mdpm99
07-28-2003, 11:42 AM
Received this today from my friend David via e mail:
Subj: Homer Simpson's origins revealed...
Some of you may already be aware of this information, but it was a revelation to me.
I was watching the 1975 movie, "Day of the Locust" this weekend, having taped it a couple of weeks ago. I first saw the movie when I was around 12, but hardly remembered it until I saw it again. In case you aren't familiar with the film, it is based on the 1933 novella of the same name by Nathanael West, and is a fairly blistering indictment of the immorality and sheer viciousness of depression-era Hollywood. You'd have to read William Burroughs or Hubert Selby, Jr. to find a more bleak and disturbing assessment of the human condition.
Donald Sutherland plays a character named "Homer Simpson[!]," an ineffectual religious milquetoast who nonetheless arranges to have aspiring actress Faye Greener (played by Karen Black), move into his house and become his concubine. This is after Faye works briefly as a prostitute in order to pay the funeral expenses for her father (played by Burgess Meredith). The third side of this love triangle is represented by Tod Hackett (William Atherton), likely based on West himself, a set designer who carries a torch for Faye but can't get into her pants, despite repeated efforts.
Following a tequila-soaked cockfight in Homer's garage[!] (with dwarf actor Billy Barty acting as cock-coach to the losing rooster), the party gets a little out of hand, and Homer walks in on Faye having sex with Mexican cowboy Miguel (Pepe Serna of "Car Wash" fame).
Dazed and distraught, Homer wanders into downtown LA, where he encounters an enormous crowd awaiting the arrival of the stars for a movie premiere. An obnoxious child actress named Adore (played by cross-dressing[!] Jackie Earle Haley of the "Bad News Bears"), who has been taunting the various characters throughout the movie, makes the mistake of hitting Homer in the head with a rock, whereupon Homer totally loses it and stomps the child to death!
The crowd outside the theater witnesses the murder, turns on Homer, and kills him, at which point ALL hell breaks loose and the streets erupt in an orgy of rioting and fire right out of the Book of Revelations.
This tragic child murderer strikes me as a somewhat perplexing choice of namesake for the bumbling but essentially harmless buffoon we all know and love from "The Simpsons."
Anyway, just thought I'd share this crucial information with all of you - it may prove useful at a future cocktail party, or if you ever happen to appear as a contestant on "Jeopardy" - you just never know!
LOL!
Peace,
David
Subj: Homer Simpson's origins revealed...
Some of you may already be aware of this information, but it was a revelation to me.
I was watching the 1975 movie, "Day of the Locust" this weekend, having taped it a couple of weeks ago. I first saw the movie when I was around 12, but hardly remembered it until I saw it again. In case you aren't familiar with the film, it is based on the 1933 novella of the same name by Nathanael West, and is a fairly blistering indictment of the immorality and sheer viciousness of depression-era Hollywood. You'd have to read William Burroughs or Hubert Selby, Jr. to find a more bleak and disturbing assessment of the human condition.
Donald Sutherland plays a character named "Homer Simpson[!]," an ineffectual religious milquetoast who nonetheless arranges to have aspiring actress Faye Greener (played by Karen Black), move into his house and become his concubine. This is after Faye works briefly as a prostitute in order to pay the funeral expenses for her father (played by Burgess Meredith). The third side of this love triangle is represented by Tod Hackett (William Atherton), likely based on West himself, a set designer who carries a torch for Faye but can't get into her pants, despite repeated efforts.
Following a tequila-soaked cockfight in Homer's garage[!] (with dwarf actor Billy Barty acting as cock-coach to the losing rooster), the party gets a little out of hand, and Homer walks in on Faye having sex with Mexican cowboy Miguel (Pepe Serna of "Car Wash" fame).
Dazed and distraught, Homer wanders into downtown LA, where he encounters an enormous crowd awaiting the arrival of the stars for a movie premiere. An obnoxious child actress named Adore (played by cross-dressing[!] Jackie Earle Haley of the "Bad News Bears"), who has been taunting the various characters throughout the movie, makes the mistake of hitting Homer in the head with a rock, whereupon Homer totally loses it and stomps the child to death!
The crowd outside the theater witnesses the murder, turns on Homer, and kills him, at which point ALL hell breaks loose and the streets erupt in an orgy of rioting and fire right out of the Book of Revelations.
This tragic child murderer strikes me as a somewhat perplexing choice of namesake for the bumbling but essentially harmless buffoon we all know and love from "The Simpsons."
Anyway, just thought I'd share this crucial information with all of you - it may prove useful at a future cocktail party, or if you ever happen to appear as a contestant on "Jeopardy" - you just never know!
LOL!
Peace,
David