'INTENT' STAR FAINTS ON THE SET (Devastated Over Kerry Loss)

New York Post - Page Six ^ | 11/11/04 | Richard Johnson with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"He has been getting into fistfights with people, and when he passed out today, we all thought he was faking it. But then he insisted they call 911."

Kool-Aid slurping 'Rat zealot that he is, however: the delusional D'onofrio was actually pleading for an emergency showing of "Farenheit 911"... :)

[Howlin]

I have this boycott thingy going.

Me, too. I'm down to Birth Day on The Discovery Channel.

[radiohead]

Another show I won't be able to watch.

I'll watch, but I won't be happy.

[myvoice]

"He is so hard to work with-a total freak. He constantly complains about the scripts and has held up production a lot."

Hey, doesn't that sound like a lot of other people we know? HMmmm. Start's with D.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

I always figured he wasn't acting.

FMJ Bump

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Me, too. I'm down to Birth Day on The Discovery Channel.


I still watch the Food Network, unless Mario Batali is on...he's big time lib. And his shows are boring too.

[DemforBush]

Weird. I remember reading Michael Moriarty (A.D.A. Ben Stone on the original L&O) had a similar breakdown on the set. Mumbling to himself, shadow-boxing between takes, that sort of thing.

Of course, the source of his agitation was Janet Reno, so I guess at least he had some justification. :)

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

P.E.S.T.

(post-election selection trauma)

[Petronski]

Kubrick in his best form.


My goodness, I might add, Kubrick was some kind of genius...

Full Metal Jacket
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Paths of Glory
The Shining

[clee1]

I wish these wackos would just cut to the chase and visit Ground Zero with their shotguns.

[hellinahandcart]

Now, I ask you, do you remember any of us getting this upset when Clinton was reelected?

I was unbelievably upset, but still somehow managed to find the strength and dignity with which to function in society, and act in a polite and professional manner toward my customers in NY, who were probably 70% Democrat (I'm guessing. I never had the bad manners to ASK!!). To this day, they are still probably blissfully unaware that I probably abhorred their politics. I feel I owed that much to them. It's the capitalist way.

I repeat: OH, Lawdy, the money I'm going to save from now until the end of time!

[Howlin]

It's so odd to me because I use to never turn it away from the talking heads, and now I can barely stand to "hear" them, much less watch them. I'd just rather hash it out with you guys.

I haven't watched TV shows in years and now I am hopelessly hooked on Boston Legal and Rodney.

[hellinahandcart]

Aside from all the news venues, I watch a lot of the Home and Garden channel, and just clap my hands over my eyes and ears whenever they talk about "green" landscaping or earthfriendly floor-coverings and such.

That's just about all I'm left with. You'd have to pay ME to see a movie anymore. That's the damned truth.

[Ichneumon]

"Ever since John Kerry lost the election, [D'Onofrio] has lost his [bleep,]" said our on-set insider.

He lost his [bleep]? Wasn't it attached??

[Smokin' Joe]

KERRY'S FAULT!!(LMAO!)

[Qwinn]

Not a resume -I'd- be bragging about, frankly.

Full Metal Jacket - wholesale demonization of the military.

The Shining - how to turn a great book into an absolutely awful movie. I mean, seriously - when a book hands you a fantastic practically-made-for-the-movies ending sequence (the house goes up like a roman candle with the main villain desperately trying to save it and failing) and you turn it into a godawful boring chase through a hedgemaze that winds up with the main character freezing to death (what, he couldn't get back inside why?), what kind of an idiot do you have to be? And if you want me to -not- care, not even a little, about what happens to a main character (his wife), have her played by a woman who has never been well-cast as anything other than Olive Oyl. Kubrick also seemed pretty racist to me in his editing, taking a major role for a black actor and reducing it to a bit, useless part. The TV version of the Shining (with Rebecca DeMornay and one of the brothers from Wings) was infinitely better and inarguably far more faithful to the book, IMO.

Dr. Strangelove - funny, but unintentionally so, IMO. Another attempt to portray conservatives as rednecks and nazis.

2001: A Space Oddysey: Great special effects for it's time, and a good score, but beyond that? Could've been, and could still be, done a hundred times better, IMO. A tremendous amount of footage that was totally inexplicable unless you had actually read the book. No way to understand what the heck was going on otherwise.

Never saw Paths of Glory.

Qwinn

[Qwinn]

"He lost his [bleep]? Wasn't it attached??"

Heh, I noticed that too. For the life of me, I can't figure out what could possibly fit in the place of that "bleep" that makes the slightest bit of sense. Maybe "mojo" - but is that something that really needs to be bleeped out? Now, "mind" would work, and I can appreciate that referring to a Rat as having a "mind" to lose could be considered vulgar by many of us here, but somehow I don't think that explains it either.

Qwinn

[kattracks]

Yes, it was, but it fell off after it was stuned.

[RichInOC]

You mean Private Pyle, don't you?

[JoeSixPack1]

I remember St. Thomas, VI was starting to look very enticing right after Dole's name popped into the race. :-)