A New Mexico-based actor who has appeared in AMC's "Better Call Saul," the western TV drama "Longmire" and the 2009 movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats" says he cut off his own arm and pretended to be a wounded veteran in hopes of furthering his acting career.
In a video interview with Albuquerque's KOB-4 TV, Todd Lawson Latourette, who is bipolar, said he was off his medications and in the midst of a psychotic episode 17 years ago when he cut off his right forearm with a Skilsaw and cauterized it himself.
"I don't want to say the word 'insanity' because the mentally ill – we're so far from insane," he said tearfully of his mental state at the time. "We are your brothers, your mothers, your sisters. And we hurt."
Latourette later fashioned his own prosthetic forearm and hand. He also began lying about the cause of his disability, saying he sustained the wound in combat. It worked, he insisted. Casting directors started booking him for roles.
Latourette says he hopes he can serve as a cautionary tale for other people with bipolar disorder.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Google always suggests me conservative articles for some reason so when I read a headline about that it focused more on this stolen Valor thing. Also demonizing the mentally ill obvs
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Bloods EndBlade of TyshallePunch dimensionRegistered Userregular
Producer Adi Shankar is in talks to produce a series based on the long-running “The Legend of Zelda” video game franchise, TheWrap has learned exclusively.
On Monday, Shankar posted on Instagram that he was “working with an iconic Japanese gaming company to adapt one of their iconic video game series into a series.”
Shankar’s most recent credits include serving as a producer on Joseph Kahn’s “Bodied” and starring in “Get the Girl,” as well as executive producer in “Lone Survivor.” He also served as executive producer on the TV series “Castlevania.”
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Producer Adi Shankar is in talks to produce a series based on the long-running “The Legend of Zelda” video game franchise, TheWrap has learned exclusively.
On Monday, Shankar posted on Instagram that he was “working with an iconic Japanese gaming company to adapt one of their iconic video game series into a series.”
Shankar’s most recent credits include serving as a producer on Joseph Kahn’s “Bodied” and starring in “Get the Girl,” as well as executive producer in “Lone Survivor.” He also served as executive producer on the TV series “Castlevania.”
If it's as good as Castlevania, I'm up for it.
Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus me, princess X a billion
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
Looks like Gotham is getting two more episodes for it's final season. That'll give it 100 episodes total, which used to be the "we made it to syndication!" standard, but who knows if that still holds today.
Looks like Gotham is getting two more episodes for it's final season. That'll give it 100 episodes total, which used to be the "we made it to syndication!" standard, but who knows if that still holds today.
It can but in this case it probably means FX is nabbing it.
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It's rare that I like early on alliances but the bros are really an amazing group. I really hope they are able to stay loyal within the 3 post merge.
This feels like the most impact I've seen weather have in a season early on (but admittedly there were a few years I fell off watching the show).
It also feels like there are less people I've forgotten exist this season. Ususally there are a half dozen or so people that when they go home I have to ask my wife who they are, this season that hasn't been the case.
Everything I know about Survivor I learned from @Nirya.
It's rare that I like early on alliances but the bros are really an amazing group. I really hope they are able to stay loyal within the 3 post merge.
This feels like the most impact I've seen weather have in a season early on (but admittedly there were a few years I fell off watching the show).
It also feels like there are less people I've forgotten exist this season. Ususally there are a half dozen or so people that when they go home I have to ask my wife who they are, this season that hasn't been the case.
Everything I know about Survivor I learned from Nirya.
Johnny Mundo and the Brochachos are the best thing on television at the moment and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Kevin Can Fuck Himself is in development at AMC. Comedy show about a sitcom wife who realizes she's a sitcom wife, the supporting character in her own life, and is upset
Created by Valerie Armstrong (SEAL Team)
Executive produced by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack
Kevin Can Fuck Himself is in development at AMC. Comedy show about a sitcom wife who realizes she's a sitcom wife, the supporting character in her own life, and is upset
Created by Valerie Armstrong (SEAL Team)
Executive produced by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack
Hopefully this is only the first of many hypercompetent secondary characters realizing they should be the protagonist.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Have I ever talked about how much I adore Rashida Jones?
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Steam
I've missed that show so much
Show wasn't without its problems but it was fun as hell and that's ultimately what matters
I don't care
I wish I had done what aj did and bought king of the hill on dvd
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Its there right now.
Its shockingly hard to just pick a random ep.
Type 2 here. It's weird because I don't get manic, just from time to time I go from normalish to so depressed I think some off the wall dark shit.
Might I suggest the witches of East Arlen
"Begin"
Also, episode 3. Gotdamn.
whatever gets your site hits
(Bodyguard episode 3)
I think they did, right?
Wow.
If it's as good as Castlevania, I'm up for it.
Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus me, princess X a billion
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It can but in this case it probably means FX is nabbing it.
Steam
I'm not gunna lie. It's super fucking weird to see places you have been to like a million times in your life through a prestige television filter.
Everything I know about Survivor I learned from @Nirya.
Johnny Mundo and the Brochachos are the best thing on television at the moment and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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Created by Valerie Armstrong (SEAL Team)
Executive produced by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack
Steam
Hopefully this is only the first of many hypercompetent secondary characters realizing they should be the protagonist.
Because I absolutely adore Rashida Jones.
*Castle warps into river*
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS PLAN WAS HORRIBLE.
This show is amazeballs.
As soon as that started happening I found myself muttering "Oh... oh no. You idiots."
Deffo had that feeling watching Lady Bird and I only lived in Sacramento for 6 years.
Watched bits of "Hammer", the Matt Hammill biopic, and had the opposite feeling of seeing my whitebread suburbia hometown portrayed as a rural utopia.
Nice to have a drama that under 30 minutes.