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Here’s how blogging works. First you run a site for four or five years, then one day John Malkovich turns up at your house:
Also, my friend Bryan appears wearing a Pope hat for some reason. How did this come to be? Simple; John’s sister Melissa is a dear friend of this site, and arranged for us to meet while her brother (a wide-ranging blog reader) is in Sydney filming J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. Nadia cooked (veal involtini); pals brought wine; everyone talked politics and art and sport for about six hours.
Which wasn’t a stretch for Malkovich, who’s outrageously well-informed (and hilarious) on just about any subject you might name, from 1950s British cars to Portuguese architecture. Worlds-collide moment of the night came when John asked, in that voice: “What’s the story with Margo Kingston?”
- I can see soccer on the TV reflected in one of the pictures, but I’d love to know why the fellow on the left seems to be wearing a cardboard bishop’s hat.Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 04 30 at 12:30 PM • permalink
- (errr, that would be Tim’s left…)Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 04 30 at 12:31 PM • permalink
- I thought that Tim was to the left of everybody! (Or so the SMH says.)Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 30 at 12:44 PM • permalink
- Oops. I meant everybody was to the left of Tim. (It must be a virus affecting Canadian posters today.)Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 30 at 12:45 PM • permalink
- Looks like Blair is showing Malkovich how to open the combination lock on the Tardis hangar. Lord Rove will be displeased.Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 04 30 at 12:47 PM • permalink
- No, Tim is just explaining how to do a Rubik’s Cube with his eyes closed. Malkovich is looking at his eyes to make sure they are indeed closed.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 04 30 at 12:49 PM • permalink
- Goodness Tim – you should have had a competition for your devotees here
Win a dinner with John Malkovich and TimB
I would have put in one zillion entries as I love this blokes stuff
Fell in love with him many years ago after watching “Amadeus”
Now all I can say is – wow!
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 04 30 at 12:55 PM • permalink
- ahhh… safecrackers. I should have known.
I’m glad I wasn’t there. All that technical stuff about weapons and combination locks would have gone right over my head.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 04 30 at 01:15 PM • permalink
- Malkovich: The best actor in American cinema, and one of it’s more entertaining directors (you should see his adaptation, Dancer Upstairs- magnificent). He is my favorite actor, on par with Gary Oldman…who, oddly, is another right-winger.
Hmm, didn’t occur to me that my fave actors are righties…Malkovich is famous for exasperating people in his art crowd; truly a legend (I have no idea how the brit Oldman turned into a Republican, but he really is one).
I’m envious, Blair. You have one good luck in the people you get to have close to you: if I had one actor I’d like to pick the brain of (and thank God, I don’t: no star struck lad, this boy, thank you), it would be Malkovich.
Allright Blair, so make good- WHY? What did this have to do with politics? I’m really curious here, especially to find Malkovich is still connected to life and not in star-star land (which amazes and impresses me).
Tell. Us. About. The. Politics. We’re curious. The two words “Margo Kingston” aren’t enough.
Posted by mencken_cynic on 2007 04 30 at 01:17 PM • permalink
“What’s the story with Margo Kingston?”
Well?! What IS the story with Margo?!!!
Posted by Major John on 2007 04 30 at 01:34 PM • permalink
- I will first say that there is no one here who is a bigger fan of John Malkovich than me. He’s a very excellent actor.
However, I do have two questions. First, just who is this sister, Melissa, who is such a dear friend of this site? And second, did she mention anything whatsoever about secret stores of Sumerian mead? Because the last thing I want is to be awaken in the middle of the night by Yippie, my attack dachsund, barking ferociously at a motley cohort made up of Tim Blair, Malkovich, and the Pope, trying to work the lock to my storeroom in the basement in a secret place.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 04 30 at 02:09 PM • permalink
- What concerns me is that every photo of Tim drinking (that I’ve seen) shows white wine. Where is the gleeful consumption of all the yummy shiraz, hmm? Hiding it, are we?Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 04 30 at 02:16 PM • permalink
- Well aren’t we too cool for school! Did you ask him if he’s re-thought the whole Charlie Sheen for President thing?
Some other surprising right wingers.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 30 at 02:58 PM • permalink
- Being Tim Blair!Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 04 30 at 03:12 PM • permalink
- Oh GOD. Disgrace was the book my ex-fiance was reading—for years, because he had this pretentious idea that you should read “slowly” like people “used to do in Jane Austen’s time.” So he would sit there staring intently at a page for about an hour, giving the impression that he was not so much reading as trying to absorb the ink on the page into his brain. Watching him read was the opposite of restful. (By the way, my ex-fiance had a Master’s Degree in English, so he had had whatever ability he may have had to simply enjoy a book quite destroyed by the time I met him.)
