And dig the trailer for Roger Corman’s 1994 Fantastic Four flick instead!
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…and looking for another excuse to have a viewing party at your place?
Look no further.
No, friends, your eyes are not deceiving you. The name of this film is “Cockfight,” and it’s every bit as wonderful as the title would suggest…if, of course, by “wonderful,” you mean “so bad that you can’t look away.”
Please, check out my review – that’s where the above link will send you – but I’ll make a point here that I made there: there’s a new drinking game afoot, my friends, and the rules are simple.
1. Drink every time anyone on the screen utters one of the following words: “cockfight,” “cockfights,” “cockfighter,” or “cockfighting.”
2. Trust me, you don’t need a second rule.
You can offer a prize to whoever’s left standing at the end of the film, if you’d like to entice the invitees who are on the fence, but, ultimately, it’ll be a moot point; you’ll be lucky if anyone makes it to the halfway point without keeling over. If you want to put this game into practice, just click on the box art, and it’ll take you straight to Amazon to order a copy…but, please, for God’s sake, if you actually do have a “Cockfight” party, let me know. Drop me a line at wharris (at) bullz-eye.com. I want details. I’m an old man of 36 who gets a buzz off one glass of wine; I need to live vicariously through you young bucks.
Charles Nelson Reilly, who spent much of the 1970s as both a staple of “The Match Game” and a regular on Saturday morning television, has died at the age of 76.
Funnily enough, I just did an interview with Marty Krofft – soon to be posted on Bullz-Eye – where he and I discussed Charles Nelson Reilly’s role on “Lidsville” as the evil magician Horatio J. Hoo Doo (seen above). I always thought Reilly was a hoot, one of those staples of ’70s television who – rather unfairly, I thought – never managed to escape from his reputation as a staple of ’70s television. But the guy was a Tony-winning actor for “How To Succeed In Business Without Even Trying” who studied acting alongside Steve McQueen and Hal Holbrook, and although his film career never really took off (career highlight: “Cannonball Run II”), he stayed active on TV and doing animation voiceovers ’til the very end. His most memorable work in recent years…? I think you have to give it to his role as Jose Chung on “The X-Files,” a part he reprised on a later episode of “Millennium.” But he did a great comedic turn as himself on an episode of “The Larry Sanders Show,” and he also turned up on a couple of episodes of “The Drew Carey Show” as well.
Me, I always remember him for his role as Uncle Croc. “Uncle Croc’s Block” was a very, very short-lived Saturday morning series where Reilly played a crotchety kids show host, and although I have no idea how it would play for me today, at the time, I thought it was hilarious because it was so different from anything else on Saturday mornings as the time.
Sorry to see you go, Charles. Hopefully, one of these days, the film of your one-man show, “The Life of Reilly,” will make it to DVD…although there’s a line in this trailer for the film that isn’t nearly as funny any longer.
In the meantime, we’ll leave you with the final word on one thing you absolutely weren’t:
Yes, that’s right: the host of “Inside the Actor’s Studio.” The series is continuing onward, with Kyra Sedgwick as its latest guest, and we had the opportunity to pose a few questions to Mr. Lipton – who, if you can believe it, is eighty years old! – about a few items on his resume, as well as one we’ve always wondered about the students in the audience of the Actor’s Studio…
Bullz-Eye: Hi, Mr. Lipton.
James Lipton: Hi.
BE: Could you speak a little bit about your experiences working on “Arrested Development”?
JL: I loved it. Why wouldn’t I? Those people are extraordinary, beginning with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard at the top, and those actors are amazing. It was a wonderful show; I wish it were still on the air. It came as a surprise. They called me, and they pleaded with me to be on the show – don’t ask me why – and I couldn’t. I said, “Look, I…” At this point, I was still the dean of the (Actors Studio Drama School). I said, “I’m a dean, which is a full-time job, I’m executive producer, writer, and host of ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio,’ which is a full-time job…I can’t expand my week! I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, without exception, from the beginning of September ‘til the middle of June. I take two days off – Thanksgiving and Christmas – and that’s it. And I can’t come.” Finally, they got in touch with me, and they said, “Look: if you will come, we will do all your scenes in one day. Everybody else will lay off, and only the people involved in your scenes will come in and do your stuff with you, and we’ll get it all done in one day. We’ll fly you out, do it one day, and fly you back.” I agreed to do that. And then about a week before I was to arrive, they said, “Hey, we’ve written a second script for you…but we’ll do it all in the one day.” And then the night before I was to get on the plane, I got an E-mail which contained a third script, and they said, “But we’ll do it all in one day!” I did them all in one day! I did three shows in one day. And subsequently, of course, several months later, I did the final show. I came back for one show. And it was a great experience.
