET. “SHE WAS WEARG WBOY BOOTS” ON THE DAY THEY MET, RANDY SAID; SHE LOST HER WAY DRIVG HIM TO WORK. HE PROPOSED TO HER AT A CHE RTRANT NEW JERSEY, NEAR WHERE SHE WAS LIVG, THAT SAME NIGHT. “THEN WE WENT HOME AND BSHED OUR TEETH AND FUCKED,” SAID EVI. “WHEN WE BSHED OUR TEETH WAS LIKE WE’D BEEN DOG ALL OUR LIV. THERE WAS A KSHIP,” SAID RANDY.“MADONNA WAS FUNNY,” EVI SAID. “SHE TRIED TO SCE RANDY AWAY. SHE SAID, ‘RANDY, DON’T YOU WANNA E BACK? JENNIFER [GREY, WHO ALSO STARRED THE FILM] AND I, WE’RE GONNA HAVE A MéNAGE.’ ” SHE LGHED.MADONNA AND JENNIFER GREY WOULD NOT MENT.FOR EVI—BORN EVZENYA MOTOLANEZ, THE DGHTER OF AN AMIC, GEE MOTOLANEZ, WHO HAD TGHT RSIAN AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE—THIS SUDN IMMERSN THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE WAS TOXITG. SHE HAD SO FAR LIVED THE LIFE OF A CLASSIC, ATHLETIC PREPPY GIRL. HER MOTHER, LOUISE NICHOLAS, ME OM A FAY THAT WAS THE TCKG BS NEW JERSEY; HER UNCLE BY MARRIAGE WAS MART REVSON, ONE OF THE FOUNRS OF REVLON. SHE RO HORS AND SKIED AND WENT TO “FIVE BOARDG SCHOOLS FOUR YEARS,” SHE SAID. BUT THAT WAS NEW ENGLAND, NOT ROO DRIVE, WHERE SHE SOON VELOPED A LIKG FOR SHOPPG.“SHE WAS QUE A LTLE SHOPPER,” SAID EVI’S SOCIALE IEND. “SHE BOUGHT VERY EXPENSIVE, STELLAR CLOTH.” “SHE WAS ALWAYS OUT ON THE TOWN, DRSED TO THE N,” SAID ANOTHER PERSON WHO KNEW HER. “THERE WAS SOMETHG FASCATG ABOUT HER—SHE WAS ALWAYS CHANGG HER LOOK.” “SHE HAD IMPECBLE TASTE, VERY UPTOWN,” SAID SOMEONE WHO WORKS FASHN. EVI WAS KNOWN TO SOME THAT WORLD AS “ALL ABOUT EVI” FOR THE WAY SHE WORKED HER WAY UP L.A.’S SOCIAL LADR.SHE APPEARED VOGUE TWICE THE 90S, ONCE A FEATURE VOTED TO HER STYLE. THE PIECE LAVISHED PRAISE ON EVI’S LLECTN OF ALAïA MICRO-DRS, GEOFEY BEENE GOWNS, KELLY BAGS, AND LEATHER JACKETS BY CHROME HEARTS—FOR WHICH SHE WAS AN EARLY “ME.” SHE WAS FAMO FOR GIVG AWAY CLOTH AS THE SEASONS CHANGED. “HER GARAGE SAL … ARE LEGENDARY L.A.,” SAID VOGUE, WHICH ALSO MENTNED HOW EVI HAD “TRAVELED TO GERMANY TO PICK OUT HER MAGNIFICENT HOLSTEER HORS … DUER DU V, COMERO, AND L.”AFTER LIVG FOR THREE YEARS THE MONTECO HOE, THE QUAIDS MOVED TO A RENTED HOME BEVERLY HILLS. AFTER THAT, THEY WERE ALWAYS ON THE MOVE, STAYG POSH RENTALS—STEVE MART’S FORMER HOE L.A., A HOME OF LREN BALL’S THE HAMPTONS. WHEN THEY WEREN’T RENTG, THEY WERE LIVG FOR LONG STRETCH HIGH-END HOTELS SUCH AS THE BEL-AIR, AND THE CARLYLE, NEW YORK.“OUR SCHLE FOR 10 YEARS WAS NEVER-ENDG,” EVI SAID, WH RANDY DOG BACK-TO-BACK MOVI, “AND THEN HE STARTS THE MILLER BEER MERCIALS WHERE HE’S GETTG A SHLOAD OF MONEY AND THEY’RE FLYG AROUND ON PRIVATE PLAN AND DOG THE PRIVATE PARTI TEXAS. HE WAS EARNG A LOT OF MONEY,” SHE SAID. “HE WAS EARNG TONS OF MONEY.”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEVBROTHER OM ANOTHER PLAIT WASN’T UNTIL THE LATE 80S, “WHEN THE VATN MOVI WERE TURNG PROFABLE,” RANDY SAID, THAT HE STARTED GETTG BIG PAYDAYS AS AN ACTOR. QUICK CHANGE, WH BILL MURRAY, 1990, WAS HIS FIRST LN-DOLLAR ROLE. THROUGHOUT THE 70S, HE’D DONE SMALL-ISH PARTS A LOT OF WONRFUL FILMS. PETER BOGDANOVICH ST HIM THE LAST PICTURE SHOW WHEN HE WAS STILL AN ACTG STUNT AT THE UNIVERSY OF HOTON; QUAID ME TO HOLLYWOOD ON HIS 21ST BIRTHDAY. THEN THERE WERE WHAT’S UP, DOC?, PAPER MOON, MIDNIGHT EXPRS. IT WAS A “GLOR” TIME TO BE HOLLYWOOD, QUAID SAID—“THE MAT WERE NNG THE ASYLUM AND YOU ULD MAKE ANY KD OF MOVIE YOU WANTED.”HE DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE VATN, HE SAID, “BUT CHEVY [CHASE] LLED ME HIMSELF,” AND THE ROLE NOT ONLY PROVED TO BE VERY LUCRATIVE BUT TABLISHED HIS NICHE AS THE “BT IEND WHO’S GOOFY, THE SORT OF IC-RELIEF THG”—A STEREOTYPE HE DISLIKED.APPARENTLY EVI DIDN’T LIKE THIS IMAGE FOR HER HBAND, EHER. “SHE WANTED HIM TO BE DENNIS”—QUAID, THE ACTOR, RANDY’S YOUNGER BROTHER—SAID AN OLD IEND OF RANDY’S. (EVI SAID, “DENNIS IS NOT MY TYPE.”) “SHE TRIED TO MOLD HIS REER TO BE THAT,” SAID ANOTHER IEND. (“NO,” SAID EVI.) “SHE TOOK HIM WARDROBE SHOPPG TO VELOP RANDY TO A LEADG MAN.” (“RANDY DO NOT NEED HELP PLAYG A LEADG MAN,” EVI RPOND. “RANDY’S MY LEADG MAN.”)“WHEN THEIR RELATNSHIP BEGAN, THE IMPACT SHE HAD ON RANDY’S LIFE SEEMED POSIVE,” SAID RANDY’S OLD IEND. “HE WAS A BUMPK CHARACTER ACTOR, NTENT DOG THAT—AN CREDIBLY TALENTED GUY, DOG REARCH AND ALL THAT STUFF. HE WORE T-SHIRTS AND JEANS. EVI GAVE HIM STYLE. SHE TOOK HIM TO ARMANI, LUCCHE TO GET SOME BOOTS. HE DIDN’T WANT TO PLAY LENNY OF MICE AND MEN FOR THE RT OF HIS LIFE.” (QUAID -STARRED A 1981 TV PRODUCTN OF STEBECK’S NOVEL WH ROBERT BLAKE.)“BUT AFTER HE DID DAYS OF THUNR,” 1990— WHICH HE PLAYED THE SEND LEAD—“HE BEME DISENCHANTED AND FOUND THAT REGULAR PARTS WERE NOT AS TERTG AS CHARACTER PARTS AND MAYBE HE WAS THE RIGHT PLACE AFTER ALL,” SAID HIS OTHER IEND.PEOPLE WHO KNEW THEM SPECULATE THAT EVI’S ASPIRATNS FOR RANDY WERE ENTANGLED HER PETN WH MEG RYAN, DENNIS QUAID’S FORMER WIFE AND EVI’S SISTER--LAW OM 1991 TO 2001. “SHE WAS JEALO OF MEG,” SAID A FORMER IEND OF EVI’S. “MEG WAS A STAR AND EVI WANTED TO BE THE STAR.” EVI WOULD NOT MENT ON THIS. “SHE HAD ARTISTIC AMBNS,” SAID A IEND OF RANDY’S. IN 1999, EVI DIRECTED RANDY AND MICHAEL CAE THE DEBTORS, A FILM WHOSE RELEASE WAS BLOCKED BY S BACKER, INTENTNAL SOFTWARE FOUNR CHARL SIMONYI, REPORTEDLY BEE OF HIS OBJECTN TO A SCENE VOLVG A “SQUIRTG BBER PENIS.” “I LOVE THAT MOVIE,” RANDY SAID.MEANWHILE, EVI SAYS WAS MEG RYAN WHO WAS JEALO OF HER—“SHE WAS ALWAYS PYG MY STYLE,” SHE TOLD ME, “MY CLOTH, MY FURNURE, OR JT THGS I WOULD DO.” (MEG RYAN CLED TO MENT.) AND THEN, RANDY SAID, THERE WAS “THE BIG FAY BLOWOUT” THAT HAPPENED AFTER RYAN LEFT DENNIS QUAID TO BE WH RSELL CROWE.WHEN RYAN LEFT DENNIS, RANDY AND EVI SAY, SHE TOOK WH HER SOME OF THE ART THEIR HOE; AND SO DENNIS ASKED EVI TO FD HIM A PIECE TO VER A BLANK SPACE ON A WALL. EVI BROUGHT OVER AN ANDY WARHOL TLED RSELL MEANS— WAS A MASSIVE SILKSCREEN ON NVAS OF MEANS, AN OGLALA SUX ACTIVIST WHO LED A GROUP OF NATIVE AMERINS A SYMBOLIC TAKEOVER OF WOUND KNEE 1973.“I DIDN’T EVEN THK NSCLY ‘WHAT RSELL MEANS,’ ” EVI SAID; BUT ULD HAVE BEEN TERPRETED AS SENSIVE BY A MAN WHOSE WIFE HAD JT LEFT HIM FOR A MAN NAMED RSELL. “IT TURNED TO, LIKE, A PLAY,” EVI SAID, LGHG, “ WAS SANE, WH DENNIS SCREAMG AT ME AND RANDY SCREAMG AT DENNIS AND THEIR MOTHER SCREAMG AT BOTH OF THEM. IT WAS KD OF FUNNY, TO TELL THE TTH.”“I LOVE MY BROTHER. I MISS MY BROTHER,” SAID RANDY.DENNIS QUAID WOULD NOT RETURN LLS FOR MENT.BREAKG BAD‘THE STRANGE, GRIFTER-ISH BEHAVR” BEGAN TOWARD THE MIDDLE OF THE 2000S, SAID SOMEONE WHO KNEW RANDY AND EVI QUAID. MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE HEARD THE STORY OF HOW EVI ONCE AGREED TO LEASE A STRIP OF “THEIR” PROPERTY ON SUMM DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS TO THEIR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, VETERAN TALENT MANAGER SANDY GALL, WHO WANTED TO EXPAND HIS DRIVEWAY, BUT THEN TURNED OUT THAT THE QUAIDS DIDN’T OWN THE PROPERTY AT ALL—THEY WERE ONLY RENTG . GALL CLED TO MENT.“SANDY GALL WAS TRYG TO BUY OUR MAILBOX!” SAYS EVI, WHO NI AGREEG TO LEASE THE PIECE OF PROPERTY. “IT WAS A SM TO GET RANDY’S CHECKS!” GALL ALSO CLED TO MENT ON THIS.SOMETIME 2006, WHEN THEIR HIGH-POWERED NEIGHBOR THREW A PARTY—A STAR-STUDD AFFAIR WH CALV KLE AND BARBRA STREISAND ATTENDANCE—RANDY AND EVI BLASTED MIC OM THE ANIMATED MOVIE HOME ON THE RANGE (2004) OM SPEAKERS LODGED THEIR TRE. IT WAS RANDY SGG A SONG OM THE FILM, FOR WHICH HE HAD DONE THE VOICE OF A VILLAO RANCHER, ALAMEDA SLIM.THE POLICE WERE LLED—BY THE PRODUCERS OF ENTOURAGE, WHO WERE TRYG TO FILM NEARBY AND ULDN’T BEE OF THE NOISE—AND “THEN ALL OF A SUDN WE HEAR SCREAMG LIKE YOU NNOT BELIEVE,” SAID SOMEONE WHO WAS AT THE PARTY. PEOPLE ASSUMED WAS EVI QUAID. WHEN I ASKED RANDY AND EVI ABOUT THE CINT, THEY NFIRMED THEIR PART , LGHG.BUT THE ODDBALL ANTICS PREPARED NO ONE FOR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 2007: RANDY’S EXPULSN OM ACTORS’ EQUY FOR BAD BEHAVR ON THE SET OF LONE STAR LOVE—A RETELLG OF THE MERRY WIV OF WDSOR SET THE 1860S WHICH RANDY WAS ST AS COLONEL JOHN FALSTAFF. THE MIL WOULD HAVE BEEN A UP FOR QUAID; IF HAD GONE TO BROADWAY, WOULD HAVE FIRED UP A REER EBACK THAT HAD BEGUN WH HIS 2005 APPEARANCE BROKEBACK MOUNTA. (IN 2006, QUAID SUED THE PRODUCERS OF THE FILM FOR $10 LN, CLAIMG THEY HAD MISLED HIM TO BELIEVG THAT WAS AN DIE PRODUCTN, G HIM TO TAKE A LOWER FEE, WHEN WAS REALLY A BIG-BUDGET RELEASE. “THE CIRCUMSTANC OF HIM DROPPG THE SU ARE AS MYSTER AS THE CIRCUMSTANC UNR WHICH HE FILED HIS CLAIM,” A FOC FEATUR SPOKWOMAN SAID AT