Director David Wain discovered dead in luxury Manhattan highrise
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New York, New York - Comedian and oft-nominated film director David Wain was found dead last night in a blood-spattered 22nd floor suite of a celebrity high-rise apartment building in Manhattan's famed Midtown East neighborhood.
The cause of death was massive bleeding from the anus, which had been stretched to three times its normal size, according to one police witness.
Police are investigating the case as a possible murder, but say that suicide has not been ruled out.
Among the celebrities residing in the high-rent high-rise are Mandy Patinkin, Connie Chung, Bob Newhart, Tony Danza, Alan Greenspan, Andre 5000, Andre Leon Talley, and Anderson Cooper. Some of the luxury units rent for as much as $30,000 a month.
Although it's early in the case, police say they are baffled and tenants contacted expressed shock and outrage at the brutality of the death.
"I can't imagine who would have wanted to rape or harm in any way that cute little white boy," said Talley, an editor at large at Vogue magazine who lives in the 23rd floor apartment immediately above where the body was found. "No sir. No sir. I mean, come to think of it, I don't really know if he's white or not, understand? Don't know why I said 'white.' Never seen him myself so I have no way of knowing that. He could have been any color really. In death, 'black' and 'white' have no meaning. Not to me at least. And I know I speak for others. But some of them white boys can be juicy little morsels. Quite juicy. We all know this. I like the Jews myself. But this dead one, him I never met. Nuh uh. That's for sure. Never met him, not even in the elevator. Not going up. And certainly not going down. "
Contacted at her home in White Plains, a baffled and griefstricken Bella Wain said of her son's death that she was "baffled" and "griefstricken," adding that her son, "a beautiful boychick still single at age 38," was known to "sleep around."
With numerous projects in the works, Wain was cut off seemingly in the prime of this filmic manhood. Wain's full length feature film, "The Ten" -- which, to avoid paying royalties, featured a protagonist named "Jeff" instead of the story's more traditional protagonist, "Moses" -- had just gone to DVD, and prospects were rising for his other creative endeavors, which included an upcoming line of "Wainy Day" greeting cards.
Friends and co-workers remembered Wain for his professionalism and compassion. "In this highly competitive field where yesterday's best friend can overnight become today's cold stale pile of soiled bologna luncheon meat lingerie whose calls you no longer have the slightest desire to return even if you could remember which button on that little f#ck%r is the 'on' button and which is the button you need to push to take secret photos of hot naughty chicks perched haughtily astride the gleaming chrome exercise machines of your local New York Health and Fitness Club, David shone through like an untarnished beacon of purity," said longtime friend Michael Ian Black.
Friend and collaborator Michael Showalter added: "What will be remembered about David was his love of cowboys, his obsessive hoarding of South African gold Kruegerrands, the skin-tight titey-whiteys that he loved to show off in for the neighborhood boys attending Bar Mitzvah classes across the street, his nifty crushed ice machine, his apartment had outdoor space, and his friendship, again obsessive, with a local squirrel named Bob."
But most recently, Wain had become embroiled in a major scandal when he was discovered making nude video recordings of 17-year-old supermodel model Bea Shaffer, daughter of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, and electronically intercepting Shaffer's personal and highly sexy phone calls and racy emails. Wain and "Human Giant" co-producer Jason Woliner later sold those racy photos for an estimated $250,000 to the West Germany glossy celebrity magazine, "Das Welt," which caused Shaffer's career to skyrocket. But the scandal eventually caused Wain's eviction in disgrace from his swank Greenwich Village penthouse because of numerous lease violations.
"At the time -- and this was the consensus arrived at by our special MTV Think Tank here and also by a focus group composed mainly of hairy male MTV mailroom workers named Guido and Anthony -- we did think Bea should be free to stand in front of her bedroom window nude or even scantily clad -- although we preferred her nude -- if she so pleased because that's what makes America great," said Woliner. "We are a free country here and let's all remember we do not live in Spyria or Molvia or even Maroon 5."
"Human Giant" made waves this television season when a monkey on the program accidentally shot three mattress salesmen for real, causing ratings to soar. In a later episode, Jenna Bush appeared.
Under Anna Wintour's leadership, Vogue's ad pages have increased 22% from the previous year.
