# Body of Spalding Gray found in East River
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 9, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213 "2004-03-09T01:05:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/1 "2004-03-09T01:05:26Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/08/obit.gray/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/08/obit.gray/index.html)
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> NEW YORK (CNN) – A body pulled from the East River at 3 p.m. Sunday was that of actor-writer Spalding Gray, who had been missing since January 10, the New York City medical examiner’s office said Monday afternoon.
Wow.
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/2 "2004-03-09T01:08:12Z")
Any minute now, **London Calling** ’s going to open a Pit thread about all these Spalding Gray threads. This is the (third? fourth?) on the front page of Cafe Society alone.
Still a crying hame, though. Still a crying shame.
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### Author:  [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/3 "2004-03-09T01:23:48Z")
Oops… sorry. I scanned the top few threads and thought, “nope, no thread yet.” I should have word searched.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/4 "2004-03-09T01:32:47Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#):
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> Any minute now, **London Calling** ’s going to open a Pit thread about all these Spalding Gray threads. This is the (third? fourth?) on the front page of Cafe Society alone.
No, no, _I’m_ the one who has the screaming hissy-fits about multiple obit threads!
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/5 "2004-03-09T22:16:14Z")
> [@Eve](#):
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> No, no, _I’m_ the one who has the screaming hissy-fits about multiple obit threads!
As I recall, **London Calling** threw a big fit when six people created obit threads for Robert Palmer over the course of one hour.
No offense meant to you, of course.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/6 "2004-03-10T02:50:30Z")
I’m a fan, too, but that’s not going to keep me from saying that in Spaulding we have our 2004 winner of the [Richard Brautigan](http://weeklywire.com/ww/06-26-00/tw_book.html) Dignified Departure Award.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/7 "2004-03-10T03:02:46Z")
Sp **a** lding. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-spalding-gray-found-in-east-river/233213/8 "2004-03-10T03:11:22Z")
Robert Palmer is dead?? I have to go start a thread on that now!