THE TIME.)TWO WEEKS BEFORE LONE STAR LOVE, THEN REHEARSALS SEATTLE, WAS SET TO MOVE TO NEW YORK, QUAID “LLED SICK AND WAS NOT SEEN AGA,” SAID JACK HERRICK, THE POSER AND MIL DIRECTOR OF THE SHOW. (RANDY NIED THIS, SAYG, “I WOULD NEVER WALK OFF ANY SHOW.”) “WE HAD GOT A LOT OF WARNGS OM PEOPLE THE DTRY THAT [THE QUAIDS] WERE DANGEROLY UNHGED,” SAID HERRICK, “BUT RANDY HAD BEEN ENTIRELY CHARMG AND WON THE CREATIVE TEAM OVER THE STG PROCS.”PROBLEMS BEGAN WHEN “EVI BEME MORE AND MORE VOLVED, AND AS THAT HAPPENED BEME MORE AND MORE NTENT,” HERRICK SAID. A MAJOR ISSUE WAS RANDY’S STUME, OVER WHICH HE SISTED HE HAD FAL APPROVAL. “HE END UP A VERY STRANGE STUME OF [HIS AND EVI’S] CREATN,” SAID HERRICK. RANDY DYED HIS HAIR BEET RED AND WORE A DPIECE THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF AN OFFICIAL N.F.L. FOOTBALL. “IT WAS A HUGE CK,” SAID EVI. “IT WAS FUCKG GREAT. IT LOOKED LIKE GAY VIVIENNE WTWOOD.”HERDG CATSCREATIVE DISAGREEMENTS ON LONE STAR LOVE GENERATED TO “SCREAMG MATCH,” SAID HERRICK. EVI WAS NSTANTLY FILMG REHEARSALS WH HER VIO MERA VLATN OF UNN L (“I WAS NOT A UNN MEMBER,” EVI SAID) AND WRG “THREATENG E-MAILS ABOUT NTRACTUAL OBLIGATNS.” (“Y, TO THE PRODUCER BOB BOYETT,” SHE RPOND.) SHE ALSO SENT SEVERAL PEOPLE ON THE PRODUCTN A PHOTOGRAPH OF HERSELF LYG NAKED ON A BED HOLDG A PISTOL, WHICH HERRICK REFERRED TO AS “THE NAKED GUN E-MAIL.” “I ALSO SENT THE HALF-NAKED P PHOTO OF ME BY HELMUT NEWTON WH THE WORDS ‘EAT ME,’ ” SAID EVI.ACRDG TO SOMEONE WHO WORKED ON THE PRODUCTN, THE QUAIDS SMOKED POT RANDY’S DRSG ROOM, AND “I SAW E BEG ED THEIR HOTEL ROOM BY IENDS OF THEIRS.” EVI NI THIS. EVI ALSO WROTE AN E-MAIL TO SOMEONE ELSE THE SHOW SAYG THAT SHE AND RANDY HAD TAKEN “TOO MUCH” AMBIEN ONE NIGHT, G THEM TO HAVE “PSYCHOTIC PARANOID REACTNS. I REALLY WANTED TO JUMP OUT A WDOW. RANDY FELT LIKE A SERIAL KILLER.” EVI NFIRMED THE BAD AMBIEN REACTN, SAYG, “WE GOT A DOCTOR TO GIVE A SEDATIVE AND WAS OVER.”BUT THE LAST STRAW FOR THE PRODUCERS AND THE 25 ST MEMBERS WHO SIGNED ON TO THE ACTORS’ EQUY ACTN AGAST QUAID WERE PREVIEW PERFORMANC WHERE HE SLAPPED AN ACTOR THE HEAD FOUR TIM THE PROCS OF KNOCKG HIS HAT OFF AND AD-LIBBED L ABOUT THE “GYNELOGIL STMENTS” OF AN ACTRS.“THEY WERE ACCG RANDY OF FALSTAFF’S CHARACTER TRAS!” EVI ARGUED. “HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A LASCIV MONSTER.”THE QUAIDS ALSO CLAIM THAT THE PRODUCERS OF THE PLAY WERE TRYG TO “KILL” RANDY. “THEY WERE LEAVG THGS ON THE STAGE,” RANDY SAID, ON THE MARK WHERE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO JUMP THROUGH A CURTA DURG PART OF THE PERFORMANCE. “IT NEVER HAPPENED,” SAID HERRICK.“IT WAS THE SURANCE MONEY!” EVI SAID. “WE THOUGHT, THEY JT WANT TO BLOW UP THE PRODUCTN.” BUT EVEN AFTER RANDY LEFT, THE PLAY NTUED WH OTHER ACTORS.AT HIS ACTORS’ EQUY HEARG LOS ANGEL JANUARY OF 2008, EVI BEME IRATE WHEN SHE WAS TOLD SHE ULDN’T FILM THE PROCEEDGS, LLG A “NAZI PLOT” AND KICKG A 76-YEAR-OLD SECRETARY THE SHS.RANDY WAS FED $81,572 FOR THE TWO LOST WEEKS OF WORK ON THE SHOW (WHICH HE HAS NOT PAID). “IT WAS AN EXTORTNIST NIGHTMARE OM BOB BOYETT,” EVI SAID. “I HAVE NO IA WHAT THEY ARE REFERRG TO,” SAID BOYETT.“IT WOULD BE LIKE HERDG TS TO GET A PRODUCER [OF A BROADWAY SHOW] TO BE PART OF A NSPIRACY,” HERRICK SAID.“IT WAS HEARTBREAKG,” SAID RANDY OF THE BACLE OF THE PLAY, “BEE I PUT EVERYTHG I HAD TO .”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEVCHASAWS AND SHOVELS‘ONCE THE PLAY THG HAPPENED,” EVI SAID, AS THE THREE OF DROVE AROUND VANUVER THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, “I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT WHY WE WERE BEG ACCED OF SO MUCH BULLSH AND WHY PEOPLE WERE TRYG TO KILL .” SO 2009 THE QUAIDS NTACTED BECKY ALTRGER, AN L.A. PRIVATE EYE FEATURED THE 2006 DOCUMENTARY THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED.ALTRGER, WHO FILED THREE LAWSUS SMALL-CLAIMS URT AGAST THE QUAIDS 2010 FOR NONPAYMENT OF MORE THAN $15,000 (THE S HAVE NOW BEEN SETTLED), SAID ON THE PHONE, “THE QUAIDS WANTED ME TO FD OUT WHO WAS TRYG TO KILL THEM. THE ‘UNN MOB’ EVI’S MD WAS ACTORS’ EQUY AND THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD.” AFTER RANDY LEFT LONE STAR LOVE, “EVI’S STABILY CHANGED,” SHE SAID. “I SAW HER GET WORSE A MATTER OF WEEKS. HEATH LEDGER, CHRIS PENN— ALL HAPPENED [AROUND] THE SAME TIME. SO I THOUGHT, O.K., MAYBE THERE ARE SOME SOLID NCERNS HERE.“SO I STARTED REARCHG. AND THERE REALLY IS NO MOB, NOBODY WAS OUT TO KILL THEM, WAS ALL CINTAL, AND EVERY ONE OF THE ACTORS DIED AT THEIR OWN HANDS [HEATH LEDGER DIED OF AN APPARENT DG OVERDOSE AND CHRIS PENN OF A “RDIAC EVENT”]. BUT WHEN I TRIED TO TELL EVI THAT, SHE WENT NUTS AND SAID, ‘NO, YOU’RE WRONG.’ ”IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 THE QUAIDS STAYED WH ALTRGER AND HER PARTNER FOR THREE DAYS. “THEY HAD NOWHERE TO GO,” SHE SAID. “THEY HAD NO R—ALL THEIR RS WERE REPOSSSED. I KICKED THEM OUT ON JUNE 27. THEN EVI WENT NUTS.“THREE WEEKS THEY RENTED A MOBILE HOME OM ME— WAS MY PARTNER’S MOM’S—AFTER WE KICKED THEM OUT OF OUR HOE. I WAS LERALLY GOG SANE OM EVI AND HER DOG. SHE LET URATE THE HOE; SHE TOOK OUR DNERS OUT TO THE DOG—ROAST BEEF. SHE WOKE UP THE MORNG AND SAID THE MOB WAS HERE—THEY HAVE CHASAWS AND SHOVELS; THEY’RE GOG TO BURY . I SAID, EVI, THAT’S THE GARNER.” EVI NIED ALL OF ALTRGER’S ALLEGATNS.THE TECTIVE ALSO SAID SHE SAW EVI “SNORTG A POWRED SUBSTANCE. I SAW HER SNORT A WHOLE PILL,” WHICH EVI TOLD HER WAS DEMEROL. “I JT ABOUT GAGGED.” EVI SAID SHE SOMETIM SNORTS CSHED DEMEROL FOR MIGRA, AS “ GO STRAIGHT TO THE RIGHT SI OF YOUR BRA.”EVI SAID OF ALTRGER, SFFG, “SHE’S UNSTABLE.”“WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE SOMEONE LIKE HER—AND NOT ?” ASKED RANDY.QUAIDS V. HOLLYWOOD‘I ALWAYS NOTICE PATTERNS,” EVI SAID AS WE GLID AROUND DOWNTOWN VANUVER AT NIGHT, “AND THIS TLY ISN’T PARANOIA— TLY ISN’T.” IT WAS HARD TO WRAP MY MD AROUND THE WEB OF TRIGUE SHE WAS SPNG, WH HER NONSTOP RAPID-FIRE LIVERY, A TALE OUT OF THOMAS PYNCHON, OR PERHAPS JT LAW & ORR: LOS ANGEL, THAT SOMEHOW VOLVED THE ATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE “AMG” OF MEL GIBSON. “I’VE SPENT THREE YEARS FIGURG THIS OUT,” EVI SAID, TAILG HOW HER VTIGATN HAD TAKEN HER TO URTHO, RERD BURES, AND MU, HOW SHE’D BEEN KNOCKG ON STRANGERS’ DOORS, LOOKG FOR RMATN. RANDY LISTENED TENTLY, DRIVG. I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW ON GOOD MORNG AMERI HE’D SAID HOW “VERY ALIVE” HE FELT BEE OF ALL THIS.BUT I DIDN’T REALLY UNRSTAND THE GIST OF ALL OF EVI’S CRAZY TALK—“IT’S THEFT AND MURR!” SHE SAID—UNTIL I READ THE 220-PAGE LAWSU RANDY FILED LOS ANGEL SUPERR COURT AUGT 2010; WAS VOID AFTER HIS $905 CHECK FOR URT STS BOUNCED. THE ALLEGATNS THE ABORTED LAWSU—NONE OF WHICH AN VTIGATN BY VANITY FAIR FOUND TO HAVE HAD ANY MER WHATSOEVER—ALL BEG WH A HOE RANDY AND EVI BOUGHT MONTECO, CALIFORNIA, FOR $1.35 LN 1989.THE LAWSU ALLEG THAT A BAL OF CRAFTY HOLLYWOOD LAWYERS, TATE PLANNERS, AND ACUNTANTS MANVERED TO TURN THE HOE TO A SORT OF AT-THE-READY SH MACHE FULL OF ENDLS EQUY, ALL RANDY AND EVI’S NAME. THE CY NATNAL BANK ALLEGEDLY WENT ALONG WH THE SCHEME BEE THE EVIL TERIE HAD MA A BENEFICIARY OF THE PROPERTI BOUGHT WH THE QUAIDS’ STOLEN EQUY. “THE ALLEGATNS AGAST CY NATNAL BANK ARE ABSURD, AND THEY REFLECT A VERY SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS,” THE BANK RPOND WHEN NTACTED BY VANITY FAIR.IN 1991, THE QUAIDS CLAIM, THEY ALLOWED THIS SAME DIABOLIL GROUP OF LAWYERS AND ACUNTANTS TO HANDLE THE SALE OF THE HOE TO A HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE; HOWEVER, 2010, THEY SAY, A BANK EMPLOYEE SOMEHOW ALERTED THEM TO THE FACT THAT THE HOE HAD NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN SOLD (AS WAS BEG ED AS AN EQUY ATM) AND SO THEY WERE STILL THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS. THEY CLAIM THEIR SIGNATUR ON THE ED SELLG THE HOE WERE FED AND THAT “AN F.B.I. HANDWRG ANALYSIS” N PROVE .AND THIS IS WHY, THEY ALSO CLAIM, THEY WERE STAYG THE HOE WHEN THEY WERE ARRTED FOR SQUATTG SEPTEMBER 2010—BEE IS STILL THEIRS. BUT THE HOE NOW BELONGS TO A WOMAN NAMED LANTE TURICCHI, THE PRINT OF A MEDIA-AND-EVENT-PROMOTNS PANY, FALLG UPWARDS PRODUCTNS, AND THE WIFE OF STT TURICCHI, PRINT OF J2 GLOBAL, A MUNITNS PANY. THEY BOTH S ON THE BOARD OF THE JOHN PL II CULTURAL CENTER, WASHGTON, D.C.