Tox in the Fun

Celebrity Toxicology

• On Halloween night 1993 this 23 years old male actor collapsed and died of a drug overdose on the pavement outside of this Rock Club at 8852 Sunset Blvd

• The Viper Room

• It was here in March 1982 this 33-year-old actor and star of such movies as Animal House & The Blues Brothers died of a drugs overdose aged.

• 8221 Sunset Blvd. bungalow 3 of the Chateau Marmont

• Speedball

• October 4th 1970 this 27 year-old singer died of a drug overdose in room 105 at the Landmark Hotel (now called Highland Gardens)

• • Janis Joplan. 7047

Franklin Ave. Hollywood

Pearl

• Known as "That Fat Guy" on Saturday Night Live, was found in his pajama bottoms in a pool of his own vomit just inside the door of his Chicago condominium. He died of a drug overdose at the age of 33.

• Chris Farley

• October 31, 1974, this Houston optician put cyanide in Pixy-Stix handed out as Halloween treat. He killed his 8-year-old son with the cyanide-laced candy for $20,000 in insurance money.

• “There’s no question it had a national effect on Halloween”

• Ronald O’Bryan