cult film freak: February 2018

Written by James M. Tate / 2/27/2018 / No comments / cliff robertson , fifties , kim novak , romance , susan strasberg , william holden

WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'

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<u>Year of Release: 1955</u></div>
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"At a PICNIC, everybody disappears." This line from one of the creepiest-of-schlock, unintentionally strange and eerie motion pictures ever, proving that, in many cases, Film Noir or Science-Fiction are the purest, safest forms of cinema when delving into the 1950's...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Camp Value: **1/2</u></td></tr>
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Starring William Holden, ten years too old for the part of a grownup-kid-type, about a decade out of college visiting the small town where old pal Cliff Robertson romances local beauty Kim Novak, whose little sister, played by future PSYCH-OUT starlet Susan Strasberg, innocently flirts with Holden's mysterious gentleman nomad who's been around the block more than anyone in the conservative setting: where the titular PICNIC is the centerpiece including Novak being worshiped in a swan boat while the town sings a dirge-paced "Ain't She Sweet" along with a barber shop quartet lined across, before and beyond a storybook bridge...<br>
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The stagey (clumsily based on a play) dialogue is godawful, including a description of dusk being clouds having one last "scrap" in the sky, or when Holden — after his (as seen in every poster) shirt's torn to partially display his famously muscular SUNSET BLVD bod (itself looking decades younger than his handsomely devilish, timeworn mug) — says, "She saw through me like an X-Ray machine," or, to Novak, about to wait beneath her window till the promise of a technicolor dawn, "You make me feel important... No! You make me feel... Patient!"<br>
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And right beforehand: "I'm getting tired of... just being told I'm... pretty," complains Novak as she's deliberately driven off from the PICNIC by Holden's primal beast, resembling more of an insurance salesman on a frantic bender than an ex-convict back on the run from the law, and this time for basically... kissing the prettiest girl in town in front of his rich buddy/her pseudo boyfriend, Robertson, whose incessant whine, along with Holden's monotone delivery when he's not feigning drunken youth in an awkward, goofy fashion, makes mincemeat of two otherwise great actors. "Let me go, you bum," Robertson shouts to his rougher/tougher ex-crony: "You no good... hobo!" All to the sound of that decade's type of fiercely melodramatic score locked inside of haunting reverberation. That is, until an occasional waist-up-lustful samba-beat ensues as the dames become sporadically mesmerized by Holden's boisterous yet enigmatic persona like daft, dizzy schoolgirls to a flashing image on a picture show screen. Which could be the intention all along. The characters are both the performers and audience.
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cliff robertson, fifties, kim novak, romance, susan strasberg, william holden

WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'

Year of Release: 1955 "At a PICNIC, everybody disappears." This line from one of the creepiest-of-schlock, unintentionally s...

REBOOT NOT REMAKE PSEUDO SEQUEL OF 'JUMANJI 2'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Apocalypse Now homage poster RELEASED: 2017</u></td></tr>
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A hybrid of TRON (humans inside a video game), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (a pulpy jungle mainline) and... well... JUMANJI... that ironically has the least to do with its sequel tag-titled WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE...<br>
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Which can't be held in our usual 80's-kid contempt of using CGI as opposed to classic practical effects since the original Robin Williams comedy adventure rode the wave of JURASSIC PARK's amazing computer technology, with rhinos, monkeys and other creatures replacing dinosaurs, only this time, instead of the jungle encroaching upon reality, four eclectic teens get pulsated inside of a JUMANJI video (as opposed to board) game...<br>

2018, action, adventure, dwayne johnson, jack black, karen gillan, kevin hart, reboot, sequel

REBOOT NOT REMAKE PSEUDO SEQUEL OF 'JUMANJI 2'

Apocalypse Now homage poster RELEASED: 2017 A hybrid of TRON (humans inside a video game), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (a pulpy jungle mainl...