“IF TURICCHI EVEN EXISTS,” EVI SAID, “SHE’S A PLACEHOLR” FOR THE NEFAR BAL. THE QUAIDS SAID THAT THEY ALSO SPECTED LANTE TURICCHI MAY HAVE BEEN VOLVED THE “THEFT” OF THEIR MERCES-BENZ—WHICH WAS FACT TAKEN BY A REPO PANY.WHEN NTACTED BY PHONE, LANTE TURICCHI DIDN’T REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANY OF THIS. “ALL I DID WAS BUY A HOE,” SHE SAID, SOUNDG IRRATED. SHE HAS TOLD THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE THAT THE QUAIDS ED AROUND $30,000 DAMAGE TO HER MONTECO HOE, WHICH IS NOT HER PRIMARY RINCE. SHE TOOK OUT RTRAG ORRS AGAST THE UPLE AFTER THEY ME TO HER HOME PASANA AND HARASSED SOMEONE WHO WAS THERE. “I JT WANTED TO SEE IF SHE WAS THERE, AND SHE WASN’T,” EVI SAID TRIUMPHANTLY.BUT BACK TO THE PLOT: STARTG AROUND 1983, RANDY’S LAWSU GO ON, THE RPT CLIQUE SET UP A FAKE LIVG TST ORR TO STEAL MORE OF HIS MONEY, CLUDG RIDUALS HE WAS STILL OWED BY WARNER BROS., WHICH RELEASED THE VATN MOVI. THEY ALLEGEDLY ED A FALSIFIED PROBATE FILE FOR A FICTNAL, CEASED SANTA BARBARA WOMAN NAMED RONDA L. QUAID (“ROND-ALL QUAID? RANDALL QUAID?,” EVI KEPT REPEATG MEANGFULLY) TO SH RANDY’S CHECKS AT CY NATNAL BANK AND POS THE MONEY TO THE FAKE TST ACUNT.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“RONDA L. QUAID NEVER EXISTED!,” EVI SISTED. “NO ONE EVER HAS MET HER. SHE WAS SUPPOSEDLY A SCHOOLTEACHER. BUT YOU GO TO THE UNTY AND YOU PULL THE PROBATE FILE AND ’S $7 LN SH. HOW WOULD A SCHOOLTEACHER HAVE THAT? IT’S RANDY’S ROYALTY STREAM. I’VE REARCHED EVERYTHG. THERE’S NO BODY. THEY’RE JT TRYG TO MERGE THE TWO INTI ORR TO SH THE CHECKS.”“THEY’RE NN’ MY CHECKS THROUGH THAT PROBATE FILE,” RANDY SAID GMPILY.BUT RONDA L. QUAID DID EXIST. SHE WAS BORN BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, 1949 AND DIED OF NCER SANTA BARBARA 2005. SHE GRADUATED OM THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA WH A GREE ART HISTORY AND TGHT ART SEVERAL SANTA BARBARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. SHE WAS MARRIED TO A MAN NAMED JOEL QUAID AND HAD A SON NAMED ALEX. SHE LIKED TO RI HORS, AND WROTE FOR EQUTRIAN MAGAZ LIKE HORSE ILLTRATED. “SHE WAS OUR BOOK CLUB. WE WERE LIKE SISTERS,” SAID HER OLD IEND SHEILA VARIAN.“RONDA WAS BLSED WH THE GIFT FOR LIVG THE HUMOR AND IRONY OF LIFE,” SAID HER OBUARY THE SANTA BARBARA NEWS. PERHAPS SHE ULD HAVE FOUND SOMETHG FUNNY EVEN ABOUT EVI AND RANDY QUAID’S NSPIRACY THEORY.A PESAL OF HER PROBATE FILE, WHICH IS ENTIRELY ORDARY, REVEALS THAT RONDA WAS WORTH ABOUT $1.5 LN—NOT $7 LN—MOST OF WHICH N BE ACUNTED FOR BY THE VALUE OF HER SANTA BARBARA HOE. HER EX-HBAND, JOEL, IS A HEALTH-RE PRACTNER WHO RAC FERRARIS; HE IS THE HOLR OF U.S. PATENT NO. 5919136, FOR A “VICE FOR EVALUATG ANORECTAL FUNCTN.”REALY BWHAT YOU FD OUT WHEN YOU LL SOME OF THE 17-PL PEOPLE NAMED RANDY QUAID’S LAWSU IS THAT THEY ARE FEARFUL OF AND FOR THE QUAIDS. THEY ARE ANGRY AND THEY ARE UPSET. SEVERAL OF THEM TOLD ME OF HAVG SEEN A PCH FOR A REALY SHOW THAT RANDY AND EVI HAD SENT TO A PRODUCTN PANY. CALLED STAR TRACKERS, THE SHOW HAS EVI AND RANDY PLAYG A BONNIE-AND-CLY-LIKE UPLE THAT HUNTS DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS. THE FIRST SENTENCE ENVISNS THE UPLE SHOOTG OFF THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE NAMED THE LAWSU. THIS PERSON SAID HE BRIEFLY HIRED SECURY.“SOME OF THE PEOPLE THEY WERE SUG,” SAID LLOYD BRN, RANDY’S FORMER LAWYER, NOW THE HEAD OF THE PRODUCTN PANY BERMANBRN, “ARE SOME OF THE NICT, MOST REPUTABLE PEOPLE LOS ANGEL, CREDIBLY HONORABLE PEOPLE WHO RED ABOUT RANDY.”“I STILL RE ABOUT RANDY,” SAID JOHN KELLY, OF BRLER KELLY & ASSOCIAT, QUAID’S FORMER AGENTS, WHO WERE ALSO NAMED THE LAWSU. “HE PLAYED A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE MY LIFE AS A YOUNG AGENT, AND WE EXPERIENCED A LOT OF GREAT TIM TOGETHER, BOTH PROFSNALLY AND PERSONALLY. I’M SORRY TO SEE HIM GOG THROUGH ALL THIS STUFF NOW. I DON’T KNOW WHY HE WOULD GO AFTER ALL THE PEOPLE WHO RED ABOUT HIM, BUT THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO, AND I N’T SAY I REALLY KNOW RANDY ANYMORE.”MANY OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE TO SAID THEY MISSED THE “SWEET,” EASYGOG ACTOR THEY ED TO KNOW—“HE WAS A DOLL, A TOTAL DOLL,” SAID BRN—AND MANY PNED RANDY’S DOWNFALL ON EVI. “I SAID TO HIM OVER AND OVER, YOUR WIFE IS OUT OF NTROL,” SAID A FORMER BS ASSOCIATE. “SHE WAS AN OUT-OF-NTROL SPENR. I THK ’S PRETTY OBV THAT THEY SPENT ALL THE MONEY. THEY LIVED A LAVISH LIFTYLE.”“OVER A 10-YEAR PERD I SPENT $50,000 ON DONALD JUDD FURNURE AND [BOUGHT] 200 PAIRS OF MANOLO BLAHNIKS. THAT EQUALS APPROXIMATELY $125,000,” SAID EVI. “RANDY’S ROYALTY STREAM IS [BEG] STOLEN.” THE QUAIDS FILED FOR BANKPTCY 2000, OWG THE I.R.S. $412,000; THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAD SEVERAL TAX LIENS AGAST THEM TOTALG MORE THAN $207,000.“WHEN I FIRST KNEW RANDY HE HAD THE REALLY GOOD CIRCL OF IENDS; HE HAD HIS CHURCH GROUP, HIS GOLF GROUP, HIS ACTOR BUDDI. EVI ENGEERED THE TRANGEMENT OF RANDY OM ANYBODY THAT PRE-DATED HER HIS LIFE,” SAID ANOTHER FORMER ASSOCIATE. (“STANDARD M.O. FOR ALL WIV,” EVI SAID.) “YOU FOUND YOURSELF SCRATCHG YOUR HEAD ASKG WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO HIM.”“THE MAJOR QUTN FOR ALL OF IS WHAT SPELL SHE HAS OVER THIS FELLOW,” SAID SOMEONE WHO ED TO WORK WH RANDY.UNED THEY STAND‘HE’S BEEN THIS BS FOR 40 YEARS, AND I’VE BEEN WATCHG HIS BACK FOR 25,” EVI WAS SAYG, RAISG HER VOICE. “WHY DO YOU THK HE’S ALIVE?”IT WAS THE NEXT DAY, AND WE WERE AT A PICTURQUE HOME ON THE WATER ON VANUVER ISLAND BELONGG TO CATHERE SAS, THE QUAIDS’ IMMIGRATN ATTORNEY. “SSSHHH, SSSSSHHH,” SHE WAS TELLG EVI. “CALM DOWN.” SAS HAD BEEN TRYG TO SUGGT THAT RANDY SHOULD NSIR GOG BACK TO CALIFORNIA FOR AN UPG URT DATE ON HIS SQUATTG AND VANDALISM CHARG. EVI, WHO HAD FOUND OUT SHE ULD STAY CANADA AND APPLY FOR CIZENSHIP, SCE HER FATHER WAS BORN THERE, HAD SAID SHE WAS “NEVER GOG BACK TO SANTA BARBARA.”“HAVE THEY VTIGATED LANTE TURICCHI AND OUR CLAIM SHE DON’T OWN THE HOE?” SHE MAND.“THAT’S LLED A TRIAL, AND YOU HAVE TO BE THERE,” SAS TOLD HER.“I WANT A TRIAL, EVI,” SAID RANDY.“RANDY, YOU’RE CRAZY!,” EVI SAID. “THEY’RE CROOKS!”“EVI, HERE’S ANOTHER POSSIBILY,” SAID SAS. “YOU STAY CANADA AND HE GO DOWN.”“YEAH, RANDY AND I ARE MARRIED,” EVI SAID, HOLDG UP TERLOCKG FGERS.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“EVI, I’M GONNA GO DOWN,” SAID RANDY. “I WANNA GO DOWN.”“THEY WANT TO KILL YOU RANDY!,” EVI SCREAMED.RANDY OWNED AND SAID, “NO THEY DON’T.”A LTLE WHILE LATER HE WAS DRKG A MARTI WHILE EVI WENT OUT TO WALK THE DOG. I ASKED HIM WHERE HE THOUGHT ALL THIS WAS GOG.“WELL,” HE SAID, “WHAT I’D LIKE TO DO AND WHAT I’M ABLE TO DO, I’M NOT SURE IF THEY’RE TWO DIFFERENT THGS. WHAT I’D LIKE TO DO IS PUT ALL THIS BEHD ME AND ROLVE SOME WAY THAT’S FAVORABLE TO , BEE I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE MANY GRIEVANC AGAST A LOT OF PEOPLE.“I JT ALWAYS WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE TO GO TO A CREATIVE SPACE,” SAID QUAID. “I HAD TO GO THERE A LOT BEE I WAS WORKG A LOT, AND I DIDN’T HAVE THE TERT OF STG MY TRAILER BETWEEN SCEN AND GOG OVER MY BANK STATEMENTS. MY MA NCERN WAS PUTTG A GOOD PERFORMANCE ON THE SCREEN. BUT AT THE SAME TIME WAS ALWAYS LIKE I WAS NEVER ABLE TO GET AHEAD, AND THAT FELT WEIRD. I JT THOUGHT, WELL, ARE WE SPENDG THAT MUCH MONEY?“MY ACUNTANT, HE SENT ME A LETTER BEHD EVI’S BACK. HE SAID, YOUR WIFE IS SPENDG SO MUCH MONEY—SHE’S GONNA DRAG YOU TO THE POORHOE! THEY WERE TRYG TO SEPARATE , DIVI , AND REALLY AFFECTED ME. LIKE I STARTED LOOKG AT EVI SIWAYS, LIKE, THIS BCH. YEAH, EVI WAS GOG TO HERMèS; SHE WAS GOG TO ALL THE STOR, CHANEL—THE WHOLE AL—BUT NOW I KNOW IF YOU TOTAL UP THE BILLS THEY’RE JT A LTLE ACTN OF WHAT I WAS PABLE OF PAYG FOR. I WAS MAKG ENOUGH MONEY FOR ME TO FORTABLY SUPPORT EVI AND HER SHOPPG.“THEY WANTED TO SEPARATE ,” SAID QUAID, “BEE EVI IS VERY TUIVE AND VERY SMART. SHE’S THE SMARTT PERSON I KNOW. YOU N LL HER CRAZY, YOU N LL HER WHATEVER YOU WANT, BUT SHE IS MY LIFELE, AND IF SHE WASN’T WH ME, I DON’T KNOW WHERE I’D BE.”HE STARED OFF TO THE DISTANCE, WAG FOR HER TO E BACK.ADDNAL REPORTG BY TED TRAVELSTEAD, ALISON FORB, AND LRA GRIFF.NANCY JO SAL
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JAKE GYLLENHAAL DISCS GAY RUMORS, HEATH LEDGER DURG ‘INSI THE ACTOR’S STUD’ (VIO)

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'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID HEATH LEDGER REFED TO PRENT AT THE OSRS BEE THE AMY WANTED THEM TO MAKE GAY JOK ABOUT 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAYS HEATH LEDGER HATED 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' GAY JOK: 'HE WAS LIKE, "NO. THIS IS ABOUT LOVE."'

