Rare Bob Hope blooper unearthed after visit to Holy Land
February 18th, 2010 by Scott Marks
DATELINE BURBANK: Being this close to the epicenter of Hope necessitated a pilgrimage to The Toluca Lake Earth Station to see if dear Dolores needed anything at the Von’s. The gate was closed and the shades drawn. It would have been easier to catch a glimpse up one of her fabulous floor-length gowns. The only sign of movement was flapping on the end of a flagpole. Today Mrs. Hope lives alone in Bob’s never-finished, already decaying Toluca Lake pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited, never photographed.
It’s been an overwhelming week. Normally a positive inaugural visit to “Shutter Island” would have been enough. I spiked the punch by exposing myself to the greatest narcotic known to man. As if ordained, the second I arrived back at my Burbank suite the computer was on my lap and this blooper from the 1970 Miss World Pageant on my screen.
Bob knew of my presence on consecrated ground and planned this assault on my thought patterns.
His will be done!
Were I to live three lifetimes I could never expose myself to every on camera morsel the man force fed us. Not until “this” night was I aware of the existence of this Hope-filled tirade. Mixing his signature “satirical” schick with indignant outrage, Bob lets those feminist dames know exactly where he stands, right here.
Allow Wikipedia to set the scene: “During the evening there were protests by Women’s Liberation activists. They held up placards, shouted, blew whistles, and threw smoke bombs, stink bombs, ink bombs and leaflets onto the stage. The comedian, Bob Hope, was also heckled and scarcely raised a laugh.”
Scarcely raised a laugh? I’m still shaking. This is one of the most hilariously uncomfortable Bob Hope bloopers on record! It must be studied in every classroom in America. They should have run this on a double feature with Obama’s controversial (?) address to the nation’s school children.
Bob “Cattle Market” Hope kicks off his set with a few well placed zingers to let these broads know who is boss. Bob would have made a great pitchman for PETA. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about protecting animals. As President Nixon foretold in his infamous ”Checkers speech,” Republican cloth coats are so much cheaper!
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Scorsese and DeNiro to remake “Taxi Driver”?!?!?
February 15th, 2010 by Scott Marks
All the Danish animals come out at night. While he’s no Bertrand Russell, Lars Von Trier has got some bad ideas.
No sooner does word arrive that there is talk of Scorsese and DeNiro reuniting on a new gangster film, than this bit of violent insanity crosses my desk.
Danish director Lars Von Trier has challenged Marty and Bob to do a remake of “Taxi Driver” with DeNiro once again starring as Travis Bickle. Where do you get your balls big enough to challenge Marty to one of your pissing contests? If Von Trier has his way Bjork will play Iris.
Sick. Venal.
After spending far too much time researching this story, Earth Times reports that the news first broke in the Copenhagen film magazine Ekko. It’s hard to take a site seriously when they misspell His name, but I won’t kill the messenger. It’s Von Trier’s motives that I question.
Von Tirer is no stranger to this form of cinematic masturbation. According to Variety, “The idea behind the project is similar to the film ‘The Five Obstructions’ that von Trier and Danish helmer Jorgen Leth made in 2003. In that film, von Trier challenged his colleague Leth to do a remake of his own 1967 film ‘The Perfect Human.’ Von Trier gave Leth the task of remaking five times, each time with a different obstacle, such as making the film animated, given by von Trier.”
Hey, Lars, suck on this: While I was able to get some shits and giggles out of “Antichrist,” you haven’t made a good film since “Breaking the Waves.” And whatever happened your Dogme 95 manifesto in which the director is not to take credit? Going before the press at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival to proclaim himself the “greatest director in the world” is more pretentious than anything on display in your last four films. You’re a greedy, exploitative whore like the rest of them. Can’t wait for “Eden,” the upcoming video game based on “Antichrist.”
Stay away from him, Marty. He’s the type of man who would do violence in his grandmother’s neighborhood.
As John Schultz pointed out, this is the only officially sanctioned remake of “Taxi Driver”:
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