ROBYN HILTON BLAZES A STRANGE TRAIL IN 'VIDEO VIXENS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974</u></td></tr>
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The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody Allen "old funny movies" and tackled later in KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, revels with exceptionally bad taste in VIDEO VIXENS, centering on an award show co-hosted by cult starlet Robyn Hilton, best known as the Governor's bimbo i.e. the bubbly blonde "bitch" at actor/director Mel Brooks's side in BLAZING SADDLES...<br>
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It's impossible to say which character came first since, while Hilton is no method actress otherwise, her high-pitched, airhead-bubbly voice is exactly the same as the comedy Western satire, only here she's the star VIXEN despite the fact her role is eventually limited to introducing each vingette, along with a porn director played by John Carpenter's future regular's regular George "Buck" Flower, whose producer wants their maligned and far-from-mainstream industry to be respected, thus forcing an uppity Felix Unger type critic to serve as the Master of Ceremonies, reacting woefully to each skit/sketch that are all tortuously unfunny, un-sexy, and unbelievably awful — yet it's great seeing Robyn Hilton in what might have landed her her BLAZING role. With an (opening) line from another actress, irritated at the director before a pornographic scene, shouting, "Easy on the beaver, you toilet pole!" it's a no-brainer it took no brains for the infamously awful Troma to make VIDEO VIXENS, and it takes even less to watch.  <br>

cheryl smith, exploitation, george buck flower, robyn hilton, seventies, troma

ROBYN HILTON BLAZES A STRANGE TRAIL IN 'VIDEO VIXENS'

Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...

MICHAEL O'KEEFE SURROUNDED BY COMIC GODS IN 'CADDYSHACK'

bill murray, chevy chase, cindy morgan, comedy, cult, eighties, ensemble, harold ramis, michael o'keefe, rodney dangerfield, sport, ted knight

MICHAEL O'KEEFE SURROUNDED BY COMIC GODS IN 'CADDYSHACK'

Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan YEAR: 1980 Originally an ANIMAL HOUSE of golf, directed by its co-writer, Harold Ramis, CADDYSHACK m...

MAKING A 'SPLASH' OUT OF 'THE SHAPE OF WATER'

2018, michael shannon, new, richard jenkins, romance, sally hawkins, science-fiction, thriller

MAKING A 'SPLASH' OUT OF 'THE SHAPE OF WATER'

Year of Release: 2017 Wide Release/Reviewed: 2018 There's a burden lifted after searching Google following THE SHAPE OF WATER and ty...

GERARD BULTER STARS BIG AND BEARDED IN 'DEN OF THIEVES'

2018, heist, neo noir, new

GERARD BULTER STARS BIG AND BEARDED IN 'DEN OF THIEVES'

Year of Release: 2018 If Randall "Tex" Cobb played COLUMBO, you'd have Gerard Butler as Big Nick O'Brien, a bad cop wi...