Jake Gyllenhaal believed there was a stigma occurrg durg Brokeback Mounta, specifilly related to two straight men aaid of playg gay characters. Jake Gyllenhaal told Another Man magaze that Heath Ledger refed to prent at the 2006 Osrs bee the Amy wanted "Brokeback Mounta"-related jok at the expense of gay people. Jake Gyllenhaal said that his "Brokeback Mounta" star Heath Ledger refed to prent at the 2006 Osrs ceremony bee he didn't want to be part of any jok at the expense of gay people.

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HEATH LEDGER WAS ‘EXTRAORDARILY SER’ ABOUT GAY RIGHTS BROKEBACK MOUNTA

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'

He played a bad boy love tert the 1999 film "10 Thgs I Hate About You, " and he played a charmg gay wboy 2005's "Brokeback Mounta. The latter particular was treated as a strike agast him by a lot of ic book fans, as the film's queer storyle ma the subject of a lot of mockery and homophobic parodi mastream media. In an old clip, Ledger said was easy to label the movie 'gay love' but stated that was jt about love between two ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 29: Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger speak onstage durg the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shre Audorium on January 29, 2006, Los Angel, California.

HEATH LEDGER H BACK AT HATERS OF 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'S GAY LOVE: 'IT'S TWO SOULS LOVE'

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

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HEATH LEDGER BASED HIS “BROKEBACK” CHARACTER ON HOMOPHOBIC GAY UNCLE

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HEATH LEDGER H BACK AT HATERS OF 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'S GAY LOVE: 'IT'S TWO SOULS LOVE'

He didn’t thk twice about his choice, but he was tormented for playg a gay character.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'

“I had small ocsns where I’d get bullied on the streets for (playg a gay character).

GAY CULTURE: HEATH LEDGER AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON PLAYG GAY COWBOYS

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THE QUAID CONSPIRACYTHEY’RE SPENDG NIGHTS THEIR R, ON THE N OM THE SAME SHADOWY BAL—“THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS”—WHO MAY HAVE KILLED HEATH LEDGER, POSSIBLY SABOTAGED JEREMY PIVEN, AND ULD NOW BE TARGETG LDSAY LOHAN. NO, THIS IS NOT THE PLOT OF OSR NOMEE AND GOLN GLOBE WNER RANDY QUAID’S LATT MOVIE. IT IS WHAT HE AND HIS WIFE, EVI, SWEAR IS REALLY HAPPENG TO THEM. WH THE QUAIDS CANADA, THE THOR PROB THEIR NIGHTMARE REALY, WHICH HAS ALIENATED IENDS AND FAY, AND TURNED THE UPLE TO OUTLAWS.BY NANCY JO SALPHOTOGRAPHY BY SAM JONDECEMBER 1, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEEVI QUAID LLED OM A PAY PHONE VANUVER TO SAY THAT SHE AND HER HBAND, RANDY, THE ACTOR, HAD TRIED TO DRIVE TO SIBERIA, BUT THEY “ULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THERE.” SHE SAID, “WE’RE NNG FOR OUR LIV.” SHE WANTED ME TO MEET THEM THE NEXT DAY VANUVER’S CHATOWN—WHICH ULDN’T BE ARRANGED ANY OTHER WAY, AS THE QUAIDS DON’T E CELL PHON ANYMORE, BEE, EVI SAID, “THEY’RE TRACKG .”“THEY” WERE “THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS” THE UPLE HAD BEEN TALKG ABOUT TELEVISN TERVIEWS EVER SCE THEY ARRIVED CANADA OCTOBER, SEEKG ASYLUM. THE “WHACKERS,” THEY SAID, WERE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE “KILLED” DAVID CARRADE AND HEATH LEDGER, POSSIBLY SET UP ROBERT BLAKE, AND ULD NOW BE TARGETG BRNEY SPEARS AND LDSAY LOHAN. “ARE EHER OF YOU MENTALLY UNSTABLE, SCHIZOPHRENIC, OR ON DGS?,” ANDREA CANNG ASKED ON GOOD MORNG AMERI. “DO YOU THK WE ARE?” MAND EVI. “NO!” SAID RANDY.I FOUND THE QUAIDS STG THEIR R OUTSI A CHE TEAROOM ON A BLOCK GLOWG WH RED AND YELLOW NEON LIGHTS. NOBODY WAS AROUND. IT WAS NIGHT. THEIR R, A BLACK PRI, WAS CRAMMED WH STUFF—CLOTH, ATS, SHO, PAPERS, A PILLOW, BLANKETS, AND AN EXCABLE ATRALIAN TTLE DOG NAMED DOJI, WHO WAS HOARSE OM BARKG WHILE HE WAS THE POUND WHEN HIS OWNERS WERE BEG TAED BY CANADIAN IMMIGRATN.THE R SMELLED OF FAST FOOD AND DOG PEE AND RANDY’S CIGARS. I ASKED THE QUAIDS IF THEY WERE LIVG THEIR R. “ONLY ON NIGHTS WHEN WE’RE TOO TERRIFIED TO LEAVE OUR STUFF OR DON’T FEEL SECURE,” EVI SAID. “WE ED TO HAVE A MERCES. THIS WHOLE ORAL HAS FORCED TO BEE CREDIBLY GREEN.”“PRI ARE CEPTIVELY ROOMY,” DRAWLED RANDY, WHO’S ORIGALLY OM HOTON. “WE’RE TALL PEOPLE, AND THE LEGROOM IS IMPORTANT.”RANDY QUAID, WHO IS 60, WAS NOMATED FOR AN OSR FOR THE LAST DETAIL (1973), WON A GOLN GLOBE FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS LYNDON JOHNSON LBJ: THE EARLY YEARS (1987), AND HAS APPEARED MORE THAN 70 OTHER FILMS, CLUDG INPENNCE DAY (1996) AND BROKEBACK MOUNTA (2005). HE HAS WORKED WH UNTLS LEGENDS OF THE FILM DTRY (JACK NICHOLSON, MARLON BRANDO, MILOS FORMAN, HAL ASHBY), MEANWHILE EARNG A REPUTATN AS A GREAT ACTOR. HE IS PROBABLY BT KNOWN, HOWEVER, FOR HIS OVER-THE-TOP ROLE AS “CO EDDIE,” CHEVY CHASE’S SCHLEMIEL --LAW THE VATN EDI—SOMETHG WHICH IRKS HIM.WHEN I ME UPON HIM, QUAID—WHO IS SIX FEET FOUR WH A PUDDG FACE AND LARGE, FLAT GREEN EY—WAS WEARG BUDDY HOLLY GLASS, A BLUE SHIRT, AN ARMANI BLAZER, AND A PURPLE TIE; HE LOOKED SLIMMER THAN YEARS PAST AND SURPRISGLY STYLISH FOR A MAN ON THE N. “I LL ‘THE FAILURE-TO-APPEAR DIET,’ ” HE SAID, JOKG ABOUT HIS AND HIS WIFE’S NOT SHOWG UP FOR A STRG OF URT DAT SANTA BARBARA.THE QUAIDS WERE ARRTED SEPTEMBER OF 2009 FOR DG AN NKEEPER, NSPIRACY, AND BURGLARY AFTER SKIPPG OUT ON A $10,000 BILL AT SANTA BARBARA’S SAN YSIDRO RANCH HOTEL; SEPTEMBER OF 2010 THEY WERE ARRTED AGA, FOR RINTIAL BURGLARY AND ENTERG A NONMERCIAL BUILDG WHOUT NSENT, AFTER SQUATTG A HOE MONTECO, CALIFORNIA, WHICH THEY HAD FORMERLY OWNED. THERE WAS A WARRANT OUT FOR EVI’S ARRT ON THE SEND SET OF CHARG. (THE FIRST SE WAS ROLVED, WH THE CHARG AGAST RANDY DROPPED AND EVI GETTG THREE YEARS PROBATN AND 240 HOURS OF MUNY SERVICE AFTER THEY SETTLED THEIR HOTEL BILL.)EVI HAD ALSO BEEN CHARGED WH RISTG ARRT AT THE MONTECO HOE. “THEY HOG-TIED ME!” SHE TOLD ME.EVI, 47, A FORMER HOLLYWOOD “IT GIRL” WHO ONCE MOLED NU FOR HELMUT NEWTON AND PUT UP A SHOW A GALLERY L.A. NSISTG OF GIANT PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER PIERCED VAGA, WAS DRSED A BLACK YSL BLAZER, VT, PANTS, AND BAT BOOTS—FUGIVE CHIC. SHE WAS WEARG A BEJEWELED PRADA BELT THAT LOOKED EXPENSIVE. SHE WAS VERGG ON EMACIATED, TENSE AND JTERY.“WE HAVEN’T EATEN AT A TABLE A RTRANT LIKE THIS 18 MONTHS,” RANDY SAID AS WE SETTLED TO A RNER OF THE BRIGHTLY L TEAROOM, WHICH WAS OTHERWISE EMPTY. BOTH QUAIDS WERE GLANCG NERVOLY AROUND.“THEY’RE HUNTG ,” EVI SAID. “IT’S REALLY HAPPENG. THEY’VE GOT A SPIRAL. ‘DON’T LET UP ON ’EM. DRIVE ’EM OFF THE ROAD. STARVE ’EM TO ATH.’ ” SHE WAS SLAPPG HER HANDS TOGETHER FOR EMPHASIS. “ ‘PULL THEIR MONEY OUT OF THEIR BANK ACUNTS.’ ”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“I GUS I’M WORTH MORE TO ’EM AD THAN ALIVE,” RANDY SAID DLY.EVIL MAYBERRYPEOPLE STARTED NOTICG THERE WAS SOMETHG SERLY AMISS WH THE QUAIDS ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN RANDY LEFT THE BROADWAY-BOUND MIL LONE STAR LOVE AND WAS THEN BANNED FOR LIFE OM THE ACTORS’ EQUY ASSOCIATN, THE STAGE UNN, FOR PHYSILLY AND VERBALLY ABG HIS FELLOW PERFORMERS. THEN ME THE ARRTS AND THE UPLE’S BIZARRE APPEARANC AT VAR URT DAT: THEY WORE PK HANDCUFFS. EVI RRIED RANDY’S GOLN GLOBE AND HAD A “VALID CRED RD” AFFIXED TO HER FOREHEAD.BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED CANADA, LLG THEMSELV “REFUGE” AND CLAIMG THEY WERE TARGETS OF AN ASSASSATN PLOT, THE QUAIDS HAD GONE VIRAL.I ASKED THEM WHEN THEY BELIEVED THEIR TROUBL BEGAN. THEY SAID WAS MARFA, TEXAS, THE RAL ARTISTS’ MUNY WHERE GIANT WAS SHOT. THEY SAID THEY HAD TRAVELED THERE THE SUMMER OF 2009 TO “LOOK AT RANCH AND STUFF” AND ERECT A “RANDY QUAID MM.” (THEY’D BEEN FIXG UP A BUILDG THE MIDDLE OF TOWN—REPORTEDLY WHOUT THE PROPER PERMS.)ALREADY, EVI SAID, “SOMETHG REALLY WEIRD HAD STARTED HAPPENG WH RANDY’S MAIL. HIS ROYALTY AND RIDUAL CHECKS WEREN’T G. WE WERE REALLY, TLY PANICKED.” ADDG TO THEIR UNRT WAS THE RECENT MISE OF THE ACTOR DAVID CARRADE, A IEND OF RANDY’S WHOSE ATH OM APPARENT TO-EROTIC ASPHYXIATN THAILAND THE QUAIDS BELIEVED TO BE SPIC.“THEY”—THE AFOREMENTNED HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS—“CI, O.K., IF WE KNOCK OFF DAVID, THEN WHAT WE N DO IS SIMPLY LLECT THE SURANCE VERG HIS PARTICIPATN THE TELEVISN SHOW HE WAS WORKG ON OVERSEAS,” EVI SAID. “IT’S ALMOST MORONIC, ’S SO SIMPLE.”SHE SAID SHE ALSO SPECTED JEREMY PIVEN’S FALLG ILL OM MERCURY POISONG WAS ANOTHER SIGN OF A DASTARDLY PLOT BY THE BROADWAY PRODUCERS OF SPEED-THE-PLOW TO LLECT SURANCE MONEY. “IT WAS AN ORCHTRATED H,” SHE SAID. “THEY ULD HAVE PUT MLE HIS WATER BOTTLE.” JEFEY RICHARDS, ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OF THE PLAY, CLED TO MENT.WHILE THE QUAIDS WERE MARFA, EVI, ALWAYS A LORFUL PERSONALY, BEME EMBROILED A LOL BATTLE BETWEEN THE POLICE AND SHERIFF’S PARTMENTS. AT A TOWN-UNCIL MEETG, “SHE’S GETTG THE MAYOR’S FACE,” SAID RANDY, GRNG AFFECTNATELY. HE LLS EVI “A CHARACTER.” THE QUAIDS WERE ON THE SI OF THE MARFA PS, WHICH MA ALL THE MORE AWKWARD WHEN A PUTY SHERIFF ME OUT TO ARRT THEM AFTER BEG RMED THAT THEY WERE WANTED BY THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOR DG AN NKEEPER. IT WAS NOW SEPTEMBER.“IT WAS EVIL MAYBERRY,” SAID RANDY.THE QUAIDS MATA WAS ALL PART OF AN SID PLAN. “IT’S A NSPIRACY WH THE POLICE SANTA BARBARA,” EVI SISTED, CLAIMG THE SAN YSIDRO RANCH (WHERE SHE AND RANDY WERE MARRIED 1989) HAD TRICKED THEM TO SWCHG TO A MORE EXPENSIVE ROOM WHEN THEY STAYED THERE JUNE OF 2009, AFTER WHICH THE HOTEL REPEATEDLY PUT THROUGH CHARG OF $73,000 ON THEIR CHASE CRED RD, SHE SAID, RENRG PABLE OF PROCSG PAYMENT.SHE SAID SHE NEVER RECEIVED THE BILL FOR THEIR $10,000 STAY, AS SHE BELIEVED RANDY’S MAIL WAS ACTUALLY BEG REROUTED TO A PHONY PROBATE FILE SET UP BY THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS THE NAME OF “RONDA L. QUAID”—BUT MORE ON THAT LATER.A SPOKMAN FOR THE SAN YSIDRO RANCH NIED ALL OF THE QUAIDS’ CLAIMS, SAYG, “WE ATTEMPTED TO NTACT THEM FOR PAYMENT MANY TIM, VIA PHONE AND MAIL. WE NTACTED THE POLICE ORDATN WH A LLECTNS AGENCY.”ROD FORNEY, THE SANTA BARBARA TECTIVE WHO HANDLED THE WARRANT FOR THE UPLE’S ARRT, SAID HE HAD FIRST TRIED TO SETTLE THE PROBLEM ON THE PHONE WH EVI, BUT SHE “HUNG UP ON ME. SHE WAS VERY .”“FORNEY WAS HEAVILY VOLVED THE MICHAEL JACKSON SETUP,” EVI ALLEGED—THIS WAS SOMETHG SHE’D TERMED AFTER SEEG THE TECTIVE’S PICTURE ON GOOGLE IMAG, WHERE THERE IS A SHOT OF HIM GOG TO TTIFY AT JACKSON’S 2005 TRIAL FOR CHILD-MOLTATN, WHICH HE WAS LLED AS A WNS FOR THE PROSECUTN.FORNEY LLED THE ALLEGATN “RIDICULO,” SAYG, “I WAS NEVER NEAR MICHAEL JACKSON, EVER. I WASN’T EVEN THE ONE ASSIGNED TO THE SE. I [JT] HELPED SERVE THE SEARCH WARRANT ON MICHAEL JACKSON’S PRIVATE VTIGATOR.”“YOU HAVE TO KEEP MD THAT DAVID [CARRADE] HAD JT DIED,” EVI SAID, “AND ROBERT BLAKE—THE WHOLE THG WAS FAKE. I BELIEVE HE WAS SET UP. AND I WAS REALLY NVCED AND STILL AM THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE TRYG TO KILL , REALLY KILL .” SHE TOLD ME THAT ONE DAY WHEN SHE WAS VISG A RANCH OUTSI MARFA AND TALKG ON HER CELL PHONE SHE HAD HEARD A VOICE SAY, “IF YOU KILL HER, THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY .”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“SOMEONE CUT TO HER PHONE,” OFFERED RANDY.A SOURCE WH THE SANTA BARBARA P.D. EXPLAED THAT THE REAL REASON THEY HAD GONE AFTER THE QUAIDS SO AGGRSIVELY WAS THAT THEIR VTIGATN HAD TURNED UP OTHER STANC WHERE THE UPLE HAD N OUT ON HOTEL BILLS CALIFORNIA. THEY REPORTEDLY HAD UNPAID CHARG AT THE BEL-AIR BEVERLY HILLS ($17,000), THE BILTMORE MONTECO ($500), AND SAN FRANCIS’S NOB HILL HOTEL ($55,243). “THIS ISN’T JT A HOTEL TRYG TO SCREW THE GUYS,” THE SOURCE SAID. “THIS IS A BEHAVR. IT’S A PATTERN.”EVI SISTED, MEANWHILE, THAT THEY HAD PAID ALL THE BILLS FULL.ALL ABOUT EVI‘WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO RANDY QUAID?” ASKED THE NEW YORK POST OCTOBER, AFTER THE QUAIDS FLED TO CANADA. IT’S A QUTN NO ONE WHO KNEW THEM BEFORE THEIR MELTDOWN SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER. EVI WAS “OUT THERE, BUT YOU DIDN’T SEE THIS G,” SAYS A LOS ANGEL SOCIALE WHO MET THE QUAIDS THE 90S SOON AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED.RANDY AND EVI MET 1988 WHEN HE WAS SHOOTG BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY, A MADONNA VEHICLE FILMED NEW YORK. EVI, 24 AT THE TIME, WAS A PRODUCTN ASSISTANT ASSIGNED TO DRIVE ACTORS TO THE SET. “SHE WAS WEARG WBOY BOOTS” ON THE DAY THEY MET, RANDY SAID; SHE LOST HER WAY DRIVG HIM TO WORK. HE PROPOSED TO HER AT A CHE RTRANT NEW JERSEY, NEAR WHERE SHE WAS LIVG, THAT SAME NIGHT. “THEN WE WENT HOME AND BSHED OUR TEETH AND FUCKED,” SAID EVI. “WHEN WE BSHED OUR TEETH WAS LIKE WE’D BEEN DOG ALL OUR LIV. THERE WAS A KSHIP,” SAID RANDY.“MADONNA WAS FUNNY,” EVI SAID. “SHE TRIED TO SCE RANDY AWAY. SHE SAID, ‘RANDY, DON’T YOU WANNA E BACK? JENNIFER [GREY, WHO ALSO STARRED THE FILM] AND I, WE’RE GONNA HAVE A MéNAGE.’ ” SHE LGHED.MADONNA AND JENNIFER GREY WOULD NOT MENT.FOR EVI—BORN EVZENYA MOTOLANEZ, THE DGHTER OF AN AMIC, GEE MOTOLANEZ, WHO HAD TGHT RSIAN AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE—THIS SUDN IMMERSN THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE WAS TOXITG. SHE HAD SO FAR LIVED THE LIFE OF A CLASSIC, ATHLETIC PREPPY GIRL. HER MOTHER, LOUISE NICHOLAS, ME OM A FAY THAT WAS THE TCKG BS NEW JERSEY; HER UNCLE BY MARRIAGE WAS MART REVSON, ONE OF THE FOUNRS OF REVLON. SHE RO HORS AND SKIED AND WENT TO “FIVE BOARDG SCHOOLS FOUR YEARS,” SHE SAID. BUT THAT WAS NEW ENGLAND, NOT ROO DRIVE, WHERE SHE SOON VELOPED A LIKG FOR SHOPPG.“SHE WAS QUE A LTLE SHOPPER,” SAID EVI’S SOCIALE IEND. “SHE BOUGHT VERY EXPENSIVE, STELLAR CLOTH.” “SHE WAS ALWAYS OUT ON THE TOWN, DRSED TO THE N,” SAID ANOTHER PERSON WHO KNEW HER. “THERE WAS SOMETHG FASCATG ABOUT HER—SHE WAS ALWAYS CHANGG HER LOOK.” “SHE HAD IMPECBLE TASTE, VERY UPTOWN,” SAID SOMEONE WHO WORKS FASHN. EVI WAS KNOWN TO SOME THAT WORLD AS “ALL ABOUT EVI” FOR THE WAY SHE WORKED HER WAY UP L.A.’S SOCIAL LADR.SHE APPEARED VOGUE TWICE THE 90S, ONCE A FEATURE VOTED TO HER STYLE. THE PIECE LAVISHED PRAISE ON EVI’S LLECTN OF ALAïA MICRO-DRS, GEOFEY BEENE GOWNS, KELLY BAGS, AND LEATHER JACKETS BY CHROME HEARTS—FOR WHICH SHE WAS AN EARLY “ME.” SHE WAS FAMO FOR GIVG AWAY CLOTH AS THE SEASONS CHANGED. “HER GARAGE SAL … ARE LEGENDARY L.A.,” SAID VOGUE, WHICH ALSO MENTNED HOW EVI HAD “TRAVELED TO GERMANY TO PICK OUT HER MAGNIFICENT HOLSTEER HORS … DUER DU V, COMERO, AND L.”AFTER LIVG FOR THREE YEARS THE MONTECO HOE, THE QUAIDS MOVED TO A RENTED HOME BEVERLY HILLS. AFTER THAT, THEY WERE ALWAYS ON THE MOVE, STAYG POSH RENTALS—STEVE MART’S FORMER HOE L.A., A HOME OF LREN BALL’S THE HAMPTONS. WHEN THEY WEREN’T RENTG, THEY WERE LIVG FOR LONG STRETCH HIGH-END HOTELS SUCH AS THE BEL-AIR, AND THE CARLYLE, NEW YORK.