King Missile - Martin Scorsese

I always loved this song.

Open the Goddamn Door

The DVD featurette has Marty Scorsese saying that the butler's door sticking blooper was left in final cut because Jerry entered with a great ad-lib "(Will ya) open the god damn door!?! I'm standing out there 8 minutes..."

Oh !! this movie is better than ever. Delusional Rupert and his lady friend taking train to Jerry's house in The Hamptons without an invitation? Genius!



Kim Chan (Jonno the Butler) died 5 months ago, October 2008. He was in his nineties.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/television/10chan.html

From a 2007 NY Times profile:

Mr. Chan’s career path was an unlikely one. His father, Lem Chan, a philosopher, fled China in 1928, bringing young Kim and his two older sisters first to Rhode Island, then to New York, where the family got into the restaurant and laundry businesses.

One day, the father caught the son lying to cover up an afternoon whiled away at the movies. Presented with an ultimatum, Kim Chan chose to leave his family, only to end up homeless in Central Park before moving on to other laundries. He never fully reconciled with his father, who died in 1952. Both his sisters have also died.

It took nearly four decades in inconsequential television, film and stage productions for Mr. Chan to shake free of the day labor grind.

He spent those years adrift, working at restaurants and laundries. He made movie contacts by day, and hustled cards and slept at night on ironing boards crawling with bedbugs.

His big break came in 1983 in “The King of Comedy.”

a JAY WARD | MARTIN SCORSESE Presentation

RAGING BULLWINKLE


From HBO's 1994 short-lived series, HARDCORE TV. I remember it ran out of steam pretty quickly.
This is one of the gems. This and "Spamby." :D

OK, Cue The Super Loud Stones Album

Y'all aren't crazy about Tarantino?
I'm not crazy about Scorsese, who's remaking Kurosawa's High and Low.

A: What balls.
B: John Waters was right - we should only remake the bad films.

Two Great Tastes...

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I love Marty.

I'm one of those people who thinks everything Martin Scorsese does is brilliant, and I'd like to spend a few weeks just talking to him. Then again, we're both Scorpios obsessed with film, and we'd probably talk each other to death.

Check out this homage to Hitchcock via a Freixenet ad he did. Be sure to watch until the end.

PS. I'm going to see Tippi Hedren again tonight! Details to follow.