TRIBUTE INTERVIEW W/ DRUMMER & ACTOR MICKEY JONES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Archived Mickey Jones Interview from 2008</u></td></tr>
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If
 you’ve seen Mickey Jones once, you’ve seen him a thousand times, only 
you might not realize it. Mickey is a character-actor that has appeared 
in so many films and TV shows (and even some commercials) that it’s 
impossible to name everything he’s done, at least not in two or three 
paragraphs...<br>
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If you’ve seen a tough biker in a film or show – or a random
 badass with a thick beard who can kick the piss out of anyone at any 
given moment – that might just be Mickey Jones.
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But his acting talents aren’t limited to 
tough-guy/biker-villains. He has played sensitive, intelligent 
characters as well. The bottom line: Mickey Jones is the epitome of a 
character actor… He’s done pretty much everything.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>w/ Michael Ironside in V THE FINAL BATTLE</u></td></tr>
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His
 career began as a drummer. He was behind the skins during the 
groundbreaking 1966 Bob Dylan concert where crowds booed Bob for going 
electric. He also played for a band called “First Edition” with Kenny 
Rogers on vocals. But it was in the late seventies when Mickey, tired of
 the road, branched into acting.</div>
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And he hasn’t stopped since.</div>
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<b><u>INTERVIEW</u></b></div>
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<b>What was your favorite TV  movie that you appeared in and why?<br>
      </b>My
 favorite TV movie was actually the  min-series "V: The Final 
Battle". Working with my best friend, Michael  Ironside, was the 
best. We became life-long friends and it was also the  highest rated 
mini-series in the history of television.</div>
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<b>One of my favorite character-actors  is Paul Koslo whom you appeared in several shows with… When did you first work  with him?<br>
      </b>Paul
 Koslo is one of our very best actors. We first worked  together and 
became friends on a pilot called, "Down Home".  I  was very new to the 
business and Paul sorta held my hand. He is the best.</div>
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<b>What was your favorite  theatrical movie that you appeared in and why?<br>
      </b>My favorite theatrical  movie was "The Fighting 
Temptations". It was exciting to get up  early and go to work on this 
film. Everyday was great fun. I will never  forget that job.</div>
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<b>Along with Dennis Burkley you  have been a biker in many films – have you two ever been in the same project?<br>
      </b>The
 only time Dennis  and I worked together was in the Kevin Costner film, 
"Tin Cup". We  used to go up against each other all the time but this 
was the only time we  actually worked together.</div>
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<b>What are some of the other  actors who you’ve played in Biker movies with (fellow “Biker role actors”)?<br>
      </b>Big Bill Smith  [William Smith], Charlie Dierkop, John Quade. It's hard to remember all of  them.</div>
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<b>When did you realize you  wanted to switch from musician to actor?<br>
      </b>I dreamed of being an actor when I was  8 years old but I
 did not believe that this kid in Texas would ever have the  
opportunity. I was at the movie with my dad when I was 8 and remember  
asking myself, "I wonder how you get to do that?”<br>
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It seemed so far  
away. After I moved to Los Angeles and got to know a  number of actors 
and people in the business, I then believed I could do it. I  say, 
"Never give up". I was tired of going to the airport  everyday on 
concert tours. I just had to get off the road so I gave up a  great 
career to try and get in a business that I loved but starting at the  
bottom.</div>
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<b>Was acting always something  that came natural to you?<br>
      </b>I think so. I never studied. I went to one  acting class 
with Jeff Corey, one of the best acting coaches in the business  who 
told me: "You don't need the class, you are a natural actor". I  think 
he was right.</div>
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<b>Who are some of your favorite  musician-turned-actors?<br>
      </b>I can't think of anyone except Rueben Blades.</div>
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<b>Who are some of your favorite  actor-turned-musicians?<br>
      </b>NONE! I think actors are all wannabe musicians.</div>
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<b>You worked on a memorable  scene with (Governor) </b><b>Arnold</b><b> Schwarzenegger in “Total  Recall” – how was it working with </b><b>Arnold</b><b>?<br>
      </b>Arnold
 is the classiest guy  I have ever met, let alone, worked with. I love 
Arnold. A few weeks  after I got home from Mexico City, where we shot  
"Total Recall", I got a large envelope in the mail with the return  
address reading, SCHWARZENEGGER. I guess the post office knows where  he
 lives. Inside were several photos of Arnold and me doing scenes  
together. He signed them and sent them to me. He did this jest 
completely  unsolicited… A CLASS ACT!</div>
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<b>In
 the movie “V: The Final  Battle”, when one of the good guys (Michael 
Wright as “Elias Taylor”) finally  casts the deciding-vote to nuke the 
aliens, your character “Chris” holds up his  hands and does a silent 
round of applause – it’s hilarious and a scene I love  to re-watch. Was 
that improvised or scripted?<br>
