Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Regarding a possible motive in the tragedy, Brynn Hartman reportedly had become distraught the night before the murder when she read a note from her husband that implied he wanted to end the marriage. Family and friends have given conflicting accounts of the 11-year marriage. "They had a pattern of arguing at night, and he would go to sleep and everything would be OK in the morning," said Steven Small, a lawyer and close friend who represented the actor in his two divorces. Small said that when he asked about the marriage earlier this month, Hartman told...
...Phil Hartman's wife left his body on their bloody bed and went to a friend's house to confess the killing before returning home to kill herself, say Southern California newspapers. After shooting the "NewsRadio" actor-comedian as he slept around 2 a.m. Thursday, Brynn Hartman went to the home of an unidentified male friend, the Los Angeles Times and the Daily News of Los Angeles reported, citing unnamed sources. Nearly incoherent, Mrs. Hartman confessed to the killing, but the friend did not believe her, the Times said. However, after she fell asleep he checked her purse and found...
Brynn, 40, awoke several hours later, returned to her home with the friend and locked herself in the bedroom with the body of her 49-year-old husband, the Times said. The friend called 911 about 6:20 a.m. and was escorting the Hartmans' nine-year-old son, Sean, out of the house when police arrived. As the officers took the couple's six-year-old daughter, Birgen, out of the home, Mrs. Hartman shot herself in the head. Police would not confirm the newspaper reports...
...That ugliness didn't fit him. By all appearances, Hartman was uncomplicated; he was funny, smart and didn't hang around long when things looked to be going bad. He was hard on SNL when he left the show after eight years, ripping his former producers and writers. He went on to a comfortable if less-than-stellar career in movies and television, doing countless cameos and roles as the comic foil. He was a keystone in two of TV's better sitcoms: "The Simpsons" (as Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz) and "News Radio" (as talk-show host Bill McNeil...
...Phil Hartman did a great Frank Sinatra; he did a great Ed McMahon. He did a great Bill Clinton. But the most common character was one we could only call Phil Hartman: smarmy, oily, eminently superficial. We assumed that was all there was to know about Hartman, that he made us chuckle and do our own impressions of him. That was apparently the way Hartman wanted it. Now we'll never know...