Ta-Daaa....

John as Joey Coyle....

He's in the neighborhood bar in this shot.
I've been reading some things about the real Joey Coyle. Apparently there's a book out by some dude who wrote some other famous tome. (Both his name and the name of the other book are just gone outta my mind right this second...) From what I understand, neither the book nor the newspaper articles it's based on are very nice to Joey. (Probably has a lot to do with the fact that I can't remember the name of either...) The author(s) seemed to want to just make Joey out a born loser, which just puts me off. The story itself is enough. There's no need to get rude about it.
None of what I've read has changed anything about how I feel about Joey and what he did. He's still pretty cool in my blog.

Posted by: Stevie at 09:39 PM

Comments

1 Yay. Thanks for the pic. I'm soooo fekkin bored at work that I looked up stuff about Joey Coyle's plight (well, John C pix too). Your tax $$ hard at work, my friends. Gotta love Uncy Sam. No better place to improve your internet skills.

Posted by: Kenna at January 13, 2004 11:56 PM (SstK3)

2 Does anyone know how he died at such an early age?

Posted by: Sol at November 27, 2004 02:41 PM (yobgi)

3 I read that Joey Coyle committed suicide, even as he was waiting for the movie to be released (1993). Can't seem to find any pix on the 'net yet of him...gonna keep looking. Curiosity's killing this cat...

Love John C's performance in this movie (as ALWAYS!!)

Posted by: Corina at March 18, 2005 01:07 AM (RAryc)

4 Just in case anyone wants the link to where I found the above info on Joey Coyle:

http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/m/money_for.html

BTW, anyone found any pix of the real Joey Coyle? Would love to see one.

Thanks!

Posted by: Corina at March 18, 2005 01:18 AM (RAryc)

5 Joey hung himself in his basement with cable wire. I saw someone has asked about that. He struggled with a drug problem at the time of finding the money. He later did get help, but it was always a struggle. I'm from South Philly too and hearing his story really struck me. I had heard it growing up from people I know who knew him. He had a good heart, but the drugs just got to his mind. He lost control of the money. It actually took control of him. In the end he just got sick of people telling him "what they would have done". Maybe if he would have found the money when he was straight...maybe this, maybe that. Rest in peace Joey

Posted by: r at July 12, 2005 04:52 PM (t4yQN)

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