Ok....I'm sitting here watching Quentin Tarantino on Jay Leno and man is he wasted!
He's being loud as hell....somewhat slurring his words and it's so obvious he's drunk.
Leno actually asks him if he's been drinking.....and Tarantino admits that he had a few too many at the mini bar backstage.
A few!!
He acted as if he'd been tossing 'em back for hours!
Kevin Bacon was sitting there next to him looking at Tarantino with a frown on his face.
His behavior on Leno is a far cry from what we've seen of him in his films.
Not a good way to promote "Kill Bill" in my opinion.
I like to drink and all....but if I were famous....the last thing I would do is show up on a talk show hammered out of my mind!
Leno actually ended the show saying, "A special thanks to Jim Beam!"
Did any of you see him and what do you think of celebrities who go on talk shows ripped?
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Sorry I missed it, I'll have to see if they have the rerun of it next week on NBC All Night, where they usually rerun Leno and Conan a week later.
To give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he did have "a few" and just has a low tolerance for alcohol.
I should probably look down on celebs being drunk or wasted on talk shows, but part of me gets a sadistic glee when some of them do it and show how stupid they really are. David Arquette springs to mind. Snoop Dogg on Jimmy Kimmel's show was amusing, more so than his idiotic MTV "Snoop Vizzle Televizzle Rain and Drizzle" or whatever the name of his show is.
But I also liked it when Robert Blake would come on Tom Snyder's CBS show, on something and tell wild stories, open up about various dark patches in his life, and occasionally give away things like Alfalfa once drowning a goat during the lunch break from shooting an Our Gang short. I'm too young to remember when Blake would come on Carson with his wild antics but I savor these later moments
Ash,
Unfortunately I missed this. however it seems to me that this sort of behavior is what Trantino would get off on, since he wildly embraces the "bad-boy, rebel-indie filmmaker" image. any criticism of this event from the media or the public will most likely only feed this image. which is cool with me, only Quentin knows the real him.
He was pretty fat too.
He acted like he does in every interview, just a little louder and with a lot more flesh. Maybe he thought being smashed would maintain his edge. hahahhahaha
sorry i missed it.
personally, i'm all for the drinking. it can take the usual "here's my clip, how was the filming, what was it like working with so-and-so" and turn it on its head
i like when older author's from the past used to show up on shows drunk. of course i've only seen this in reruns and clips, but like kerouac showing up someplace bombed for an interview. sad, but interesting.
and i like that E show where they follow the drunk celebs around too.
I don't watch talk shows. Most 'artists' (directors, actors, musicians) tend to be far less interesting in person then the result of their work.
Last night while Leno was on, I think I was fighting with various cable adapters to do some home music recording
I can't stay awake any more to watch them. Probably having to get up by 7 am for work is a factor. Stupid work.
Wait a minute. Alfalfa drowned a goat? I need to know more about that.
Does anyone else have the feeling that Tarentino will die at a young age, and that his death will result from a lack of common sense? I can see him getting hit by a car or drowning or something while he is acting like a buffoon. Does anyone agree with me?
my money's on hiim getting hit by a car, then making a film involving numerous car crashes like stephen king did
perhaps he could remake cronenberg's 'crash' that would be interesting
it's either that or he continues to let 'oh my god you're tarantino' get to his head, as much as i love his work, i think he's a little too arrogant for his own good
I also remember the comic Richard, not Belzer the guy who plays up being neurotic, anyway, him being on Letterman a few years ago, and not making it back in time after the commercial break. Dave gave the C sign. It seems Richard was backstage powdering his nose.
I recently viewed a clip of Crispin Glover (George McFly for those who don't know) and he was either on shrooms or trippin' his balls off on strong acid as a guest on the Letterman show.
His behavior was totally bizarre.
The clip was old though....judging from the amount of hair on Letterman's head, I'm guessing it was taped in the early 90's
raj means Richard Lewis, who I've never found funny anyway.
OK, here's the Alfalfa story as best I can remember, According to Blake during one of his Tom Snyder appearence's, "Alfie was crazy" an impulsive tempermental, hot-headed kid. The stuff I saw on E!'s "Mysteries and Scandals" show seems to bear this out, his temper helped get him killed as an adult.
Anyway, Blake said they were shooting one of the Our Gang shorts near a wooded area beside pond on the studio lot used for rustic locations. The scenes being shot that morning involved Alfie being rammed or pushed by a goat. They had to do the shots over and over, either the goat wasn't cooperating or the shots didn't look right. Alfie was getting p**sed of about having to keep getting shoved and bumped on his butt by this goat.
When they broke for lunch, most of the cast and crew went to the studio commisary for lunch, but Blake and his dad had sack lunches from home that they ate under a nearby shady tree. Blake said since his film work was the main or only source of money for the family, they brought sack lunches from home to save money.
He said a little later, after the crew was gone, Alfalfa snuck back to the location, thinking no one was there. The goat was tied up nearby because they were still going to be shooting ther after lunch.
According to Blake, Alfie untied the goat, and dragged it out into the pond, shallow enough for Alfalfa but not for the goat. He then drowned the goat, so he wouldn't have to film any more scenes of getting "butted in the ass" by the goat that day since he was sick of it.
The crew came back to find a dead goat and the shooting schedule for the day was ruined and had to be raarranged. Blake claims he and his father never said anything at the time for fear of making waves.
SInce the story comes from Robert Blake, not very stable himself, who knows if it's true or not. But it's a great story either way.
The Burgomaster wrote:
> Does anyone else have the feeling that Tarentino will die at a
> young age, and that his death will result from a lack of common
> sense? I can see him getting hit by a car or drowning or
> something while he is acting like a buffoon. Does anyone agree
> with me?
>
Now that you mention it, I think he will. My vote goes to him drowning in the bathtub in an absurdly shallow depth of water while doing something foolish on a bet.
Actually, I've always heard that Crispin Glover is a mental case. He seems to have a rep for not being all there upstairs.
Actually, I can see him going the same route as Ted Demme and dying of heart failure due to a cocaine overdose. He's long been rumored to be a huge coke fiend too.
Are you talking about the time Crispin kicked Letterman in the head and they cut to commercials? That was from the 80's.
Also, Crispin wasn't drunk. He's just weird all the time.
Richard Lewis, yes. Thanks.
I actually think that Tarrantino will die on a publicity stunt by being tortured, rapedd, and otherwise forgotten quickly, like most of the characters in his films do, and like his movies should be.
Anyways, Will Ferell is very strange on talk shows, he doesnt have much to say, and when he speaks he is very incoherent.
A surprise may be Edward Norton. He infuriated girlfriend Salma Hayek, by going to the Academy awards last year completely hammered, and he drinks at any major function he goes to as well. Maybe he is shy??