“OUR SCHLE FOR 10 YEARS WAS NEVER-ENDG,” EVI SAID, WH RANDY DOG BACK-TO-BACK MOVI, “AND THEN HE STARTS THE MILLER BEER MERCIALS WHERE HE’S GETTG A SHLOAD OF MONEY AND THEY’RE FLYG AROUND ON PRIVATE PLAN AND DOG THE PRIVATE PARTI TEXAS. HE WAS EARNG A LOT OF MONEY,” SHE SAID. “HE WAS EARNG TONS OF MONEY.”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEVBROTHER OM ANOTHER PLAIT WASN’T UNTIL THE LATE 80S, “WHEN THE VATN MOVI WERE TURNG PROFABLE,” RANDY SAID, THAT HE STARTED GETTG BIG PAYDAYS AS AN ACTOR. QUICK CHANGE, WH BILL MURRAY, 1990, WAS HIS FIRST LN-DOLLAR ROLE. THROUGHOUT THE 70S, HE’D DONE SMALL-ISH PARTS A LOT OF WONRFUL FILMS. PETER BOGDANOVICH ST HIM THE LAST PICTURE SHOW WHEN HE WAS STILL AN ACTG STUNT AT THE UNIVERSY OF HOTON; QUAID ME TO HOLLYWOOD ON HIS 21ST BIRTHDAY. THEN THERE WERE WHAT’S UP, DOC?, PAPER MOON, MIDNIGHT EXPRS. IT WAS A “GLOR” TIME TO BE HOLLYWOOD, QUAID SAID—“THE MAT WERE NNG THE ASYLUM AND YOU ULD MAKE ANY KD OF MOVIE YOU WANTED.”HE DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE VATN, HE SAID, “BUT CHEVY [CHASE] LLED ME HIMSELF,” AND THE ROLE NOT ONLY PROVED TO BE VERY LUCRATIVE BUT TABLISHED HIS NICHE AS THE “BT IEND WHO’S GOOFY, THE SORT OF IC-RELIEF THG”—A STEREOTYPE HE DISLIKED.APPARENTLY EVI DIDN’T LIKE THIS IMAGE FOR HER HBAND, EHER. “SHE WANTED HIM TO BE DENNIS”—QUAID, THE ACTOR, RANDY’S YOUNGER BROTHER—SAID AN OLD IEND OF RANDY’S. (EVI SAID, “DENNIS IS NOT MY TYPE.”) “SHE TRIED TO MOLD HIS REER TO BE THAT,” SAID ANOTHER IEND. (“NO,” SAID EVI.) “SHE TOOK HIM WARDROBE SHOPPG TO VELOP RANDY TO A LEADG MAN.” (“RANDY DO NOT NEED HELP PLAYG A LEADG MAN,” EVI RPOND. “RANDY’S MY LEADG MAN.”)“WHEN THEIR RELATNSHIP BEGAN, THE IMPACT SHE HAD ON RANDY’S LIFE SEEMED POSIVE,” SAID RANDY’S OLD IEND. “HE WAS A BUMPK CHARACTER ACTOR, NTENT DOG THAT—AN CREDIBLY TALENTED GUY, DOG REARCH AND ALL THAT STUFF. HE WORE T-SHIRTS AND JEANS. EVI GAVE HIM STYLE. SHE TOOK HIM TO ARMANI, LUCCHE TO GET SOME BOOTS. HE DIDN’T WANT TO PLAY LENNY OF MICE AND MEN FOR THE RT OF HIS LIFE.” (QUAID -STARRED A 1981 TV PRODUCTN OF STEBECK’S NOVEL WH ROBERT BLAKE.)“BUT AFTER HE DID DAYS OF THUNR,” 1990— WHICH HE PLAYED THE SEND LEAD—“HE BEME DISENCHANTED AND FOUND THAT REGULAR PARTS WERE NOT AS TERTG AS CHARACTER PARTS AND MAYBE HE WAS THE RIGHT PLACE AFTER ALL,” SAID HIS OTHER IEND.PEOPLE WHO KNEW THEM SPECULATE THAT EVI’S ASPIRATNS FOR RANDY WERE ENTANGLED HER PETN WH MEG RYAN, DENNIS QUAID’S FORMER WIFE AND EVI’S SISTER--LAW OM 1991 TO 2001. “SHE WAS JEALO OF MEG,” SAID A FORMER IEND OF EVI’S. “MEG WAS A STAR AND EVI WANTED TO BE THE STAR.” EVI WOULD NOT MENT ON THIS. “SHE HAD ARTISTIC AMBNS,” SAID A IEND OF RANDY’S. IN 1999, EVI DIRECTED RANDY AND MICHAEL CAE THE DEBTORS, A FILM WHOSE RELEASE WAS BLOCKED BY S BACKER, INTENTNAL SOFTWARE FOUNR CHARL SIMONYI, REPORTEDLY BEE OF HIS OBJECTN TO A SCENE VOLVG A “SQUIRTG BBER PENIS.” “I LOVE THAT MOVIE,” RANDY SAID.MEANWHILE, EVI SAYS WAS MEG RYAN WHO WAS JEALO OF HER—“SHE WAS ALWAYS PYG MY STYLE,” SHE TOLD ME, “MY CLOTH, MY FURNURE, OR JT THGS I WOULD DO.” (MEG RYAN CLED TO MENT.) AND THEN, RANDY SAID, THERE WAS “THE BIG FAY BLOWOUT” THAT HAPPENED AFTER RYAN LEFT DENNIS QUAID TO BE WH RSELL CROWE.WHEN RYAN LEFT DENNIS, RANDY AND EVI SAY, SHE TOOK WH HER SOME OF THE ART THEIR HOE; AND SO DENNIS ASKED EVI TO FD HIM A PIECE TO VER A BLANK SPACE ON A WALL. EVI BROUGHT OVER AN ANDY WARHOL TLED RSELL MEANS— WAS A MASSIVE SILKSCREEN ON NVAS OF MEANS, AN OGLALA SUX ACTIVIST WHO LED A GROUP OF NATIVE AMERINS A SYMBOLIC TAKEOVER OF WOUND KNEE 1973.“I DIDN’T EVEN THK NSCLY ‘WHAT RSELL MEANS,’ ” EVI SAID; BUT ULD HAVE BEEN TERPRETED AS SENSIVE BY A MAN WHOSE WIFE HAD JT LEFT HIM FOR A MAN NAMED RSELL. “IT TURNED TO, LIKE, A PLAY,” EVI SAID, LGHG, “ WAS SANE, WH DENNIS SCREAMG AT ME AND RANDY SCREAMG AT DENNIS AND THEIR MOTHER SCREAMG AT BOTH OF THEM. IT WAS KD OF FUNNY, TO TELL THE TTH.”“I LOVE MY BROTHER. I MISS MY BROTHER,” SAID RANDY.DENNIS QUAID WOULD NOT RETURN LLS FOR MENT.BREAKG BAD‘THE STRANGE, GRIFTER-ISH BEHAVR” BEGAN TOWARD THE MIDDLE OF THE 2000S, SAID SOMEONE WHO KNEW RANDY AND EVI QUAID. MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE HEARD THE STORY OF HOW EVI ONCE AGREED TO LEASE A STRIP OF “THEIR” PROPERTY ON SUMM DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS TO THEIR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, VETERAN TALENT MANAGER SANDY GALL, WHO WANTED TO EXPAND HIS DRIVEWAY, BUT THEN TURNED OUT THAT THE QUAIDS DIDN’T OWN THE PROPERTY AT ALL—THEY WERE ONLY RENTG . GALL CLED TO MENT.“SANDY GALL WAS TRYG TO BUY OUR MAILBOX!” SAYS EVI, WHO NI AGREEG TO LEASE THE PIECE OF PROPERTY. “IT WAS A SM TO GET RANDY’S CHECKS!” GALL ALSO CLED TO MENT ON THIS.SOMETIME 2006, WHEN THEIR HIGH-POWERED NEIGHBOR THREW A PARTY—A STAR-STUDD AFFAIR WH CALV KLE AND BARBRA STREISAND ATTENDANCE—RANDY AND EVI BLASTED MIC OM THE ANIMATED MOVIE HOME ON THE RANGE (2004) OM SPEAKERS LODGED THEIR TRE. IT WAS RANDY SGG A SONG OM THE FILM, FOR WHICH HE HAD DONE THE VOICE OF A VILLAO RANCHER, ALAMEDA SLIM.THE POLICE WERE LLED—BY THE PRODUCERS OF ENTOURAGE, WHO WERE TRYG TO FILM NEARBY AND ULDN’T BEE OF THE NOISE—AND “THEN ALL OF A SUDN WE HEAR SCREAMG LIKE YOU NNOT BELIEVE,” SAID SOMEONE WHO WAS AT THE PARTY. PEOPLE ASSUMED WAS EVI QUAID. WHEN I ASKED RANDY AND EVI ABOUT THE CINT, THEY NFIRMED THEIR PART , LGHG.BUT THE ODDBALL ANTICS PREPARED NO ONE FOR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 2007: RANDY’S EXPULSN OM ACTORS’ EQUY FOR BAD BEHAVR ON THE SET OF LONE STAR LOVE—A RETELLG OF THE MERRY WIV OF WDSOR SET THE 1860S WHICH RANDY WAS ST AS COLONEL JOHN FALSTAFF. THE MIL WOULD HAVE BEEN A UP FOR QUAID; IF HAD GONE TO BROADWAY, WOULD HAVE FIRED UP A REER EBACK THAT HAD BEGUN WH HIS 2005 APPEARANCE BROKEBACK MOUNTA. (IN 2006, QUAID SUED THE PRODUCERS OF THE FILM FOR $10 LN, CLAIMG THEY HAD MISLED HIM TO BELIEVG THAT WAS AN DIE PRODUCTN, G HIM TO TAKE A LOWER FEE, WHEN WAS REALLY A BIG-BUDGET RELEASE. “THE CIRCUMSTANC OF HIM DROPPG THE SU ARE AS MYSTER AS THE CIRCUMSTANC UNR WHICH HE FILED HIS CLAIM,” A FOC FEATUR SPOKWOMAN SAID AT THE TIME.)TWO WEEKS BEFORE LONE STAR LOVE, THEN REHEARSALS SEATTLE, WAS SET TO MOVE TO NEW YORK, QUAID “LLED SICK AND WAS NOT SEEN AGA,” SAID JACK HERRICK, THE POSER AND MIL DIRECTOR OF THE SHOW. (RANDY NIED THIS, SAYG, “I WOULD NEVER WALK OFF ANY SHOW.”) “WE HAD GOT A LOT OF WARNGS OM PEOPLE THE DTRY THAT [THE QUAIDS] WERE DANGEROLY UNHGED,” SAID HERRICK, “BUT RANDY HAD BEEN ENTIRELY CHARMG AND WON THE CREATIVE TEAM OVER THE STG PROCS.”PROBLEMS BEGAN WHEN “EVI BEME MORE AND MORE VOLVED, AND AS THAT HAPPENED BEME MORE AND MORE NTENT,” HERRICK SAID. A MAJOR ISSUE WAS RANDY’S STUME, OVER WHICH HE SISTED HE HAD FAL APPROVAL. “HE END UP A VERY STRANGE STUME OF [HIS AND EVI’S] CREATN,” SAID HERRICK. RANDY DYED HIS HAIR BEET RED AND WORE A DPIECE THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF AN OFFICIAL N.F.L. FOOTBALL. “IT WAS A HUGE CK,” SAID EVI. “IT WAS FUCKG GREAT. IT LOOKED LIKE GAY VIVIENNE WTWOOD.”HERDG CATSCREATIVE DISAGREEMENTS ON LONE STAR LOVE GENERATED TO “SCREAMG MATCH,” SAID HERRICK. EVI WAS NSTANTLY FILMG REHEARSALS WH HER VIO MERA VLATN OF UNN L (“I WAS NOT A UNN MEMBER,” EVI SAID) AND WRG “THREATENG E-MAILS ABOUT NTRACTUAL OBLIGATNS.” (“Y, TO THE PRODUCER BOB BOYETT,” SHE RPOND.) SHE ALSO SENT SEVERAL PEOPLE ON THE PRODUCTN A PHOTOGRAPH OF HERSELF LYG NAKED ON A BED HOLDG A PISTOL, WHICH HERRICK REFERRED TO AS “THE NAKED GUN E-MAIL.” “I ALSO SENT THE HALF-NAKED P PHOTO OF ME BY HELMUT NEWTON WH THE WORDS ‘EAT ME,’ ” SAID EVI.ACRDG TO SOMEONE WHO WORKED ON THE PRODUCTN, THE QUAIDS SMOKED POT RANDY’S DRSG ROOM, AND “I SAW E BEG ED THEIR HOTEL ROOM BY IENDS OF THEIRS.” EVI NI THIS. EVI ALSO WROTE AN E-MAIL TO SOMEONE ELSE THE SHOW SAYG THAT SHE AND RANDY HAD TAKEN “TOO MUCH” AMBIEN ONE NIGHT, G THEM TO HAVE “PSYCHOTIC PARANOID REACTNS. I REALLY WANTED TO JUMP OUT A WDOW. RANDY FELT LIKE A SERIAL KILLER.” EVI NFIRMED THE BAD AMBIEN REACTN, SAYG, “WE GOT A DOCTOR TO GIVE A SEDATIVE AND WAS OVER.”BUT THE LAST STRAW FOR THE PRODUCERS AND THE 25 ST MEMBERS WHO SIGNED ON TO THE ACTORS’ EQUY ACTN AGAST QUAID WERE PREVIEW PERFORMANC WHERE HE SLAPPED AN ACTOR THE HEAD FOUR TIM THE PROCS OF KNOCKG HIS HAT OFF AND AD-LIBBED L ABOUT THE “GYNELOGIL STMENTS” OF AN ACTRS.