# Anyone Know WTF Is Up W/ Randy Quaid?
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 16, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518 "2009-12-16T19:41:03Z")
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/1 "2009-12-16T19:41:03Z")
I dont know how to link it, but Randy Quaid has a $40,000 warrant out for his arrest, and it seems to me that this is about the third time in a year or so that he has been wanted by the law. This current warrant is in California, but at least one of the other situations was in Texas.
These cases have to do with him running up huge hotel bills, (upwards of $10, 000 in this most recent case) then skipping town without paying up.
Randy Quaid is no mega star, but surely he has some money, no?
He was in the summer blockbuster “Independence Day”, and has appeared in several movies since, though nothing of that scale.
## I read here on SDMB that in person, Quaid is a grade “A” asshole, and had a theater company in the Pacific Northwest sue him for his poor behavior, saying that he screwed over the entire production with his prima dona antics.
Is this a drug thing?
Does he just feel like he dosent need to pay his bills?
Is he subconsciously upset that he never got to “get at” Meg Ryan?
Anyone know any inside info on what is going on???
PS—While he was in two of my all-time favorite comedies, (“National Lampoon’s Vacation” and “Kingpin”) I think from the reports of his behavior I have heard (both here and elsewhere), he is probably a self centered jackass, so dont try and spare my feelings if anyone is able to shed any light into his self destructive behavior.
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/2 "2009-12-16T20:05:39Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#):
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> I read here on SDMB that in person, Quaid is a grade “A” asshole, and had a theater company in the Pacific Northwest sue him for his poor behavior, saying that he screwed over the entire production with his prima dona antics.
So, I guess playing Cousin Eddie wasn’t much of a strech then.
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### Author:  [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/3 "2009-12-16T20:23:59Z")
I actually never would have guessed this since he’s been in so many comedies…
He does sound like a troublemaker though.
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/4 "2009-12-16T23:23:19Z")
According to this article, Randy’s wife Evi is batshit insane, or a close approximate.
[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-28/hollywoods-nightmare-couple/full/](http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-28/hollywoods-nightmare-couple/full/)
Okay, that’s an exaggeration.
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> He was hired to lend credibility to a pre-Broadway theatrical production of Lone Star Love in Seattle in 2007. But during rehearsals, Evi, acting as her husband’s manager, and Randy reportedly so harassed, manhandled, and humiliated the cast that all 26 members of the production filed a complaint with the Actors’ Equity union.
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> On February 4, 2008, Randy was “banned for life” from Actors’ Equity and fined $81,572 for “wreaking havoc” on the production. Two weeks later, the Quaids appeared at union headquarters in Los Angeles and Evi allegedly screamed at employees and physically attacked a 76-year-old receptionist, according to several restraining orders later filed against Evi by Actors’ Equity employees. Evi would later say it was all a “despicable lie” from members of a “corrupt union.”
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> [snip]
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> Altringer quickly got sucked into the Quaids’ strange world. She says they insisted that a former business manager had taken out a million-dollar life-insurance policy on Randy and had hired “the Mob” to kill both Quaids to collect the payout. It was to be staged to look like a murder/suicide, Evi explained, and Altringer’s job was to help identify the “killers.”
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> Altringer says she witnessed Evi Quaid self-medicating with Demerol three times a day. "She told me she snorted it in her left nostril so it would go right to her brain to cure her migraines. I saw her do this myself. She also … believed [Michael] Jackson was murdered along with Heath Ledger, Chris Penn, David Carradine, Natasha Richardson, and other stars who (had been) in movies with Randy.”
So drugs and possibly mental imbalance with a paranoid streak. With Randy along for the ride/henpecked into submission/drinking the Kool-aid.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/5 "2009-12-16T23:30:33Z")
As for money, no idea what their financial situation is now but they declared bankruptcy in 2000 with $50,000 in assets and over $1 million in debts due largely to violating the first two laws of show business (“Never put your own money in the show” and “NEVER PUT YOUR OWN MONEY IN THE SHOW!!!”; they financed a movie that flopped, the same thing that bankrupted John Wayne, Robert Conrad, Sherman Hemsley and several others.)
