Thanks cmac,I missed the link the first time around...just watched the clip...fantastic acting............

Teri Gross replayed 2 previous interviews with Hopper, 1990 and 1996 today on Fresh Air. Good stuff:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13

Not sure if this is the link for the exact show or the link for the 'today's show' page. If so, search for the June 2 show.

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This got me to thinking about that Jack London short story and today at the Menlo Park library I found and read the story - entitled Lost Face, in about 10 minutes. Short and good. Has a few twists I forgot about so there's more to it than I revealed in my earlier post. Check it out:

http://www139.pair.com/read/Jack_London/Lost_Face/Lost_Face_p1.html

Turns out it's all online. I was sorta right on the plot. The hero is a Polish adventurer who by bad choices and bad luck found himself in far eastern Siberia. He heard of white men on the river Yukon and finagled a spot on an expedition in that direction, hoping to somehow make his way back to the civilization of Europe. His antagonists were Alaskan natives.

While at the library I found a DVD of True Romance so I'm set.

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I didn't know Linkletter died either! I'm old enough to remember "Kids Say The Darndest Things".
For some reason I remember Hopper the most as the bad guy in "Speed".
Gilly

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I watched True Romance last night and it's not bad. A few places I had to suspend disbelief a little more than I'd like however. The Drexl character, the pimp astutely played by Gary Oldham, struck me as way too small time to be holding a half mil of product for someone as well connected as the Blue Lou character. The guy unleashes associates in 2 cities to track the stuff down and yet he originally had some raggedy white pimp with his stooge muscle (salt and pepper teams can be dangerous) holding the stuff in low rent circumstances?

And what happened with the offing of the Jackson character? I didn't see Jackson walk in with the stuff and I doubt those two guys would have walked in with a half mil to buy the stuff, not that nonchalantly anyway. That would be the only logic I can see behind wasting the two of them - either to steal the snow or the money.

But what the hell, much of it was purt near beyond belief but it was a thrill ride.

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I'll read the London short story soon, thx for the heads-up.

I don't recall the story details of TR, but I do remember it being over the top.

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yes, the scourge that is now tarantino was gaining steam then.

my coffee buddies were talking this morning about all the studio movies hopper shows up in. i think he's in "cool hand luke", in '67, yet he was also in those big pics in the '50's, before he got kicked out of hollywood for the first time. in'58,
and then flamed out in the late '70's. like a cat with nine lives.

my favorite london story is the one about the guy who kills some wild beast (wolf) and drinks its blood to survive.

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London was pretty wild. You have to wonder how close he came to some of those experiences cause that was some wild stuff. I've always liked that "To Build a Fire" story. Some tenderfoot went out in 50 below weather and it got colder.

I have mixed feelings about Tarantino. I absolutely did not like Reservoir Dogs. Walked out in the middle but then I hadn't paid admission - it was one of our nightly movies at the hot springs resort I used to live at.

Pulp Fiction is a wild romp though, as was Jackie Brown. From Dusk Til Dawn was just a waste of time, just weird but it did bring Salma Hayek to the wider world, IINM. I didn't realize til just now that he wrote the screenplay for Natural Born Killers. Weird movie, gave me a serious adrenaline rush (I hate to admit) but Good Lord, how many killing rampages has that movie been associated with? I mean, I know, the business of shouting "THEATER!" in a crowded fire has some merit but that movie does get into one's consciousness.

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well, there are some "monkey see, monkey do" types out there, so i don't really blame him for that. but tarantino steals all his ideas from other people, and glamorizes violence as an aesthetic and sensationalistic "cheap thrill".

the only character in any of his movies that is worthy of interest is the samuel jackson one in "pulp fiction".

basically, there's no soul there. and hopper, before he became a caricature of himself, always had some soul. (and london too. of course. )

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