Thursday, April 12, 2007

Criswell predicts: Hollywood suicide


I predict that a young Hollywood actor will culminate his career as a rebel by suicide during the first few months of 1968.
--The Amazing Criswell

Well,if we allow plenty of leeway for "young" this one would certainly pass for part of the "87% of Criswell's predictions have come true!" blurb on the back cover.

Nick Adams
Birth: Jul. 10, 1931
Nanticoke
Luzerne County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Feb. 6, 1968
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles County
California, USA

Actor. He is best remembered for his role of 'Johnny Yuma' in the television western series "The Rebel" (1959 to 1962). The studios molded his acting persona in the same "troubled young man" persona as his close friend, actor James Dean.
(Findgrave.com)

On the other hand, Criswell's book was published in the same year (1968), so it is conceivable that Adams was dead before Criswell made the prediction. And even if that wasn't the case, Adams had descended to working on exactly the same type of low-budget films that Criswell himself worked on. Criswell may well have known Adams to the point of knowing that he contemplated suicide.

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