
E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Yo
bro! |
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KELLY PARKS |
Hey!
Micheal
C. Williams (Mike the sound guy) from THE
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was on Connan last night. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
It's
lunch time. I'm having Wendy's Western Bacon Smoky Cheeseburger! Ahhhhhhhhh! |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Sounds
good. I love their big cheeseburger. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
OH
MY GOD! MICHAEL'S ALIVE! That must mean HE did it!
Yeesssss.
It all makes sense now . . .
I watched
David Letterman instead. HE had the house from THE
HAUNTING. |
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| KELLY PARKS |
They
teased him about his chest hair . . . |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I
imagine they did. Must be sad for a man to have a hairless effeminate
chest like Richter & Conan. |
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KELLY PARKS |
Yeah,
that guy. Connan asked him if it was true he was still working as
a furniture mover. He said, "Yes,
but I have an announcement to make."
He
turned to the camera. "To
everybody down at Fred's Furniture, thanks for the good times, the
bad back and the bad knees but I QUIT!"
Instead
of what? |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
HA!
That's great!
The
filmakers, I hear, as part of their deal, also get to share 10%
of the action from the gross of the film. It is figured that it
will come out to about $15 mill. EACH!
Connan
with two n's? Hmmm |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Yeah,
I heard about that.
You
said: " I watched David Letterman instead." Instead of
what? |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Instead
of playing with myself |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Ahh,
but of course.
Andy
Richter, Connan side kick, is leaving soon. I like that show. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Why?
Is his career taking off or something? |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Don't
know. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Saw THE
HAUNTING last night. What an unmitigated piece of
crap! Give ME the $80 mill, and I'll give you 40 scary movies! Each one better than THAT shit! |
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| KELLY PARKS |
I heard
it was pretty bad. Does Catherine Zeta-Jones get naked? |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I
wish! Not even wet blouse nipple!
Lots
of special effects, but not SCARY special effects |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Oh
well. I haven't seen DEEP
BLUE SEA yet. Natalie and I just weren't up to going
out. She was really sore from running practice and I was just tired.
I will go soon. Have you seen THE
SIXTH SENSE yet? |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Sold
out again last night. The movie must be doing phenomenal. Sold out
shows on Monday and Tuesday are unheard of!
That's
why I settled for THE
HAUNTING.
I shouldn't
have settled.
Lots
of scenes where the creature or creatures reach out to grab someone,
and they keep reaching and the person stares on, paralyzed with (presumed)
fear. Then the rescuer comes rushing up and grabs the intended victim
out of harm's way while the fingers of the ghost just sort of flex
and make Boo! motions (I'm gonna getcha!) |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Keep
trying. You'll be happy you did. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Then,
as both rescuer and intended victim run away, the hands, creature,
or whatever, follow after them, somehow always missing.
It's
like the ghost is doing the old 3 Stooges bit:
"Hold me back, I say! HOLD me back! Well? Isn't anybody going
to hold me back?"
This
happens plenty of times throughout the pic. |
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KELLY PARKS |
George
Lucas, from an interview in a British magazine, talking about The
Phantom Menace:
"I'm not that passionate about this story.
I like it, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not
my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am a Star Wars fan. I like
making movies." |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
This IS the same guy that announced about The Phantom Menace:
"Finally, I've been able to make a STAR WARS movie exactly
the way I wanted to make it."
For
a guy whose gaming company releases about 4 new STAR WARS games
every year for the past 10 years, I find this hard to believe about
the passion thing. |
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| KELLY PARKS |
He
went on to describe episode II as a love story, and episode III
as "very, very dark." |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Maybe
he meant to say:
"I'm not passionate about this Howard The Duck thing."
3
would have to be very dark. By the storyline of the first movie,
the dark side must have won. There are no more Jedi Knights.
So
what was episode one? A Teletubbies adventure? |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Exactly.
The Empire in power, the Republic gone, and the Dark side Triumphant. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Meesa
Jar Jar Binks! Whosa youssa?
Meesa
youssa assassin! |
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KELLY PARKS |
Episode
II
Scene I
Act I
Ext. - Day. Jar Jar falls off a cliff and dies.
Pootchie
- I mean Jar Jar - is dead! Hyuh Hyuh Huyh! |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I've
seen part of the preliminary script for Star Wars II: The Clone
Wars.