He sued the producers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN a few years ago for more money. He said that he took the role as ranch foreman on the understanding it was a small budget production that probably wouldn’t make a profit and of course it became huge (though this may have been as much a shock to the producers as to him). The suit was settled out of court but he said he was very satisfied, so apparently he got some money there, plus he never seems to be hurting for work.
Maybe he just can’t manage money. Besides which, [man-minks](http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/library/quaid.jpg)are expensive.
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/6 "2009-12-16T23:48:16Z")
In the parlance of his native Texas, “That boy ain’t right.”
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/7 "2009-12-17T00:00:35Z")
To me the Seattle Incident is the most damning. As a general rule actors tend to stick up for each other. When Christian Bale had his famous profanity laden screaming fit on the set of _Terminator_ for instance, most of his co-stars come forward with stories of how “he’s a nice guy” and “he’s a perfectionist, that was extenuating circumstances” or at least “he apologized”- same with almost every other famous damned near impossible to work with prima donna (male or female). Marlon Brando famously trashed Val Kilmer (“mistakes the amount of his paycheck with the amount of his talent” or something like that), Anthony Hopkins said that he’d never work with Shirley MacLaine again and Burt Reynolds slammed Kathleen Turner in an interview, but those made news because they’re the exception (and Brando, Hopkins, and Reynolds have all had accusations of assholery themselves).
The cast in Seattle didn’t do that. To a person they said the Quaids were obnoxious, impossible to work with, and scary. Some of them actually got _restraining orders_ against Mrs. Quaid (which isn’t a pro-forma thing in and of itself). If it were one or even two members of the cast you might think they were hypersensitive, but the _entire_ cast in unison said he wrecked the show.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/8 "2009-12-17T00:31:03Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> To me the Seattle Incident is the most damning. As a general rule actors tend to stick up for each other…
> The cast in Seattle didn’t do that. To a person they said the Quaids were obnoxious, impossible to work with, and scary. Some of them actually got _restraining orders_ against Mrs. Quaid (which isn’t a pro-forma thing in and of itself). If it were one or even two members of the cast you might think they were hypersensitive, but the _entire_ cast in unison said he wrecked the show.
Yeah, when I read about that (here on SDMB) a couple of years back, it told me that Randy Quaid was probably not the fun, goofy guy I has assumed him to be, and instead just another semi-star who thinks themself to be above societies rules of behavior and decency, due to their “great talent and creativity”:rolleyes:
Too bad, because as I said in the OP, “Kingpin” is one of my all-time favorite comedies, and Randy Quaid was great in it!!!
I would not be suprised if drugs have factored into these most recent problems—Blowing off court dates, racking up thousands of dollars in hotel bills and then just taking off???
Dude, they KNOW who you are, its not like the Marriott Corp. (not to mention the California Criminal Justice System) will just forget about this and let it slide…
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/9 "2009-12-17T14:11:47Z")
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> Altringer says she witnessed Evi Quaid self-medicating with Demerol three times a day. "She told me she snorted it in her left nostril so it would go right to her brain to cure her migraines.
I would have tried this myself on Tuesday if I had had any Demerol. I do not see this as uncomplimentary to Mrs. Quaid.
Mr. Quaid still seems to have some income doing voiceover work for Capital One: _What’s in your wallet?_
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/10 "2009-12-17T14:21:13Z")
I bet his brother Dennis is mortified. From what I’ve read Dennis is a stand up guy and totally has his sh\*t together.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/11 "2009-12-17T14:29:29Z")
[Link](http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/12/16/randy.evi.quaid.skip.court/) to the skipped court date story.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/12 "2009-12-17T14:34:21Z")
More gossip:
[QUAID BROTHERS ESTRANGED OVER EVI](http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/quaid-brothers-estranged-over-evi_1117485).
