That Guy and Badasss hall of fame nominee

I present, Danny Trejo! If your movie needs a baddass mexican guy, look no further. He's more pock marked than Edward James Olmos, skilled at knife throwing, served time in San Quention and was a childhood heroin addict. Did I mention the giant tattoo on his chest of a woman in a sombrero? The pimped out mexican foo manchu moustache? BADASSS!

When I lived in LA he was always on the news for fundraising in his community, helping kids stay out of gangs and all sorts of good stuff. He could be the scariest nicest man ever. You may remember him from such films at Heat and Desperado.

He has had a rough time on screen:
Blown up by Charles Bronson.
Shot to death by Steven Seagal
Multiple gunshot wound death in Desperado.
Mercy killed by Robert DeNiro in Heat.
Stabbed to death by a pool cue by Tom Savini.
Commits suicide by shooting himself in the head, rather than be killed by the giant anaconda.
Arm ripped off when the plane crashes while he's handcuffed to an overhead fixturein Con Air.
Shot to death in a shoot-out with Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino in the Replacement Killers..
Shot to death by Dennis Farina.
Vin Deisel blows up his truck.

The Foundation's That Guy Hall of Fame: Part Deux

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The second induction into the Foundation That Guy Hall of fame is none other than...That Bad Asian Guy himself Al Leong.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502959/

Al, is probably best known as Endo from the original Lethal Weapon, where he was torturing Mel Gibson with a car battery at the behest of Gary Busey's Mr. Joshua. But he has also made huge impacts in the role of Uli in one of my favorite movies Die Hard, and to prove that he isn't a one trick pony, he showed his Comedic chops as Genghis Khan in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure..

Al's balding mullet, fu manchu moustach and muscular physique make him a perfect "That Bad Asian Guy". I mean, there's just something about this guy that screams "Bad Asian Guy"

Accuse me of picking favorites, but I like Al best as That Bad Asian Guy Uli from Die Hard. First of all, how'd some bald mulleted asian with a fu manchu end up working in some sort of criminal outfit with a bunch of German's, a black Dewayne Wayne wannabe computer genius, and a Huey Lewis clone?

And why did he eat so many candy bars? I don't know, but when push came to shove, Uli let it all hang out. It took John McClane himself to take out the "Bad Asian Guy" Uli.

If I was Asian, and a bad guy, and someone was going to greenlight a movie about my sad life, I'd want That Bad Asian Guy Al Leong to play me!

Just a quick post...cause I don't feel like going to work yet.

this post has been inspired by two TV shows that are airing currently...

How I Met Your Mother (The Best Sitcom on TV)
The West Wing (The Best Show On TV)

How do shows drag you in to the characters relationships so well? I mean, All through my life I've been wondering: Are Kevin and Whinnie going to kiss, are Ross and Rachel going to get together, is the non Ryan Reynolds dude from Two Guys A Girl and a Pizza Place going to tell the girl what he really feels about her.

And now I'm stuck on another Two. First, Who is Ted going to end up with. Is Ted going to end up with Robin, is he going to end up with the Cake girl. Maybe the girl he's going to find hasn't even been introduced on the show yet. But really, this one isn't that important as long as Barney (doogie) remains the funniest Live Action character on the air.

The one that I'm really talking about is Josh Lyman and Donna Moss on the West Wing.

Those who haven't watched the show, Josh is the Deputy Chief of Staff, Donna his assistant. On several occasions through the years, people have made mention of Josh and Donna's "love" for eachother but nothing ever happens with it. In Season Two Pollster Joey tells Josh that the reason Donna wants him to ask Joey (played brilliantly by Marlee Matlin) out is because she likes him and thinks it's a good way to hide her affection.

Later Amy, who Josh actually has a relationship with asks donna if she Loves Josh in a season finale. With no followup!

The two bicker like a married couple, they've both been at eachother's hospital beds when eachother has been nearly killed in terrorist plots (This is tv folks), and they both would be perfect for eachother.

I say now, in this final year of The West Wing...Josh and Donna better hook up, or I'm going to throw a Fuckin' fit.

Fuge's That Guy Hall Of Fame

On this snowy New England Day, I had not much to do, besides cook breakfast, do some dishes and watch some TV. And on my not quite premium digital cable package the movie Punchline came on. The movie starred Tom Hanks, Sally Field, A not quite morbidly obese John Goodman and a young Candace Cameron...