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's News releases Directed "The Ten," "Wet Hot American Summer," "Almie's Egg"
New York, New York - Comedian and oft-nominated film director David Wain was found dead last night in a blood-spattered 22nd floor suite of a celebrity high-rise apartment building in Manhattan's famed Midtown East neighborhood.
The cause of death was massive bleeding from the anus, which had been stretched to three times its normal size, according to one police witness.
Police are investigating the case as a possible murder, but say that suicide has not been ruled out.
Among the celebrities residing in the high-rent high-rise are Mandy Patinkin, Connie Chung, Bob Newhart, Tony Danza, Alan Greenspan, Andre 5000, Andre Leon Talley, and Anderson Cooper. Some of the luxury units rent for as much as $30,000 a month.
Although it's early in the case, police say they are baffled and tenants contacted expressed shock and outrage at the brutality of the death.
"I can't imagine who would have wanted to rape or harm in any way that cute little white boy," said Talley, an editor at large at Vogue magazine who lives in the 23rd floor apartment immediately above where the body was found. "No sir. No sir. I mean, come to think of it, I don't really know if he's white or not, understand? Don't know why I said 'white.' Never seen him myself so I have no way of knowing that. He could have been any color really. In death, 'black' and 'white' have no meaning. Not to me at least. And I know I speak for others. But some of them white boys can be juicy little morsels. Quite juicy. We all know this. I like the Jews myself. But this dead one, him I never met. Nuh uh. That's for sure. Never met him, not even in the elevator. Not going up. And certainly not going down. "
Contacted at her home in White Plains, a baffled and griefstricken Bella Wain said of her son's death that she was "baffled" and "griefstricken," adding that her son, "a beautiful boychick still single at age 38," was known to "sleep around."
With numerous projects in the works, Wain was cut off seemingly in the prime of this filmic manhood. Wain's full length feature film, "The Ten" -- which, to avoid paying royalties, featured a protagonist named "Jeff" instead of the story's more traditional protagonist, "Moses" -- had just gone to DVD, and prospects were rising for his other creative endeavors, which included an upcoming line of "Wainy Day" greeting cards.
Friends and co-workers remembered Wain for his professionalism and compassion. "In this highly competitive field where yesterday's best friend can overnight become today's cold stale pile of soiled bologna luncheon meat lingerie whose calls you no longer have the slightest desire to return even if you could remember which button on that little f#ck%r is the 'on' button and which is the button you need to push to take secret photos of hot naughty chicks perched haughtily astride the gleaming chrome exercise machines of your local New York Health and Fitness Club, David shone through like an untarnished beacon of purity," said longtime friend Michael Ian Black.
Friend and collaborator Michael Showalter added: "What will be remembered about David was his love of cowboys, his obsessive hoarding of South African gold Kruegerrands, the skin-tight titey-whiteys that he loved to show off in for the neighborhood boys attending Bar Mitzvah classes across the street, his nifty crushed ice machine, his apartment had outdoor space, and his friendship, again obsessive, with a local squirrel named Bob."
But most recently, Wain had become embroiled in a major scandal when he was discovered making nude video recordings of 17-year-old supermodel model Bea Shaffer, daughter of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, and electronically intercepting Shaffer's personal and highly sexy phone calls and racy emails. Wain and "Human Giant" co-producer Jason Woliner later sold those racy photos for an estimated $250,000 to the West Germany glossy celebrity magazine, "Das Welt," which caused Shaffer's career to skyrocket. But the scandal eventually caused Wain's eviction in disgrace from his swank Greenwich Village penthouse because of numerous lease violations.
"At the time -- and this was the consensus arrived at by our special MTV Think Tank here and also by a focus group composed mainly of hairy male MTV mailroom workers named Guido and Anthony -- we did think Bea should be free to stand in front of her bedroom window nude or even scantily clad -- although we preferred her nude -- if she so pleased because that's what makes America great," said Woliner. "We are a free country here and let's all remember we do not live in Spyria or Molvia or even Maroon 5."
"Human Giant" made waves this television season when a monkey on the program accidentally shot three mattress salesmen for real, causing ratings to soar. In a later episode, Jenna Bush appeared.
Under Anna Wintour's leadership, Vogue's ad pages have increased 22% from the previous year.
