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Salon Interviews Bruce Campbell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jagged-jawed-man-of-industry dept.

vonpookie writes "Salon has posted an interview with Bruce Campbell on the subject of his new book Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way, as well as on Tom Cruise, his career, and the realities of the movie biz." From the interview: "Q:Seriously. There was a hilarious interview with Cruise and Spielberg in Der Spiegel recently, reporting that there was a Scientology tent on the set of War of the Worlds, because in between shots Tom wanted to help people kick drugs and alcohol. A: I can believe that. That's fine; it's sort of a way of life for Tom. It's not really a charity. It's more like his religion. Q: He's got a reputation for it! A: Yeah, he's got a reputation for helping people. But my feeling is, 'Shut up and act.'"

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  1. Cult film actor by FoXDie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bruce Campbell is a cult film actor. Cult films are generally appreciated by Nerds. This is so because of the often campy, but entertaining, material of the cult films.

    In a related subject, Nerds are known to "Geek out" when they see a cult film actor, such as Bruce Campbell, in major films.

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  2. translation: by SA+Stevens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "because in between shots Tom wanted to help people kick drugs and alcohol. "

    translates:

    "because in between shots Tom wanted to help people convert over from drugs and alcohol to scientology."

  3. Whither the renaissance geek? (OT) by Stu+Charlton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm noticing a disturbing trend here.

    One of the reasons I joined Slashdot in the first place (in late 1997) was the wide variety of geek-like interests that CmdrTaco and Hemos held -- from Linux / BSD / UNIX, to Perl, free sw / open source, Python, C, or Java programming, to gaming, to crackers/pirates, to Jon Katz's sometimes-interesting rants on culture, to cult movies, to casemods, to online rights, and a curious & growing interest in Apple (Jobs had just rejoined), etc.

    But now there seems to be a lot of geeks that have a real track mind. They don't know classic cult TV or movie heros. They bitch about music / musicians because they're not a kernel mod. They hate TV or movie news (Battlestar sucks, Firefly sucks, Buffy/Angel sucked, Babylon 5 sucked, etc. --- What do you watch, The Weather Channel?).

    Basically, all they want to talk shop! It's all about is Linux, or FOSS license pro/cons, or how Apache, MySQL, perl, etc. will somehow create a New Geek World Order.

    What happened to the renaissance geek? Where's the passion for the obscure and beautiful, no matter the subject area?

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    -Stu