Spalding Gray is Missing

[Tessellation]

(and all the mesia gives a damn about is Bennifer; it makes me sick)




NEW YORK (CNN) -- The wife and brother of missing actor-writer Spalding Gray are concerned he may have jumped off the Staten Island Ferry and are "bracing for the worst," said a family friend and spokeswoman.

Gray has attempted suicide before, said spokeswoman Sara Vass. Reports that a Staten Island Ferry worker thought he saw Gray coming off a boat Friday night have left Gray's wife, Kathie Russo, and his older brother, Rockwell, fearing he may have been readying himself for another attempt, Vass said.

In September, Gray left a message at his Manhattan apartment saying good-bye to his wife and telling her he planned to jump from the Staten Island Ferry, Vass said. His spouse called police, who notified authorities on the ferry, according to Vass. A despondent Gray was found sitting on the ferry and escorted off the boat, she said.

Russo and Rockwell Gray are urging police to search the waters and question passengers immediately, Vass said.

But Sgt. Michael Wysokowski of the New York Police Department said there is no plan to do so now.

"We have taken the report [from the ferry worker] into consideration, but it is speculative at this point," Wysokowski said. "He didn't say he saw him jump. He didn't say he tried to hurt himself. He just said he thought he saw someone who looked like him."

Gray is known for writing and starring in the autobiographical film "Swimming to Cambodia" and for appearing in such movies as "The Killing Fields," "Beaches," "The Paper" and "Kate & Leopold."

Vass said the 62-year-old has a family history of depression but that a turning point in his condition came in June 2001, when he sustained severe injuries in a car accident in Ireland.

Vass said Gray received treatment at psychiatric hospitals after the accident. Gray's wife and therapist thought that Gray had been making progress recently and that he was through the worst of his depression, Vass said.

Police said he was last seen at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at his apartment in SoHo but did not show up for a dinner appointment that evening or a rescheduled flight to Colorado the next day.

The last time anyone heard from him was at 9 p.m. Saturday when he called his Sag Harbor home on Long Island and spoke with his 6-year-old son, saying he loved him and was on his way home, Vass said. Gray has three children.

Russo reported her husband missing at 7 p.m. Sunday, Wysokowski said.

Lt. William Armstrong of the South Hampton Town Police Department said Gray had been scheduled to fly to Colorado for a skiing vacation Saturday, but his flight was canceled and rescheduled to fly Sunday.

New York police said he was last seen wearing a brown sweater, black corduroy pants, brown shoes, a gray jacket and blue scarf.

Frank Depaulo, the detective in charge of the Gray investigation, said police are continuing the search.

"Our mission is to get him home -- ratchet up the investigation," Depaulo said. "There's a great deal of desperation about this. The kids are very upset, and his wife is beside herself -- it's very difficult for everyone."
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[sppunk]

No one care about spare psuedo-authors who want to kill themselves.