Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : The Barrett Bucket -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (868)	5/14/2006 8:34:50 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1233

ManyMoose, I read the Hexum message board at the IMDB site (bottom of the page I linked). It had some explanations as to why what happened happened. Also mentioned--and something I had not known--movie sets usually have a weapons property master (a person who polices weapons used in movies and how they are handled and stored when not being used in the movie scenes) but none was on the set of this movie at the time Hexum was playing with the gun. It was noted also that this was Warner Brothers, the studio which brought us many westerns over the years and was accustomed to dealing with seasoned actors and actresses from bygone eras--who knew from guns--and thus probably did not take all that seriously the necessity for a weapons property master. On a more positive note, I learned that Hexum had been a firm believer in organ donation and his organs went to five recipients. The niece of the man who received his heart posted to the message board and thanked him posthumously, stating that her uncle lived another ten years, thanks to the heart he had received from Hexum. - Holly