Steve Guttenberg didn't make 911 call

[Gyumaoh]

Well, the identity of the Hartmans' family 911 dialing friend has been
revealed, and he is not Steve Guttenberg.
Here's the article if anybody cares. (My apologies to those that don't.)
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Police Release Hartman 911 Call

By JEFF WILSON
.c The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Phil Hartman's wife confessed to a friend that she killed
the comic actor, but the man didn't believe the distraught woman until he
arrived at the couple's home and found the body, police said Tuesday.

Ron Douglas calmly told police Brynn Hartman was quite intoxicated when she
told him about the shooting.

``She said she had killed her husband and I didn't believe her,'' Douglas told
a dispatcher during a 911 call to police about 6:30 a.m. last Thursday.

Ending five days of silence in the Hartman murder-suicide investigation, Cmdr.
David Kalish released the 911 tape during an evening news conference and said:
``Brynn Hartman shot Phil Hartman multiple times.''

Mrs. Hartman, 40, went to Douglas's home ``sometime before 3 a.m.'' and told
him what she had done, but Douglas was skeptical until he saw her gun, Kalish
said.

He took the gun from her and placed it in a plastic bag. At that point, they
went to the Hartman home in separate cars, he said.

During the short drive, Mrs. Hartman placed a cellular telephone call to an
unidentified friend to whom she also confessed the killing, Kalish said.

Douglas entered the suburban Encino home where the Hartmans lived and saw the
body of the 49-year-old entertainer in the bedroom, Kalish said. He then went
to another room to make the 911 call while Mrs. Hartman locked herself in the
bedroom with her dead husband.

A fire department dispatcher asked Douglas where Hartman had been shot.

``I think around the head and the neck. I just got here,'' Douglas calmly
answered.

Kalish estimated that in the 10 minutes it took police to arrive, Douglas
collected the couple's sleeping 9-year-old son Sean from another bedroom and
took the child outside, where he turned over the boy and weapon to arriving
officers.

Another officer grabbed the couple's 6-year-old daughter Birgen from another
bedroom and a single gunshot was heard from the couple's bedroom.

Mrs. Hartman, who had re-armed herself with a second weapon, died of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Kalish said.

``There are no criminal ramifications to his (Douglas's) actions,'' the
commander said.

He refused to provide any information about the man other than to say he was
``a longtime friend'' of Mrs. Hartman.

No illegal drugs were found inside the residence and detectives have no
evidence of illegal drug use, Kalish said. Toxicology analysis won't be
completed by the coroner's office until late next week.

The commander said there was no evidence Hartman was having an extramarital
affair or had plans to end the couple's marriage.

Earlier Tuesday, wills filed in Superior Court showed Hartman and his wife left
their estate - estimated at $1.23 million - to their two orphaned children.

The wills specified cremation. Hartman asked that his ashes be scattered over
Emerald Bay off Santa Catalina Island. His wife didn't specify what she wanted
done with her ashes.

The children will be raised by Mrs. Hartman's sister Katharine Wright and her
husband, Mike, who publicist Stan Rosenfield said are the guardians. The
Wrights, who have no children of their own, live in Eau Claire, Wis.

In their 50-page wills, the Hartmans directed that the first guardian who
consents to take care of the children be given $50,000 from their estate.

The will specified the Hartman children would each get a third of their
inheritance when they reach age 25 or receive a bachelor's degree from a
four-year accredited university. They will receive half the remaining balance
when they turn 30 and the remainder when they turn 35.

Hartman won fame with his impersonations of President Clinton, Frank Sinatra
and other celebrities on ``Saturday Night Live,'' and later played a radio
anchor on NBC's ``NewsRadio.'' He also contributed voices to ``The Simpsons''
animated series and did several movies and commercials.

On Tuesday, Toronto-based Molson Breweries said it pulled Hartman's voice from
12 television and radio ads. Molson spokeswoman Marilyn McCrea said, ``It's the
right thing to do.''

AP-NY-06-02-98 2219EDT

[Mike Smith]

Gyumaoh wrote in message
<199806030551...@ladder03.news.aol.com>...

>Well, the identity of the Hartmans' family 911 dialing friend has been
>revealed, and he is not Steve Guttenberg.
>Here's the article if anybody cares. (My apologies to those that don't.)

>On Tuesday, Toronto-based Molson Breweries said it pulled Hartman's voice
from
>12 television and radio ads. Molson spokeswoman Marilyn McCrea said, ``It's
the
>right thing to do.''

Except, here in the U. S., we're seeing Molson Ice commericals with Doug &
Bob McKenzine (From "SCTV", if you don't remembered them!).

[Laura Canon]

That's interesting considering all weekend here in NY I kept seeing ads for
the movie "Small Soldiers" which shows Phil saying "I think I'm having an
aneurysm." They were running before he was shot and evidently no move was
made to pull them.

Gyumaoh wrote in message

>
>On Tuesday, Toronto-based Molson Breweries said it pulled Hartman's voice
from
>12 television and radio ads. Molson spokeswoman Marilyn McCrea said, ``It's
the
>right thing to do.''
>

>AP-NY-06-02-98 2219EDT
>
>

[Kinetic]

Mike Smith <mjs...@brightok.net> wrote in article

> Molson spokeswoman Marilyn McCrea said, ``It's
> the
> >right thing to do.''

I thought that was Quaker Oatmeal.

> Except, here in the U. S., we're seeing Molson Ice commericals with Doug
&
> Bob McKenzine (From "SCTV", if you don't remembered them!).

They only pulled the ads that used Hartman's voice.

[GaNGuScoN2]

>That's interesting considering all weekend here in NY I kept seeing ads for
>the movie "Small Soldiers" which shows Phil saying "I think I'm having an
>aneurysm." They were running before he was shot and evidently no move was
>made to pull them.

Why should they cut a commercial just because Phil's in it? Chris Farley is in
"Dirty Work" and "Almost Heroes" commercials. Not to mention ,I haven't seen a
Hartman/Small Soldiers commercial in a week and a half and I live in NY.

-Gangus
"America's health care system is second only to Japan... Canada,
Sweden, Great Britain, ... well all of Europe. But you can thank your
lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!" --Homer Simpson
R.I.P - Phil Hartman, Tommy McCook, and Sinatra