Alexander Godunov

Noodle House

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Mar 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/27/96

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Does anyone have any details on the death of Alexander Godunov (when? where? how?).
I didn't know he was dead until I saw last night's Oscars.
If you have any details, please e-mail me.

Thanks!
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Chris Borg

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Mar 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/28/96

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Like most single man in Hollywood who die he had A.I.D.S.

Noodle House (dr...@iap.net.au) wrote:
: Does anyone have any details on the death of Alexander Godunov (when? where? how?).

SHADOW1966

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Mar 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/28/96

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He did not have AIDS. That was confirmed by the autopsy which stated, in
short, that he drank himself to death.

Steven Pirie-Shepherd

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Mar 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/28/96

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Chris Borg (bo...@ac.usfca.edu) wrote:
: Like most single man in Hollywood who die he had A.I.D.S.

Actually, I heard that the poor man was an alcoholic and died
accordingly.

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Chris Borg

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Mar 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/28/96

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ya right

SHADOW1966 (shado...@aol.com) wrote:
: He did not have AIDS. That was confirmed by the autopsy which stated, in

Meinkmpf

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Mar 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/29/96

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From: shado...@aol.com (SHADOW1966)
Date: 28 Mar 1996 11:50:18 -0500
Message-ID: <4jeg0a$a...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>

>He did not have AIDS. That was confirmed by the autopsy which stated, in
short, that he drank himself to death.

Yeah -- a REAL man.

Lady BBS

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Mar 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/29/96

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He did not have AIDS. That was confirmed by the autopsy which stated, in
>short, that he drank himself to death.

Please excuse my ignorance, but who was Alexander Godunov? The name
sounds familiar but I can't place it. How stupid am I gonna feel when I
find
out? :)

SirodEnaj

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Mar 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/29/96

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Alexander Godunov was a Russian ballet dancer who defected when Russian
ballet dancers were still having to defect to the West. He was a Bolshoi
star who garnered headlines when he decided to stay in the U.S. and his
wife returned to Russia without him. He was a star of American Ballet
Theatre for a while but was always considered difficult to work with (and
a heavy drinker). He became a Hollywood actor ("Witness" with Harrison
Ford and "Die Hard," among others) and was for a time the companion of the
actress Jacqueline Bisset. He was found dead in his L.A. apartment, and an
autopsy subsequently revealed that he had died of acute alcoholism at age
45. If you saw either of the above films, he was a tall, striking, very
blond man with longish, stringy hair.

SirodEnaj

Scott Stanton

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Mar 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/29/96

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bo...@ac.usfca.edu (Chris Borg) wrote:

>ya right

>SHADOW1966 (shado...@aol.com) wrote:
>: He did not have AIDS. That was confirmed by the autopsy which stated, in

>: short, that he drank himself to death.

Confirmed. He died a miserable drunk, depressed by the fact that he
was not a "major" star. Pathetic.

Scott
The Tombstone Tourist
http://www.teleport.com/~stanton

GGGhostie

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Apr 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM4/8/96

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Godunov was a ballet dancer and actor who made some wonderful films. He
was the blonde villain in Die Hard, and the conductor/boyfriend in The
Money Pit. In real life, as real as it gets in Hollywood, he was Jackie
Bissett's boyfriend for many years, but she couldn't keep him sober,
though she tried heroically. He was well past drinking a fifth a day and
towards the end would just lurch from apartment to apartment begging total
strangers for drinks. Given his talent, his looks and his potential, he
really fell a long, long way.