Thomas Kinkade 'Marks' Disneyland As His Own Territory

CoasterMatt · 03-05-2006, 01:13 PM

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LA Time's rips into Thomas Kinkade AKA "Painter of Light"
Today's LA Times has a character-assassinating cover story on Thomas Kinkade, the guy who paints scenes of woodland cottages with windows that seem to glow.

First, the Times discusses Kinkade's alleged shady business practices, which have driven at least on gallery owner to ruin. Next the article launches into Kinkade's alleged pattern of drunken and belligerent behavior.

In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.

And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview.

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Alex · 03-05-2006, 02:37 PM

Oh my. I played a small part in the writing of that article. I had no idea what she was writing about. Too funny.

CoasterMatt · 03-05-2006, 03:07 PM

Hopefully, you weren't doing any of the aiming

Kevy Baby · 03-05-2006, 04:20 PM

Well, they are trying to do a handwriting analysis...

Cadaverous Pallor · 03-05-2006, 10:44 PM

I've always hated his crappy paintings. Now that I know he's actually a scumbag, I dance in glee.

His paintings are the velvet Elvis of our generation.

flippyshark · 03-06-2006, 04:51 AM

Thomas Kinkade can take a perfectly nice landscape and make it into something as glurgy as an Anne Geddes photograph. Ick. Also, his depictions of 'light" looks like yellowish-orange extrusions of ectoplasm, not like real light at all. I don't get it.

katiesue · 03-06-2006, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

I don't get it.

That's always been my opnion of him, I never got it either.

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Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	I've always hated his crappy paintings. Now that I know he's actually a scumbag, I dance in glee. His paintings are the velvet Elvis of our generation. __________________ The second star to the right shines in the night for you
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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	Thomas Kinkade can take a perfectly nice landscape and make it into something as glurgy as an Anne Geddes photograph. Ick. Also, his depictions of 'light" looks like yellowish-orange extrusions of ectoplasm, not like real light at all. I don't get it.
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