Finally, in the interview with Phil Tucker (Robot Monster), Tucker supposedly mentions a film called Space Jockey, adding that while he thought his other films were okay, this one “was a real piece of shit. In fact, I’d say it’s the worst film ever made.” Given that he thought pretty well of his efforts in Robot Monster, the comment just seems too good to be true (practically has a lampshade hung on it)…

Does the man know nothing whatever about the history of the United States? Why were those Pilgrims over here giving thanks for not starving in the American wilderness? Didn’t it have something to do with rejecting the notion of the established Church of England, with the monarch as its head?

Remember when in the last Medved discussion here I brought up the Hollywood Hall of Shame book?

The library got it from another branch for me Tuesday, and I just read through it today (I spent Wednesday in San Fran, managing to completely avoid the Olympic torch debacle– but that’s another story).

To be fair to Medved, I overestimated both the number and nature of the gay jokes aimed at Rock Hudson: there are only two, and they’re not particularly mean-spirited, nor particularly funny. One is a comment on Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews’ marriage shortly after Darling Lili’s debut (“It was by all accounts a touching ceremony…, though Rock Hudson passed up his opportunity to serve as one of the bridesmaids) and a picture caption (“Rock Hudson (as Major Larrabee) explains to his shocked co-pilot why they call it a Bi-Plane.”)

Amazingly, they don’t make many gay jokes at the even more obvious targets of Liberace (featured in the movie Sincerely Yours) or The Village People (for Can’t Stop the Music), nor many fat jokes about Elizabeth Taylor– perhaps because Kenneth Anger was busy using them in Hollywood Babylon II. (They do make a couple of fat jokes about Kate Smith, but that’s pretty hard to avoid.)

On the whole, most of the jokes in the book are rather limp, with most of the best humor coming from documenting some of the bizarre mishaps that befell these films during their shooting histories.

It might be interesting (in a granny-skinningly insane way) to see how Mr. Medved would review Mohammed, Messenger of God *these* days…

… and then used the Constitution to wipe the resulting effluvia off his arse, replied the Democrats. I *still* believe that the 1988 was Lee Atwater’s first and most successful attempt at presidential vote-stealing.

Mrs. Tilton, the expression Red-State Shinto is so excellent that I intend to steal quote it as often as possible. That’s exactly the kind of ‘my country, right or wrong’ jingoism that Medved and his fellows want to see legislated here!

Jesus WOULD have made a totally rad “summon” spell character in Final Fantasy VII. Yet another missed opportunity.

How did the Simpsons writers not use this in the HW episode?! An opportunity lost…

IIRC, back in 1988, the first George Bush made a big issue of this in his run for the presidency. There was a flag-burning amendment being considered at the time, which he used as a bludgeon against Dukakis. Bush I claimed that he recited the pledge of allegiance every morning.

oh, no. It’s Stevie Wonder doing “Superstition” on Sesame Street. Mr. Hooper on conga’s..