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Log: Police called to Owen Wilson's home for suicide attempt

07:54 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 29, 2007

From Wire reports

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Police were called to Owen Wilson's home because of a report of an attempted suicide, according to a police log of weekend calls obtained Tuesday.

The log doesn't indicate who made the call, but lists "attempt suicide" as the reason for the 911 call.

The Dallas-raised actor was in good condition Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Hospital officials said Tuesday they weren't releasing any updated information.

The actor's publicist, Ina Treciokas, declined to answer questions Tuesday about whether Wilson attempted to commit suicide. She said Wilson's statement asking for privacy was all that was being released.

The initial reports on Monday triggered surprise and an outpouring of support for Wilson.

"He always seemed very happy to me. . . . When I heard the news this morning, I was totally shocked and, quite honestly, saddened, " said Robert D. Yeoman, the cinematographer on Wilson's upcoming movie, The Darjeeling Limited. "I hope he pulls through and gets whatever help he needs to get his life back on track."

Andrew Wilson, the bearded older brother of the roguish Wedding Crashers star, spent Monday with him at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to New York Daily News reports.

"I'm here to visit Owen Wilson," said Pulp Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson as he entered Cedars shortly after Andrew Wilson. "Yeah, everybody's sorry."

Wilson had two movies in production and two more upcoming releases to help promote.

DreamWorks Pictures said in a statement that filming continues on Tropic Thunder, a comedy starring Wilson. The studio offered no details on whether Wilson's role in the film, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jack Black, would be recast.

It was also unknown if Wilson's hospitalization would affect his appearance opposite Jennifer Aniston in the 20th Century Fox comedy Marley & Me.

A Fox spokesman told Hollywood trade paper Daily Varietythat “it's a totally inappropriate question at this time” whether he would appear in the movie.

Wilson's hospitalization could also keep him from helping promote The Darjeeling Limited, in which he stars alongside Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman. The Fox Searchlight film was to be released next month.

Paramount also had a Wilson film due out in March: the Judd Apatow-produced Drillbit Taylor.

Wilson is considered a charter member of the Frat Pack, a circle of funnymen that includes Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. Wilson has appeared in half a dozen comedies with Stiller, including Night at the Museum, Starsky & Hutch and Stiller's upcoming directorial effort, Tropic Thunder.

Wilson's path to Hollywood success traces back to the University of Texas, where he met future director Wes Anderson. They launched both of their careers when they co-wrote Bottle Rocket, about hapless would-be burglars.

Anderson directed, and Wilson starred alongside his younger brother, Luke. Poets of loopy adolescent angst, Anderson and Wilson co-wrote Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums and routinely plundered incidents from Wilson's life for comic and touching effect.

They were nominated for an Oscar in 2002 for Royal Tenenbaums. And although they stopped writing together, Wilson has continued to star in Anderson's films, including The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and the upcoming Darjeeling, in which Wilson travels to India with his screen brothers to try to repair their relationships and find a spiritual epiphany.

The 38-year-old actor was initially taken by ambulance from his home to Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday and later transferred to Cedars.

The police log shows the initial call came in at 12:08 p.m. and cleared at 5:17 p.m. and a report was filed. Police said Monday that privacy laws prohibited them from releasing that document.

The police log was obtained Tuesday by CelebTV.com.

Treciokas released a brief statement on Wilson's behalf: "I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time."

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