why was John Houseman famous anyway? I never saw him in anything but commercials
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 August 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
After a lifetime mostly behind the scenes as a producer, won an Oscar for playing imperious law professor in '74, did the same shtick for the rest of his life in movies and commercials.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
it can't be old because i'm not old and i remember those commercials
i am young and vibrant
― polyphonic, Friday, 15 August 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
(much to the consternation of his old collaborator Orson Welles, who was competing with him for ad work) xp
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63gpEtgrDq0
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
he was also Rick Schroeder's grandpa on "Silver Spoons"
Houseman's role in The Paper Chase, and that movie in general, catches the zeitgeist of the era for better or worse. But tbh those days and his advertising are well before my time
― Nhex, Friday, 15 August 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
anyway, it's a shame that wicked Martin Short impression of RW is not online, but here he breaks out his talk-show-mode Jerry Lewis for no real reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrwfH_d3iI
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't remember his commercials and I barely remember watching The Paper Chase, so I mostly know him as Ruth Gordon's boyfriend in My Bodyguard, the driving instructed in The Naked Gun and a punchline on Seinfeld.
― MaudAdams (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
*instructor
― MaudAdams (cryptosicko), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
What?Robin Williams is dead?Oh no!!
― nostormo, Friday, 15 August 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
is that worth seeing? I haven't seen a Bobcat movie since Shakes the Clown (which tbf is one of my favorite movies ever)
I'm a big fan of Sleeping Dogs Lie, but it's...divisive, to say the least.
― The Ape In The Outhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 August 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Worlds Greatest and God Bless are better films than Sleeping Dogs.
― boney tassel (sic), Saturday, 16 August 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
WGD is on netflix.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Saturday, 16 August 2014 07:42 (nine years ago) link
john houseman was a brilliant dude, also a candidate for The Most Interesting Man in the World
he was that rare thing, a Hollywood insider who was also a genuine intellectual. he wrote some great stuff for the early incarnations of film quarterly.
also he produced fritz lang's moonfleet which makes him an automatic candidate for immortality
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 16 August 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link
i like the way that, in his talk-show appearances, williams always seem to simultaneously be outrageously mugging for the crowd and having an extended private joke
seemed like a smart guy
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 16 August 2014 09:04 (nine years ago) link
RE: Williams in a Tim Burton Batman movie http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/08/15/comic-book-legends-revealed-484/3/
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Saturday, 16 August 2014 09:51 (nine years ago) link
cool thks
― duff paddy (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 August 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
I just started reading The Disaster Artist and Greg Sestero is writing about meeting Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman while filming a funeral scene in Patch Adams. Weird that when the book was published 10 months ago both of those guys were still alive.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Saturday, 16 August 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
just got to the bit in the maron interview where he talks about his suicide attempt. oof.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Saturday, 16 August 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that made me get real concerned all the sudden for everybody else I've heard of who's been through an attempt.
― how's life, Saturday, 16 August 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Watched Popeye over the weekend - if anything I appreciate it more now than I did as a kid. comedy is p low key (apart from the slapstick) but it is really great at creating that particular, v strange world.
tried to watch Good Will Hunting and... man I dunno how you guys sit through insufferable crap like this where everyone is either unlikeable or spouting pablum
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 August 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
They had a trailer for the latest Night at the Museum before Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend and you could hear a collective inhalation when Robin Williams appeared on screen.
They probably should cut the clip where Williams as Teddy Roosevelt falls face first, seemingly dying, into a table.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 August 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
I went to see that this weekend and nobody reacted audibly to that trailer (though I winced inside)
― example (crüt), Monday, 18 August 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
we're rewatching garp in 40 minute chunks (we have a 14 week old baby) and the scene where garp is overjoyed at his wife being pregnant, and drawing on her belly was partic hard to watch without a lump in the throat.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Monday, 18 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
fuck off, henry rollins
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Would like to see Rollins in Doubtfire 2.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
weird to see Rollins make the "think about the children" appeal, what does he know about parenting
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
altho tbh I kinda agree w him about suicide in general, although I wouldn't frame it in such a harsh way as he does
As far as I know, he hates his parents. At least that's the way he's portrayed it in his spoken word bits for about 25 years, so, um. I would've thought the value he placed on parenting to be extremely low.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
ppl who hate their parents often have pretty unrealistic ideas about good parenting ime.
― Five Lofts Left (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
otoh, some had really shitty parents so.
anyway fuck henry rollins on this, that's the main thing i came to say.
can you imagine how often rollins has thought of ending it himself tho?
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
He's been on a strength/weakness trip forever, has been stridently anti-suicide for just as long, it's nothing really out of the ordinary. And he's always been pretty protective of children, iirc so that part didn't seem that off to me.
That being said, and even being a bit of a Rollins fan, I don't agree with any of it because I'm not really into the whole absolutist it's THIS not THIS and if it's anything else FUCK OFF
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Henry Rollins and Oprah should get together, finally quell those gay rumors, share cover space on O magazine, dole out tough love to middle America etc
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Rollins is a hypernarcissist. Suicide rarely crosses the minds of people with everything in balance. When you love yourself as much as he does, you likely can't imagine depriving the world of more YOU.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
pure speculation but prob never imo? whatever, wanna see him hardman cancer patients too, they need to grab that shit by the scruff of the neck.
xxxp
― Five Lofts Left (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
idk why Rollins would hate his parents, he obviously copped a lot of that hardman shit from his dad
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Rollins does a lot of USO touring and hospital appearances, so I don't think he's hardmanning cancer patients and wounded vets. For a guy who likes to dig into the nuances of things, he's totally missing it here.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
this. I'm sympathetic to so many of the feelings he describes, but I that he has to give it that BETTER EAT YOUR WHEATIES spin
― da croupier, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
I hate that he has to give it that spin, i mean
and depression leading to suicide isn't the kind of choice that he frames it is, fuck everything and everyone I'm going to die. it's a frame of mind that's unrecognizable, choices made that completely discount your own value to the world around you, it's just...talking about it in that way is really naive to me
i really do understand what he means about children, and I don't necessarily think he's wrong exactly, I just don't think that it's a line in the sand kind of argument and seriously coming down against suicide over a guy who's already dead is just the most pointless waste of words to me
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
should have just stopped the essay with I get it, but then again, maybe I don’t. and left out the following contradictory shit about respecting the choices of people he no longer takes seriously, they blew it, i got life by the gonads etc etc
― da croupier, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
guessing the la weekly is not a place that will suggest you trim the argumentative noise from your thinkpiece
― da croupier, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
lol
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
rollins's reaction seems understandable as a personal reaction -- you know, something you'd write for yourself just to get it off your chest, then forget about -- but i don't know why he felt the need to publish it. he doesn't seem like a bad guy but i wonder how he can possibly think he's being helpful to anyone by saying stuff like:
Almost 40,000 people a year kill themselves in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In my opinion, that is 40,000 people who blew it.
like, does he seriously think that many, if any, of those 40,000 people would have benefited from his "you gotta hang in there" approach? does he think that none of those 40,000 people ever heard anything like that before? pretty much anyone who's ever been open about their depression gets exposed to that "just buck up, get over it" shit.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
i also don't get why you'd end any essay that isn't about at least one of the stooges with "raw power forever."
― da croupier, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
I have life by the neck and drag it along. Rarely does it move fast enough. Skynyrd rules.
― da croupier, Friday, 22 August 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
All of Williams' children are adults, btw
― polyphonic, Friday, 22 August 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
grab parkinson's disease by the neck
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 August 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link