Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p4NsgH05E

I'd bet money that Paris, Texas was the first time he was billed first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2EzQsZteA

He was great in lots of films before that, but he was the ultimate character actor (and went back to that soon enough).

He was good in Renaldo and Clara too.

On Twitter last night---don't know if he really said it but it's worth saying:
|I'm 87 years old.,. | only eat so I can smoke and stay alive. The only fear |
hove is how my consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just
hope there's nothing, like there was before I was born. I'm not really into
Religions, they're all microcosms of the ego. When man began to think he was
a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation...

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta
toke this call...Hey, brother..That's great, man. Yeoh I'm bein interviewed...
We're talkin’ about nothing..I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now.
He's stopped askin’ questions.
Harry Deon Stanton
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Diane Doniol-Valcroze
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Writer/screenwriter. Daughter of Jacques Doniol-Valcroze co-founder of Cahiers Du Cinéma

For the longest time I got him and Dean Stockwell mixed up and was always puzzled that the guy from Quantum Leap was so lauded.

the guy from quantum leap was also good imo (at least in Blue Velvet)

When I saw David Lynch introduce the DC-area premiere of Inland Empire someone asked him what HDS was like and he replied "Harry Dean... is the funniest person I have ever met." He then told a story about going out drinking w/ HDS, Angelo Badalamenti and someone else, and that Harry Dean started telling some story that had them all rolling laughing. "This story kept getting funnier and funnier, and I thought... there's no way this guy can go further with it. BUT HE DID!" He never mentioned what the story was.

Yeah, Stockwell played a Blue Velvet-y creep on the Battlestar Galacta too, and he's good--much younger, with shoulder-length hair, yet kinda--cleancut---compared to Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson, whom he's understandably overshadowed by, in Psych-Out:

Psych-Out 1968 (Director's Cut 2015 Blu-Ray Edition) [HD] 1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcNjetHydM

Galactaca *reboot* I meant duh sorry

https://fabulousinfayette.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_5543-1024x768.jpg

Found this pretty interesting (from Wikipedia): "Paris, Texas appeared on a posthumous list of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite movies."

Talk about Dean Stockwell last night on this thread--eerie.

^^ Thought the same thing this morning.

whoa, wait I thought that had something to do with the mention here...

sorry dean

is this the dean stockwell RIP thread now?

Stockwell was a longtime friend of musician Neil Young, and the pair co-wrote and co-directed the little-seen 1982 film “Human Highway.” Long an artist, Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

i did not know that!

Oh there's more:

“Stockwell’s screenplay is long lost” is truly a heartbreaking statement. pic.twitter.com/yVhaMzbaQ6

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) November 9, 2021

Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

That's actually one of his cooler album covers, even if the album itself is not all that stellar

maybe neil young didn't know that "stars and bars" has long been a name for the confederate flag, just like "stars and stripes" is for the US flag. but he probably did.

The title pops up in a rhyme on the inner sleeve.

https://crimereads.com/harry-dean-stanton-is-the-hero-of-every-noir/

Brother Bud’s philosophy is, “Everybody ought to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.” Sounds a lot like the guy holding court at Dan Tana’s twenty-five years later, who was fond of saying, “We’re all gonna live forever. But I’m gonna outlive all you motherfuckers.”