And with it came, the charter member of the That Guy Hall Of Fame has been elected. mr. Taylor Negron.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624510/

A "That Guy" is a guy who's not a big star, but you see him all the time in film and tv. A"That Guy" is the kind of guy if you are watching the movie with your friend, you see someone, and don't know his name, but can probably name 15 other films he's been in. A "That Guy" conversation would probably go something like this:

Have you seen Movie A. No who's in it?

You know...That Guy that was the Mailman in Better off Dead.

Oh Yeah...That Guy.
I wouldn't know Mr. Negron's name, had I not gone to a comedy show at the now defunct Grill 93 in Andover Massachusetts, and they had his autograph picture on display. I finally knew his name, and would never ever forget it.
I remember Mr. Negron best as the Mail Man in Better off Dead. A role he later reprised as the Mailman from How I Got Into College, a truly underrated masterpiece mind you.

Congratulations Taylor for being the Charter Inductee in the "That Guy Hall Of Fame.

I know the "That Guy" concept isn't my own, but that won't stop me from honoring the "That Guys" that deserve the honor.

My First Love

Lately I've been a reminiscing mood. I think I'll probably do a series of blogs about the weird shit I liked as a kid, after all it was crap like that that was the foundation for, um the Foundation.

My very first love - Mr. Rich Little. I told my parents I was going to marry him. I have a hazy memory of them asking me, in front of others, who I was gonna marry. Its not your average toe headed little girl who answers, Rich Little. I mean, was Don Adams busy? There is no explaining it, and yet here I am many years later thinking about how funny and weird my parents must have that thought that was. Who needs a key party in the late 70s when your daughter is this entertaining!

I think I can pinpoint my love affair to one moment in time, that moment - my first viewing of Rich Little's Christmas Carol. I think it used to air on HBO and my parents taped it - I probably watched that thing 50 times. I can't seem to find it on DVD, per his website it will be out soon - its currently going for $115.00 on vhs because its out of print. Mama ain't got that kind of scratch.

Since I can't seem to find a copy to relive how I first fell in love, I 'll have to use this great summary of the film I found on IMDB:

Rich Little plays everyone in this hour long Canadian-produced show, and he's perfect in every role. The story has been changed only in Scrooge's profession: He's the owner of the Boat and Bottle Works, where Scrooge empties the liquor bottles and Cratchit stuffs the boats in them. Rich does all his best impressions: Scrooge (W.C. Fields), Bob Cratchit (Paul Lynde), Nephew Fred (Johnny Carson), Mrs. Cratchit (Edith Bunker), Tiny Tim (Truman Capote, in one of the funniest impressions), Jacob Marley (Richard Nixon, whose "chains" are a mass of reel-to-reel tapes, representing the erased 18 1/2 minutes), the men of business who discuss Scrooge after he's dead (John Wayne (perfection itself) and George Burns), the boy Scrooge greets from his window Christmas morning (Jack Benny, playing his violin), and of course the 3 ghosts - Past (Humphrey Bogart, who shows up seated at his bar table with empty bottles strewn around), Present (Columbo) and Future (Inspector Clouseau, who sets fire to the bedcurtains with his candle). At the end, Scrooge reforms and pledges to go on the wagon. He's hired someone else to empty the bottles who shows real promise: Dean Martin!

A ha! That is the greatest thing ever!!! Reading that totally give me a flash back of the movie, mostly W.C Fields drinking and then they tried to put the ships in bottles but couldn't get it to work. I also remember him as Tiny Tim. I wish I could get in a time machine and go ask myself if I even knew who Truman Capote was. Certainly this was a situation where a lot of the humor went over my head, but I am pretty sure I understood that Rich Little played all the roles - (unlike my foolish thinking that on the Patty Duke show the identical cousins were played by twins - what an idiot - I mean why the hell did they call it the Patty Duke show, and furthermore how fucking old am I?) I am pretty sure I knew who John Wayne was, and W.C. Fields as well, and Edith Bunker as Mrs. Cratchet - "Oh Arrrrrrchie"....which is kind of odd for a little girl to know - which explains why I now have a foundation. Its the circle of life! Mrs. Rich Little, hmmm that does have a nice ring to it.

Start Me Up!...More like Shut Me Off!

First off I mean no disrespect to the career of any member of The Rolling Stones. You guys have put together a career filled with hits and memorable moments that musicians in their dad's garage only dream of attaining.

That being said I have one request. STOP.

