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post #1 of 26
10/21/09 at 11:26am
Thread Starter 
As per new interview with A.V. Club.

Tom Cruise? "He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, 'You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?' I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, 'It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.'"

Denzel Washington? "That was a low point, because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bullshit of 'This is my character, not me.' He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it, and what that led to was the very next big movie that I did. I should have said to the producers, 'You get that guy in line, or I’m out of here.'"

Bette Midler? "Yes, because Bette Midler was such a bitch to him [The First Wives Club director Hugh Wilson]. While he was directing, she would be rolling her eyes, pantomiming with her favorite actors, and she made it very difficult. And he was at his wit’s end. He was actually a very nice man, but she was very unkind to him on that movie."
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post #2 of 26
10/21/09 at 11:46am
Oh man, he's blazing new trails going after Cruise, Denzel, and Bette Midler. What a rebel!
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post #3 of 26
10/21/09 at 1:06pm
Bronson Pinchot: Revealer of celebrity secrets from 1993.
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post #4 of 26
10/21/09 at 1:27pm
The Tom Cruise overcompensating story is actually pretty hilarious, if not revelatory. The Denzel stuff just kind of bums me out.
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post #5 of 26
10/21/09 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
Oh man, he's blazing new trails going after Cruise, Denzel, and Bette Midler. What a rebel!
Don't be ridickullus.



Someone had to goddamnit. Fuck you guys for making me do it first.
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post #6 of 26
10/21/09 at 2:04pm
'You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?'

I will not rest easy until I can use this in a conversation.
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post #7 of 26
10/21/09 at 2:28pm
I wonder what kind of dish he has on Dean Stockwell from their time together working on "The Langoliers". MMMMMMM, that's some gooood gossip.
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post #8 of 26
10/21/09 at 2:54pm
I enjoyed that. I love hearing that behind the scenes stuff, even if it is about "Perfect Strangers".

The stuff about Eddie Murphy doesn't surprise me. That should tell you why he's done all those kids movies. In a funk from doing shitty movies, then Dr. Doolittle hits, so he figures he can stay in the kid-centric film world, and make a living still, and it worked/is working.
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post #9 of 26
10/21/09 at 3:10pm
Dude comes across as pretty likeabe all around.
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post #10 of 26
10/21/09 at 4:14pm
Wasn't he verging on full-on rape when he was on The Surreal Life? Am I thinking of someone else?
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post #11 of 26
10/21/09 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
I wonder what kind of dish he has on Dean Stockwell from their time together working on "The Langoliers". MMMMMMM, that's some gooood gossip.
None! Dean Stockwell is the coolest motherfucker in Hollywood.
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post #12 of 26
10/21/09 at 10:03pm
I've been to Mackinac many a time on class trips and it was pretty boring, had a lot of horse crap, and plenty of fudge (Tom Cruise would have a field day), so I'm inclined to believe Balki on the rest of it.
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post #13 of 26
10/22/09 at 2:36pm
Pretty terrific interview. Candid and articulate.

one question - how much money did he make? enough to burn some bridges apparantly
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post #14 of 26
10/25/09 at 5:51pm
Random Roles does occasionally throw up some great interviews. Some of them are sadly short, but the Margot Kidder/Terri Garr ones are great and just as revealing as the Pinchot one.
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post #15 of 26
10/26/09 at 2:23pm
Wait. Hugh Wilson directed THE FIST WIVES CLUB?

edit: nevermind, I was thinking Hugh Hudson.
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post #16 of 26
10/26/09 at 3:21pm
The Modine interview is pretty great as well. Not for dirt, though.

Modine
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post #17 of 26
10/26/09 at 3:27pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman View Post
I enjoyed that. I love hearing that behind the scenes stuff, even if it is about "Perfect Strangers".

The stuff about Eddie Murphy doesn't surprise me. That should tell you why he's done all those kids movies. In a funk from doing shitty movies, then Dr. Doolittle hits, so he figures he can stay in the kid-centric film world, and make a living still, and it worked/is working.
The only problem with Pinchot's reasoning here is that The Nutty Professor (1996) was Murphy's big comeback movie, not Dr. Doolittle (1998).
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post #18 of 26
10/26/09 at 3:29pm
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Originally Posted by soylentgreen View Post
Wait. Hugh Wilson directed THE FIST WIVES CLUB?
Two questions:

1. Where and when does this club meet?
2. Is Bette Midler in any way involved?
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post #19 of 26
10/26/09 at 3:45pm
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The Young And The Restless (2008)—“Patrick Dalton”

BP: I forgot I even did that. I don’t know how many episodes I did.
When Christopher Lee can't remember why the plane was hijacked in AIRPORT 77 for a British film mag pop quiz, it's understandable. When the guy who will go to his grave with a Balki quote on his tombstone can't remember a soap opera run he was on a year earlier, that's ludicrous.

I get that Hollywood is a dense fog of booze, coke, tits and thinly drawn people (I have seen a Tony Scott film or two!), but give me a break. Repression is more like it.


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Originally Posted by eatatjoes View Post
Two questions:

1. Where and when does this club meet?
2. Is Bette Midler in any way involved?
Whoops. Apparently a risk one runs when surfing CHUD and porn at the same time.
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post #20 of 26
10/26/09 at 5:35pm
What gets me is he uses that "I didn't even remember I was in that film," bit like 5 times in the interview, then proceeds to tell many a story about the role he'd "completely forgotten."
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post #21 of 26
10/27/09 at 5:23pm
Not to derail, but to keep from starting a whole new thread.

Director Mary Harron let it slip during a recent interview that Christian Bale used Tom Cruise as a template for Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. The mannerisms and especially the way he delivers the voice-over.
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post #22 of 26
10/27/09 at 5:31pm
Thread Starter 
Did Bale make reference to getting ice cream in case no gay people were around?
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post #23 of 26
10/27/09 at 5:43pm
No, but I bet Tom wears an ice pack on his face while doing stomach crunches.

He can do a 1000 now.
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post #24 of 26
10/27/09 at 10:29pm
“You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?”

Now, I generally consider myself fairly aware of a wide variety of cultural weirdness, but for the life of me, I just can't understand what Cruise was implying. And I've been mulling it for 24 hours now.
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post #25 of 26
10/28/09 at 12:37am
It has to do with licking ice cream cones somehow, right? I mean, it just has to...
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post #26 of 26
10/28/09 at 5:03pm
Hate to derail but these Random Roles pieces are awesome. The one with Charles Napier was fucking great. Talking about Russ Meyer and his life as an actor could probably be one of the greatest books on Hollywood history.
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