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Jacobkosh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9lC7IBJvIFrom the last thread:
I'm a bit late to the party on this, but I just started reading Greg Sestero's The Disaster Artist, about the making of The Room (which Sestero was in, as "Mark" of "o hi Mark" fame). I haven't even seen The Room, per my skepticism about sitting through bad movies, and I wasn't sure if this would be an interesting read or just a weird obsessive look at a bit of pop culture flotsam...but for some reason I was curious, and it turns out the book is actually terrific.
It's simultaneously a history of the filming of this terrible movie, a character portrait of Tommy Wiseau, who is a uniquely bizarre person, and the story of Sestero himself as an occasional actor on the fringes of Hollywood as well as Wiseau's friend (which often sounds more like being his caseworker). It's well-written and very funny and has an interesting thematic unity that you sometimes don't find in narrative nonfiction, about ambitions and the cost of pursuing or not pursuing them. Sestero starts out kind of shy and uncommitted, and through hanging out with the very off-kilter Wiseau, learns to start taking the initiative more, chasing his ambitions harder, and ends up making mistakes and burning himself in the process. I'm curious, when I get to the end, if he'll conclude if it was worth it or not.
This book is pretty great and Sestero's Wiseau impression is on point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40IToeN51YThe best story from the book so far has absolutely nothing to do with The Room, though.
Several years before The Room began shooting in 2002, Tommy Wiseau, after meeting Greg Sestero in acting class in San Francisco, invites Greg to stay in Tommy's unused LA apartment so he can look for acting gigs. Greg eventually finds some success, gets represented by an agent, and films a "Puppet Master" sequel in Romania.
Tommy doesn't take it well and is clearly both jealous and creepily obsessed. Greg comes home to find that Tommy has opened up his mail, including the check from the Puppet Master production company. Tommy tries to put a brave face on things, though, and is super enthusiastic about seeing Greg in the movie. Once he sees it, Tommy decides, with his usual level of taste, that his favorite part (which was also Greg's least favorite) was a cheesy scene where Greg's character, an old-timey Frenchman, stands on a wide balustraded staircase holding a candelabra.
One day Tommy calls up to ask Greg how to get a SAG card, and Greg, feeling like he can't really tell his buddy to give up on acting, goes ahead and tells him - you need to be a featured extra at least three times, or have a speaking role in a commercial. "Commercial, eh?" Tommy is excited and hangs up.
A few days later he surprises Greg in LA, having arrived in town for "is very important meeting" (mmhmm) and proudly shows off...his brand new SAG card.
Greg is genuinely astonished. How did he get it?
"I get in commercial," Tommy says, and pops in a VHS. The picture comes up and it's Tommy - in a flouncy lace shirt, on a staircase, holding a candelabra. "To be ahr not to be," tommy intones, and then the logo for his fake-Levi's jeans company comes up. He hired himself to make an ad for his own company so he could get a card.
I love this book
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I don't k now why you haven't had a shit revolution and it makes me sad.
do you know how many free movies they get around award season? a friend of mine is in sag from childhood.
The only thing that really makes that logo an Indian is the feather and the metaphor he's a "red man"
This was recorded for a Black Sabbath Dio compilation disc, and this song and the other two recorded for it were so well received it basically started a revival with Dio-led Sabbath.
I pictured people strapped to chairs with wires on their genitalia being wheeled around to measure stuff like heat tolerances on ablative panels and ballistics tests and impact resistance tests
:whistle:
holy shit bro we need in on this scam
are you interested in pitching for Consolidated Koshtronics y/n
how do you look in a ruffled shirt
um
correct?
What is wrong with your people, Ludious??
Some fiber filled bullshit
and a cold chill took over the room
i wrote up a nice long post about some of the perfect poops i've taken in my life
and then you closed the thread early
Which is, ironically, what turns me on
Okay so it's not just me.
@amateurhour @TL DR
Who else was talking about becoming a park ranger ?
Bowen
now I want to smash something
why is this country so horrible, and sadly, still one of the best?
fuckfuckfuckfuck
fiber supplements can free you
Woah woah woah it doesn't look like the raccoon did anything wrong there, he was just chilling while the humans fought.
That's right. All but about 2,500 eligible voters.
He also said this
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-merrill-alabama_us_581a4760e4b0c43e6c1dbadd
I'm not calling this man a liar
But I am
I keep going there hoping for good news, but it just gets worse every day.
God damn it, Comey.
nope
I will commit sudoku if this goes badly
and then seppuku, as needed
Oh god. 99.99
Couldn't even dial it down to a resonable lie like 98.
I LOOK GREAT IN A RUFFLED SHIRT
wait what was this about
Humans are not good creatures.
oh the onion
Some men must know suffering so others can appreciate greatness.
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Also everyone and their mother release polls the final week of the election which creates a hell of a lot of volatility in the numbers