The Last Picture Show : PS The BBS Blu Ray Says The Making-Of Includes Tim Bottoms Interview

PS The BBS Blu Ray Says The Making-Of Includes Tim Bottoms Interview

I once had a group for The Brothers Bottoms and Timothy wrote to me and liked it, and asked that I included Ben on some of the posts. I then asked for an interview and he wrote back, Great job on the group. Best, Tim.

So I guess I can call him Tim…

But I have the BBS Box set that includes Head, Easy Rider, Last Picture Show, etc, and the first complaint is the cover of LPS is horrible… a movie ticket… that's all…

But there's a doc on there with interviews from: a list of names that includes Tim Bottoms…

I watched the damn thing, and NO Tim Bottoms… The frustrating thing is, everyone interviewed talks about the movie, which includes scenes that mostly involve Tim, and I'm waiting for HIS… the star of the movie… for HIS input, and nothing…

Anyhow, if you want an interview with Tim, there's something on youtube…

But as I watched it I realized, he's probably not all that… interviewerable… His answer to how he got into the movie is, "I had a good agent." LOL. That's probably the case for all actors but they rarely say that. It's like saying the most important thing in life is gravity.

Anyhow, on the youtube thing, hosted by Luke Wilson for I think the 40 year reunion thing, Tim talks about watching himself holding his dead brother in his arms in both the movie and real life, and teared up… it was something…

Then during the panel, he did nothing and said nothing but, "I got to listen to all the actors in the movie, and drive a lot of cars." LOL. I think he's kind of a mellow dude…

One funny moment… Cloris Leachman, who is really blunt… Tried to remind Peter, who has nothing but bad things to say about Tim on the movie (in other interviews and commentaries), that Tim felt LPS was small and unimportant on set compared to Johnny Got His Gun, which basically gave him more clout than any actor in LPS… Even though there were so many great older actors, none had really done anything to make them super famous… Even Ben Johnson was just a face in old cowboy movies… "Duke's sidekick" as John Ford called him…. So I get the feeling maybe Tim was somewhat distant on the set but…

One telling moment on the interview before the panel is he said in real life he was going through the divorce of his parents, and he quoted Ringo Starr (actually Carl Perkins) and said, in the movie, all he had to do was "act naturally"…

So natural, he wasn't even nominated…

And I love Jeff Bridges, but I kinda get tired of all the clout going to him since he's become so famous… Esp Texasville which became a Jeff Bridges Cybill Shepard sexy old people romantic comedy with Tim on the sidelines as a pill addict…

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