Don Simpson documentary part 1

[@findingphunc]

what did he die of a bong hit transplant

[@ultrashmutz93]

Respict

[@normaningemann3868]

The white R Kelly!

[@26northproductions93]

Something about the cumboys

[@kevinrichards3288]

@@normaningemann3868 lol

[@all_the_bad_news5614]

It was either that or being too gay we don't know

[@---df5sr]

He was certainly a “hands on” movie producer

[@Assman45ACP69]

Not here for a long time, but for a good time.

[@94ejackAYTUser]

I found this video while searching under "the simpsons documentary". On KZbin.

[@CousinCreepy]

Is this being narrated by Alan Partridge??

[@theexpresidents]

I can’t believe he grew up with me in Anchorage and I never knew it.

[@southlondon86]

Came here after Silvio mentioned Don’s death in The Sopranos.

[@rickyschofner3637]

You and me both :)

[@mummyjohn]

yo what? it's been years since I saw the Sopranos, don't remember this

[@mbear1639]

Love the choice of music. It's Trevor Jones who did soundtrack to Excalibur (1980 John Boorman film). I recognized it immediately.

[@auerstadt06]

It's Wagner. Siegfried's death and funeral march.

[@erichaynes7502]

Don Simpson's ego must have been enormous and extremely FRAGILE. With his success came more drugs, these two forces supercharging his ego even more. And just like they say in this doc, all the success you have in Hollywood can go away in a blink of an eye. In Don's case, the fact that Days of Thunder(which must have been his baby, Bruckheimer prob just went along with Don during the filming) was NOT the blockbuster everybody thought it would be, and resulted in completely/utterly DESTROYING his FRAGILE EGO. Don was NEVER the same man after Days of Thunder and Paramount somehow bought him out of his contract, probably paying a pretty dime but not the 300 million it supposedly was worth. Remember, Don insisted on press releases and posters announcing his biggest contract in movie history(E G O), he called it the Grand Alliance. Welp, the Grand Alliance last exactly one dud of a movie. He got cast aside and really never was the same Don Simpson ever again. True, he and Bruckheimer finally came back with several hits in 1995 but this Doc mentions it really was all Bruckheimer, Simpson staying in seclusion and barely contributing any ideas. Don Simpson always thought he could make another comeback, but this time his drug addiction stuck to him like glue and finally took him out for good.

[@neaituppi7306]

I actually liked Days of thunder, as many people since have liked it. Box office success is hit or miss, and people always try and figure it out, but there is no formula. Like there is no reason the Titanic should have been as popular as it was at the movies. Outside of that, I suspect your ideas of Don have very little to do with him. It is just the awareness he came into this world with, and left, with perhaps little to no change.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

​@@neaituppi7306Days of Thunder is formulaic crap that has aged very poorly

[@unsenso]

Days Of Thunder is a f***ng masterpiece.

[@romeysiamese6662]

Those 10 minutes were action packed= cocaine, pills, etc, etc.

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

On January 19, 1996, Simpson was found dead in the bathroom of his Bel Air, Los Angeles home. His death was initially attributed to "natural causes." An autopsy and toxicology report later determined that Simpson had died of heart failure caused by combined drug intoxication (cocaine and prescription medications) while going to the bathroom. At the time of his death, there were 21 different drugs in his system including antidepressants, stimulants, sedatives, and tranquilizers. In August 1996, investigative reporter Chuck Philips of The Los Angeles Times revealed that Simpson had been obtaining large quantities of prescription drugs from 15 different doctors, and that police found 2,200 prescription pills lined up in alphabetical order in his bedroom closet. A 1998 book by journalist Charles Fleming reported that Simpson's prescription drug expenses totaled more than $60,000 a month at the time of his death. He also referred to Don Simpson as "a supercharged simple-minded creature, an Aesop's fable on crystal meth."

[@paulotonedef]

James L. Anderson High Concept. Great book.

[@kevinrichards3288]

@James L. Anderson unbelievable that he had that many kinds of drugs inside of him all at once.

[@zillsburyy1]

ok wiki

[@justinnardine8564]

I found this story very interesting

[@jacobrichardson1952]

R.I.P. Don Simpson

[@jacobrichardson1952]

george fish yo stop disrespecting

[@dzanier]

he wasn't Jewish.

[@georgefoster1241]

Yeah right...neither is Joel Osteen. What a moron.

[@georgefoster1241]

I 'm only being honest Jacob. You can't fault a man for that.

[@robertoarmstrong7317]

Rest in Poo

[@sticksman1979]

Those guys had one hell of a time.

[@kybson19]

Tony Scott at 3:40... he just recently killed himself.

[@ESOJOTREBLA]

10 years from this comment? 2014?

[@ESOJOTREBLA]

I find out he died in 2012

[@themanwithnoname8548]

Don Simpson alive forever

[@sunnyhill5119]

Where at?

