In Memory Of Adrienne Shelly

I can’t think of anything right now but Adrienne Shelly.  I went to see the fallen actresses directorial debut film, Waitress, this afternoon and cried when I saw the closing credits, In Memory of Adrienne Shelly, fade on and off the screen.  Adrienne was murdered last November by an illegal immigrant employed as a construction worker in her West Village apartment building.  He strangled her, left her for dead and then confessed days later. 

Words from the killer:
"I was having a bad day," illegal immigrant Diego Pillco, 19, allegedly told cops. "I didn't mean to kill her. But I did kill her."

When most people are “having a bad day”, they like to hit the gym or maybe get a pint of Guinness.  Tying a noose around someone’s neck is not what most people have in mind. The murderer, who committed a previous criminal act by coming to the U.S. illegally, deserves the death penalty and rot in hell so he doesn’t get to see 29. Lord knows what other crimes he committed back in his homeland of Ecuador. (Oops, looks like I won’t be winning and votes in office anytime soon!)

A mother to her three-year-old daughter, Adrienne Shelley had a blossoming writing and directing career ahead of her. Her husband, Andrew Ostroy, has started the  Adrienne Shelly Foundation, a non-profit organization that will award film school scholarships and grants to women filmmakers.

She was a beautiful woman who had an on-screen quirkiness that just mad you stare and smile.  She still had a child-like quality as a grown woman that made her so likeable and vulnerable.  Watch this video of her that I found on You Tube.  You’ll know what I mean…and go support her film, Waitress.

Comments

[HDReader]

How Terrible. I saw Waitress and enjoyed it, but had no idea about the tragedy. She not only directed a really good film, but was absolutely best thing in that movie. Very sad.