Tag Archives: WILLEM DAFOE

ANTICHRIST – 2009 Film

May 1, 2025 – 7:53 am

Willem Dafoe has played many roles throughout his career. Most famous the sergeant in PLATOON gave him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. The film won the Academy Award for Best Movie. Willem was beaten out by Michael Caine in HANNAH AND HIS SISTERS. His most controversial performance aside from acting like he wanted […]

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May 1, 1978 – Journal Entry

May 1, 2025 – 2:04 am

None of us at CBGBs were hippies, but some of us liked ice hockey. Last night the New York Islanders were knocked out of the Stanley playoffs by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Tomorrow the semi-finals of the Stanley Cup begin with the Bruins versus the Flyers and the fucking Habs against the Maple Leafs. And […]

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The Outrage of Christ 2013

April 19, 2025 – 6:15 am

< THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST by Nikos Kazantzakis was a revelation for a young Catholic boy living on the South Shore of Boston in 1967. I found the book in our town library next to his successful novel ZORBA THE GREEK. The blurb on the dust cover shockingly declared that Kazantzakis had written this […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE – 2010 – by Peter Nolan Smith

February 2, 2025 – 12:26 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ‘Inadvertent climate modification’ sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’ produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR. American oil producers pooh-bayed the National Academy […]

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Acting Advice 102

January 25, 2025 – 11:53 am

Last week I was hired to play a bar pool player in LATE FAME, a movie created from Arthur Schnitlizer’s 1894 novella about a forgotten Vienese poet discovered by the young. the script was well-carved for the leafing man, Willem Dafoe, who had said, “This is a story about your recent life.” Sort of true. […]

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