X-Message-Number: 6813
Date: 28 Aug 96 01:29:01 EDT
From: "Steven B. Harris" <>
Subject: Leary Secret Out...

>From a Coming Issue of _Newsweek_, according to the Salt Lake
Tribune "headlines" section (no pun intended) today, Aug 27:
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   Timothy Leary still is dead, but the LSD guru apparently lost
his head in his bid for immortality, according to a new 
documentary. _Newsweek_ says that an unfinished cut of director
Paul Davids' "Timothy Leary's Dead" ends on a chilling note,
graphically showing surgeons removing Leary's head from his body
and placing it in a glass-covered cryonics cabinet for the deep-
freeze.  "Oh, God.  That never happened," his 22-year old stepson
Zachary Leary tells the mag, insisting the `60's icon's body was
in one piece when it was cremated after his May 31 death from
prostate cancer.  But, wait, in the closing credits, the film
shows a still-alive Leary being fitted for a mask, so was the
"decapitation" real or just fake?  Davids, whose film debuts
later this year at festivals in Venice and Toronto, won't say.
"I'd have to say point-blank that Leary asked me never to discuss
it in a way that would absolutely craft it one way or another,"
he told Newsweek.  "It's like the `Crying Game.'  It's not
intended to be exploitational: it's intended to give people
something to talk about."  Heads, you win!
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Comment: well, now it's out.  Some money-grubbing schmuck of a
producer obviously secretly taped us decapitating Leary, for
placement of his cerebrum in our glass-covered cryonics cabinet
for the deep freeze.  Rats.  Well, now we know why Michael made
us fabricate our cryonics cabinets here at CryoSpin in such a
dramatic style.  At least certain members of Alcor will now have
to eat crow for their unkind comments.  Mr. Leary is now safely
and permanently displayed in our cryonics deep freeze display
area, and we don't care if the world knows it now.  So what if
Alcor has Disney in *their* glass-covered cryonics cabinet?  I
suppose they think that makes them hot shit-- but when was the
last time they cleaned the dust off that glass?  Bigger cryonics
cabinets aren't necessarily better.  As anyone can tell you, it's
how you *use* a cryonics cabinet that counts.

                                  Steve Harris, N.D.
                                  Factual Coordinator
                                  CryoSpin

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