Grizzly Man Page #7

He did change his name

to Treadwell to be theatrical.

And it was a family name.

I know he got on

Love Connection

with Chuck Woolery.

I think he got on another show.

There were promises made

that never came true.

And he tested with the actors

to get the bartender job

on Cheers.

And allegedly he came in second

to Woody Harrelson.

How close a second?

I don't know.

But that is what

really destroyed him.

That he did not get

that job on Cheers.

He spiraled down.

Timmy used to body surf out here.

He had a boogie board

with the Union Jack on it.

And he was totally fearless.

The amazing thing about Timmy

was he did...

He had this Prince Valiant haircut.

And he could surf

and go under water,

and yet still that hair would hide

his receding hairline.

It was the most

amazing thing I'd ever seen.

No matter how rough the surf,

you never saw Timmy's forehead.

I don't know how he did that.

How's the hair look?

At some point in Timmy's life,

he had a near fatal overdose.

How he survived it,

I don't know.

He was a tough guy.

But I guess it was

an epiphany for him.

After that he was looking

for a different persona.

I guess that's when

he came up with

where he was from

and his delightful accent.

I never questioned it.

Treadwell's need to invent

a new persona for himself

led him to elaborate

fabrications.

He claimed to be an orphan

from Australia,

and even checked out details

of a small town in the Australian outback

in order to sound convincing.

His accent, though,

remained suspicious.

It almost sounded more Kennedy-esque

than Australian.

After Timmy's death,

people said, "Well, don't you feel

betrayed that he did that?

That he didn't tell you the truth

about his accent or his origins?"

And that never bothered me.

Timmy always amused me.

There's an old saying

on the farm,

"If it doesn't scare the cows,

who cares?"

Well, I don't think

Timmy ever scared the cows,

so who cares?

He was troubled.

I mean, it...

One time he went to a doctor.

They wanted to put him on some kind

of an antidepressant or something

to keep his mood, 'cause his moods

were so up and down.

And he started taking it for a while,

and then he stopped.

He said, "I had to stop."

I said, "Why?"

He said, "Because I can't stop.

I can't have the middle grounds.

I have to have the highs

and the lows.

It's a part of my life,

it's a part of my personality."

He definitely had a dark side.

He was mixed up in drugs which makes you

mixed up in bad people, people with guns.

Timothy always had a sense of justice

that was his own.

So he got into a lot,

a lot of trouble.

I think that...

How dangerous?

How dangerous? I mean...

I don't think he would've ever...

He couldn't have ever killed anybody.

He always kept it in check. One thing

that we did every once in a while

which just seems so bizarre

by now, but it's...

We would go, when we lived in the Valley,

to the Van Nuys courthouse.

We would watch when criminals

were being sentenced.

We would watch people

getting their sentence.

And I think we did it...

I did it just for shock value,

and because it was something

I had never done.

But he did it, I think,

to remind him

if he went to that dark place,

what his life would be.

I'm in love

with my animal friends.

I'm in love with my animal friends!

In love with my animal friends.

I'm very, very troubled.

It's very emotional.

It's probably not cool

even looking like this.

I'm so in love with them, and they're

so f-ed over, which so sucks.

Do you know you're the star

for all the children.

They love you. And I love you so much,

and thank you.

Thank you for being my friend.

Isn't this... so sad?

This is a bumblebee

who expired as it was working

at doing the pollen thing

on this Alaskan fireweed.

And it just is... Just has

really touched me to no end.

It was doing its duty,

it was flying around.

Working busy as a bee,

and it died right there.

It's beautiful, it's sad,

it's tragic.

I love that bee.

Well, the bee moved.

Was it sleeping?

There's your poop.

It just came out of her butt.

I can feel it.

I can feel the poop.

It's warm.

It just came from her butt.

This was just inside of her.

My girl.

I'm touching it.

It's her poop.

It's Wendy's poop.

I know it may seem weird that I touched

her poop, but it was inside of her.

It's what... It's her life!

It's her! And she's

so precious to me.

She gave me Downey.

Downey's... I adore Downey.

Everything about them is perfect.

Perfection belonged to the bears.

But once in a while,

Treadwell came face-to-face

with the harsh reality

of wild nature.

This did not fit into

his sentimentalized view

that everything out there

was good,

and the universe in balance

and in harmony.

Male bears sometimes kill cubs to stop

the females from lactating,

and thus have them ready again

for fornication.

Oh, God!

I love you.

I love you and I

don't understand.

It's a painful world.

Here I differ with Treadwell.

He seemed to ignore the fact that

in nature there are predators.

I believe the common denominator

of the universe is not harmony,

but chaos, hostility and murder.

He wandered too far

from the den.

And the wolves last night

that I heard howling,

screeching in glee

and excitement,

it was over the termination

of one of the babies.

This Expedition 2001

has taken a sad turn,

but it is a real turn.

And I mourn the death

of this gorgeous baby fox.

Good-bye, little fox.

Get out of his eye,

you friggin' fly!

Don't do it when I'm around.

Have some respect, you f***er.

Most disturbing for him

was to find the skull

of a young bear.

In the summer of 2000

came an extended drought.

The creek was so low that for weeks

there was no salmon run,

and starving bears

simply ate their own.

It has been only five, not even six days

since the baby died.

And this is all that's left

of the little tyke.

That's it!

There's nothing else left.

They've eaten everything.

It's so sad.

She was so cute.

Five days and all

that's left is a skull.

This called for desperate measures.

There are fish lining up

about to try to make a run.

And now they have a good reason for going

because I have built them a corridor.

Let's have a look at it.

What I have done is... Have a look.

I've constructed a runway for them,

a navigational trail.

When interference with nature

was not enough,

he had to invoke higher powers.

Oh, live TV.

Live on tape.

Okay, so here's the deal.

Pull this down a little bit.

It's September 20.

It's the year 2000.

It's Expedition 2000.

There has not been a substantial rainfall

for almost two months.

The fish have not run since

about August 2, August 3.

We are now getting our first rain,

but it has just slowed down.

We need at least 2 inches,

I think even 3 inches of rain.

In the last two hours, we're up

a little over.20 inches of rain.

That is not enough. We're gonna

need more rain. We need more rain!

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