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baltimore psychiatric hospital
from hannibal (tv series) posted in television by crabapple
Although Will Graham and company are held in the Baltimore Psychiatric Hospital in the tv series Hannibal, the exteriors used for the show are the David Dunlop Observatory outside of Toronto in Richmond Hill, ON (with a fair amount of CGI added for effect).
Many interiors of the hospital are shot in the facility as well, demonstrating the beaux arts architecture.
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from hannibal (tv series) posted in television by crabapple
Although the Hannibal TV series on NBC is based in Baltimore, Maryland, many of the exteriors for the show were shot in Toronto.
Hannibal Lector's charming 3-story house is actually part of St. Andrew's Church, located across from Roy Thomson Hall on Simcoe St.
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from sam cooke posted in music by crabapple
On December 11, 1964, Sam Cooke ran up to the manager's office at this motel, clad only in a shoe and a sports jacket.
Although the circumstances leading up to and after that encounter are still debated, the results were the same: Sam Cooke was fatally shot in the torso. He was 33 years old.
Reportedly, his last words were, "Lady, You Shot Me."
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from the smashing pumpkins, jonathan melvoin posted in music by crabapple
On July 12, 1996, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin were sharing a room at the Regency Hotel on Park Ave. They were also sharing heroin- the Pumpkins had recently done an Asian tour recently the readily available heroin in Thailand had revived addiction in both of them.
Shortly before midnight on July 11th, both of the musicians took some heroin. A couple of hours later, Chamberlain woke up to find Melvoin unconscious and was unable to revive him. When the paramedics, they pronounced Melvoin DOA from an overdose.
Melvoin was a multi-instrumental talent, a graduate of Julliard who played drums in the Dickies and keyboards for Prince and the Smashing Pumpkins.
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from blind melon posted in music by crabapple
On Saturday, Oct. 21, 1995, Shannon Hoon was found dead from a heroin overdose in the Blind Melon tour bus near Kingsway Studios, where the band had recorded their second album, Soup, earlier that year. He was 28 years old.
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