Anyway, I picked the book up one day and read it through, as I was still under the impression that the ex’s opinion of what was “excellent” should be considered. Well. If your bag is hero-less “life in post-modern Seth Effrika sucks” stories than it was quite well-written. The caustic observations on academia in SA were quite good, though. It should make a great movie that I’ll never see.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 30 at 03:25 PM • permalink
- “Then it was quite well-written.” Also sans typos.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 30 at 03:26 PM • permalink
- OK, how many posts do I have to make before Penelope Cruz shows up…?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 30 at 03:41 PM • permalink
- “What’s the story with Margo Kingston?”
An obvious question when one is confronted with the sight of Margo cowering on a leash in the opposite corner of the room.Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 04 30 at 03:46 PM • permalink
- 31
Then let me know how many for Selma Hayek to show up!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 30 at 03:52 PM • permalink
Worlds-collide moment of the night came when John asked, in that voice: “What’s the story with Margo Kingston?”
Holy smokes! John Malkovich is a reader here? That is excellent.
What I want to know is, which one of you guys is John Malkovich using a pseudonym?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 30 at 04:00 PM • permalink
What I want to know is, which one of you guys is John Malkovich using a pseudonym?
This has the potential to start a really weird discussion. But since I am in fact John Malkovich, I’ll just throw my head back and laugh.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 04 30 at 04:10 PM • permalink
- #36
No, daddy dave, I’m John Malkovich. I was just messin’ with your head.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 30 at 04:19 PM • permalink
- You’re right, Yojimbo. I forgot about Alice.
I am Spart John Malkovich.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 30 at 04:26 PM • permalink
- Gosh, Andrea, and you didn’t snap him up when you had the chance?!Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 30 at 04:30 PM • permalink
- So why is Bryan wearing a mitre? If he was at your house for six hours, couldn’t you have asked him?Posted by Sonetka’s Mom on 2007 04 30 at 04:46 PM • permalink
I am Spart John Malkovich.
“I broke the dam”
/South Park
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 04 30 at 04:50 PM • permalink
- He he Margo showed up yesterday on ABC Radio National’s Book Show, reviewing Pauline Hanson’s autobiography.
There’s an audio file, if JM is game to listen in.
FWIW I think that Margo is sympathetic to Pauline, but couldn’t bring myself to listen too long.
I think it was pre-recorded, just in case Margo had a niggling to mention the woodpile …
- I liked him best in Retarded Jewel Thieves Take Manhattan.
I mean, I think that was my finest work.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 04 30 at 05:42 PM • permalink
- Amadeus?
Dangerous Liasons made him my wife’s favourite of all time (you should have seen her with the toothbrush stuck in her mouth when I showed her this thread), and my personal role model for life. Ripley’s Game also sees him in fine form.
John, sir, master, I live in the best part of Australia, can take time off work anytime and am about the greatest company you could keep for a couple of unforgettable days.
(Last paragraph designed to appear as a joke, concealing the faintest, yearning hope…)
- As Mr Malkovich asked “What’s the story with Margo Kingston?” I ask, “Andrea, what’s the story with the ex-fiance?”
(Cue image: lonely broken man wandering the streets of Miami, muttering to strangers Holly Hunter-style “Mah fyance left me.”)
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 30 at 05:53 PM • permalink
- A few points:
* Tim has “dear friends”?
* Hmmm, baby calf;
* Poor 1.618;
* Looks like a Swans game, perhaps Barry Hall lining up a kick;
* What’s with the marsupial cushion covers behind the couch;
* Maybe Miranda Divide has some news about her close friend. Miranda?Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 30 at 06:25 PM • permalink
- richard, forget Penelope Cruz, I expect that Nicole Kidman is in Australia from time to time. So why doesn’t she show up on this blog?Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 30 at 06:36 PM • permalink
- #56 I always thought Nicole Kidman was Habib.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 30 at 06:39 PM • permalink
- Morning 1.6. I think I know what you’re getting at.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 30 at 06:55 PM • permalink
- Hat parties are fun, but some idiot always manages to knock the bowl over.
The pith helmet is my favourite as I can choose if I want to be Churchill or Gunner Sugden or that Pommy bloke in Rorkes Drift.
Joe Stalin usually ends up paranoid delusional and orders that everyone be sent to Siberia and then liquidated.