      </b>That silent applause  was just my way of saying THANK 
YOU for doing the right thing. It was  not scripted but it was the right
 thing to do as “Chris Farber”. </div>
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<b>You appeared on the TV series  “V” (which 
came out after both miniseries) for two or three episodes, and then  
Michael Ironside (“Ham </b><b>Tyler</b><b>”) leaves the show… Question:  Was your part on that show as a special guest because of Ironside’s  departure?<br>
      </b>I was supposed to be a regular just as Ironside 
was. After  he knew that I was not going to be a regular, he decided to 
leave the show as  well. The miniseries was great but the weekly series'
 budget was cut to  nothing and there was no production value there. The
 series was an  embarrassment. It was time to go.</div>
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<b>What was your first acting  gig? Were you nervous filming it?<br>
      </b>My
 very first acting gig was in the Steve  McQueen film, "Tom Horn". I was
 a little nervous but the role I  got was great. It was the guy that 
Steve shoots down in the street later  in the movie after he shoots the 
guys foot at Brown' Hole. The assistant  director switched my role with 
one of the drivers that was his buddy. I  was relegated to playing the 
guitar at Brown's Hole. I was pretty  heartbroken. I got screwed on my 
first film.</div>
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<b>You have a classic cameo with  character-actor John Diehl in National Lampoon’s "Vacation" opposite </b><b>Chevy Chase</b><b> – any special or funny  memories of that shoot?<br>
      </b>National
 Lampoon's "Vacation" was early in my  career. When I read that script, I
 actually laughed out loud alone in my  room. I had no clue it would 
have the impact it has. I cannot go through  an airport without someone 
coming up to me and asking to say my lines from  "Vacation", you know, 
"ALL OF IT BOY". We shot that in  Cayenta, AZ. A few years ago,  I was 
on the Kyle Petty Motorcycle Ride Across America. We stopped in Cayenta 
 for gas and I pointed out our shoot location to Richard and Kyle 
Petty. It  was right across the street. Pretty cool to go there again.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>so... Don Johnson was a johnson</u></td></tr>
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<b>Were there any acting jobs that didn’t go that great?<br>
      </b>I can't think of any  of my jobs that did not go 
great. If it had gone bad, I would probably  been fired. The only 
situation where I loved the film but not the actor was  “Tin Cup” with 
Don Johnson.</div>
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<b>You’ve been involved in many  fight scenes in films – do you do your own stunts?<br>
      </b>I do my own fight  scenes but I do not do any of the motorcycle or car crashes. I let the  pros do that for me.</div>
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<b>Being a very confident and  talkative 
person (you’d mentioned in your Bob Dylan DVD that you could hold a  
conversation with a telephone pole), are you asked by directors to 
improvise a  lot?<br>
      </b>I  would say that the chance to get to improvise is maybe
 25% of the time. Most  directors like you to stick to the script. The 
writers like you to say the  words they wrote.</div>
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<b>Name a few directors that you  really liked working for – and why?<br>
      </b>I
 loved working with John Badham, of  "Drop Zone". No improvising there. 
My favorite was John  Frankenhiemer. He directed "The Train" with Burt 
Lancaster,  "Birdman of Alcatraz", "Ronin" and many more. I love  just 
sitting with him and getting him talking about the early days of the 
business  and the films he directed. Robert Benton directed "Nadine" 
with Kim  Basinger and Jeff Bridges. He won Academy Awards for "Places 
in The Heart"  and "Kramer vs. Kramer". A good old Texas boy.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Steve McQueen, TOM HORN</u></td></tr>
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<b>Name some of your favorite  actors you’ve worked with?<br>
      </b>Arnold, Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Cuba Gooding Jr.,  
Beyonce Knowles, Steve McQueen, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Ironside and
 there  are too many more to remember.</div>
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<b>What gives you the most  satisfaction – music or films?<br>
      </b>Tough question. A few years ago, I would have  said 
music. Today, I think there is nothing better than doing a film. 
However,  I still like to pick up a guitar and play some blues.</div>
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<b>Have you ever worked with character-actor Tracy Walter?<br>
      </b>I can't remember ever  working with Tracy, although he was a  great friend of mine.</div>
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<b>Which of all the characters that you played can you relate  with the most (are most like)?<br>
      </b>I don't think I have ever just played  ME. I try to create a character. I never try just to be me.</div>
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<b>Around what time in your  acting career did you realize that you were really doing well (when the jobs  started rolling in)?</b> In the summer of 1978, I did a guest star role on "The  
Incredible Hulk". After that show aired, I started getting calls like  
crazy. That was the real turning point in my acting career.</div>
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<b>What was the final deciding  factor to go from music to film?<br>
      </b>Like I said earlier, I dreamed of acting since  I was 8 
years old. I had reached a point in the music business that I felt  like
 I had done everything there was to do and I wanted to get off the  
road. I was on an airplane 7 days a week, 10 months out of the year for 
