I'm watching the features on the Waitress DVD and it is just so sad about Adrienne Shelly. What a terrible world we live in where things like that can happen. She was such a beautiful girl, full of life, smart, and so talented. It's really sad.
shareI agree Pimp4u. I followed Adrienne's career all the way from the 1991 UK release of her very first movie 'The Unbelievable Truth'. I was heart-broken to learn of her death, and shocked that it was only after the 2007 US release of 'Waitress' that I got to hear about it. This tragic event was simply not reported.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried at her death. Not when I first heard about it, but later, when the terrible truth was revealed in court. I still cry whenever I think about the murder of this beautiful and sweet-natured woman. Such a great loss to motion pictures, and to the world.
By the way, are you aware that Adrienne's husband Andy Ostroy and her daughter Sophie both briefly appear in the film? Andy has a cameo as the 'Cake-Man' making a delivery to the diner, and Sophie appears at the end as a three-year old Lulu. Adrienne wrote the screenplay when she was pregnant in an attempt to address her own mixed-feelings about becoming a mother. The song playing over the end-titles 'Baby, Don't You Cry' was the lulaby that Adrienne would sing to little Sophie to get her to sleep.
I just thought you'd like to know.