European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Joe Bob &r1ggs goes to the Ririe in a a Quot Here Are these county fairs in the South i where country music , and i then after the performance they stay an extra two hours and sign autographs. You know Why they do it they do it because if they did t do it the people buy their records a even the people who like their music. At least this is what a lot of country stars believe. They re stars but they re not supposed to act like stars. In be noticed this same thing with movie actors. People Wanna see where they live How they live How big their trailer is How Many people they have working for Mem a but if they find out the actor cares How big his trailer is then they hate him for it. Why should t he care How big it is everybody a staring at if marvelling at How big it is of its not big enough they wont think he a a Star. A in be seen gossip Start on a movie Star simply because he did no to personally return a phone Call but had his agent or manager do it. Supposedly this indicates that he a snooty As my grandpa would say. But it might just indicate that he does no to know diddly squat about business and so he has Robert Patrick left is a negotiate with his clients the person Call who does know about it. In their heart of hearts the Public wants movie stars who make. $50 million a year but give it a Way. In other words we have this idea that a Star should be Rich but act poor be famous but act like nobody knows who he is acquire Power but never use the Power be Busy All the time making movies but have unlimited time to do unproductive things like signing autographs. So which is it do we want Mem to be Rich or not do we want Mem to have a big trailer or a trailer House. \. A Quot and do we really want Mem to be some kind of guru who goes around shaking hands and signing stuff so that their lives Start to resemble preachers instead of actors believe me in be met some of pm. You do not want pm being a bout we just sit Back and watch Mem act ainu to that enough. Speaking of people who done to get enough credit Robert Patrick makes his leading Man debut in body shot. Remember him the evil anti Schwarzenegger terminator in the sequel the morph Rama Cham Peen of the world Well we were All wailing to see what he would do next right and he has done exactly what we would expect. He a a Pervert tabloid photographer who goes _ around stalking a female Rock Singer a and he s the hero of this movie. This is about the 989th Dow up a Ripoff of the past five years where the Guy takes a picture and then blows it up until its the size of the. World Trade Center and plasters it on his Wall and. Figures out the mystery. Unfortunately 1 forgot what. The mystery is. ,. I know it has something to do with a Sec avoid hiring Patrick to bring a Bimbo up to his groovy loft apartment and take dirty pictures of her and then go Over to the Guys House where he has the same Bimbo roped to the bed but it turns out that this Gal is a lookalike for the Rock Star that Patrick has the hots for and then Vav Hon the Rock Star turns up dead the slea Zoid uses the pictures to Frame Patrick for the murder Only he has this of Ier picture of the Rock Star and it turns out that s not her in the picture and meanwhile this world wrestling federation steroid monster is coming around twice a Day to play Inna Gadda Divida on his abdominal Muscles and he a aardvark ing All Over Tow with Michelle a i was in Bame it on Rio Johnson and the Only person who believes in him is japanese american cop Kim Miyori and. My head hurts Way Way Way too much plot getting in the Way of the Story. I never did figure out what happens in this baby so ill just give you those drive in totals five dead bodies four breasts multiple aardvark ing. Two motor vehicle chases. Flaming Corpse. Finger breaking. Character actor electrocution. Charac Ter actor through a fifth Story window into a revolving spotlight,.gratuitous Charles Napier gratuitous transvestite interpretive dancing. Kung fun. Paparazzi fun. Human Pinata fun. Drive in Academy award nominations for Ray Wise As the sleaze ajl manager promoter Type for saying Quot if you done to get the message soon you re Gonna be taking pictures of weightlifters for the big House Gazette a a Jonathan Banks As sle Zeball no 2, who offers somebody a drink by saying a a what s your addiction a Michelle Johnson As the Horny Model who says after a panic ulary sweaty session a did you just get out of prison or what a and in her big emotional moment a a in a not a whore a and Robert Patrick As the morose a photographer who says he got sick of his hectic life in new York and so a i came out Here with a couple of friends a Jack Daniels and Jim two and a half stars. Joe Bob says Check it out. Politicians let file. Photographer who has to in body shot. Joe bobs advice to the hopeless Victory Over communism the prides Corner drive in on route 302 in Westbrook Maine had a full House in the daytime at a recent Barbecue and music festival organized by owner Malcolm Tevanian to remind people the place still exists. This is the kind of drive in that still has Pony rides. Mark Hamilton of Cincinnati reminds , with eternal vigilance the drive in will never die. Dear Joe Bob i can to get this Lipe out of my head. Dona Speir in hard hunted is suffering from amnesia and makes love on the Beach with what she thinks is one of the Good Guys. When she comes out from under the Ether she realizes he a one of the bad Guys arid stabs him through the heart with a three foot sword and tells him As he Dies Quot we never really lovers i faked that does this happen often Quot. Robert Levine Hayward Calif. Dear Robert. It has happened to me Only twice that i can recall usually they just say it without using an actual sword. Creators syn Cicato a. To discuss the moaning of life with Joe Bob or to get Roo Unk in she mail and his world famous newsletter the Joe Bob report Wale Joe Bob Boggs Box 2002, Dallas Texas 75221. Joo Bob s fax Imo 15 always open 214 366-2310. A what to do Linda Ellerbee i he very first year that i worked in Wash Ringlon d.c., president Ford gave a Lin coins Day speech in which he while ail dressing what he considered to be the inordinate Power of the Media said a if Lincoln were alive today head Roll Over in his t also remember the second year that i Washington and what tip of Neill said when it was proposed that television cameras be installed in the a House of representatives. Quot but no a said the speaker of the House. A we. Must keep the status quo just As it after that astounding statement of Neill said a lot More on the subject lie said that cameras in the House were dangerous to the Republic. He and Many other members expressed the concern that if there were cameras in the House we might see members napping or caught picking their noses or worse absent a lot of the time. It occurred to no one that the answer was to encourage members to be. Present and awake and to keep their fingers to themselves while conducting the business of the Republic. No that would have been Tod much to ask. It was decided that cameras would be allowed to cover the House but the House would control the cameras. And that is How it works to this Day. Television and politicians still done to understand one another probably never will. Each still tries to control the other although happily neither does so with much lasting Success. Today for instance 1 read that the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee said the immediacy of television sometimes causes government leaders to react too quickly to a crisis. He implied that something ought to be done to Stop this and when he iras accomplished that there s a tide id like him to hold Back for me. There is some truth in this charge and two of the men called to testify at the hearing on the subjected Turner of can and Ted Koppel of Abc agreed. They said that in the past to images have influenced policies including the decision to Send us. Forces to Somalia but the two journalists explained to the panel to executives do not ordinarily consider whether their networks reporting would have an Impact on . Foreign policy. Turner executive vice president of can told the committee that can editors do not consider foreign policy in deciding How to cover the world if they did he said they would a wind up in a swamp of a what ifs said Koppel a we have the responsibility to he fair accurate and evenhanded but Only in the rarest of instances a when lives for example arc clearly and unambiguously at risk a should we be expected to take the consequences of our reporting into account.�?�. V Koppel and Turner Are right. However might not it also be a Good idea if politicians themselves controlled their temptation to see the news act first and think later 1 used to have an editor who reminded me constantly that no Story was Ever lost for 80 seconds of conscious thought. Might not the same be said of world crises or is 30 seconds of conscious thought Loo much to ask today of either politicians or journalists. And so it goes. A. King Fea Luros Syi Plicato
