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October 5, 2006
Del Close's skull... is not
The controversy over whether Del Close's famous skull really was his skull, which surfaced with a Chicago Tribune article in July, has now been laid to rest (sorry). Charna Halpern has admitted in a New Yorker article that the skull is actually from a medical supply house.
Since the Tribune took a closer look at the skull, Halpern has been confronted by a number of Close’s friends and fans. She tells them that the substitution was never intended as a hoax: “Del and I were improvisers, and improvisers always say yes to each other’s ideas onstage, make them work.”
The New Yorker: SKULDUGGERY
Chicago Tribune: Not even close: Skull not that of improv legend
Posted by Fuzzy at October 5, 2006 10:11 PM