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Post by mh on Feb 2, 2014 14:59:55 GMT -6
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Post by Babu Baboon on Feb 2, 2014 15:11:49 GMT -6
It's mind blowing. I had no idea he had been struggling for a long time with heroin addiction.
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Post by mh on Feb 2, 2014 16:12:06 GMT -6
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Post by Babu Baboon on Feb 2, 2014 18:05:34 GMT -6
From interviews, he did make it seem like he'd defeated his demons years ago. I guess there really is no cure for addiction. Those living with it just find ways to hold it at bay.
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Post by mh on Feb 2, 2014 20:49:50 GMT -6
From interviews, he did make it seem like he'd defeated his demons years ago. I guess there really is no cure for addiction. Those living with it just find ways to hold it at bay. i think it's sort of like if you or i or most people got depressed, or if something goes really wrong in our lives, we might drink a lot or eat a box of donuts. but for someone like phillip seymour Hoffman, you know how to get it and deep down you crave that high again. it's an avenue that's always open. myself, if i suddenly decided i wanted some damn heroin, i'd have no clue where to get it! walmart maybe? but it is very sad |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Feb 2, 2014 21:59:33 GMT -6
Yeah, I guess even if you think you're "cured", it's always there lurking in the back of your mind.
What's weird is he didn;t have that look of typical heroin addicts like Iggy Pop or Sid Vicious.
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Post by williscorto on Feb 3, 2014 0:21:38 GMT -6
That necrotic droop that you see in Iggy Pop's face is reserved for people who have done some very hard living and improbanly survived, and HIV/AIDS sufferers.
I was surprised by this. He was a significant talent.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Feb 3, 2014 1:28:20 GMT -6
We'll always have The Big Lebowski.
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Post by williscorto on Feb 3, 2014 4:10:17 GMT -6
Ha!
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Post by Babu Baboon on Feb 3, 2014 7:09:49 GMT -6
I had forgotten that he was in The Big Lebowski.
He was absolutely hilarious in Boogie Nights.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Feb 3, 2014 7:19:53 GMT -6
This reminds me: I gave you the challenge of adapting the screenplay for The Big Lebowski into the DC Universe, somehow, and you came through with Ambush Bug: The Big Schwab. But at the same time you challenged me to adapt the screenplay for Raising Arizona into the DCU. While I did make a few attempts with certain characters, I could never find the combination that really worked, and thus I failed to rise to the challenge. 
One of these days, though... one of these days...
(Replacing the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse with Lobo seems a natural fit, but introducing aliens places the story in space or the future, and that's where it became really difficult to make the story work. I may have to nix the Lobo idea altogether and figure out someone else to use as the Lone Biker. Or maybe focusing more on Lobo and minimizing the other characters a bit more might work. I dunno.)
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Post by Babu Baboon on Feb 3, 2014 10:10:53 GMT -6
This reminds me: I gave you the challenge of adapting the screenplay for The Big Lebowski into the DC Universe, somehow, and you came through with Ambush Bug: The Big Schwab. But at the same time you challenged me to adapt the screenplay for Raising Arizona into the DCU. While I did make a few attempts with certain characters, I could never find the combination that really worked, and thus I failed to rise to the challenge.
One of these days, though... one of these days...
(Replacing the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse with Lobo seems a natural fit, but introducing aliens places the story in space or the future, and that's where it became really difficult to make the story work. I may have to nix the Lobo idea altogether and figure out someone else to use as the Lone Biker. Or maybe focusing more on Lobo and minimizing the other characters a bit more might work. I dunno.) |
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