Morrissey Central "EARL HOLLIMAN, RIP" and "This Charming Life" (November 30, 2024)


November 30, 2024

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"Never once an uninteresting or a faulty presence in American film, he was one of those overlooked actors who wasn't ever taken in by Hollywood tinsel. His sandpaper voice and his natural virility are masculine traits that are ridiculed now (or only in demand when wars are invented and someone is required to lay down their life for no reason whatsoever.) He never married, and there is no record of even a girlfriend or a boyfriend … in other words … the perfect life. I dropped a note through his gate two years ago - asking if I could shake his hand. He was wise enough not to reply."
MORRISSEY

recommended viewing: HOT SPELL (1958), THE BIG COMBO (1955).



November 30, 2024

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Three takes:

He looks like someone Moz would physically love. But did Moz really not know he was gay?

That thing about the perfect life must have been a crushing blow for Damon.

Moz’ prose is still glorious. I must watch one of Holliman’s films.
 
one of those actors where you dont recognise until you check his imdb and you see he has a great body of work.
another one gone and there aint too many left.
 
Oh, I know who he is. Or I recognize him anyway. I'll look for those films. I could use a good movie to watch.

RIP, Earl.
 
"I dropped a note through his gate two years ago - asking if I could shake his hand..."

Morrissey always a loyal fan.

Admirable.

Beautiful.
 
He also recorded for Capitol Records!
lol, I mean did Morrissey really ever record for Capitol? He was signed twice and managed to have one LP up on Spotify for about 3 weeks for the entire duration of the relationship.

Cliffs Notes for newbies:

2014: Morrissey publicly shits on their promotion of World Peace mere weeks after release. Capitol responds by pulling the release, and it is still not streaming 10 years later.

2022: Morrissey somehow ends up on Capitol again, only for him to sabatoge his own LP months before it’s planned release, blame the label, allow fans to think he is being mistreated to the point they harass Capitol staff using airplanes. Morrissey’s own emails are leaked showing him to be something approaching devious, truculent and/or unreliable. Then a shift of tone, and tail between legs his album is his again.
 
lol, I mean did Morrissey really ever record for Capitol? He was signed twice and managed to have one LP up on Spotify for about 3 weeks for the entire duration of the relationship.

Cliffs Notes for newbies:

2014: Morrissey publicly shits on their promotion of World Peace mere weeks after release. Capitol responds by pulling the release, and it is still not streaming 10 years later.

2022: Morrissey somehow ends up on Capitol again, only for him to sabatoge his own LP months before it’s planned release, blame the label, allow fans to think he is being mistreated to the point they harass Capitol staff using airplanes. Morrissey’s own emails are leaked showing him to be something approaching devious, truculent and/or unreliable. Then a shift of tone, and tail between legs his album is his again.
im sure the capitol staff were all standing at the windows of their office saying whos that bad man in the plane,i now have ptsd because a plane passed the office window,geez peace on a saturday night.
 

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