OUCH! by MR.E.

OUCH! by MR.E.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

NEW YEAR'S EVE FULL CONCERTS: JAMES BROWN! FRANK SINATRA! TOM JONES! THE PRETENDERS! RUN-DMC! FISHBONE!

A song for the old, while its knell is tolled,
And its parting moments fly!
But a song and a cheer for the glad New Year,
While we watch the old year die!


JAMES BROWN in Boston 1968 (Boston Garden; 96 minutes)



FRANK SINATRA in New York City 1974 (Madison Square Garden; 53 minutes)



TOM JONES in Edmonton 1975 (48 minutes)



THE PRETENDERS in Germany 1981 (Rockpalast Festival; 78 minutes)



RUN-DMC in New York 1985 (The Ritz June 12; 29 minutes)




FISHBONE in Tokyo 1992 (Club Citta Feb. 16; 86 minutes




Robert Burns' AULD LANG SYNE with lyrics (sung by Dougie MacLean from the album Tribute)






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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Monday, December 30, 2013

FIVE SIGNS OF A BAD NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY























01. things start breaking up around 9:30pm


02. a goat is sacrificed and its blood added to the punch


03. the party pooper craps on the carpet


04. the fireworks go off before midnight (and in the kitchen)


05. there's no clock


























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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Friday, December 27, 2013

FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: THE AMAZING MR. NO LEGS (1979)






RARE EXPLOITATION starring TED VOLLRATH, RICHARD JAECKEL, JOHN AGAR, and LLOYD BOCHNER; director RICOU BROWNING (who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon).




Lou (the late Ted Vollrath, real life Karate 'black belt' amputee) is a Mob enforcer with a difference! And the difference is…he has no legs! But he can still get the job done by trundling around in a steel wheelchair, equipped with throwing stars on the wheel hubs and two shotguns in the armrests, ruthlessly wiping out anyone in the Mob's way. Lou works for Mr D'Angelo (Lloyd Bochner) an 'Organization' Boss who is shipping drugs hidden in cigars. But Lou does not get on with D'Angelo and is waiting for the right moment to take over.  Two Cops, Chuck (Richard Jaeckel) and his partner Andy (with bowl haircut and porn mustache) are on the Mob's trail, but things turn personal when Andy's Sister and her drug dealing boyfriend are murdered.



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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

SATURDAY STAND-UP: ALBERT BROOKS

ALBERT BROOKS (born Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22, 1947) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.  Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, but dropped out after one year to focus on his comedy career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the famous physicist) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Brooks led a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His onstage persona, that of an egotistical, narcissistic, nervous comic, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, influenced other '70s post-modern comedians, including Steve Martin, Martin Mull and Andy Kaufman.
After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One (1973) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought (1975), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

School for Comedians


December 5, 1972 on The Flip Wilson Show




1973 on The Tonight Show


with Johnny Carson May 17,1983





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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Friday, December 20, 2013

FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: Cheech y Chong NICE DREAMS (1981) Stacy Keach


Cheech and Chong have a new business driving an ice cream truck selling "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams." However, it is not ice cream they sell, but it is marijuana, stolen from their friend Weird Jimmy whose plantation is under their beach house camouflaged as a pool. The two eventually make a fortune. They blissfully plan on becoming "Sun Kings in Paradise" which involves buying an island, guitars, and enjoying lots of women.

The police are on Cheech and Chong's tails from the start, as they trick the stoners into selling them some of their "ice cream." Sgt. Stedanko (Stacy Keach), now himself a stoner, tests the marijuana and slowly turns into a lizard. Just as the police storm their house, Cheech and Chong pack up the marijuana in their truck and drive off, leaving Weird Jimmy to be arrested. While Sgt. Stedanko continues smoking their product, becoming stranger and more lizard-like, his two deputies Det. Drooler and Noodles tail the stoners.

Cheech and Chong dine at a chinese restaurant to celebrate their wealth. There they accosted by an annoying record agent who bothers Chong, followed by Cheech's ex-girlfriend Donna (Guerrero, reprising her role from and a cocaine-snorting mental patient, Howie "Hamburger Dude" (Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman). The four of them snort cocaine under the table, prompting Chong to sign away all their money to Howie for a useless check, which they are unable to cash due to none of them having an ID.


Cheech takes a drunk Donna out to her truck to have sex, but she passes out. A pair of incompetent CHIPS show up, almost busting Cheech when Chong abruptly shows up in their ice cream truck. However, not wanting to deal with the impending long procedure of the arrest, the cops let Cheech and Chong go.

The two head back to Donna's apartment. While attempting a 3-some, Chong leaves to get ice. At this point, Donna's crazed biker husband Animal shows up, having broken out of prison. Cheech tries to escape out the window and ends up climbing the hotel naked. Chong then returns to the room and hides under the bed. Eventually, Animal has sex with Donna and they fall asleep. Cheech gets back into the hotel and returns to the room.