Samuel Jackson has been fought to a stand still by the Imperial
Guard, but thwarts their victory through his use of the Force.
Willing
to call a truce, the guard leader asks what the Jedi Master needs
to go peacefully.
"Give
me back my lightsaber that you got in that bag."
Which
lightsaber is it?
"The
one that says 'One Bad Motherfucker.'"
They
give it back to him and he says, "Now I'm going to go walk
Dantoonie."
Walk
Dantoonie? they ask.
"Yeah,
you know, like Kane."
Kane
walked the Earth. They say.
The
Jedi Master looks at them for one cold moment, then says, "Fuck
you." |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
Or
he says, "Line! Line, please!" |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
And
as he walks away, We hear Fats Domino in the background playing
Walkin' To New Orleans as Mace
sings "I'm Walkin' To Dan-Toon-nie!" |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
He
is an interesting choice. |
|
| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
What can I say? The song fits the planet! |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
Except
it's "Dantooine"
DAN
- too - een |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I'm using poetic license |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
Check
the expiration date. |
|
| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
It's
an Arizona license. A one time fee
Like
worming. |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
Most
excellent. Today is Thursday. Was it really so long ago that NBC
ruled Must See Thursday? Now I watch Friends, then don't come back to NBC until it's time for ER. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Met
the fattest guy I've ever seen in real life at the theater last
night. Fucker was big as a planet. He said his name was Jupiter.
I said
"My God!" and he laughed and laughed!
A really jovial guy! |
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| KELLY PARKS |
I
met a strange young man with wings on his boots. I asked if he was
delivering flowers and his response revealed a mercurial temprament. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Was
it a fast response? Was his answer brief?
Or
did he use flowery words? |
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| KELLY PARKS |
I
met Mars, the God of War, and asked him his sign. He was an Aries.
Something
from Venus would not be "Venusian". The correct term is
"Venerial", or so Aphrodite told me. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I
embarrassed Mars once! BOY was HE red! He picked a fight
with me but I dusted him off and cooled his jets with an ice cap!
He
was a good guy though. Sure loved to fight! We called him Rocky!
He
had muscles like mountains. Biggest you ever saw! Much larger than
the ones on earth!
His
son was a very heavy kid. Real sense of gravity around that one.
I met
his wife Venus, talk about your acid tongue! Yet she always seemed
to be in a fog! Her eyes were always clouded over. I figured she just needed to let off steam,
being so close to her son and all.
Anywho!
Blackie
Lawless of the band WASP is back on his cocaine addiction and seems very happy about it.
"I
never sounded better!" he says. "When I wasn't doing coke the band went to shit! Now we are
back where we are supposed to be!"
This
is true, I'm not making a joke. Must be nice to love your vices
so deeply. |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
They
think alcohol contributed to Shatner's wife's death. |
|
| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Hoo
boy! |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
Apparently
she was in and out of rehab quite a bit. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Well
you'd HAVE to be toasted to marry William Shatner. How long
had they been married? |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Apparently
she was in and out of rehab quite a bit.
Not
long. About two years, I think. The autopsy was inconclusive. they're
doing more tests. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Damn!
Didn't turn up a thing! Well . . .
<BUZZAHHHHHAHHHHZHZHZHZH>
Let's cut 'er open again!
"Can't
we just remove the stitches?"
Sure,
but that's time consuming!
<BUZAZAZAZAZZZZZ>
(yelling) AND NOT AS MUCH FUN! |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Good
scene! Write that down. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
HeyBartyawannaseemynewHockeyMaskandChainsaw?
Oh,
tsk, tsk. What AM I thinking? |
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| KELLY PARKS |
I'm
reading about XHTML (XML + HTML). |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I've
already read it. Don't worry, I won't tell you how it ends. Just
let me say, you don't expect it! |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Cool.
The last movie that had a surprise ending that actually surprised
me was "No Way Out" with Kevin
Costner. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Yeah,
but even now I say to myself: Huh? Where in the hell did THAT come from? |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
No,
it was legitimate. They always made it clear that everyone was looking
for a Russian mole. But they also implied it was a CIA fantasy.
