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Bill Bowen (Old Will) passed away recently...

post #1 of 22
11/18/10 at 2:28am
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For those I may have missed via PM who would know who this is:

Bill passed away from a heart attack a few months ago. He apparently had been working on a documentary, and had gotten it to the "show footage on YouTube" stage before passing away.

Here is how I found out:

http://www.examiner.com/cps-and-fami...f-heart-attack

Here was the movie he was making:

http://www.youtube.com/user/InnocenceDestroyed
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post #2 of 22
11/18/10 at 4:57am
sorry to hear it. The Old Will moniker rings a bell or two but from long ago.
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post #3 of 22
11/18/10 at 9:38am
Crazy. I remember him from the boards, unfortunately only from the controversies he was involved in here (his arguments with Devin, scientology). I remember him talking about a film he was working on a few years back, so I assume the CPS doc was that film.
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post #4 of 22
11/18/10 at 10:11am
There were several different film projects, but I believe the one he was working on while posting on the boards was an "improv comedy interview stars on the streets of Hollywood" thing. I remember seeing a cut of it when a bunch of us from CHUD met in Burbank at his house.
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post #5 of 22
11/18/10 at 11:27am
I have vague memories of Old Will from some of the older drafts, I think. Shame.
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post #6 of 22
11/18/10 at 11:38am
Writing a eulogy on the site. Made the mistake of reading old stuff and doing research. Should have just kept it dumb and sentimental.
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post #7 of 22
11/18/10 at 12:53pm
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Writing a eulogy on the site...
Old Will > Paul The Hellboy.
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post #8 of 22
11/18/10 at 12:55pm
Actually I did something rather special for Paul.
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post #9 of 22
11/18/10 at 12:56pm
On the main page?
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post #10 of 22
11/18/10 at 12:59pm
I wasn't really around the front page much when it happened, so I did some other stuff in the real world.

Back to Bill.
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post #11 of 22
11/18/10 at 1:01pm
And no, not in any stretch of the imagination was Paul's loss less than Bill's. Paul's hit really close to home.
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post #12 of 22
11/18/10 at 1:14pm
Wow...this is terribly sad news. I do remember him from the boards.
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post #13 of 22
11/18/10 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
Old Will > Paul The Hellboy.
With all possible candour, I barely knew Paul but I can guarantee he was a nicer person than Bill was. Nick is writing about Bill because he was here at the beginning (as were you), and we all have a shared history with Bill that goes outside of the boards and ended badly for almost everyone. Please don't take me posting his passing as me looking to reminisce about the good old days. I have nothing to say about them. I just knew others would be interested so I posted the news.
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post #14 of 22
11/18/10 at 1:42pm
Well said, Ludwig.
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post #15 of 22
11/18/10 at 2:19pm
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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata View Post
Made the mistake of reading old stuff
Yeah, I don't recommend shaking that tree. Never heard of this guy so I read some old threads. Jesus. Y'all can keep your "good old days."

Condolences to Bill's family and friends.
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post #16 of 22
11/18/10 at 3:43pm
I have fond memories of meeting Bill and other Chewers back in the summer of '02. Bill was a generous and gracious host at his home, and was kind enough to drive folks to and from LAX as I recall. Very sorry to hear this.
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post #17 of 22
11/18/10 at 4:06pm
I don't have any fond memories from his time on the boards (just the opposite, in fact), but it is heartening to hear he worked on some apparently very worthwhile projects.
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post #18 of 22
11/18/10 at 4:34pm
Will was like a lot of people, he lost his mind a little or a lot because of 9/11. Before that he was mostly a yuckster. For the real world parallel, see also David Zucker.
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post #19 of 22
11/18/10 at 4:54pm
He once told me I could be 'fixed' through anthropometric measuring. That's a special kind of crazy and I will always remember that.
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post #20 of 22
11/18/10 at 4:57pm
Wow... this brought up a shitload of old memories from here.
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post #21 of 22
11/18/10 at 6:20pm
Like Andre, I remember Will being quite decent until he starting imploding. I didn't recall it coinciding with 9/11, but that does fit the time line. I had forgotten about the Devin/Scientology stuff, but I have vivid memories of him stealing Shelby's bandwidth and that chaos that followed. In anycase, its sad when anyone dies, and particular one of our own. RIP Will.
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post #22 of 22
11/18/10 at 6:30pm
Why don't I remember anything except the Scientology stuff and the 9/11 stuff where he started driving around the country in his RV with all of the American flag stickers to put together his patriotic documentary?

Ah, well. He was definitely old school CHUD.
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