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The beautiful, inspiring Adrienne Shelly is dead. She was only 40. She was Hal Hartley's main actress in the early part of his film career.

It seems her death was a suicide.

People magazine reported that in 1996 she told a magazine that her father turned down agents who approached her as a child. Apparently he said, "I will not have my daughter jumping out of a window when she's 30."

As a teen I watched the movie TRUST by Hal Hartley over and again.

I loved when Adrienne's character talked with Martin Donovan's character about the word "naive."

I loved when she shouted after her boyfriend, "This is more important than football!"

Deaths are so sad because I wonder how I could have expressed my admiration for the person before they left us. I'm sure a lot of blogs and online magazines will receive comments over the next few days, maybe weeks. But where were we last week when Adrienne Shelly was going through what she was going through? Does fan mail really help? Do we really like celebs for who they are, or for what they represent?

Well I'm gonna have to go home tonight (after Borat) and pop in the TRUST VHS...(it's not available on DVD. Maybe now that this indie icon is on the cover of The Post of all papers, more people will see TRUST, and a DVD will actually be distributed...)

Anyway thanks to BQ for the first heads up today, and SB for knowing I would be affected by the news.