European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Picking a fight with anti violence to followers Joe Bob Briggs goes to the drive Ini could just kill All these people who hate Vio Lence. The last couple months have been do pile on television time As they had these hearings in Congress where politicians demanded that the networks Stop showing so Many murders shoot Ings knifing explosions strangulation and human fireballs because it bears absolutely no resemblance to the murders shootings knifing explosions strangulation and human fireballs in the cities where those congressmen were elected. They Don t even like cop and hard copy and those shows Are footage of real people being shot carved up and occasionally wrestled to the ground by Macho Street prowling patrol officers. Here s what i Don t understand. First they say there should t be so much violence on to because Hollywood is shoving this stuff Down our throats because of some hidden Agenda. These people have obviously never met anyone who writes for television. Hell i write for  re All nerds. We re weenies. We re the most Iro violent people on the face of the Earth writers Don t kill people. I d bet you there Are More ballerinas who own guns than writers who own pm. So there s no hidden Agenda. Next they say Well this stuff is damaging be cause it s too intense for Young children. It scares  Fine Well put it on late at night. Fine Well putdown the amount of blood. Fine Well show the Trig Ger but we won t show where the Bullet goes. And so then they say wait you can t do that you re making violence too much fun it s like a car Toon. It s so unreal that it s corrupting Young people by making pm think violence is clean and simple and has no  the new York slimes which has been writing Goody two shoes articles about violence on to and in the movies for a Good 20 years now topped itself recently with an article by Russell Baker where he said the obvious Point about violence on film tube or stage is that to be artistically effective it must Bethe very opposite of fun. It must be As harrowing in its effect on the audience As say an actual behead ing would be to a group of people compelled to wit Ness  and then he gives a Bunch of example from Shakespeare and movies like the Asphalt Jun Gle where the violence gives you the creeps. Fine. I agree. Then Why have the censors Bee after the Texas Chainsaw massacre for 20 years now the whole idea of the movie is that the Vio Lence is hard to watch. When Sally gets Hung on that meat Hook it s hard to keep your eyes on the screen. By the new York slimes Russell Baker definition this movie is the ultimate work of Art. So which is it do you want it real or do you want it unreal because we can do it either Way. You Mush brains let us know whenever you make up your  of Good healthy realistic brains in your face violence the 1974 classic deranged just came out on video. This is the classic docudrama based on the life of Edgein the Wisconsin Handyman who liked to go to graveyards and dig up the bodies of old women use their skulls As soup bowls Cut off their skin and make clothing out of it so he could dance Roberts Blossom takes aim in deranged. Around in the Moonlight talking to his dead Mother. They finally caught him in 1957 and put him in Testate Asylum for the rest of his life but he was the inspiration for psycho the Texas Chainsaw Mas Sacre the silence of the lambs and several other pictures. This one though is the Only picture that tries to stick close to the actual facts of the Case Complete with a bespectacled reporter who turn sup in Gein s hallway staring into the camera and de scribing what this Wacky Hick did next. Roberts Blossom stars As the 40-year-old taxidermy student who keeps his mama s body in her bed room feeds her three times a Day and talks to her about Why All women except her Are  this is a great movie and it actually is fairly closet the facts in the real Case and it s available from Moore video . Box 5703, Richmond a 23220,804-745-9785, for $39.95, plus $3 postage. Eight dead bodies. Three breasts. Skull  out brains with a spoon. Ghoul dinner party. Woman Hung by her Ankles and dressed like a Deer Don t Tell Russell Baker drive in Academy award nomination for Leslie Carlson As the reporter who pops up All Over town and warns us that this movie is not for the squeamish and  four stars. A classic. Joe Bob says Check it but. Joe Bob s advice to the hopeless Victory Over communism the Gournis drive in on the Island of Crete in Greece has been reopened after being closed 10 years. They be even added second screen mainly to keep kids from watching movies for free from a nearby Hill. This drive in is a Model of International cooperation attracting both greek villagers and american servicemen from Irak lion air station. Chuck Nagy reminds us that with eternal vigilance the drive in will never die. Dear Joe Bob your commentary on so called talk shows was wonderfully on target. I applaud your Effort to get readers to understand that the fix is in from the git go you can t even get on one of these shows unless you practically submit a script of what you re Gonna say. I was invited to the taping of the first Jackie Mason Sao last month and sat beside some poor fool who actually asked him a question on camera. It took Days to get the blood off my clothing after Mason got through with him. But he was one of those smart Aleck journalist Fellows so who cares he i kept my Mouth shut. Alan Aruba Maplewood . Dear Alan Jackie Mason has a talk show vaudeville really scorning Back in t it creators Syndicate to discuss the meaning of ii1� with Jobob of to Goth junk in the mail and Joe Bob t world famous newsletter writ Jobob Boggs . Box 2002, Dallas Texas 75221. Joa Bob s tax Lin is always open 2m 36a-2310. Big. Heat in the big Apple Linda Everbee woke to the Man on the radio telling stories offloads in the Midwest heat in the Northeast and murder in Florida. A line from an old Kingston Trio song breezed through a half there brain. They re rioting in Africa there s strikes in iran.,. What nature does t do to us will be done by our fellow  no one had to Tell me about heat in the Northeast. I live in new York City and although i wished the people of Iowa nothing but Well and really would not have traded places with them at this time there were moments when the thought of All that Cool water. So How hot was it it was a heat to make enemies in. It was so hot Nice people snarled As if born to it and finally it was so hot everybody stopped snarling to commiserate Over How hot it was. The heat was a living huffing yellow Gray thing. If you did t have an air Codi Tio cd something to climb into the heat had you owned you body and soul and would if your de lenses were Down kill you. Let me be Clear. I have seen hotter. I come fro Houston. I had my babies Down on the Texas mexi can Border and i once tried to write a Book in new Orleans in August. I know from heat. But a hot new York City beats anything. Here people Are not Al tucked away safely sealed inside cooled cars offices and houses. Here they re out there on the Stet and even if they re Only scurrying from one cooled Placebo another cooled place they Are for a time up next to each other rubbing shoulders and tempers at 100plus. Meanwhile the entire City smells like cheese. On saturday i walked the City. You re probably wondering Why. Actually i Don t know. Perversity idiocy homesickness must have been about noon when i left my place. The Man on the radio said twas Only 102 degrees in Central Park but the Man on the radio and Central Park Are far away from the pavement which had been fathering heat since of i Don t know since april. Friday morning our air conditioner broke what a Surprise and when the repairman came to fix it what a mar ache held his Industrial thermometer next to the exhaust fan on the roof. As it approached 200 degrees the thing began to turn soft in his hand. I walked the neighbourhoods through Soho where Street artists squinted to see if the acrylics were melt ing Down the Black velvet and into Little Italy where i stopped for an espresso texans have been drinking hot Coffee to Ward off the heat for the Las Hundred years at least which May explain a lot and past that to Chinatown. Usually i loved the outdoor fish markets. This time All i could think of was that i had been to multiple homicides that smelled better. I walked to the East River where people sat under a freeway for Shade and next to a polluted River for Breeze. Some were homeless. Others were fishing. I walked to the South Street seaport the closest thing we have to a mall on the Island of  place was filled with tourists. It always is. The South Street seaport shipping strip makes someone from Duluth or Dallas feel at Home in ways much of the City does not. I walked to City Hall then across the Island to the Hudson River then Back Home to the Cool. 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