Stephen Maddox appeares to have “vanished” so I am going to post this outright.
I am looking for anyone that has credible and verifiable information on any of the "goings on" involving Andy Kaufman, Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman, Stephen D. Maddox, Enrique Presley, Claire Chanel, or Julie Hastin-Ponciff.
I have uncovered a great deal of information on these “individuals” and am willing to trade with someone who has done the same. It is simple I will give you a piece of information then you send me a piece of information. If it checks out I will email you more information and so on.
Please email any facts to kaufmanlivesfacts@yahoo.com I will not respond to questions, guesses, thoughts, hunches, or speculation. I want to trade provable facts. Especially with those in the Los Angeles, Orlando, and Indianapolis areas.
I will “go first” and share the following with all of you. I have shared this with a few of you via email already, so I do not consider it of lasting value. If you have anything of a similar nature, email it to me and we may strike up a partnership.
A primer for those new to all of this:
Stephen Maddox is a character in a 1963 movie titled “Running Man” about a man who fakes his death and goes into hiding.
The following is all public information I dug up from public sources:
The web address www.andykaufmanlives.com was registered in August of 2003 to a Stephen D. Maddox living in an apartment on Emerald Lakes Drive in Greenwood Indiana.
Our “Running Man” Stephen D. Maddox traces back 19 years and almost 30 addresses to when he first appears on the scene on Troy Ave. in Indianapolis Indiana in 1985.
A gentleman named Sam Maddox had the phone number 786-3152 on Troy Ave. in Indianapolis Indiana from 1969 to 1984.
In 1985 the same address on Troy Ave. and phone number (786-3152) was now listed to a Stephen D. Maddox.
Within months in 1985 Stephen D. Maddox moves his phone service and mail to an apartment on Dunston Drive in Indianapolis.
The Troy Ave. home still owned by Sam Maddox is sold in 1998. Nobody, including Sam Maddox, ever reestablishes phone service at the Troy Ave. address in the 14 years between 1985 and 1998.
Stephen D. Maddox proceeds to continue to forward his apartment telephone service and mail in an unbroken trail of 27 apartments until he ends up at 1187 Emerald Lakes Drive in Greenwood Indiana in 2004.
In May of this year Stephen D. Maddox appears to go underground by moving out of Emerald lakes and forwards his phone and address to a bogus address on Longwoods Ct. then immediately forwards it to a Post office box.
27 different verifiable addresses from 1985 to 2004. When figuring overlap for moving that is an average of probably no more than 6 or 7 months per address over a 19-year period.
24 of the addresses are in Indiana, 1 is in Hollywood California, and 2 are in Florida.
He lists his employment as anything from musician, janitor, children’s entertainer, comedian, animator, truck driver, filmmaker, television producer, self-employed and retired. His recognizable employers range from ABC, NBC, Disney, Universal, and Clear Channel. I would be most interested in speaking to anyone who may have worked with a Stephen D. Maddox.
--- Ira wrote:
> Did you go to Andy Kaufman Dead or Alive and if so
> what happened.
> Saw your post and was wondering if you knew
> anything]
> Thanks
Just got home from it.
It was ridiculous.
Tony Clifton took everyone for milk and cookies.
There was even a wrestling match set up at the comedy zone. After the match, Tony announces with the bunny ranch girls that the ticket stubs are good at the bunny ranch and to meet there at 8pm. "Kaufman gave you cake on the staten island ferry, and I'm giving you hair pie."
By 3am people thought it had end and cleared out.
Just when there was about 50 to 100 left, Tony Clifton comes back out and says, "now that all the people who had to go to bed early are gone, we can start act two".
He took us on a candle night vigil to Andy's apartment in LA. We all had to be real queit and Andy's original costumes and memorabilia where there.
Fantastic show.
After calling in sick today and wish I did Tuesday as well. (missed act three at the bunny ranch)
Maybe next year when Kaufman re-appears. He probably couldn't get out of his restaurant shift in Aruba.
According to George at Drudge Retort:
"ACT 3 at the Bunny Ranch-- Tony really DID buy everyone a romp with a hooker. And drinks. Air Force Amy wrassled a spectator in the 'kaufmann suite'."
The last post asked about the actual value of Clifton's offer. His announcement on Sunday night was that you'd get anything you want. The only thing is that the girls at the Bunny Ranch have a good amount of freedom to conduct their business. Sure, they follow certain rules of the house, and obviously they have to bring in enough cash each month or whatever, but on a John by John basis, they get to decide what they're willing to do.
This was an issue on that night because of the fact that we were all "comps." This meant that the girls could expect the same, low, flat-rate they are given for any comp, regardless of the service they provide. One girl tried to up-sell my friend, telling him he wouldn't have much fun with just the comp, but for a couple hundred more it would be different.
So, depending on your desires (and unfortunately for some, your desirability) you could get whatever you want, but you may have to ask around for a little while to find someone willing to give it to you. Everyone I saw there seemed pretty happy with their decision to make the trip, especially me. Sure, the crazy sex overshadowed most everything else that night, but the fact that it was Andy bringing us there will be just as unforgettable.
I'll try to check back to this discussion board soon.
In several reports before the event, Zmuda was saying one of the things included was to be a film. What was it?
“I can tell you some of it, some of it I can’t. Tony Clifton will perform — if he shows — with his band, the Cliftones, and his dancers, the Cliftonettes. And there’s going to be the premiere of an Andy Kaufman film that’s never been presented in public, and will never be
shown again.”
The film was a whopping hour-and-a-half documentary made by Lynne Margulies and Bob Zmuda. It was about Jim Carrey's transformation into the Kaufman character for "Man on the Moon."
The reason Zmuda says you'll never see this film anywhere else is that Jim Carrey went as insane as Andy would have if he'd been on that set. He antagonized all his former Taxi co-stars, as well as everyone else all the way up to the CEO of Universal Studios, who had stinky cheese rubbed on his hands by Carrey's Tony Clifton. Anyway, apparently Jim's management felt that if this documentary ever got out, no one would want to hire him again, since he really seemed to be as hard to work with as Kaufman had been. Zmuda says Carrey gave special permission for a one-time-only screening at this event.
It was a fairly interesting film, but was not received with open arms by the crowd. We had been there for a long time already, and the show had not yet offered the grandiose thrills and suprises on which most of us had probably set our hearts. So when they made us sit through a 90 minute documentary that was essentially about Jim Carrey, there were many who got antsy. I happen to know the guy in the audience who started several other people shouting disapproving comments like "That's not Andy!!" during the film. When the film ended, there was a mixture of applause and actual boos.
Clifton came out and saved the night with not only his great performance at the House of Blues, but also his invitations to Act II (milk, cookies, and wrestling at the Comedy Store), Act III (free sex at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch), and Act IV (a midnight candle-light vigil tour of Andy's old West Hollywood apartment).
I would like to know if a complete version of the Carnegie Hall video recording exists, that's to say WITH the introduction of the orchestra, etc and especially the big final with Santa Claus.
I know there is a VHS tape available but these scenes are cut out.
also, do you know of any DVD release of this particular performance?
many thanks,
hope you can answer me directly to my email.
we all know that the taxi cast except for DeVito really didn't like Andy, but where did Christpher Lloyd stand? i checked both bios, and he's never ever mentioned, can someone solve this?