[@Manwichman]

Probably hell... that isn't life tho. He was wrong about God tho, Don knows He's real now and understands that Don is the reason he is where he is. Jesus doesn't send us to hell, we do it to ourselves

[@bbqnetwork8536]

Where was this made and for what network?

[@erichaynes7502]

Made for UK in 1996

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

I think the network would be Channel 4 at a guess judging by it's presentation

[@johnnyutah011]

Thanks for posting, would love to also see the Naked Hollywood documentary referenced in this doc

[@terrywright8731]

The ponderous music is very annoying.

[@erichaynes7502]

I think the music is very appropriate, it jolts you into reality, that this man is killing himself just like a man standing on the train tracks with the train coming straight at him but he can't do anything but stare at it.

[@Thirdbornentertainment]

@@erichaynes7502 music sux

[@nlmnyc]

He never got a chance to work with gay actor Michael Douglas.

[@samanthacook2495]

So that's what Tony Scott looked like! Love Domino so much! Great doco, as I ponder while I watch about what being "Toback-ed" could possibly mean, exactly...

[@94ejackAYTUser]

Was "A Death in Hollywood" a TV show?

[@erichaynes7502]

Yes, in the UK it ran for two seasons 1996-1997

[@zillsburyy1]

the 80s!

[@bbqnetwork8536]

When was this made

[@erichaynes7502]

1996 or 1997

[@paulzenco6182]

I loved some movies he produced, but unfortunately he was a shady guy

[@erichaynes7502]

Yep, hard core drugs will do that to you

[@psychedelicfright85]

The most talented ones have the worst Demons.

[@theobuniel9643]

He definitely would've been one of the first casualties of #MeToo had he not died in 1996.

[@samanthacook2495]

Alexandra Datig is a dead ringer for Cybill Shepherd imo.

[@AY-nr5uy]

RIP

[@kevinrichards3288]

Don was only 52 years old when he left earth. RIP💔😭

[@NordikFilm]

Only 52 ? at least he outlived John Belushi and Chris Farley.

[@kevinrichards3288]

@@NordikFilm yep but still young.

[@FreshlySnipes]

Who else came here from the Sopranos?

[@ballsmahoney8684]

THIS NIGGA KNEW HOW TO LIVE

[@tomgolseth2391]

Where did this come from? I knew Don as a 16/17 year old. I want to buy the option (digital) rights to this. Private message me. This is not bullshit.

[@southlondon86]

Sir what was he like at 16/17?

[@booognish]

Option? Who do you think you are, Don Simpson?

[@MilesBellas]

Producers are overpaid TBH.

[@jimi6481]

Don Simpson R.I.P 1-19-1996 Wow look at all the 9's in the date also 6+1+1+1=9. What does it mean?

[@paulotonedef]

It means that he died on 19th day of January, in the year of 1996. Pretty sure.

[@goose_ganja7007]

It means your fucking crazy. 🤪

[@gracielagarza1847]

Don't like the comments on God that's why he should have read the bible before saying all those things God set the record straight for him.

[@EarlFaulk]

+Graciela Garza I do not really see how the bible would have helped other push him to atheism quicker given God's penchant for commanding the jews to slaughter others in the Old Testament. Besides what's with that last comment? God basically decided to let the man kill himself with drugs because he didn't believe a hypocritical megachurch pastor rather than save him through personal revelation which is what any decent human father would have done. He didn't really trash God either he was trashing the Baptists. That last comment comes across as arrogant and gloating.

[@Studeb]

Nutty McNutjob, how do you explain all those other successful atheists like Bill Gates, richest man on earth and super generous to the poor? When will god punish him? :)

[@M4rt_FX]

He's 100% right though, it is just all a load of shit. Why would the church manipulate young boys that way? Wake up.

[@M4rt_FX]

You're an ignorant fool...

[@neaituppi7306]

@@EarlFaulk Commanding the "Jews" to slaughter others? It is amazing the ways people will turn any argument into a treatise against Jews. I hope you have grown up in the last few years. In the old testament, most of the killing was done directly by God, through floods and brimstone and fire. But it is all hateful bullshit.

[@Johnconno]

Twilight Of The Gods..? Are you joking?

[@JohnDoe-ip2hx]

TYPICAL sociopath😂

[@oscarobrien]

This vid is fucked up in a lot of places

[@themanwithnoname8548]

oscar obrien so isn't your mother

[@newman447]

this is the worst documentary I ever saw....the music, the narrator....it doesn't match. The production should match the Man....

[@erichaynes7502]

I think it's pretty good, it fit the dread and dreariness of drug addiction..the bold music jolting you into realizing this was an unending march to death.

[@ericjohnson8326]

You're mean. Don deserves to have his story told. It's short, direct & apologetic. Just like Don. Here's the thing! If u dont have your own reality.....create one.