“THEY WERE ACCG RANDY OF FALSTAFF’S CHARACTER TRAS!” EVI ARGUED. “HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A LASCIV MONSTER.”THE QUAIDS ALSO CLAIM THAT THE PRODUCERS OF THE PLAY WERE TRYG TO “KILL” RANDY. “THEY WERE LEAVG THGS ON THE STAGE,” RANDY SAID, ON THE MARK WHERE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO JUMP THROUGH A CURTA DURG PART OF THE PERFORMANCE. “IT NEVER HAPPENED,” SAID HERRICK.“IT WAS THE SURANCE MONEY!” EVI SAID. “WE THOUGHT, THEY JT WANT TO BLOW UP THE PRODUCTN.” BUT EVEN AFTER RANDY LEFT, THE PLAY NTUED WH OTHER ACTORS.AT HIS ACTORS’ EQUY HEARG LOS ANGEL JANUARY OF 2008, EVI BEME IRATE WHEN SHE WAS TOLD SHE ULDN’T FILM THE PROCEEDGS, LLG A “NAZI PLOT” AND KICKG A 76-YEAR-OLD SECRETARY THE SHS.RANDY WAS FED $81,572 FOR THE TWO LOST WEEKS OF WORK ON THE SHOW (WHICH HE HAS NOT PAID). “IT WAS AN EXTORTNIST NIGHTMARE OM BOB BOYETT,” EVI SAID. “I HAVE NO IA WHAT THEY ARE REFERRG TO,” SAID BOYETT.“IT WOULD BE LIKE HERDG TS TO GET A PRODUCER [OF A BROADWAY SHOW] TO BE PART OF A NSPIRACY,” HERRICK SAID.“IT WAS HEARTBREAKG,” SAID RANDY OF THE BACLE OF THE PLAY, “BEE I PUT EVERYTHG I HAD TO .”MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEVCHASAWS AND SHOVELS‘ONCE THE PLAY THG HAPPENED,” EVI SAID, AS THE THREE OF DROVE AROUND VANUVER THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, “I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT WHY WE WERE BEG ACCED OF SO MUCH BULLSH AND WHY PEOPLE WERE TRYG TO KILL .” SO 2009 THE QUAIDS NTACTED BECKY ALTRGER, AN L.A. PRIVATE EYE FEATURED THE 2006 DOCUMENTARY THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED.ALTRGER, WHO FILED THREE LAWSUS SMALL-CLAIMS URT AGAST THE QUAIDS 2010 FOR NONPAYMENT OF MORE THAN $15,000 (THE S HAVE NOW BEEN SETTLED), SAID ON THE PHONE, “THE QUAIDS WANTED ME TO FD OUT WHO WAS TRYG TO KILL THEM. THE ‘UNN MOB’ EVI’S MD WAS ACTORS’ EQUY AND THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD.” AFTER RANDY LEFT LONE STAR LOVE, “EVI’S STABILY CHANGED,” SHE SAID. “I SAW HER GET WORSE A MATTER OF WEEKS. HEATH LEDGER, CHRIS PENN— ALL HAPPENED [AROUND] THE SAME TIME. SO I THOUGHT, O.K., MAYBE THERE ARE SOME SOLID NCERNS HERE.“SO I STARTED REARCHG. AND THERE REALLY IS NO MOB, NOBODY WAS OUT TO KILL THEM, WAS ALL CINTAL, AND EVERY ONE OF THE ACTORS DIED AT THEIR OWN HANDS [HEATH LEDGER DIED OF AN APPARENT DG OVERDOSE AND CHRIS PENN OF A “RDIAC EVENT”]. BUT WHEN I TRIED TO TELL EVI THAT, SHE WENT NUTS AND SAID, ‘NO, YOU’RE WRONG.’ ”IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 THE QUAIDS STAYED WH ALTRGER AND HER PARTNER FOR THREE DAYS. “THEY HAD NOWHERE TO GO,” SHE SAID. “THEY HAD NO R—ALL THEIR RS WERE REPOSSSED. I KICKED THEM OUT ON JUNE 27. THEN EVI WENT NUTS.“THREE WEEKS THEY RENTED A MOBILE HOME OM ME— WAS MY PARTNER’S MOM’S—AFTER WE KICKED THEM OUT OF OUR HOE. I WAS LERALLY GOG SANE OM EVI AND HER DOG. SHE LET URATE THE HOE; SHE TOOK OUR DNERS OUT TO THE DOG—ROAST BEEF. SHE WOKE UP THE MORNG AND SAID THE MOB WAS HERE—THEY HAVE CHASAWS AND SHOVELS; THEY’RE GOG TO BURY . I SAID, EVI, THAT’S THE GARNER.” EVI NIED ALL OF ALTRGER’S ALLEGATNS.THE TECTIVE ALSO SAID SHE SAW EVI “SNORTG A POWRED SUBSTANCE. I SAW HER SNORT A WHOLE PILL,” WHICH EVI TOLD HER WAS DEMEROL. “I JT ABOUT GAGGED.” EVI SAID SHE SOMETIM SNORTS CSHED DEMEROL FOR MIGRA, AS “ GO STRAIGHT TO THE RIGHT SI OF YOUR BRA.”EVI SAID OF ALTRGER, SFFG, “SHE’S UNSTABLE.”“WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE SOMEONE LIKE HER—AND NOT ?” ASKED RANDY.QUAIDS V. HOLLYWOOD‘I ALWAYS NOTICE PATTERNS,” EVI SAID AS WE GLID AROUND DOWNTOWN VANUVER AT NIGHT, “AND THIS TLY ISN’T PARANOIA— TLY ISN’T.” IT WAS HARD TO WRAP MY MD AROUND THE WEB OF TRIGUE SHE WAS SPNG, WH HER NONSTOP RAPID-FIRE LIVERY, A TALE OUT OF THOMAS PYNCHON, OR PERHAPS JT LAW & ORR: LOS ANGEL, THAT SOMEHOW VOLVED THE ATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE “AMG” OF MEL GIBSON. “I’VE SPENT THREE YEARS FIGURG THIS OUT,” EVI SAID, TAILG HOW HER VTIGATN HAD TAKEN HER TO URTHO, RERD BURES, AND MU, HOW SHE’D BEEN KNOCKG ON STRANGERS’ DOORS, LOOKG FOR RMATN. RANDY LISTENED TENTLY, DRIVG. I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW ON GOOD MORNG AMERI HE’D SAID HOW “VERY ALIVE” HE FELT BEE OF ALL THIS.BUT I DIDN’T REALLY UNRSTAND THE GIST OF ALL OF EVI’S CRAZY TALK—“IT’S THEFT AND MURR!” SHE SAID—UNTIL I READ THE 220-PAGE LAWSU RANDY FILED LOS ANGEL SUPERR COURT AUGT 2010; WAS VOID AFTER HIS $905 CHECK FOR URT STS BOUNCED. THE ALLEGATNS THE ABORTED LAWSU—NONE OF WHICH AN VTIGATN BY VANITY FAIR FOUND TO HAVE HAD ANY MER WHATSOEVER—ALL BEG WH A HOE RANDY AND EVI BOUGHT MONTECO, CALIFORNIA, FOR $1.35 LN 1989.THE LAWSU ALLEG THAT A BAL OF CRAFTY HOLLYWOOD LAWYERS, TATE PLANNERS, AND ACUNTANTS MANVERED TO TURN THE HOE TO A SORT OF AT-THE-READY SH MACHE FULL OF ENDLS EQUY, ALL RANDY AND EVI’S NAME. THE CY NATNAL BANK ALLEGEDLY WENT ALONG WH THE SCHEME BEE THE EVIL TERIE HAD MA A BENEFICIARY OF THE PROPERTI BOUGHT WH THE QUAIDS’ STOLEN EQUY. “THE ALLEGATNS AGAST CY NATNAL BANK ARE ABSURD, AND THEY REFLECT A VERY SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS,” THE BANK RPOND WHEN NTACTED BY VANITY FAIR.IN 1991, THE QUAIDS CLAIM, THEY ALLOWED THIS SAME DIABOLIL GROUP OF LAWYERS AND ACUNTANTS TO HANDLE THE SALE OF THE HOE TO A HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE; HOWEVER, 2010, THEY SAY, A BANK EMPLOYEE SOMEHOW ALERTED THEM TO THE FACT THAT THE HOE HAD NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN SOLD (AS WAS BEG ED AS AN EQUY ATM) AND SO THEY WERE STILL THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS. THEY CLAIM THEIR SIGNATUR ON THE ED SELLG THE HOE WERE FED AND THAT “AN F.B.I. HANDWRG ANALYSIS” N PROVE .AND THIS IS WHY, THEY ALSO CLAIM, THEY WERE STAYG THE HOE WHEN THEY WERE ARRTED FOR SQUATTG SEPTEMBER 2010—BEE IS STILL THEIRS. BUT THE HOE NOW BELONGS TO A WOMAN NAMED LANTE TURICCHI, THE PRINT OF A MEDIA-AND-EVENT-PROMOTNS PANY, FALLG UPWARDS PRODUCTNS, AND THE WIFE OF STT TURICCHI, PRINT OF J2 GLOBAL, A MUNITNS PANY. THEY BOTH S ON THE BOARD OF THE JOHN PL II CULTURAL CENTER, WASHGTON, D.C.“IF TURICCHI EVEN EXISTS,” EVI SAID, “SHE’S A PLACEHOLR” FOR THE NEFAR BAL. THE QUAIDS SAID THAT THEY ALSO SPECTED LANTE TURICCHI MAY HAVE BEEN VOLVED THE “THEFT” OF THEIR MERCES-BENZ—WHICH WAS FACT TAKEN BY A REPO PANY.WHEN NTACTED BY PHONE, LANTE TURICCHI DIDN’T REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANY OF THIS. “ALL I DID WAS BUY A HOE,” SHE SAID, SOUNDG IRRATED. SHE HAS TOLD THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE THAT THE QUAIDS ED AROUND $30,000 DAMAGE TO HER MONTECO HOE, WHICH IS NOT HER PRIMARY RINCE. SHE TOOK OUT RTRAG ORRS AGAST THE UPLE AFTER THEY ME TO HER HOME PASANA AND HARASSED SOMEONE WHO WAS THERE. “I JT WANTED TO SEE IF SHE WAS THERE, AND SHE WASN’T,” EVI SAID TRIUMPHANTLY.BUT BACK TO THE PLOT: STARTG AROUND 1983, RANDY’S LAWSU GO ON, THE RPT CLIQUE SET UP A FAKE LIVG TST ORR TO STEAL MORE OF HIS MONEY, CLUDG RIDUALS HE WAS STILL OWED BY WARNER BROS., WHICH RELEASED THE VATN MOVI. THEY ALLEGEDLY ED A FALSIFIED PROBATE FILE FOR A FICTNAL, CEASED SANTA BARBARA WOMAN NAMED RONDA L. QUAID (“ROND-ALL QUAID? RANDALL QUAID?,” EVI KEPT REPEATG MEANGFULLY) TO SH RANDY’S CHECKS AT CY NATNAL BANK AND POS THE MONEY TO THE FAKE TST ACUNT.