Sherlock Holmes sits around puffing on a pipe trying to work out hoo dunnit.
Slim Dusty sits in the corner strumming away and singing “when the rain tumbles down in July”
- I dunno, in that reflection I see white pants, and that can only mean cricket.Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 04 30 at 07:44 PM • permalink
- What’s the deal with Robert Fisk, and why does Malkovich want to kill him?
I was reading Malkovich’s Wikipedia entry. There’s some great stuff there.
- Morning, 1.6. And may I say you looked lovely in that miniskirt.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 30 at 08:08 PM • permalink
- #66 – Thanks Dan, that’ll have my mind spinning all day. Malkovitch Malkovitch!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 30 at 08:11 PM • permalink
- 66
Good grief Dan, that was a lot of work………
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 30 at 08:12 PM • permalink
What I want to know is, which one of you guys is John Malkovich using a pseudonym?
he is. That one over there.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 30 at 08:17 PM • permalink
- #47 Ever since Meatballs 4, I have been his number one fan.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 30 at 08:32 PM • permalink
- LOL.
One of the biggest stars in the arts pantheon inquiring about an Australian so obscure she’s almost a secret.I love this.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 30 at 08:43 PM • permalink
- from Fisk’s article:
“Much of this disgusting nonsense comes from men and women who say they are defending Israel, although I have to say that I have never in my life received a rude or insulting letter from Israel itself. Israelis sometimes express their criticism of my reporting – and sometimes their praise – but they have never stooped to the filth and obscenities which I now receive.”And he STILL isn’t moved to report on them fairly!!!
Ass-wipe.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 04 30 at 08:50 PM • permalink
- Did you ever seen anyone who could celebrate victimhood, especially his own, better than Bobby Fisk?!Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 30 at 09:09 PM • permalink
- #82 Kyda
Did you ever seen anyone who could celebrate victimhood, especially his own, better than Bobby Fisk?!
I can hardly imagine how the sniveller feels about having a (less than complimentary) award named after him.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 30 at 09:23 PM • permalink
- I once had lunch with Monty the weatherman from the Today Show. Not sure what he’s doing now. Cop that Blair.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 30 at 09:30 PM • permalink
- If I recall correctly, I once had luncheon with Olivier and a friend of mine who dressed as Bishop Tutu. Put that in your pipe, Blair!Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 30 at 09:58 PM • permalink
- Margos says…
once had lunch with Monty the weatherman from the Today Show. Not sure what he’s doing now. Cop that Blair.1.6 says: Monty the weatherman fell in love online and got married!
Oh and Tim Tam, who needs John Malkovich at a dinner party when I look like Madame Marie de Tourvel in a mini skirt (or swinish’s version as showed) or this …
- #9 I suspect aussiemagpie was thinking of Dangerous Liaisons. They came out within a few years of one another in the 80s, were both eighteenth century dress-up jobs, lots of powdered wigs etc.
- #49, Mike G,
I hung out with Tim Blair for about five minutes in a Kinko’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. I gave him an Albuquerque Isotopes baseball cap while he complained about Albuquerque’s slums. So, like, we’re buds. This SO helps my “six degrees” game, not to mention the degree in the Mark Steyn and James Lileks directions.
- #99 –
Tiger are gay?
Hands up who’s gay pleasee, that’s okies if you are but just not if you’re my potential partner…
In a delightful 1950’s sense, I am.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 04 30 at 11:39 PM • permalink
- 1.6, last para at that link I just provided:
“If it gives people hope to give it a shot and maybe take the chance on the internet – it didn’t work out between us in that sense, but what we had was still a beautiful journey that we wouldn’t have had if we didn’t take a chance. “If it encourages people to try it themselves we see it as a positive,” he said.
They didn’t get married.
- This is a movie thread, so I’m taking the liberty of posting this to welcome Paco back… and maybe explain his absence…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 30 at 11:45 PM • permalink
- The Real JeffS —
Forget.
Penelope.
Cruz.Ooooookay….back away from the camel slowly…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 30 at 11:50 PM • permalink
- #110 Grimmy is JM? Holy crap.
I wonder how many other commenters here are film stars.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 12:39 AM • permalink
- #112 – Purely amateur street theatre for me. Usually at closing time.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 01 at 12:43 AM • permalink
- re – what’s up with Margo. Yet another triumph over the economic rationalists.
The website she inspired is back on track and losing money.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 01:00 AM • permalink
Also, my friend Bryan appears wearing a Pope hat for some reason.
