[rightsmart]

Reminds me of an old joke from that time...

What kind of wood doesn’t float?

[SeekAndFind]

NATALIE WOOD AND ROBERT WAGNER


NATALIE WOOD AS MARIA IN WEST SIDE STORY

[ColdOne]

I have always wondered what happened to her that night.

[massgopguy]

I’ve heard RJ even say that Natalie would not have gotten into the dingy on her own as she was afraid of the water. Plus it was dark out. Of course the craziest man in Hollywood was on the boat but that’s just a coincidence.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The news reports of her death at that time sounded incomplete and fishy.

[matt1234]

Natalie Wood and John Wayne, The Searchers, 1956

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Truly a tragic loss. Natalie Wood was clearly one of the most beautiful women...inside and out...ever to walk this planet.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“I made some terrible decisions and mistakes,” Davern told NBC News’ David Gregory. “I did lie on a report several years ago.”

So we now have established that he's a liar. The next question is “what makes me think he's telling the truth now?”

[LibLieSlayer]

The captain did it in the red room with a candle holder.

LLS

[mkjessup]

From the Amazon blurb: "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the result of a decades-long investigation by journalist Marti Rulli and Dennis Davern, Natalie's friend, confidant, and captain of the Splendour on that controversial night."

"Friend and confidant" eh?

And here is an interesting quote from Davern:

"Why now is because I've been trying to tell information about this for many, many years, but there wasn't really anyone listening until now," he said. "I've been trying to get somebody to listen for a long time and now somebody is listening and they're going to carry on with this investigation. I'm not saying anything different. All the information that I've revealed in the past, it's all in that book, and now it's just up to the investigators to do an investigation."

Hey Cap'n, all you had to do was head down to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and say "hey guys, I lied on that report about Natalie Wood'ds death" and they would have been re-investigating this thing a LONG time ago.

Because they're media whores just like you are. It's Hollywood, remember?

[forgotten man]

The yacht was at the isthmus of Catalina Island. I have been there in the summer and went swimming from a sail boat. The currents were strong and carried me pretty far from the boat. I was not drunk and I am a good swimmer, but it took an effort to swim back to the boat. I can understand how somebody who is drunk and in that water on a cold dark November night could drown. Also, she was wearing a thick coat that got soaked. I think she drowned.

[bgill]

On the night of Wood's death in November 1981, Wood and Wagner got into a "terrible argument" that was never reported to the original investigators, according to Rulli.

Uh, no, the argument and alchohol was ALL over the papers back then. Rumor had it there was a trist that caused Wagner to get angry. That freako Walken knows much more, too. I don't know anyone who didn't believe it was murder at the time. Far too many questions. Far too much hush-hush. IIRC, they had to re-work some of her scenes in that movie to finish it.

[Paladin2]

Apparently not much of a Captain.

[b9]

Sad and fishy death, fo shizzle.
‘Couldn’t believe she met such a horrible end.

‘Sure liked her in Splendor in the Grass and Love With the Proper Stranger.