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“RONDA L. QUAID NEVER EXISTED!,” EVI SISTED. “NO ONE EVER HAS MET HER. SHE WAS SUPPOSEDLY A SCHOOLTEACHER. BUT YOU GO TO THE UNTY AND YOU PULL THE PROBATE FILE AND ’S $7 LN SH. HOW WOULD A SCHOOLTEACHER HAVE THAT? IT’S RANDY’S ROYALTY STREAM. I’VE REARCHED EVERYTHG. THERE’S NO BODY. THEY’RE JT TRYG TO MERGE THE TWO INTI ORR TO SH THE CHECKS.”“THEY’RE NN’ MY CHECKS THROUGH THAT PROBATE FILE,” RANDY SAID GMPILY.BUT RONDA L. QUAID DID EXIST. SHE WAS BORN BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, 1949 AND DIED OF NCER SANTA BARBARA 2005. SHE GRADUATED OM THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA WH A GREE ART HISTORY AND TGHT ART SEVERAL SANTA BARBARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. SHE WAS MARRIED TO A MAN NAMED JOEL QUAID AND HAD A SON NAMED ALEX. SHE LIKED TO RI HORS, AND WROTE FOR EQUTRIAN MAGAZ LIKE HORSE ILLTRATED. “SHE WAS OUR BOOK CLUB. WE WERE LIKE SISTERS,” SAID HER OLD IEND SHEILA VARIAN.“RONDA WAS BLSED WH THE GIFT FOR LIVG THE HUMOR AND IRONY OF LIFE,” SAID HER OBUARY THE SANTA BARBARA NEWS. PERHAPS SHE ULD HAVE FOUND SOMETHG FUNNY EVEN ABOUT EVI AND RANDY QUAID’S NSPIRACY THEORY.A PESAL OF HER PROBATE FILE, WHICH IS ENTIRELY ORDARY, REVEALS THAT RONDA WAS WORTH ABOUT $1.5 LN—NOT $7 LN—MOST OF WHICH N BE ACUNTED FOR BY THE VALUE OF HER SANTA BARBARA HOE. HER EX-HBAND, JOEL, IS A HEALTH-RE PRACTNER WHO RAC FERRARIS; HE IS THE HOLR OF U.S. PATENT NO. 5919136, FOR A “VICE FOR EVALUATG ANORECTAL FUNCTN.”REALY BWHAT YOU FD OUT WHEN YOU LL SOME OF THE 17-PL PEOPLE NAMED RANDY QUAID’S LAWSU IS THAT THEY ARE FEARFUL OF AND FOR THE QUAIDS. THEY ARE ANGRY AND THEY ARE UPSET. SEVERAL OF THEM TOLD ME OF HAVG SEEN A PCH FOR A REALY SHOW THAT RANDY AND EVI HAD SENT TO A PRODUCTN PANY. CALLED STAR TRACKERS, THE SHOW HAS EVI AND RANDY PLAYG A BONNIE-AND-CLY-LIKE UPLE THAT HUNTS DOWN THE HOLLYWOOD STAR WHACKERS. THE FIRST SENTENCE ENVISNS THE UPLE SHOOTG OFF THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE NAMED THE LAWSU. THIS PERSON SAID HE BRIEFLY HIRED SECURY.“SOME OF THE PEOPLE THEY WERE SUG,” SAID LLOYD BRN, RANDY’S FORMER LAWYER, NOW THE HEAD OF THE PRODUCTN PANY BERMANBRN, “ARE SOME OF THE NICT, MOST REPUTABLE PEOPLE LOS ANGEL, CREDIBLY HONORABLE PEOPLE WHO RED ABOUT RANDY.”“I STILL RE ABOUT RANDY,” SAID JOHN KELLY, OF BRLER KELLY & ASSOCIAT, QUAID’S FORMER AGENTS, WHO WERE ALSO NAMED THE LAWSU. “HE PLAYED A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE MY LIFE AS A YOUNG AGENT, AND WE EXPERIENCED A LOT OF GREAT TIM TOGETHER, BOTH PROFSNALLY AND PERSONALLY. I’M SORRY TO SEE HIM GOG THROUGH ALL THIS STUFF NOW. I DON’T KNOW WHY HE WOULD GO AFTER ALL THE PEOPLE WHO RED ABOUT HIM, BUT THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO, AND I N’T SAY I REALLY KNOW RANDY ANYMORE.”MANY OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE TO SAID THEY MISSED THE “SWEET,” EASYGOG ACTOR THEY ED TO KNOW—“HE WAS A DOLL, A TOTAL DOLL,” SAID BRN—AND MANY PNED RANDY’S DOWNFALL ON EVI. “I SAID TO HIM OVER AND OVER, YOUR WIFE IS OUT OF NTROL,” SAID A FORMER BS ASSOCIATE. “SHE WAS AN OUT-OF-NTROL SPENR. I THK ’S PRETTY OBV THAT THEY SPENT ALL THE MONEY. THEY LIVED A LAVISH LIFTYLE.”“OVER A 10-YEAR PERD I SPENT $50,000 ON DONALD JUDD FURNURE AND [BOUGHT] 200 PAIRS OF MANOLO BLAHNIKS. THAT EQUALS APPROXIMATELY $125,000,” SAID EVI. “RANDY’S ROYALTY STREAM IS [BEG] STOLEN.” THE QUAIDS FILED FOR BANKPTCY 2000, OWG THE I.R.S. $412,000; THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAD SEVERAL TAX LIENS AGAST THEM TOTALG MORE THAN $207,000.“WHEN I FIRST KNEW RANDY HE HAD THE REALLY GOOD CIRCL OF IENDS; HE HAD HIS CHURCH GROUP, HIS GOLF GROUP, HIS ACTOR BUDDI. EVI ENGEERED THE TRANGEMENT OF RANDY OM ANYBODY THAT PRE-DATED HER HIS LIFE,” SAID ANOTHER FORMER ASSOCIATE. (“STANDARD M.O. FOR ALL WIV,” EVI SAID.) “YOU FOUND YOURSELF SCRATCHG YOUR HEAD ASKG WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO HIM.”“THE MAJOR QUTN FOR ALL OF IS WHAT SPELL SHE HAS OVER THIS FELLOW,” SAID SOMEONE WHO ED TO WORK WH RANDY.UNED THEY STAND‘HE’S BEEN THIS BS FOR 40 YEARS, AND I’VE BEEN WATCHG HIS BACK FOR 25,” EVI WAS SAYG, RAISG HER VOICE. “WHY DO YOU THK HE’S ALIVE?”IT WAS THE NEXT DAY, AND WE WERE AT A PICTURQUE HOME ON THE WATER ON VANUVER ISLAND BELONGG TO CATHERE SAS, THE QUAIDS’ IMMIGRATN ATTORNEY. “SSSHHH, SSSSSHHH,” SHE WAS TELLG EVI. “CALM DOWN.” SAS HAD BEEN TRYG TO SUGGT THAT RANDY SHOULD NSIR GOG BACK TO CALIFORNIA FOR AN UPG URT DATE ON HIS SQUATTG AND VANDALISM CHARG. EVI, WHO HAD FOUND OUT SHE ULD STAY CANADA AND APPLY FOR CIZENSHIP, SCE HER FATHER WAS BORN THERE, HAD SAID SHE WAS “NEVER GOG BACK TO SANTA BARBARA.”“HAVE THEY VTIGATED LANTE TURICCHI AND OUR CLAIM SHE DON’T OWN THE HOE?” SHE MAND.“THAT’S LLED A TRIAL, AND YOU HAVE TO BE THERE,” SAS TOLD HER.“I WANT A TRIAL, EVI,” SAID RANDY.“RANDY, YOU’RE CRAZY!,” EVI SAID. “THEY’RE CROOKS!”“EVI, HERE’S ANOTHER POSSIBILY,” SAID SAS. “YOU STAY CANADA AND HE GO DOWN.”“YEAH, RANDY AND I ARE MARRIED,” EVI SAID, HOLDG UP TERLOCKG FGERS.MOST POPULARTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMBY BS LEV“EVI, I’M GONNA GO DOWN,” SAID RANDY. “I WANNA GO DOWN.”“THEY WANT TO KILL YOU RANDY!,” EVI SCREAMED.RANDY OWNED AND SAID, “NO THEY DON’T.”A LTLE WHILE LATER HE WAS DRKG A MARTI WHILE EVI WENT OUT TO WALK THE DOG. I ASKED HIM WHERE HE THOUGHT ALL THIS WAS GOG.“WELL,” HE SAID, “WHAT I’D LIKE TO DO AND WHAT I’M ABLE TO DO, I’M NOT SURE IF THEY’RE TWO DIFFERENT THGS. WHAT I’D LIKE TO DO IS PUT ALL THIS BEHD ME AND ROLVE SOME WAY THAT’S FAVORABLE TO , BEE I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE MANY GRIEVANC AGAST A LOT OF PEOPLE.“I JT ALWAYS WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE TO GO TO A CREATIVE SPACE,” SAID QUAID. “I HAD TO GO THERE A LOT BEE I WAS WORKG A LOT, AND I DIDN’T HAVE THE TERT OF STG MY TRAILER BETWEEN SCEN AND GOG OVER MY BANK STATEMENTS. MY MA NCERN WAS PUTTG A GOOD PERFORMANCE ON THE SCREEN. BUT AT THE SAME TIME WAS ALWAYS LIKE I WAS NEVER ABLE TO GET AHEAD, AND THAT FELT WEIRD. I JT THOUGHT, WELL, ARE WE SPENDG THAT MUCH MONEY?“MY ACUNTANT, HE SENT ME A LETTER BEHD EVI’S BACK. HE SAID, YOUR WIFE IS SPENDG SO MUCH MONEY—SHE’S GONNA DRAG YOU TO THE POORHOE! THEY WERE TRYG TO SEPARATE , DIVI , AND REALLY AFFECTED ME. LIKE I STARTED LOOKG AT EVI SIWAYS, LIKE, THIS BCH. YEAH, EVI WAS GOG TO HERMèS; SHE WAS GOG TO ALL THE STOR, CHANEL—THE WHOLE AL—BUT NOW I KNOW IF YOU TOTAL UP THE BILLS THEY’RE JT A LTLE ACTN OF WHAT I WAS PABLE OF PAYG FOR. I WAS MAKG ENOUGH MONEY FOR ME TO FORTABLY SUPPORT EVI AND HER SHOPPG.“THEY WANTED TO SEPARATE ,” SAID QUAID, “BEE EVI IS VERY TUIVE AND VERY SMART. SHE’S THE SMARTT PERSON I KNOW. YOU N LL HER CRAZY, YOU N LL HER WHATEVER YOU WANT, BUT SHE IS MY LIFELE, AND IF SHE WASN’T WH ME, I DON’T KNOW WHERE I’D BE.”HE STARED OFF TO THE DISTANCE, WAG FOR HER TO E BACK.ADDNAL REPORTG BY TED TRAVELSTEAD, ALISON FORB, AND LRA GRIFF.NANCY JO SAL

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