Bob and David at the Oscars, 1999
I just learned this existed, and life has already changed. “Stay where you are and run for your lives!”
During [Remy Shand’s] home schooling in Winnipeg, he listened to his parents’ R&B, blues and soul albums, spending a lot of time in his basement sampling retro music. Shand’s love of funk music made him an outcast.
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| — | The wikipedia page for Remy Shand, which not only offers the above-quoted, and incredibly unlikely, reason for his lack of high-school popularity, but also points out the somewhat alarming fact that for the last eight years no one’s had any idea where this guy is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Shand |
The Armando Iannucci Shows, 2005, “Village Sniper”
My personal favorite sketch from this show. Captures so much of what I love about Armando Iannucci.
Martin Arnold, end of Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy, 1998
Mickey and Judy, chopped and screwed. Grotesque. Funny.
Satellite-Dish Musical Tribute, 1981 Emmy Awards
Skip directly to 8:30. Then realize why most Emmy nominees didn’t seem to bother showing up to the ceremony.
In 1997, Pitchfork gave Save Ferris’s album It Means Everything a 9.5. This really happened. Apparently not a joke. Yeesh. Come on, Eileen!
(Cybill) Shepherd has revealed her sexual curiosity and desire in various interviews about having a physical relationship with a woman. In 2006, in an interview about The L Word she said more than once that she was “turned on” by the woman-woman sex scenes: “If you look at what we know about men, women and our sexuality, a great majority of people are bisexual. So what’s wrong with that?”
She also said in an interview: “I have wondered about [lesbianism]… At various times in my life I wanted to be open to the possibility of having a woman as a lover. I am not actively pursuing it but it is not over yet.”
She has confessed to having a longtime crush on Salma Hayek and admits to having fantasized about her.
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| — | From Cybill Shepherd’s wikipedia page. I like to imagine the following statement to the press: “I am not necessarily gay, but I have often thought about wanting to be.” |
Was this written by someone with too much time on their hands, or just enough? In any case, thanks to Devin Beames for bringing this to my attention.
Roger became a musician and formed a rock band, which Bill Clinton described as talented in his autobiography.
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| — | From Roger Clinton’s all-too-brief wikipedia page. |
As the crew was huddling with Perry, reassuring him that they could still make the program work, his cell phone rang: it was Lurie, who had collapsed in the hallway. Perry went and helped him to his feet and walked him out to a cab, neither man saying much. As Lurie pulled away, he was struck by Perry’s expression: ‘He looked intense, lost, childlike, and large. Later, I thought, that was the moment he decided to kill me.’
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| — | From Tad Friend’s article in the Aug 16/23 issue of The New Yorker on Jon Lurie and the guy that Lurie is convinced is still stalking him after two years. (Paywall alert.) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend |