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> RANDY QUAID’s relationship with his family has fallen apart because his younger brother DENNIS doesn’t approve of his wife EVI…
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> …Altringer tells [RadarOnline.com](http://RadarOnline.com), “Randy told me that none of his family will see or talk to him because of Evi. He told me that he really misses his mother and his brother Dennis, but that they are all afraid of Evi. I used to see him tear up when he’d talk about them.”
> Altringer also maintains Randy turned to alcohol to cope with his wife’s mood swings, swigging “big glasses of straight vodka every night”.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/13 "2009-12-17T17:15:02Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> [Link](http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/12/16/randy.evi.quaid.skip.court/) to the skipped court date story.
Perhaps his shitter was full.
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/14 "2009-12-17T17:30:23Z")
> [@chefguy](#):
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> perhaps his shitter was full.
Really LMFAO
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/15 "2009-12-17T17:40:38Z")
Maybe the gas money gave out in Gurnee.
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### Author:  [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/16 "2009-12-17T17:43:29Z")
Haha, my In-Laws live in Marfa TX, and we’ve been getting the blow by blow of the Randy and Evi Quaid saga. From trying to start an upscale shoe store and tearing down walls and cutting down trees that are on the neighbors property without permission, to starting a feud with the editor of the Big Bend Sentinel and the local Presidio County Sheriff’s Deputy, claiming he solicited a bribe.
The last I heard was about Evi Quaid’s dog ‘menacing’ my Mother In-Law, apparently she was cool about that though. She got on top of the dog and made sure it behaved.
But generally they have alienated the entire town.
> **[Big Bend Sentinel](https://bigbendsentinel.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=2955&Itemid=1)**
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> The Big Bend Sentinel is a weekly newspaper for Presidio, Brewster and Jeff Davis counties in Far West Texas. News from Marfa, Alpine, Fort Davis and beyond.
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> Mayor Dan Dunlap said the city obtained a no-trespassing citation against Mrs. Quaid after a recent meeting with her and city Administrator Jim Mustard at City Hall turned combative. Mrs. Quaid is alleged to have damaged some city documents and hurt a city employee.
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> The no-trespassing document was obtained by special prosecutor Bart Medley and served to Mrs. Quaid by Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez.
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> The mayor said the Quaids also are under two stop-work orders, having failed to obtain the necessary building, electrical, and plumbing permits from the city.
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> Yet it appears work still is being done at the building the Quaids own on North Highland Avenue, Dunlap said.
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> He said a complaint has been filed against the couple with state plumbing authorities.
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> In addition, the owners of the buildings on each side of the Quaids’ building have filed civil lawsuits, asserting property and encroachment issues.
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> Mrs. Quaid also is alleged to have removed a satellite dish of a neighbor’s because it encroached on her property space. The dish has since been relocated.
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> And Mrs. Quaid is being sued for libel by a Presidio County deputy sheriff, the subject of a sign hand-painted by the model and filmmaker that appeared on the couple’s GMC truck parked along North Highland Avenue.
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### Author:  [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/17 "2009-12-17T18:16:39Z")
“He said a complaint has been filed against the couple with state plumbing authorities.”
So the shitter really _was_ full.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/18 "2009-12-17T18:47:38Z")
The man’s got financial problems, what with having to support his son’s career in the circus barking for the Yak Woman, and his daughter in rehab getting cured off the Wild Turkey.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/19 "2009-12-17T18:53:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> what with having to support his son’s career in the circus barking for the Yak Woman,
It took me a bit to remember what barking was in circus lingo. That was a _weird_ mental image for those few seconds.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-wtf-is-up-w-randy-quaid/521518/20 "2009-12-17T19:02:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> The man’s got financial problems, what with having to support his son’s career in the circus barking for the Yak Woman, and his daughter in rehab getting cured off the Wild Turkey.
REAL tomato ketchup Eddie?
Nothin’ but the best…
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