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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris L on October 27, 2006, 01:27:04 AM
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If it's not, it's hilarious. If it is, it's hilarious and absolutely brilliant. From Defamer (http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/clips/please-stanley-kubrick-has-casted-weirder-210331.php).
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Personally, I have to say "hoax." Maybe this guy could be from Juiliard and maybe he could be that retarded but for me that line about Kubrick not being as good as Michael Curtiz is a tip-off.
Also, now I can see why the Gorch is such a big "Outsiders" fan.
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This is mos def NOT a hoax...don't any of you have 'actor-friends'? They're the worst, esp. in groups of more than one.
Brian's eyes are truly frightening.
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If it's real, this guy was guilty of a 412.
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I had to look up 412. Sarah, do you mean copyright infringement?
Anyway, I vote for hoax. Can anyone stand to be around someone that pompous for more than a couple of minutes?
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I had to look up 412. Sarah, do you mean copyright infringement?
Anyway, I vote for hoax. Can anyone stand to be around someone that pompous for more than a couple of minutes?
Here is the guy's 1975-1976 class picture:
http://home.twcny.rr.com/thedigiovannis/Grade7table.html
I also heard that a former Kubrick collaborator has said that it looks pretty authentic to him based on the stuff they were getting at the time.
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this clip gives me douche-chills.
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and I vote real. I think the "second best director" thing was trying to show that he knows something and is not a yes man, like Kubrick might say "this kid's got balls, I like that".
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Kids not so bad. Definitely not as hammy as JN in that awful Shining program.
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I woke up this morning with a cat sitting on my stomach and staring me down. I stared right back and said, "Good day, Mr. Cue-brick." He meowed and started purring. My cat is Mr. Cuebrick, reincarnated.
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I had to look up 412. Sarah, do you mean copyright infringement?
A 412 is overacting. It's from an old Stan Freberg bit, "St. George and the Dragonet," that my eldest sister and I used to perform verbatim back when I was wee (I was the dragon).
I vote real, by the way. And bad.
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I vote fake.
Also, I went to Stanley Kubricks house a couple of times but I don't have time to tell the story now.
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I woke up this morning with a cat sitting on my stomach and staring me down. I stared right back and said, "Good day, Mr. Cue-brick." He meowed and started purring. My cat is Mr. Cuebrick, reincarnated.
This story has inspired me to collect reminscences from people around the country about how this video has affected their lives.* I'll be like the Studs Terkel of this one thing.**
*but I won't.
**except not.
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I woke up this morning with a cat sitting on my stomach and staring me down. I stared right back and said, "Good day, Mr. Cue-brick." He meowed and started purring. My cat is Mr. Cuebrick, reincarnated.
This story has inspired me to collect reminscences from people around the country about how this video has affected their lives.* I'll be like the Studs Terkel of this one thing.**
*but I won't.
**except not.
I love it!! Then you could write a tome containing your interviews, just like Studs, and it would be witty and great, and would be sold on the "Who Knew?" table at Barnes & Noble, except that it would have no relevance to much of anything in the world. But i still love the idea somehow. I guess you have better things to do with your time, Chris L, for which I commend you.
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I woke up this morning with a cat sitting on my stomach and staring me down. I stared right back and said, "Good day, Mr. Cue-brick." He meowed and started purring. My cat is Mr. Cuebrick, reincarnated.
This story has inspired me to collect reminscences from people around the country about how this video has affected their lives.* I'll be like the Studs Terkel of this one thing.**
*but I won't.
**except not.
I love it!! Then you could write a tome containing your interviews, just like Studs, and it would be witty and great, and would be sold on the "Who Knew?" table at Barnes & Noble, except that it would have no relevance to much of anything in the world. But i still love the idea somehow. I guess you have better things to do with your time, Chris L, for which I commend you.
Thanks, Fido. You're right, I do have better things to do right now. For instance, I'm compiling an anthology of "Snakes on a Plane" blog posts, which I'm going to publish as either a massive, leather bound, seven volume set or as a series of thousands of door hangers. This stuff really hearkens back to a more innocent time and it should be put in its proper historical context.
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Atene Lives! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGXJsWrsPg)
And I hate him even more now!
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Do you have time to tell the Kubrick story now, Jason?
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Stanley Kubrick's wife, daughter and son in law formed a vanity opera company called Palace Opera. It was of course entirely funded by Stanley and no doubt worth every penny to keep them out of his hair.
His wife, Christiana, designed and painted the the sets. She wasn't a bad artist but from one scene to the next she would go from minimalist all white to detailed pre-raphaelite angels descending from the sky, it was an absolute joke. She had me and a few others help her make the set in the stables of Kubrick's home, and when I say stables imagine a u shaped two story building surrounding a 100 foot square court yard. The stables were filled with absolute crap, although I did find a an early 1970s copy of time with Kubrick on the cover that I still kick myself for not sticking it in my pocket.
His daughter, I think her name was Anya, was the "star" of the show. She claimed to have studied under all these great European opera singers yet she was absolutely atrocious. She was so bad that during some perfomances she claimed to have lost her voice and mimed on stage while a real opera singer sang in the wings.
Anya's husband conducted the orchestra.
I ate quite a few times in their kitchen, there was huge old phone with buttons for extensions that included the billiard room and the screening room.
Any questions?
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How long was this company in existence? Did you ever get to talk to Stanley? And what are Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman really like?
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Atene Lives! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGXJsWrsPg)
And I hate him even more now!
Yeah - EMINENTLY hatable.
In fact, watching only the first couple of minutes of this just completely ruined my day.
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I don't know, I really liked the first video, particularly the random non-sequiturs that precipitated the bad overacting. Second video? Eh, not so much.
Good day, Mr. Cue-brick.
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I got through 1.5 minutes of the first video, maybe 50 seconds of that second video.