BE: I know that David Cross’s impression of you was not quite as good-natured as Will Ferrell’s…
JL: His was much less good-natured. I’d never seen it – I was only told – but do you want to hear a story about that?
BE: Sure!
A couple titles for this blog went through my head. The runners-up:
“This is my mistake; let me make it good.” That sprang to mind when Senator Roark was planning to bomb the oil rig.
“What a lovely way to say ‘I love you’.” Chloe. ‘Nuff said.
In the end, I chose the title above because, as unhappy as I am with the show this season, and as ridiculous as things got as the day progressed…I will not stop watching “24.” I mean, the day is now over, and I’m still wondering:
– What Wheelbarrow Wayne had to do in order to secure Jack’s release from Chinese custody in the first hour.
– How Jack’s hand got so horribly scarred. Yes, the torture, but through what means? By whose hand? They spent far too much time focused on his hand to just let that go.
– Who gave Mister Swank the orders to kill Assad and Palmer. They showed Swank talking to someone who was pulling the strings. Who was that man?
– Why Jack’s father was allowed to tamper with evidence at CTU and then leave after his son confessed to assassinating a President of the United States.
– If President Buck Buck Brawwwwwk actually died in the ambulance. I’m assuming so, but there wasn’t another word about him after that cliffhanger.
– Why Milo’s hair looked so drastically different in the episode where he was killed than it did in any other episode up to that point. Was his death a last-minute re-shoot?
– How our country’s counter-terrorist unit has the most hackable network in the world.
– Who Jack Jack’s real father is. That was pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if the writers got wind of the bloggers catching on to their plan and changed their tune mid-season. You gotta admit, they made it pretty obvious that Josh was not Grame’s son. Strained relationship between Jack and Heidi Petrelli, etc. Maybe they’re saving that for next season, now that Audrey’s a vegetable.
Despite all of this, I will still watch the show next year. It didn’t flick the ‘Off’ switch in my head that, say, last Wednesday’s “American Idol” did. “24,” on the other hand, can be saved. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
As Senator Roark is trying to save both his face and ass with the Russian president and American public respectively, I nearly laughed out loud at the proposition that he was giving them, his last-ditch effort to avoid a war.
“What is your proposal, Mr. Vice President?”
“Basically, I’m gonna blow everything within a quarter mile of the component sky-high. There will be no evidence that we actually destroyed the chip, but there will be no one left to confirm that we didn’t destroy it.”
“Mr. Vice President, I find your plan acceptable.”
Wow. Hey Suvarov, I have this great plan to make money quickly. First, you give me $5,000 to join our group, then find three people to give you $5,000….What a gulli-bull.
Meanwhile, Nadia gets a taste of the dark side by not following orders but ultimately doing the right thing, and the Ricker, as my wife was fond of pointing out, was blinded by science. Ow. On the bright side of life, Chloe’s pregnant, Karen and Big Balls Bill Buchanan (did I get that right, Giant Gary?) get to retire with their reputations intact, and Jack, once again, has to disappear, but not before saying goodbye to a sleeping Audrey. How many arrestable offenses did he commit today, six? Ten? More than one, no question.
So how do you save “24” from itself? Well, due to the title, there is no shortening the episode slate, like “Lost” will from now on. I do think they were on to something, though, when they shifted the focus from one villain to another. The problem was they did it too late. Had they shifted focus closer to the midway point, they may have pulled it off. Either that or have one villain, a compelling villain, dominate the whole show.
Here’s another idea: get out of Los Angeles. Spend some time on the left coast, maybe have some fun on South Padre Island (does anyone go there on spring break anymore? It was wicked popular when I was in college). Or, if you insist on staying in L.A., accept the consequences that your plot device gives you. They dropped a bomb on Los Angeles this year, yet continuously put its men in the field with little regard for the fallout. Maybe next year should be “24 Hours Later,” where the rage virus hits a major metropolitan area (don’t laugh, Fox owns the rights to that franchise), and it ends with Jack having to kill an infected Audrey.
Whatever they decide to do with “24” next season, I’ll be waiting for them, hoping that they’ve changed, like a battered spouse. Until then, I have seven sweet, sweet months of blog-free Mondays to look forward to. Sweet dreams.
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