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November 27, 2009

Gus Van Sant, Mary Lou Lord, and That Girlfriend To Appear in Searching For Elliott Smith Documentary...

Perhaps most controversial is an interview with Jennifer Chiba, the girlfriend that was in the apartment when Elliott died (and was subsequently hit with a lot of nastiness and death rumors when the suicide ruling couldn’t be 100% confirmed). Other notable figures interviewed are director of the short Smith documentary “Strange Parallel,” Steve Hanft and David McConnell who helped record much of Smith’s last album From A Basement Under The Hill (we also sp0ke with him back in the day).

Noticeably absent are key people like Quasi members Janet Weiss, Joanna Bolme (an ex-Smith girlfriend who joined this Portland band later) and Sam Coomes (a close friend of Elliott’s who seemingly never spoke on the record about Smith’s death until de Wilde’s aforementioned 2007 book; journos who followed this story closely considered him the holy grail in the picture even though he wasn’t apart of the last few years of his life).