Hey everyone... if you want a DVD of "The Life of Reilly" here is your chance!  www.charlesnelsonreilly for more.

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Hey everyone... the DVD release has been blind sided by the untimely demise of the distributor, New Yorker Films. More news soon, but the release date is uncertain at this point. I know, it sucks.

Barry

Hey everyone,
The Life of Reilly is listed as the best reviewed film of the year on Rotten Tomatoes.com.
Thanks to all for your support and love. We are all part of this film and Charles. Thanks for keeping his memory alive.

The Life of Reilly

Hey everyone.
The Life of Reilly started this past weekend in LA. I want to thank all of you that went and brought out your friends. We are starting on the East Coast this weekend and are extremely excited. Thank you all for your support. Keep the memory of your friend Charles alive and tell your friends all about his story.

Thank you

Life of Reilly Staff
Barry, Frank, John, Rob, and so many others.

Charles Nelson Reilly passed away on Friday of complications from pneumonia. He had been in ill health when we filmed THE LIFE OF REILLY in late 2004, but was a relentless trouper. His health really began to decline beginning with trips in and out of the hospital over Christmas of 2005, and finally being confined to a bed for over a year now. A few weeks ago Charles got up from his bed and, with some help, got around a bit with a walker. This was a good sign, and we were hoping that it was the beginning of a recovery. But he started slipping again, and was recently hospitalized for one last time.

We began this myspace page last year as a way to connect CNR with the cyberworld -- especially his younger fans, who he really got a kick out of hearing from. At first, we would go to his house and read the posts and messages to him. He really enjoyed the communications about his theater career, and was very proud when he heard from former students or people whom he inspired over the years. And he received a lot of these. He would dictate his response to us from his bed and we would dutifully post his replies on Myspace.

As he got more ill he became unable (and sometimes just too tired) to answer the posts and messages. We apologize to the many many fans who have asked CNR questions or requested autographs and the like. Trust that the love, respect and admiration was felt by Charles, even if he was unable to respond to all the inquiries.

For those of you who are asking to see the film, or for copies of the DVD for the film, we are releasing "Life of Reilly" in the fall. We had been waiting, hoping that Charles would recover so he could be part of the process of the release. This isn't going to happen, now. So we will put the film out later this year.

The last time I saw Charles we just sat in his bedroom and watched some TV (someone had sent him a DVD compilation of him and Marty Feldman doing skits on the Dean Martin Golddigger show... fucking hilarious!!!) and talked about the movie ... he had all kinds of ideas on how we should get the film out there. I read him some reviews of the film (he always loved that) and left. I am going to miss him. All of us who worked on "The Life of Reilly" had a special experience, as did everyone who came across Charles in life. He was brilliant, he was inspirational, he was funny as hell. If I have ever met a genius, it was Charles Nelson Reilly.

We give our deepest condolensces to Patrick. (who, by the way, is a Saint).

For those of you who want to pay your last respects, I suggest renting a copy of the "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" episode of the X-Files spinoff show, "Millenium" and fixing yourself a Manhattan (Charles preferred Jim Beam, with no cherry). You won't regret it.

"Love and kisses, sweetheart!"

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I don't really understand how this myspace thing works, but I really want all of you to see my movie, "THE LIFE OF REILLY", OK? So that's all I have to say. For more information go see more at charlesnelsonreilly.com. Is this OK? Is that all I need to say?

Full disclosure... CNR needed a little help on this one. I am one of the filmmakers, and we wanted to let you know that you can bulletin, blog, or put our trailer in your profile HERE and click on "Add to my Profile", "Bulletin This" or "Blog This".

CNR loves you!