I dressed up once to play “the bishop and the actress” once, but the costume shop made me pay for the drycleaning…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 01 at 01:19 AM • permalink
- Actually, if you shaved Tim’s bonce and organised corrective laser surgery for his peepers, he’d be a dead-ringer for Mr. Malkovich. On the other hand, Mr Malkovich has a certain sartorial splendour about him and Tim is from Werribee.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 01 at 01:39 AM • permalink
- I once had a pope hat covered in smurf wallpaper, a bit of dadaist flippancy if you will; as to being a “film star”, I prefer to keep my self esteem and avoid such tawdry, gauche and crass displays of “talent”, presenting my muse in a tangible, authentic and proactive manner.
1.618, I believe this chap who posts here as “paco” may well be on the other bus, good with colours and light on his feet. Note what he passes off as a “fedora”. I believe the whole detective thing has a whiff more of Truman Capote than Raymond Chandler if you ask me.
- From Wikipedia:
Blair was born in Werribee, Victoria, which is why he has been referred to in the media as “The King of Werribee”.
The King of Weribee. Retire from public life now, Tim, while you’re on top!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 05 01 at 02:01 AM • permalink
- Preview is going to be jealous.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 02:11 AM • permalink
- So is Dorothy.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 01 at 02:12 AM • permalink
- Has anyone ever seen Tim and Elliot Goblet in the same place?Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 02:16 AM • permalink
- Whatever happened to the Tim Blair Community Center and Massage Parlor? Has it been bombed yet?Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 01 at 02:27 AM • permalink
- Oh dear!
Earlier I said I loved John Malkovich in “Amadeus” – due to it being early morning here when I typed this, and me still suffering from Saturday Night Cricket Fever, I really meant “Dangerous Liaisons”
Isn’t it embarrassing making a mistake in public?
(And I just checked to make sure the “l” was in public – no more rash errors)
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 05 01 at 02:36 AM • permalink
- #134 CL
Thanks for that! Glad you knew what I meant
One day when TimB is off on one of his trips, perhaps he could have a “Your Most Embarrassing Moment” thread
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 05 01 at 03:17 AM • permalink
- #136 Muzzie Zapper
Good to hear that – I was wondering what the punishment was for a factfree post 🙂
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 05 01 at 03:20 AM • permalink
- Don’t know if these quotes are real, but I like them.
John Malkovich: The other day I was walking down the street in the rural town where we live (in France) and a truck hit me, rather hard, going fairly fast. And he starts to drive off, so I chase after him, reach in the window and grab his steering wheel. And I say, ‘Normally, in a civilized society, when we hit someone with a truck, we might inquire as to their well being.’ So he said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and I said, ‘Great. Try and be a little more careful and that would be fantastic, and so sorry to have troubled you.’ I walk another 30 meters and he pulls up beside me a second time—and asks me if he can have an autograph.
John Malkovich: I’m not prone to talk much about what I do. But then I never have been. I mean, I don’t think hookers rush home from work and say, “Honey! I had the most incredible hand-job today!”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 01 at 04:17 AM • permalink
- I note that Tim’s cheap friend is wearing the bishop’s attire. Yet more evidence of the smothering influence that the religious right are having on this country.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 04:58 AM • permalink
Still attempting to reclaim the chardonnay for the right, huh Tim?
Fight the good fight, Tim! But don’t forget the unpretentions little merlots, and those lonely cabs over there. Oh wait—I’ll take care of them. I’m game!
The pinot noir, however, can sit in the corner for a while. It displeased me. You don’t ever want to displease me.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 01 at 06:01 AM • permalink
- Somewhat O/T
The United Nations Human Rights Commission has banned a speech made by a delegate during its latest session in Geneva.
That would be the latest Holocaust denial speech from the Iranian delegate, I hear you say. The Sudanese delegate denying the rape and murder of civilians in Darfur, perhaps? A Libyan or Palestinian “NGO” claiming Jews have a monopoly on human rights abuse?
Yeah sure. This is Bizarroland we have somehow ended up living in afterall. This is the banned speech.
- I wasn’t really conscious of JM before “Empire of the Sun”. This was soon supplemented with “Dangerous Liaisons”. By “The Sheltering Sky” we were seeing almost too much of him, in some scenes at least!
Seeing him pop up in “Joan of Arc” and the excellent “Napoleon” series made me suspect he is a bit of a Francophile. The conservatism is, however, reassuring.
In case you are reading, John, Best Wishes from myself (also, obviously, from the assembled throng of commenters here) and we wish you an enjoyable stay as well as a successful project.