23  years. I wanted off the road. I knew that nothing would ever happen 
for me  while I was on the road, so in 1976 made the decision to get off
 the road and  pursue an acting career. I did it at the right time.</div>
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<b>When people see you on the  street, what movie or show do they mention to you the most?<br>
      </b>When I meet people on  the street they always mention "Vacation", "Sling Blade"  and "Home Improvement".<b> </b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mickey Jones, RIP</u></td></tr>
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<b>You usually have a beard but in some shows you don’t… Do certain gigs require you to have a beard or to be clean shaven?<br>
      </b>I will always have my beard. The only shows I can think 
of  without my beard is the first "Incredible Hulk" and  "M*A*S*H". I 
wanted to do "M*A*S*H" so I shaved for  the two-parter that I did. My 
wife called her family in Las Vegas and told them  "to watch "M*A*S*H" 
tonight because Mickey has a real nice guest  star role". A half hour 
after the show was over, her sister called  and said, "We all watched it
 but he wasn't on". They had never  seen me without a beard so they 
missed me.</div>
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<b>You appeared in a great episode of THE 
INCREDIBLE HULK (titled "Ricky", named after your character) where you 
played a mentally-challenged, sweet natured mechanic… Being that you 
usually played tough guys, was this role difficult?<br>
      </b>That
 was a real  challenge and it was the big break of my career. Until 
then, I had only  done one or two line parts. In that script, I had 52 
pages of dialogue in  a 56 page script. On the first day of shooting our
 director told me that he had  read roughly 70 people for this 
role. Most of them read the character as  either a punch drunk fighter 
or a blithering idiot. He loved that I  read the character as a little 
kid in a big body. After the show aired, I  got tons of letters from 
parents and teaches of retarded kids telling me thank  you for not 
making this kid a dummy or a moron. I hit the bull's-eye  with this one 
and it jump started my acting career.</div>
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<b>What kind of roles on film do  you consider the easiest?<br>
      </b>Bikers.</div>
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<b>Which actor do you think  you’ve appeared in the most number of shows with?<br>
      </b>I appeared
 for 8  seasons on “Home Improvement” with Tim Allen. I did several 
"Dukes of  Hazard" as Cooter's cousin, B. B. Davenport and I did several
 episodes of  "The Incredible Hulk”, a different character every year 
after  the 1978 season.</div>
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<b>When you first got into  acting, what acting teacher did you study with and what kind of method (if any)  did you use?<br>
      </b>The only method I use is to learn my lines and try not  to bump into the furniture. A quote from Spencer Tracy.</div>
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<b>Do you like playing villains?<br>
      </b>I love  it. It's what I do best.</div>
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<b>Being an avid golfer… what’s  your handicap?<br>
      </b>I got down to a 12 but today, I am probably a 19 or 20. Getting  older SUCKS!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>with Bob Dylan during the famous 1966 tour</u></td></tr>
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<b>During
 that famous Dylan show  where they yelled “Judas”, who was it who said 
“Play it f---ing loud!” Many  think it was Dylan… Was it?<br>
      </b>I
 know the answer to that. For over 30 years  everyone thought it was 
me. It was not me. In the  documentary, "No Direction Home", Martin 
Scorsese tried to  manipulate the film and sound to make it look like it
 was Bob. IT WAS NOT  BOB!<br>
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If you check it out, the picture and sound do
 not sync up. The  answer is the true answer. In the film, Bob is 
whispering into  Robbie Robertson's ear. The voice shouting, "Play 
F------ Loud  was yelling LOUD. Bob was whispering...<br>
<br>
As I said, the film 
and  the sound do not sync up and here's the kicker. The person 
shouting,  "Play F------ Loud" has a British accent. My belief is that 
it  was one of our stage crew sticking up for us in the moment. We had 6
 road  and stage crew members on the film and I truly believe that is 
the person  responsible. I hate to open whole cans of worms but Scorsese
 got it  wrong. I will stick to that until the day I die.</div>
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<b>What are a few of your favorite Dylan albums?<br>
      </b>My favorite  is "Bringin' it All Back Home", then "Highway 61  Revisited" and of course, the album I played on, "1966 LIVE".</div>
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<b>Tell us a little about your book THAT WOULD BE ME?<br>
      </b>"That
 Would Be Me" took me 15 years to write. For several  years I wanted to 
get a real writer to write the book for me while I told the  stories. I 
finally realized that was never going to happen. I am  stuck with this 
mess and it's up to me and me alone to get this  done. The book has been
 out for a couple of months now and is  doing quite well. A lot of 
musicians are buying the book. If you  would like to check out the book,
 go to my website at <a href="http://www.mickeyjones.com/">www.mickeyjones.com</a>...<br>
<br>
There
 you can  click above and below the book cover, on the red letters and 
that will  take you to my page on the publisher's website. There you can
 read,  "About the Book", "About the Author", a review of the book  from
 a media consultant from San Diego and you can also "Read an  Excerpt" 
from one of the chapters on Bob Dylan. I hope everyone will  check it 
out.</div>