Let me remember you as I remember you. I remember seeing your video early on MTV for Beast of Burden and I thought you were cool. I heard the song Paint it Black in every VietNam movie ever made (and the tv series Tour of Duty) and it became arguably my favorite songs of all time. I hear Goodbye Ruby Tuesday on Oldies 103.3 FM, and I have it stuck in my head for days...(and this isn't like the having Who Let The Dog's Out stuck in your head, it's good stuck in your head). I even saw you in concert about 7 years ago, and thought it was an unbelievable event.

But tonight, I saw you on the Super Bowl Half Time Show, and I said to myself. This is it, this is more than enough.

I know what your probably thinking. You are thinking that you have to stick around until a worthy replacement comes along. You sure as hell aren't going to pass the keys of the Rock and Roll kingdom over to John Mayer or Ryan Adams...and I applaud you for this. This is a very honorable stance, but I have to say, one that isn't necessary.

Give it up, we'll figure things out afterwards, but you are doing more harm than good! It appeared to me during the three songs tonight well, actually the two songs that I knew, that at any given time, no member of the band was playing the same song...Also, Mick, it appeared that you were making up words to both Satisfaction and Start me up, at will!

Please...call it quits, I want to remember you as I do now...the band that hires Hell's Angels to do security with pool cues and switchblades. Not a shell of your former self wearing orthopedic shoes and shiny black t shirts. Please...Pretty Please?

Netflix Friends List...A Bad Idea?

When I got my first Netflix friend request...from foundation founder Duffless. I was extremely happy. It seemed like it was really a helpful tool to make my netflix queue managment all that easier.

The problem I've run into, is that I found the most loved/most hated section on the friends page. I looked there, and saw that someon hated Dead Poets Society... So I investigate further, and I find out that same person also hated the Natural. Now I'm wicked pissed...Two movies that I deem to be exceptional have been trashed by someone I thought was a friend.

Then I noticed that someone had actually wasted a valuable spot on the netflix queue for Sister Act and Look Who's Talking Too. Thank god he didn't get Look Who's Talking Now, I might have had to drive to his house and smack him around. Luckily for him, he hated both these movies.

Then I notice that someone has rented every romantic comedy that has ever been released on DVD. Every ONE. And a lot of them they hated...which leads me to think that there were more romantic comedies released than even I knew about!

So, needless to say, I feel like I don't even know my own friends. I mean, I'm insulted in a way that movies I love, are hated, and vice versa. Also, I wonder what kind of weird movie fetishes they have if they are ordering some of the movies they've ordered.

Maybe Netflix Friends wasn't a good idea?

Full House My Ass.

So I was reading about poor Stephanie Tanner and how she is now a recovering Meth head. She was married to a cop at the time, who had no idea. Pretty sneaky sis.

Anyway, it had me thinking about the show. They called it Full House, yet it had 6 people on it. Sitcoms have always had funny gag names that help the audience understand the complex plot, have you forgotten We've Got it Maid, Bosom Buddies or Dear John already? You would think these brilliant tv execs would have had the foresight to only cast 5 people on the show, making it an actual Full House. Yes, I do play too much poker. They could have made it the best named sitcom ever by telling the story of an African American father who has his brother move in to help care for his three adopted Native American children after his wife died. Full House - three of one kind, two of another. It just makes sense people! At the very least, they should have changed the last name of the Tanner's to the Fulls.

Well, I think that there was a lost opportunity here, no wonder so many of the child actors on the show turned to drugs or marrying communist hockey players. How Rude!

Pure Gravel

Just a quick one...

Here are my top 5 Gravelly Voiced actors of all time.
#5 Brian Doyle Murray (Slightly Lesser Known Brother Of Bill)
#4 Harvey Firestein (I Just Want To Be Loved Is That So Wrong?)
#3 Brian Mahoney (I'm Incarcerated Lloyd!)
#2 James Gammon (Nice Catch Hayes...Don't Ever Fuckin' Do it Again)
And in a slight upset.

#1 Who Knew He Was Canadian...Star of such movies as Born on the fourth of July, The Doors, Strange Days and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

Michael Wincott






















A special award goes to Francesco Quinn, who is probably most famous for being Anthony Quinn's son, but I like him best as the very gravelly Rhah from platoon, who very gravelly while wearing shorts (probably not the safest things with all the insects in the vietnameses jungle) and carrying a staff with Barbed Wire on it yelled to Charlie Sheen and Living Colour's Corey Glover as they flew away on the helicopter at the end of the movie.

It appears Mr. Quinn, has found a steady role in very many tv shows. Mostly as "The Gravelly Man". He has appeared in 24, Law and Order and Crossing Jordan, just to name a few.