This SO helps my “six degrees” game, not to mention the degree in the Mark Steyn and James Lileks directions.
Last weekend I figured out I have two degrees of separation from William Shatner.
If, that is, you can count people who appeared on “Rescue 911”.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 05 01 at 07:52 AM • permalink
- Paco’s back! Richard, I loved your little project. It explains a lot.
And #123, Habib, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Paco is obviously a manly man of the macho persuasion.
Back on topic: And speaking of manly men of the macho persuasion, I love JM and would watch him sort his sock drawer–even argyles. I am pea-green jealous of TB’s evening with him. (Except for the guy in the hat. Blair can keep him.)
- #112, Margos Maid, I wonder how many other commenters here are film stars.
I am. *adjusts turban* I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. deMille.
Actually, I’m ahead of most of you (in years if nothing else, alas). Mr. Malkovich first perked my attention in Places in the Heart. For personal reasons, it remains one of my all-time favorites.
- John M and Michael Stipe look very similar.
I am Ron Jeremy.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 05 01 at 09:57 AM • permalink
- Y’all are so wrong. It’s obvious what they’re talking about in that pic.
Both Mr. John and Mr. Tim are sharing their favorite methods of squishing slices of sandwich bread into dense “one biter” nuggets.
Mr. John shows that he favors the squish and roll method which produces a ball shaped package of bread, Mr. Tim shows that he favors the compact to cube shape.
- Margo’s Maid—It depends on what your definition of ‘film star’ is…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 01 at 10:28 AM • permalink
- I don’t mind Malkovich reading this blog. Joining it? Hmmm. Ok, maybe, although it’s getting fairly crowded and noisy in here.
But if he thinks he can just join the VRWC without going through the five step ascension process to full member, he’s sadly mistaken. Heck, I’ve washed and waxed a bazillion vehicles of wanton destruction and I still haven’t made it to full member yet.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 01 at 04:56 PM • permalink
- #160 Tell us more please Richard!Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 06:40 PM • permalink
- #167 Hey, ease up on poor Tim.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 06:48 PM • permalink
- Someone else also visited Australia recently, Tim. Why didn’t you invite her to your house? You have so much in common – you were a pioneer of blogging, she pioneered e-commerce:
In 1992 Von Teese’s boyfriend (an early internet aficionado) convinced her to create a website where she could sell her photos, and before long dita.net was one of the first adult sites on the internet. ‘This was back in the days when people would send us a cheque in the mail, and when we got it we’d mail them the photos,’ she laughs.
Posted by David Morgan on 2007 05 01 at 08:34 PM • permalink
- #150- I was just gaggin’, surprised I didn’t get a bite.
Mind you, he seems to have come over a bit Bareback Mountainy in this thread.
Could this be the Paco Kid?
- One of the more interesting explanations I have seen for the origin of ‘pear shaped’ as in, going wrong, is that it relates to the use of hot-air balloons in WWI.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 01 at 09:03 PM • permalink
- On the subject of knowing famous people, an acquaintance of mine named Archie used to be Scooby Do on the Channel 9 Saturday morning kiddies show called “The Channel Niners”; his appointment was relatively brief, however- one morning after a big Friday night at the pub, he was lurking to one side of the studio and nursing a hangover when a little urchin decided it’d be rather a wheeze to pull scooby Do’s tail. Scooby didn’t take kindly to this, and hoofed the little basterds up the clacker while exclaiming on camera (muffled, but audible) to “fuck off you little cunt”, causing a shocked silence from the hostess and much wailing from the punted piccaninny. He later vomited inside the head of the costume before fleeing the building, just ahead of security.
We were dubbed “Loathsome Spotted Reptiles” by Sylvia de Costa Roque, who penned the social pages in the Brisbane Courier Mail in the 1980s, due to our outstanding performance at a Law Ball.
- Of *course* he’s outrageously well-informed and hilarious: He’s a Southern Illinois conservative, like me. We’re all a nest of good eggs, and we all want to take out Fisk with a length of rusty piano wire.
Really though, his family is beloved where I grew up, active in state ecological causes (real ones, that keep places beautiful), local newspapers, the whole bit. I’m sure he’s as every bit as good as the bunch he came from.
Posted by Aaron – Freewill on 2007 05 01 at 11:47 PM • permalink
- #177 ‘Loathsome spotted reptiles’ – ah, that rings a bell.
But that is entirely a matter…for you.
