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Why I Walked Out of ‘Year One’ Crying (Victoria Jackson)
Andrew Brietbart Presents Big Hollywood ^ | JUne 19, 2009 | Victoria Jackson

Posted on 06/20/2009 10:33:43 PM PDT by tang-soo

Why I Walked Out of ‘Year One’ Crying

by Victoria Jackson

I had a date with Judd Apatow. It was around 1991 and I was between husbands: the out-of-work-Jewish-Gypsy-fire-eater-musician, and the high-school-sweetheart-Baptist-helicopter-police-pilot.

I needed a date to a premiere. I knew the rules of engagement for a Hollywood career, and I tried to follow them. It’s difficult to do this when you carry the burden of ethics around with you, but I tried to do it and stay within the bounds of morality.

1) Go to the right places. I went to the Playboy Mansion to find an agent, and I did. I was 21 and a Baptist virgin, and I found Betty from the William Morris commercial department there. Check.

2) Wear something provocative to a Hollywood premiere so you can get free publicity. I did that. When I was an SNL castmember trying to increase my movie roles, I attended some Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan premiere (go figure - it was a flop!) in a see-through black shirt with a flowered bra underneath. I felt ashamed, but I did get my picture in a few magazines. All press is good press, and press leads to opportunity.

3) Date famous men or up-and-coming smart Jewish comedy writers. I went on a date with Arthur Godfrey right before he died, and ten years later, when I was 30, I asked Judd Apatow to escort me to some Century City event. I was pretty much invisible to him the whole night, but we did get our picture in People Magazine.

That is about it in my list of cliché things I have done to help my career move along.

Well, today I walked out of a Judd Apatow movie crying. It was the scene where the obese homosexual is fortune-telling by looking at the bowels of a sheep that has been sodomized by a person.

The movie was “Year One.” I tried to be open-minded as I watched the first 20 minutes of masturbation, fornication, circumcision jokes, continual penis references, bestiality, violence, and Biblical blasphemy. I told myself this was a PG-13 movie and the writers were “lost” so they didn’t know how vulgar they were being. I looked at the ten-year-old and his father sitting next to me. I must be old-fashioned or something. But, then I noticed no one was laughing. No one was walking out either. I was hoping that the crude jokes were flying over the heads of the poor children who were sitting there wide-eyed and innocent.

My daughter is 15 and she loves Jack Black and the guy from “Juno,” so I thought we could have a Mom/teenager date. I asked myself, “Vicki, is this movie making you feel good?” Myself replied, “This movie is making me angry, very sad, hopeless, and dirty-feeling.” As the onscreen obese gay man poked at the bloody intestines and told the fifth anal sex joke, I looked at my daughter, and we got up and walked out.

I started crying in the parking lot as we walked to our car. I am not from this world. I am an alien. No wonder me and Apatow never hit it off.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crude; culturalentropy; hollyweird; moviereview; movies; perverted; yearone
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PG-13 ratings are at least what R used to be when I was a teenager back in the olden days. Most of them are actually closer to what used to be X-rated. I cannot imagine a movie back then getting an R rating that even discussed the things that are apparently in this movie. Since when is that stuff not porn, verbal or otherwise? Good grief, GREASE was rated R because of a couple of vulgar lyrics.

Many parents have been fooled by these ratings, taking a PG-13 rating at its word...I personally wouldn't take my 14-year-old daughter to a PG-13 movie without seeing it myself or doing real research. Heck, I wouldn't take myself to see most of them....even PG movies sometimes cross the line.

I guess I'm either getting really old and prudish, or the world is going crazy.......

Just my 2cents,
O2

21 posted on 06/20/2009 11:07:15 PM PDT by omegatoo (Pray the rosary every day for our country)
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To: tang-soo
"I went on a date with Arthur Godfrey right before he died"

Wiki

Godfrey was married to the former Mary Bourke from 1938 until his death in 1983. They had three children.

22 posted on 06/20/2009 11:10:26 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: omegatoo

I made the mistake of renting 40 Yr old virgin NR version. WOW


23 posted on 06/20/2009 11:12:18 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: tang-soo

I always liked her .. this seals the deal.


24 posted on 06/20/2009 11:15:22 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: dalereed

Dale, you’ve missed some really, really great stuff. I feel sorry for you.


25 posted on 06/20/2009 11:24:13 PM PDT by Hildy (In Venezuela Coke Zero is bad for your h ealth. In the U.S. Zero on Coke is bad for your healthcare.)
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To: omegatoo
PG-13 ratings are at least what R used to be when I was a teenager back in the olden days.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY was rated X. Did they even use profanity? I suppose they did, but not so much that I remember. It got the rating for the subject matter treated, in particular prostitution and homosexuality, and not for the manner in which it was presented, which was fairly restrained.

Come to think of it, MEDIUM COOL, a politically oriented movie centered around the '68 Democratic convention in Chicago, was rated X, I believe because of a brief and incidental scene of full frontal nudity.

