It's week old news but I hadn't heard actress Adrienne Shelly was dead until today.

First saw her in The Unbelievable Truth which has become one of my favorite films. Since then I've caught quite a few of her movies such as Trust, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me; Revolution #9; Hexed; Sudden Manhattan etc. Some hit and miss features but I always enjoyed her performances. No matter the role, there was always heart behind it.

Such a tragic loss, she will be missed.

Yes. I told my friends about this last weekend, and they were stunned. I think we all had a crush on her in The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. We were all just sad that she apparently committed suicide with a husband and three-year-old daughter. Now, it turns out she was murdered!

This story gets more bizarre by the minute. She died by hanging in a murder that was staged to make it look like a suicide.

Some Ecuadorian illegal immigrant was working construction in the apartment below the apartment Shelly used as an office. I guess Shelly complained about the noise and the immigrant got scared she was going to call the cops no doubt fearful because of his immigration status so he punches her in the face. He thinks he killed her so he carries her into her office's bathroom and makes it look like a hanging, only the punch hadn't killed her. She died because he hung her.

The cops nailed the guy because they found a footprint on the toilet seat and then checked the soles of the shoes worn by all the fireman and cops and anyone else who was in the bathroom and when they didn't find a match they saw a footprint that matched in the apartment where the construction was taking place and quickly caught the guy.

I thought Shelly was terrific in those two Hal Hartley movies, but her career never took off like I thought it would.

I last saw her -- for the first time in eons -- in FACTOTUM, but it was in an awful small role.