European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tarantino ahead of the gang with c of a i i 1pulp fiction Joe Bob Briggs goes to the drive in he reason Quentin Tarantino is a True Genius is that he knows How to explode a human head without actually showing the exploding head proper. It s kind of a Hitchcock thing. You know How hitch used to say that what you dont see is scarier than what you do see Well Quentin just carries this idea to its logical conclusion and All he Ever shows is Little pieces of bloody human Skull and brain splattering All Over Windshield and the Back seat of a car after John mumbled lips Travolta accidentally hits the Trig Ger while he s turned around in the front seat Talkin to a scared Black Guy in the Back seat. Pretty soon the Guy he was Talkin to looks like Ravioli dinner somebody dropped on the pavement. Anyhow you know what i m Talkin about by now. I m Talkin about pulp fiction the latest Tarantino paint the Walls red comedy. They Are not Gonna like this one in Sweden. The reason i mention the exploding head Deal is that a few years Back when Franke Hooker first came out they tried to get it banned from Heaters because the my double a censorship Board said you could t show actual exploding Heads to minors. You had to be at least 18 years old to View an exploding head even if it was a David Cronenberg Canadian exploding head. And then Tarantino came along and solved the problem for everybody. You show the exploding head after it explodes. You show exploding head remains. And that Way you get an a rating and they show the movie in Art houses in Greenwich Village and it becomes a cultural experience for All of us. Pulp fiction is a buddy movie the old familiar Story of a heroin Junkie Hitman Travolta and his scripture quoting sidekick Samuel l. Jackson run Ning around Al Lay wasting Small time hoods that get in the Way of bad Guy fat Man prize fight fixing a fuzzball gangster ving rhames. Full of gratuitous violence. I loved dead bodies. No Nek kid breasts. What s wrong with you Quentin eighteen piercing holes in Rosanna Arquette s face. Closeup horse injection. One motor vehicle crash. Needle through the Christopher Waken. Gratuitous Harvey Keitel drive in Academy award nominations for rhames As the mob Boss for saying i m Gonna get medieval on your ass Jackson As the religious minded Hitman and Travolta for looking like he s on heroin even when he s not. Four Bob says Check it out. Joe Bob s find that flick this week s problem comes from. Daniel Stewart of Ypsilanti Mich i saw this movie years ago on late night to and it has been driving me crazy Ever since not knowing what the hell it was a real psychedelic-60s-hippie-Type flick about a Young hippie Chick who was lost in the big City and has All kinds of acid like adventures. I remember that we got All kinds of big name cameos like James Coburn As a emerged surgeon John Travolta stars in pulp fiction. And Marlon Brando As a truck Driver i think. I d appreciate it if anybody can Tell me the title and if it s available on a video will be awarded to one Correct answer. In the event of a tie a drawing will be held. Send and thar flick questions and solutions Tojo Bob Briggs . Box 2002, Dallas Texas 75221, or fax them to 214 985-7448. Joe Bob s advice to the hopeless Republican Alert the 1-45 drive in in Houston the last drive in built by King of the drive in Gor Don Mclendon has been ripped Down to make Way for another shopping Center and this time it has both a Kmart and a Wal Mart in it Kathy Klimpel of Houston reminds us that without eternal Vig Ilance it could happen Here dear or. Briggs in re your article More teens on a stick i just loved it As the Mother of sons who work their consumes off bring Home their Money set Fine examples in their Community Haven t committed any a murders yet Are not buffoons. Well you get the Point. I am tired of seeing men become the butt of end less tiresome to and comic jokes about their roles in the Home. Yes adolescent males do crazy things but so do adolescent girls. Renee o Brien real san Francisco dear Renee a.," of. If your sons do commit any a murders i m sure it la be because they re just so male. Joe Bob .-.,. " you wrote an article called somehow tattoos Don t look right on i take great offence in your View of tattoos. Yup pies and or pseudo bikers Aren t the Only people who have tattoos. Cowboys professionals presidents of major corporations football players housewives musicians As in country Western Rock classic Etc and the girl next door All have one thing in common they All have tattoos. And As for people getting tattoos because it s hip let s just say you re Way off base on that one. Why Don t you open up your eyes and get a glimpse of the real world Nikki Reed . Dear Nikki Are you saying it s not hip to get tattooed that it s just something you do Between taking out the garbage and ordering out from Domino s pizza Don t Tell Tom and Roseanne. New York times Syndicate to discuss the meaning of life with Joe Bob or to get free junk in the mall or his world famous newsletter write Joe Bob Briggs. . Box 2002, Dallas Texas 75221. Joe Bob s fax number at his trailer House 214 985-7448. Joe Bob on Compuserve 76702,1435. Political Appeal from empty suits and minds Linda Ellerbee great american once said nothing inthe world is More dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity sincere ignorance Forrest Gump who believed life was a Box of chocolates. Conscientious stupidity Ollie North who believed trading arms for hostages was a Good idea. What an America this is. What an election Day this was. Yes these Are dangerous times and there were dangerous people running for office. But in the end this election was not about sullen electorate tossing incumbents into the Street. This election was about thinking. This election was about smarts. Or Lack thereof. Look at California. Sen. Dianne Feinstein s oppo nent Michael Huffington was not Only less than a rocket scientist he had the added advantage of hav ing not lived very Long in the state he wished to rep resent. On the ignorance meter that rates extra Points. Happily or. And the Lovely mrs., huffing ton s recently revealed Nanny problem or. Huffington was very Strong against illegal immigrants except he forgot to mention the one he himself employed slowed their expensive right stepping March Toth Senate. In Texas even a popular governor like Ann Rich Ards had been threatened by the onslaught of Igno Rance. George Bush or. You May Call him the Shrub As so Many do had no experience in office and no Clear idea about what he would do if elected other than to say he would be dead set against crime but he had lots of Money and his daddy s name. New York Mario Cuomo has been governor of new York for three terms. That s his problem. Height actually know something about the Job. This bothered sen. Alfonso d Amato for obvious Rea sons. So d Amato got his Handmaiden George Pataki to run against Cuomo. Pataki gave new meaning to the phrase empty he knew less than Noth ing. This made campaigning much easier for him. It also helped that he had plenty of time and gazillions of dollars to spend playing ats game. No wonder Rudolph Giuliani the Republican mayor of Newyork City endorsed Cuomo. Finally look at the state of Virginia. Liis is Testate that wrote a Constitution so Good they practically lifted it intact in order to write the american one. So please. Look hard Here. See that Man. His name is Ollie North. He is a liar. He told us so on television. Remember Ollie claimed to love Ameri Ca but got Picky about the Constitution and decided to follow Only those parts of it with which he person ally agreed. Then he wanted to be a part of the everybody he lied to and whose Laws he violated. Worse he has never understood that whether what he did was right or wrong it was dumb. Trading hostages for arms works Only until they grab a new hostage Ollie. All of them Pataki North Huffington Bush a confederacy of dunces. . The great american i quoted at the beginning of the column was Martin Luther King or. And so it goes. King features Syndicate november. 13, 1994 sunday Page 21
