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Sitcom, Murder, Pornographic Web Site. Now, the Hollywood Biopic!
The New York Times Magazine ^ | 09/29/2002 | LYNN HIRSCHBERG

Posted on 09/27/2002 5:02:25 PM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 09/27/2002 5:02:26 PM PDT by Pokey78
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The spectacle of the Crane boys and their grievances reinforces one of Schrader's moralistic themes: the legacy of having a murdered sex addict for a father is confused and angry sons. ''I could never have dreamed these people up,'' Schrader says, as if analyzing an alien species. ''Actually, I don't think 'dream' is the word. 'Fantasize' is more accurate. Wouldn't it be great if there were these kinds of characters for every movie? Bad behavior is so compelling.''

First, I canot believe I even finished the article...

Second, I need to go take a shower...Delousing,let me know what happens, ok?

I just cannot believe people are going to see it, a celebration of perversity. And the studios will make this film, they will market it, it will be a cult classic, for sure...

2 posted on 09/27/2002 5:42:47 PM PDT by RaceBannon
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How on earth did Bob Crane get any woman to go bed with him? Take a look at bobcrane.com and look at that goofy mug.
3 posted on 09/27/2002 5:49:19 PM PDT by lelio
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I sat right behind Bob Crane at a melodrama dinner theater in Manitou Springs when I was on vacation as a kid. Whattafreak!
4 posted on 09/27/2002 5:54:53 PM PDT by AdA$tra
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First, I canot believe I even finished the article...

I was like watching a train wreck or a plane crash. You just can't quite look away.

I loved Hogan's Heroes as a kid. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember watching some of them them the first time they were on.
5 posted on 09/27/2002 5:57:59 PM PDT by AdA$tra
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How on earth did Bob Crane get any woman to go bed with him? Take a look at bobcrane.com and look at that goofy mug.

I've noticed throughout my life that women flip over guys with black hair and squinty eyes...

6 posted on 09/27/2002 6:18:02 PM PDT by FormerLurker
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Apparently, Hollywood and Crane had one thing in common - they could never lift their minds out of the gutter.

To think the Hollywood community believes *it* should be preaching morals to the rest of the world...

7 posted on 09/27/2002 6:32:23 PM PDT by Tall_Texan
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I can't finish this. About halfway through it got too disgusting. Why on earth is this in a respectable newspaper?
8 posted on 09/27/2002 8:09:00 PM PDT by ArcLight
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Oops...sorry. Dumb question. We're talking about the New York Times here.
9 posted on 09/27/2002 8:09:37 PM PDT by ArcLight
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I'm embarrassed to say that Paul Schrader is from Grand Rapids. Of all the garbage in this article, I think I find his attitude to be the most offensive (and that's saying something). Truly a sad picture of a man and what his sin has done to his family, even so many years after his demise.
10 posted on 09/27/2002 8:50:24 PM PDT by gracex7
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Had Bob Crane not been a sex addict, had he not been bludgeoned to death with his own tripod

OK..I had to stop reading here...that's the funnies thing I've read on here in ages...sorry...muuuuuuwwwwaaaahhhhahahahahaha!

11 posted on 09/27/2002 8:54:41 PM PDT by Happygal
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YUCK!
12 posted on 09/27/2002 9:01:40 PM PDT by Joan912
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Had Bob Crane not been a sex addict, had he not been bludgeoned to death with his own tripod

Yeah, I get it.

"Besides the fact that Bob Crane was an uncontrollable sex addict who hung around drug dealers and other kinds of rapists, what evidence do you have that he was in any way immoral?" queried Katie.

13 posted on 09/27/2002 9:10:12 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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Although he was only 7 when his father died, Bob Crane showed his young son his sex films. ''I've been seeing these images since I could crawl,'' says Scotty, who maintains that he has not been affected by early exposure to porn starring his father and other women...yeah, right.........
14 posted on 09/27/2002 9:20:10 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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It's odd that with all of the perverse fascination with this subject, the Times still saw fit to print an article on this story.

Didn't the old gray lady tell us that sex is a private matter and none of our business?

15 posted on 09/27/2002 10:37:44 PM PDT by weegee
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Geez, there wasn't one sympathetic person in that whole article -- not the sons, not the widow, not the filmmaker, and certainly not Bob Crane! I feel like a need a bath after reading this.
16 posted on 09/27/2002 11:44:14 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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I stopped half-way through. It was just too disturbing.
17 posted on 09/27/2002 11:53:17 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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"Everyone, especially Scotty and Patti, claim to be violently upset, but their behavior contrasts tellingly with that of Anne, Crane's first wife. Anne has never uttered a peep about the husband who cheated relentlessly. Everyone else, including Schrader, is feeding off the same corpse."
18 posted on 09/28/2002 7:41:48 AM PDT by john bell hood
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Touche!
19 posted on 09/28/2002 12:04:05 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: gracex7
bob crane or...paul schrader ?
20 posted on 09/28/2002 12:37:10 PM PDT by freepersup
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