It's Not TV. It's A Guy From HBO Throwing Another Guy Down An Elevator Shaft Once Featured On HBO.

It's Not TV. It's A Guy From HBO Throwing Another Guy Down An Elevator Shaft Once Featured On HBO.
BED, the New York club akin to an atmospherically lit Sit n' Sleep showroom and made famous in an episode of Sex and the City, played host to a bizarre accident Saturday night. Granville Adams, a manager at the club (and, strangely enough, an actor from yet another HBO series, Oz), brawled with a customer, hurtling him towards a set of elevator doors with enough force to open them and send him plunging four floors below:

Adams, 43, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Saturday and charged with criminally negligent homicide, police said.[...]

Police called to the nightclub in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood early on Saturday found 35-year-old Orlando Valle, who had fallen in an elevator shaft. He died at the hospital.



Local media said Valle struggled with Adams after a friend of Valle's and the club's coat checker argued. Valle fell against a set of elevator doors that gave way, and he plunged several stories, landing atop an elevator in the shaft, according to the media reports.

While the accident is a grave matter, if anyone can find its silver lining, it's HBO's marketing department, for whom the freak fatality might serve the fortuitous secondary role of reminding the public about two of their acclaimed series still available on DVD. It's the sort of "you can't buy it" publicity HBO execs might only dream of, along with a front page Post story about a mob hit going down at Club Toga involving several tunic-clad wiseguys, just in time for the return of hit dramas Rome and The Sopranos.
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