26 posted on 06/20/2009 11:27:08 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: tang-soo

I just saw this movie with my wife. I really was hoping that they could capture some of the fun of “History of the World Part I” which was taboo, but i think good fun - poking fun of ourselves.

This movie was just awful. I think she’s got it right when she says it made her feel “dirty”. It made me feel dirty. There were 7 people in the theater (and it was an 8:50 showing at a popular theater) and not one time did anyone laugh until the outtakes. Everyone in the theater looked at each other as they walked out - knowing that they were now a lesser human being than the one they walked in as simply for seeing that movie.

I was hoping to get a good laugh out of this movie. With politics these days being so heated, I really wanted to take a lighthearted look at how crazy life of the past used to be in the eyes of today. Instead, I got a movie that was the equivalent of watching those Saddam Hussein movies where they throw people off the side of a building for punishment.

I did laugh at two of the outtakes. I guess for $26.00, that’s all I was entitled to.

And can I just say something to the gay community. Enough already. There were no lesbians in the the time of Isaac. No matter how much you want to show that your “kind” have always been around. They haven’t. Enough already. Get over yourself. If you need acceptance, see a shrink. Otherwise, can we please stop talking about your sexual preference. I don’t care what you do. I’m just sick of hearing it. You’re obsessed with yourselves.


27 posted on 06/20/2009 11:48:08 PM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance)
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To: dr_lew

I just looked this movie up on IMDB....I’ve never been one to find what I call ‘12-year-old boy’ humor to be very entertaining, but from the descriptions of this movie, I can’t imagine why anybody would want to have anything to do with it. The written accounts alone are disgusting. Who would pay to see this? Who would expend effort to make it?

I’ve decided, the world IS going crazy.

O2


28 posted on 06/20/2009 11:55:17 PM PDT by omegatoo (Pray the rosary every day for our country)
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To: tang-soo
We watched a stupid one recently (My Best Friend's Girl Friend). I'm not a prude or easily offended, but the levels of crassness and vulgarity are being taken to new extremes. Though going deeper than they used to in Hollywood to shock the bourgeoisie, there is nothing new in this. [See Épater la bourgeoisie ”here“.]

Hollywood's movie writers today produce trite, vulgar, screenplays that lack the ability to be interesting, funny, or entertaining.

Most of us should spend little money on what they produce. Buy a Kindle and read the great books that you can get for free. See http://manybooks.net/categories/

29 posted on 06/21/2009 12:00:25 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Obama interferring in Israel but gives a green light to the mad mullahs to destroy Iranians.)
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To: dannyboy72a
"It was the scene where the obese homosexual is fortune-telling by looking at the bowels of a sheep that has been sodomized by a person." DISGUSTING, how far we have fallen, when the public will PAY to see something like this under the guise of entertainment. DIE, FILTHY HOLLYWOOD, DIE!
30 posted on 06/21/2009 12:04:13 AM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: dannyboy72a

If you walk out of a movie, the theater manager genarally will give you a refund upon request (or a pass to see another movie).

This should help to get a bad movie pulled from the theater.


31 posted on 06/21/2009 12:05:11 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: omegatoo

GREASE was rated PG. Maybe you’re thinking of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. It was originally rated R, but the soundtrack was so hot, the studio re-edited it to get a PG.


32 posted on 06/21/2009 12:06:32 AM PDT by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: karnage
I don’t know. Richard Pryor was pretty dadgum funny, and he used oceans of profanity.

Back then, profanity was edgy, unsettling, and created a conspiratorial bond between entertainer and audience.

Now it's just tiresome.

33 posted on 06/21/2009 12:10:54 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: tang-soo

I have always liked Victoria Jackson. She was the star of SNL when she was on, and one of my favorite X-File episodes of all time (and I’ve seen them all) was the one she starred in where the weatherman was secretly in love with her and he inadvertantly caused horrific weather conditions when he got emotional. Now THAT was an episode that could make you cry... with joy. Great episode.

By the way, this article by Victoria is the first time I ever saw or heard of the name Jude Aspertow.


34 posted on 06/21/2009 12:21:57 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: driftdiver
After the movie "Tropical Thunder" you couldn't pay me to see a movie with Jack Black.

It's a shame, as he has natural talent.

35 posted on 06/21/2009 12:41:23 AM PDT by The Duke (We don't rent pigs! (but we do apparently elect them))
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To: padre35

She was probably making fun of the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” when she wrote “I love you” on her eyebrows, from a similar scene in that movie.


36 posted on 06/21/2009 12:57:21 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: tang-soo

Hmmmmm

Better by far than some other options so common to many in such spheres.


37 posted on 06/21/2009 12:59:27 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: dalereed

1956 ? What, did you throw in the towel after the remake of DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” ?


38 posted on 06/21/2009 1:11:16 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“did you throw in the towel after the remake of DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” ?”

Nothing to do with it since I never saw it.


39 posted on 06/21/2009 1:13:23 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: The Duke

Was that movie overrated or what ? I was expecting brilliant black comedy and it largely sucked (surprisingly, Tom Cruise was about the best part).


40 posted on 06/21/2009 1:18:39 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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