FIRST LOOK: The News in Brief

by Joal Ryan
December 19, 1997, 1 p.m. PT

FARLEY UPDATE: An autopsy has been completed today on comic actor Chris Farley. A coroner's official tells the Chicago Tribune that the ex-SNL star's sudden death may have been drug-related. Farley's body was discovered at his Chicago apartment yesterday afternoon, a "white, frothy fluid" seen seeping from the mouth, the paper reports.

FARLEY ADD: There is one final Chris Farley film in the can: Fans can see him next year in Almost Heroes, a comedy about bumbling explorers costarring Matthew Perry. Farley completed work on the movie in 1996.


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