In my opinion, the “Sicilian” scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in “True Romance” might just be the greatest 10 minutes ever committed to film and for that, I thank him for his brilliance.
With that said…FUCK DENNIS HOPPER. For me, if you were born a Right Wing fascist and lived your entire life as a Right Wing fascist, then even though I consider you to be OFF TRACK, I’ll still give your fatass a pass because you were clearly born unenlightened. This guy, on the other hand, KNEW THE FUCKING TRUTH. When he was an Angry Young Man, he touched it, tasted it, even helped to cook it up and serve it hot to a bold, new generation of Americans who had grown weary of the small-minded thinking of their parents — and yet HE STILL ENDED UP A GODDAMNED REPUBLICAN MEATHOOK IN THE END. So, in my mind, HE LOSES…FOR ALL TIME.
Requiescat in Pace, Herr Hopper — AND PUCKER UP BUTTERCUP…
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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