There are few greater joys for a movie fan than when you see director John Milius (Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn) being interviewed and then realize "hey, that's John Goodman from The Big Lebowski!" Some examples:
Here is Milius speaking about the creation of Apocalypse Now.
Here is Goodman's Walter Soback explaining why he doesn't roll on Saturdays.
Here is Milius talking about being a conservative in Hollywood.
Here Soback "draws a line in the sand."
On some days, and this is one of them, I wear my "World of Pain Shirt" featuring an angry Soback pointing his gun. Once I guy talked to me about, asking why I have a shirt with Milius on it. The fact that this guy just assumed that people walk around with the faces of directors with cult followings pasted on their chests amused me.
Another quick anecdote, this one's actually interesting. In his book A Cinema of Loneliness Robert Phillip Kolker describes how Milius would be in a convertible driving wildly along Sunset Blvd. He was standing up in the back, firing of his shotgun. At the wheel was a topless Magot Kidder. I ask you, is this not the fantasy of every male who was a preteen in the late-'70s or early-'80s? Permanent Link: 8:29 AM |
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"Well then Donny, you have no frame of reference...You're like a child who wanders into a movie theater and wonders why C. Thomas Howell is shouting 'WOLVERINES!'"
I always wanted to know how that line was going to end...
# posted by Brit : 1:38 PM
I imagine they also share the same hatred for Hispanic sex offenders, and both would have you know that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
# posted by Jeremiah : 11:10 AM
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