arnold schwarzenegger, bob dylan, eighties, interview, michael ironside, mickey jones, nineties, seventies, steve mcqueen

TRIBUTE INTERVIEW W/ DRUMMER & ACTOR MICKEY JONES

Archived Mickey Jones Interview from 2008 If you’ve seen Mickey Jones once, you’ve seen him a thousand times, only you might not reali...

HELEN MIRRIN & JASON CLARKE STARRING IN 'WINCHESTER'

2018, biopic, helen mirren, horror, jason clarke, new, suspense

HELEN MIRRIN & JASON CLARKE STARRING IN 'WINCHESTER'

The Winchester Mansion rendering YEAR RELEASED: 2018 One of those "Based on a True Story" movies that's really based on a ...

PT ANDERSON DRESSES-DOWN HIS 'PHANTOM THREAD'

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In PHANTOM THREAD, set in the 1950's post war London, Daniel Day Lewis's lanky Reynolds Woodcock and Anthony Perkins' legendary <i>psycho</i> Norman Bates have a lot in common — yet the more relaxed, friendly, polite, patient and open-minded of the two owns a motel...<br>
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In his usual fashion (pun intended),  big budget arthouse director Paul Thomas Anderson has created yet another labor-of-love orchestrated to progressively build as the story moves forward. Only there's no real story here; PHANTOM is more a character-study. Two, actually. One about a semi-famous dressmaker, whose company bears his porn-star last name, and the other is an initially clumsy, tall and plain-till-she's-gorgeous waitress who soon becomes his clothes-fitting human mannequin and, eventually... well... the <i>eventually</i> here takes a very long time, saturated with awkward silences invaded by random hissing snips of perturbed rancor. Any anticipated suspense of how the two will disconnect with each other, at any given time, amounts to practically nothing. And not so fitting within the classy, sophisticated time period, the F-bomb goes practically nuclear — mostly spoken or shouted by our temperamental yet melancholy leading man — and stands out like a paper sack in a rose garden (although these are the few moments when the dependably over-the-top Lewis goes over-the-top).<br>

2018, daniel day lewis, fifties-era, neo noir, new, paul thomas anderson, romance