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...infamous for his overbearing appetites, Chris Farley spent his last Sunday in notable sobriety. He attended evening Mass at Chicago's St. Michael's Catholic Church, which he had visited twice weekly while making his start as a comedian. Sunday had always been a favorite church day for him, as was Tuesday, when there were special prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. After the service on Dec. 14, Brother Patrick Concidine of St. Michael's remembers Farley's asking whether "we still had the Mass every Tuesday. I assured him that we do, and he said he would...
While autopsy results were withheld pending results of drug tests, it is clear that Farley's life was ravaged by his obsession with excess. His comic persona, honed to a sweaty, self-mocking perfection on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995 and in such hit films as Beverly Hills Ninja, was of the ne'er-do-well party guy, the angst-ridden outsider, the addled but lovable omnivore. But that proved to be true life as well, reflecting a fierce appetite for beer, cocaine and heroin, food and women. He went through drug- and alcohol-rehab clinics...
...Farley's final months were a rapidly accelerating death spiral. During the making of the as yet unreleased Almost Heroes with Matthew Perry, says producer Denise Di Novi, Farley "had to attend A.A. meetings every day. He was always trying, but with Chris it wasn't that he had just one problem. It was a constant daily battle, fighting his demons." By the time Farley was providing the voice for the title character in Shrek, an animated film from DreamWorks, studio partner Jeffrey Katzenberg was taking no chances. He put the comic under 24-hour bodyguard during recording to make...
Farewell, Farley The Couch Potato Man says goodbye to the funniest fat man anywhere...
Farewell, Farley The Couch Potato Man says goodbye to the funniest fat man anywhere...