Cheech then realizes Chong has signed away all their money to Howie. After getting a lift from Drooler and Noodles (disguised as women), the stoners find and break into the address on the check: a mental institution. They spend the night and in the morning they find Howie among the inmates. Cheech tries to grab Howie to get their money but the doctors believe Cheech to be another patient and lock him in a straitjacket and chained up in a padded room. Chong finds a doctor (Timothy Leary) to help, and Cheech and Chong are offered "the key to the universe" (acid; LSD).
Chong simply passes out but Cheech endures a bizarre trip that finally ends the next morning when the head nurse awakens them. She has realized what has happened and apologizes to them, returns their money and sets them free. At this point, Stedanko's cops show up and arrest the head nurse and Howie instead, the stoners having escaped prior.

With Weird Jimmy's marijuana plantation busted, Cheech and Chong resort to becoming male strippers at Club Paradise where they are billed as "The Sun Kings."









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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Monday, December 16, 2013

USUALLY PRETTY GIRLS LIKE HAVING THEIR PICTURE TAKEN

but not for a mug shot

but not in a bathroom stall snorting coke with Lindsay Lohan

but not while straddling her stepfather's lap

but not from below when she's wearing a skirt and going up the escalator at the mall

but not while she's shaving her bush for charity

but not through the gap in her bedroom window's curtains while she's sleeping

but not from behind a two-way mirror in the changing booth at Chico's

but not with a mini spy camera hidden in the eye of a teddy bear

but not when she's experimenting with her best girlfriend at a pajama party

but not while she's painting her vibrator black





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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Friday, December 13, 2013

FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: EDGAR KENNEDY two-reelers

EDGAR KENNEDY (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948)

was a classic comic actor, known for the "slow burn"- an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper.  Making his film debut in 1911, Kennedy appeared in about 500 films, working with some of the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chase, Wheeler & Woolsey; and was also one of Mack Sennett's original Keystone Kops.  

Kennedy's burly frame originally suited him for villainous or threatening roles in silent pictures. By the 1920s Kennedy was working for producer Hal Roach, who kept the actor busy playing supporting roles in short comedies. Roach also used Kennedy as a director on half a dozen two-reeler comedies.  

In 1930, Edgar Kennedy was featured by RKO-Pathe in a pair of short-subject comedies, Next Door Neighbors and Help Wanted, Female. Kennedy's characterization of a short-tempered householder was so effective that RKO built a series around it. The "Average Man" comedies starred Kennedy as a blustery, stubborn guy determined to accomplish a household project or get ahead professionally, despite the meddling of his featherbrained wife (usually Florence Lake), her freeloading brother (originally William Eugene, then Jack Rice) and his dubious mother-in-law (Dot Farley). Kennedy pioneered the kind of domestic situation comedy that later became familiar on television. Each installment would end with Edgar embarrassed, humbled or defeated, looking at the camera and doing his patented slow burn. The Edgar Kennedy Series, with its theme song "Chopsticks", became a standard part of the movie-going experience: 103 short subjects in all. 



#53 MUTINY IN THE COUNTY (5-3-1940 RKO Radio Pictures) co-starring Vivian Oakland, Charlie Hall, directed by Harry D'Arcy


#60 AN APPLE IN HIS EYE (6-6-1941 RKO Radio Pictures) co-starring Vivian Oakland, Charlie Hall, directed by Harry D'Arcy

#26 IN LOVE AT 40 (8-30-1935 RKO Radio Pictures) Florence Lake, Dot Farley, Jack Rice, director Arthur Ripley

#20 A BLASTED EVENT (9-7-1934 RKO Radio Pictures) Florence Lake, Dot Farley, Jack Rice, director Alf Goulding




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ED SPRINGSTEAD, JR.

Monday, December 9, 2013

YOUR NEW ROOMMATE MAY BE SECRETLY GAY IF...


there's a photo of him in the newspaper marching in the St. Patrick's Day Parade shirtless

the Canadian girlfriend he made up has relocated to San Francisco

for a few days after returning from "visiting his sick, out-of-town aunt"- he walks funny and "prefers to stand"
ALAN SUES

there's an empty gerbil cage stashed under his bed

after ordering Dominoes, he can't resist making double-entendres about the Pizza Boy delivering his "hot and spicy pepperoni"

pipe-dreaming about sex with movie starlets, his fantasy is an orgy involving Judy, Liza, and Lorna Luft

when talking baseball, he refers to Alex "A Rod" Rodriguez as "scrumptious"

he loves having a blood-engorged penis rammed repeatedly into his @sshole
PAUL LYNDE





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