Talk:Brad Davis (actor)
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I still don't buy that he got infected from cocaine use. It's physically impossible to transmit the virus through breathing i.e. snorting. So was he into injecting cocaine, or "speedballing", or what? Ellsworth 18:23, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- It was stated at the time that he contracted HIV infection as a result of cocaine use in the early 1980s.
- It was never seriously posited that you could get AIDS from snorting cocaine. If someone finds a source this statement can go back in the article. Otherwise the article should conform to the citation: Davis was bisexual and kept his disease a secret until shortly before his death. Ellsworth 19:04, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
(USER: BILL DAKOTA) Brad would often go to Gold's Gym on Ventura Boulevard and afterwards would hitch hike with his shirt off. He was picked up by men whom he had sex with. I introduced him to artist, Kenneth Kendall, who had painted a porcelain miniature of him. This was after the screening of CHARIOTS OF FIRE at the Academy Theater on Wilshire Boulevard. Kenneth later would give the porcelain miniature to his widow at the memorial for Brad at the Doolittle Theater in Hollywood. One of Brad's co-stars on MIDNIGHT EXPRESS said they had told Brad to get his shit together because the movie looked like it as turning into something very good and they didn't want him to screw it up by being high. I always felt his brother, Gene Davis (10 to Midnight), was better looking and had hoped to see him in more films. He was devastated by Brad's death.
Removed erroneous statement that Brad was "a descendent of Jefferson Davis." Brad is listed in The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears by Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, Southern Historical Press, 1979. This book traces the family's lineage back to a Captain James Davis, who was master of one of the ships in the third resupply to Jamestown in 1609. Of the three men named Jefferson Davis listed in this book, the oldest was born in 1879.
Also, the genealogy of Jefferson Davis presented by Rice University does not appear to intersect with that described in the above book. This site also makes a convincing argument that few living people named Davis can legitimately claim Jefferson Davis as an ancestor, but alludes to the fact that many Davis families in the Southern U.S. are nevertheless fond of claiming otherwise. This might explain the unsubstantiated reference to Jefferson Davis in After Midnight-- a great read, incidentally. --Mahler3 05:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
