JZ, Larry Roberts' mother was mr. flea's next door neighbor when he was growing up in Cleveland. She was very proud of him and devastated by his death (I think he was her only child). She and mr. flea were actually surprisingly close for a women in her 80s and an unrelated teenage boy.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
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flea - Feb 03, 2010 6:26:39 am PST #6646 of 30000
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Frankenbuddha - Feb 03, 2010 6:46:15 am PST #6647 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
IOMovieN, Matilda and I are watching Lady and the Tramp again and marveling again (okay, the marveling is mostly me) at the nuanced and witty and endlessly pleasurable performance of Larry Roberts.
You know, it never ocurred to me that the voice actor wasn't someone famous, but I never bothered to check who it was. It was just such an instantly iconic voice.
tommyrot - Feb 03, 2010 6:53:16 am PST #6648 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The worst movies ever, from a poll in Empire magazine: [link]
The top 10 bad movies: 1. Batman and Robin; 2. Battlefield Earth; 3. The Love Guru; 4. Raise The Titanic; 5. Epic Movie; 6. Heaven's Gate; 7. Sex Lives Of The Potato Men; 8. The Happening; 9. Highlander II: The Quickening; 10. The Room.
Awww, I kinda' liked Sex Lives Of The Potato Men.
OK, I've never even heard of it....
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2010 6:57:47 am PST #6649 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Somebody's a skipper...
JZ - Feb 03, 2010 7:02:17 am PST #6650 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Larry Roberts' mother was mr. flea's next door neighbor when he was growing up in Cleveland. She was very proud of him and devastated by his death (I think he was her only child). She and mr. flea were actually surprisingly close for a women in her 80s and an unrelated teenage boy.
Oh, that's wonderful! And sad. And astonishing.
Hec and I were trying to piece together the gaps in his life story...all those years of great success onstage and all those tours with the USO, but completely invisible to the larger public because none of it was on film. Until that one spectacular role, and then he went back to Cleveland almost immediately, and never returned. Whatever the reason, I'm glad he was going back to a proud, loving mother.
Vonnie K - Feb 03, 2010 9:22:02 am PST #6651 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I linked to this on LJ already, but for those who haven't come across yet: [link] Manohla Dargis from New York Times talks to Jezebel about difficulties women face in Hollywood, while hilariously dropping F-bombs all over the place. Heee. I like pissed-off Dargis quite a bit.
Jesse - Feb 03, 2010 9:38:55 am PST #6652 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Man, that was awesome.
Vonnie K - Feb 03, 2010 9:50:37 am PST #6653 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Huh. I just noticed the article was from Dec 14, 2009, not this week. Funny nobody had linked to it before. I was link-hopping from Slate's Oscar talk. (Wow, that guy on Slate really doesn't like An Education.)
erikaj - Feb 03, 2010 9:52:24 am PST #6654 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Yeah...also, do you think she needs a "Lloyd"? Cause that's somebody whose abuse I'd take for a while.
Shir - Feb 04, 2010 6:07:40 am PST #6655 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
(Popping in)
I don't know if this posted here before, but you can watch online, for free, all of the five Oscar Nominated Shorts. [link]
(Popping out)