Posted by David Morgan on 2007 05 02 at 12:48 AM • permalink
- Not forgetting, ‘a self-confessed player of the pink oboe’.Posted by David Morgan on 2007 05 02 at 12:49 AM • permalink
- #177- I believe she plagiarised it from a monologue by Peter Cook featured in the first “Secret Policemans Ball” where he was playing a judge summing up. No matter, it was a badge we wore with pride. Probably should have had blazers made- it’s sort of a RWDB for the eighties. And wasn’t Kerry Packer supposed to be “The Goanna”?
BTW, scroll down through the comments on this MI item- there’s some little scamps having a jolly old chuckle about Pamela Bone’s diagnosis with Jimmy Dancer- those lefties really are a caring lot. I might join in- I hope the authors of those items get a flesh-eating bacterial infection of their unused reproductive organs, an infestation of botfly in their pointy heads and Crohns disease; how’s that for sharing?
- Margo’s Maid— “Nudist Colony of the Dead” and “The Naked Monster”… that’s all I’m sayin’…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 02 at 01:25 AM • permalink
- #183 – “It’s not “Citizen Kane,” but it is what it is—and for what it is, I give it a 10. Grab some beer, pop some popcorn and invite all your friends to laugh and sing along with the zombies from the “Nudist Colony of the Dead!”
Excellent!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 02 at 01:39 AM • permalink
- If it’s a choice between Citizen Kane and those titles, no question what I’d rather watch.
Hot damn, Richard. You are a film star.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 02 at 01:46 AM • permalink
- I must confess that the only thing I’ve seen Mr M in was that yarn where he was a baddie and killed all the other crims and then the plane slid down the street in Las Vegas for about 20km and he got killed and the only ones that survived was that bloke with the long hair and the sheila. Far be it from me to offer a critique but I thought it was just awful.
Be that as it may and having said that, let me say this, we all do things that seem like a good idea at the time, so it’s off to the video shop for me to have a look at some of the other gear, now I see that he might be a person of interest because all the posts here seem to be generally of the view that he is a thoroughly decent fellow.
But I can’t come at that old french stuff where they all wear that frilly gear and powder. I just can’t.
- #187- Yes that’s him. He was in that other stinker where Rusty Crows ex root got flattened by a Kenworth. Happy ending at least.
Have just finished watching the entire 2 seasons of Deadwood, which was interesting from the point of dealing with government interference, witty dialogue and the use of the word cocksucker about 8 million times.
Speaking of involuntary incontinence, there was this gem:
Excuse me Mr Hearst, I am having a gastric episode and I am trying to supress its expressionEB Farnhum
- Infidel Tiger—be warned. You may never get “Inky Dinky Doo-Dah Morning” out of your head EVER if you sing along…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 02 at 02:43 AM • permalink
- Malkovich is what Id refer to as an old style actor. Not his methods but his apparent drive to keep acting in pretty well anything.
A lot of stars wont touch “iffy” scripts or roles, as it might damage their “brand name”.
A lot of repected actors from the 60,s-80’s starred in some awful crap between their major roles. Think of the piles of spaggetti westerns, swords and sandals, and cheap “crisis of the month” movies spat out in that time. But occasionaly an actor would “own” one of these movies and turn it into magic. Think of Richard Burton in “the wicker man” (NOT nicolas cage), or Donald Sutherland in the 70’s “invasion of the body snatchers”. Both should have sunk, both held up well because of the actors.
A halfway decent actor can sleepwalk through a well shot and written movie (God knows tom Cruise has been doing it for 20 years now) but a great actor will lift dross.
I loved him in Napolian (Gerad Depradeu was Napolian he was Tallyrand?) though Gerad had the best line “you are shit in a silk stocking”.
I havent seen a lot of his stuff but most comes accross well, does understated menace well.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 02 at 04:02 AM • permalink
- #183, Richard even has his own entry on IMDB!Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 02 at 08:14 AM • permalink
#183, Richard even has his own entry on IMDB!
Oh, dear. I wonder how this will affect my standing in the primaries…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 02 at 10:56 AM • permalink
- Even for a Tim Blair thread this one is a marvel of disorganization.Posted by mythusmage on 2007 05 02 at 12:02 PM • permalink
- #198 The presence of movie stars sends us all a’twitter.Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 02 at 05:03 PM • permalink
- Sucking up to the pinko Hollywood elite? Pathetic. Did JM sign your arse? My god you need surgery bloghead.Posted by Miranda Divide on 2007 05 02 at 08:21 PM • permalink
- Onya Miranda.Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 02 at 10:18 PM • permalink
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