I never suspected that the mole was real and it was him. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
There
was nothing, no give aways, no clues that you could go back to and
say: Ah! So THAT explains his behavior in scene X. Just Poof! Oh, HE is the Russian
Mole!
Why,
he is even Russian to boot! What a lot of trouble they must have
gone through to give him a family, town, school, and friends to
have grown up with for his cover!
It
would have made much more sense if he was an American betraying
his country to the Russians, but to be Russian himself and have such high security clearance? |
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| KELLY PARKS |
That's
how a mole works! Really deep cover. The ending was totally consistent. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I know,
but those moles are usually Americans. I had a Top Secret Security
Clearance once, and I was a simple Radioman in the Navy. I couldn't BELIEVE the friends
of mine who had been contacted and interviewed! Most of whom I never
listed on the form. |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Yes,
in real life spies are almost always insiders gone bad, rather than
foreigners in disguise. But the movie made it clear that that was one of the reasons nobody took the idea
of such a mole seriously, CIA evidence not withstanding. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Still,
the best mysteries are the ones that drop clues along the way that
you don't put together until the end, and then you think, "Ah HA! Now I see!" Like Sherlock Holmes as opposed to Miss
Marple where the real killer is brought into the story in the last
chapter.
Like FRIDAY THE 13th, where we never see the mother until the last
2 minutes of the movie. |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
"No
Way Out" doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath!
It was a good movie. Thumbs up all the way, and the effective, consistent
surprise ending was the icing on the cake. |
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| |
So
Gene and I disagree on No Way Out. Coming up next: HeMan and the
Masters of the Universe starring Billy Barty and featuring Dolph
Lundgren as a dull witted clod. |
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| KELLY PARKS |
So
you're the fat guy and I'm the dead guy? Don't you think I look
more like Roger? And, damn it, He Man was a good movie! |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I'm the cool guy.
So
Gene and I disagree on HeMan. Coming up next, the movie that saved
George Clooney's career after the embarrassment of Batman 4, FROM
DUSK TILL DAWN. |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Which
sucked. Back to you, Roger. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Thanks
Gene. You couldn't have died soon enough for me.
Now
a genuinely good movie is up next: THE
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. What it lacks in outright horror
it more than makes up for in unsettling creepiness.
Peter
Travers of Rollingstone magazine said this movie will: "Scare
the hell out of you."
But
Travers is a muck-headed idiot who is liable to say any damn thing.
The movie is good, but lets not get carried away. Gene? |
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KELLY PARKS |
Thanks
Roger. I await your arrival in Hell. And speaking of hell, THE
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT is a hellishly intense thriller,
building upon the reality feel it gets from the hand held video
that makes up the bulk of the film. Definite thumbs up.
By
the way Roger, have any of the critics you tried out as my replacement
actually given you a rim job, or did it just seem that way because
they were kissing your fat ass so much? Yeah, the public's gonna
tune in every week to see two guys who always agree. Good plan you raisinette-chewing bastard. |
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E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Good
movie but dizzingly bad camera work: which will no doubt be mass
imitated by less talented filmakers who fail to understand the actual
storytelling ability that makes up and delivers this movie above
the dross of most low budget films. So THE
BLAIR WITCH PROJECT gets two thumbs up from both Gene and myself. The mass has ended, go forth in peace and get the hell out
of our balcony.
Actually,
Roger has disagreed with many of his guest critics. I remember one
show where Roger was just nuts for Spike Lee's: Summer of Sam and
his guest thought it was Spike's worst movie ever. |
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| KELLY PARKS |
Really?
Good. I haven't seen them all, but they mostly seemed pretty wimpy.
Like "can't blow this opportunity! Must agree with Roger!".
I hope
he is looking for someone he won't get along with. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
Hard
to tell in that situation. Could be damned either way.
"So!
Roger finally found a clone for Gene! How phony! They are purposefully
disagreeing with each other." |
|
| KELLY PARKS |
If
it was a Gene clone, it wouldn't be purposeful. The whole attraction
of the show was the fact that they argued. |
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| E.C.MCMULLEN JR. |
I'm
just saying that Roger would be damned by some either way.
If he
hires someone whose views are too much like his, he's screwed, if he finds someone whose views are
too different from his, he's screwed. It's damn hard to invent the
kind of chemistry that Gene and Roger had. |
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