Dear <non-specific deity>, No!
Bill Hicks deserves much much more than Russell Crowe can deliver.
You think if Bill Hicks comes back, he's ever going to want to see Russell Crowe play him?
Fuck, no!
It appears we have the leaves of Sherwood Forest to thank (or blame, depending on your viewpoint) for a possible outing of Aussie thespo Russell Crowe as legendary US comedian Bill Hicks. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, filming on Crowe's latest project Nottingham has been postponed until at least March next year " …
No no no no no
Do not want
We still have dennis leary, the substandard clone, why do we need what is very much against the philosophy Hicks actually held.
Why don't we just try to channel him from the other side instead? anyone got the requisite dosage of mushrooms and lsd to perform this?
What you reading for?
Anyone who doesn't know who Bill Hicks is, I demand you immediately get pretty any Bill Hicks DVD or CD and beat yourself to a pulp for missing out on his pretty much perpetually correct, cutting and almost always hilarious social commentary.
His stuff about George Bush Snr is pretty applicable to his son, as it happens.
Steven "How far up your ass does this guy have to be before you realise he is fucking you" Raith.
Personally I would rather have Russell trying (but probably failing) to play Bill rather than put up with to Dennis Learys existence.
Personally I think Hicks would be pissing himself laughing at people getting upset about who plays him in a film. Tis a pity he isn't around as he would have had so much material concerning Bush II (the sequel).
Perhaps the world (particularly the US & UK) need to be reminded of how angry we should be, and if that takes Mr Crowe then so be it.
@Hud you need to broaden your horizons, theres a couple of decent books about Hicks which may put him in perspective
Sad, because he is gone, when we needed him more than ever
I moved to the US some 7 years ago, I was astonished that Hicks was virtually unknown to the general population. Seems his style of attack humour was not popular with the TV moguls, hence little or no TV exposure of his style. Denis Leary is a pale reflection of Hicks at his best.
On a newly elected president
"No matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down... and it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll.... And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, 'Any questions?'
"Just what my agenda is."
Efros
Crowe will get so engrossed in being a character actor for this role he will smoke too many cigarettes, take too many drugs, and drink too much liquor that he himself will keel over in a heap somewhere.
ah I can but hope.
and I am afraid I won't put hand in pocket to see this film (if it makes it as far as completion) I will just sit at home and watch my collection of Bill Hicks DVD's
I remember Bill Hicks.
He used to run a body shop in the tiny southwestern town I grew up in. Of course, he had kids, but said small town at one point featured a 27 y.o. grannie, so I guess it's possible.
Don't remember him being particularly funny though, although I guess it could be a paint fumes thing.
Gosh - to think he's famous now.
Whut you reading for?
And given that Bill Hicks has already been brought back to some extent in Slight Return, is this really necessary? Unless, of course, Bill Hicks is *actually* back from beyond the grave, with a half-hour weekly show that he will host, entitled 'Let's Hunt and Kill Russell Crowe'.
Remember Hicks' bit about New Kids On The Block? Well...
To the prospective makers of this documentary: if he wasn't good enough for you to do a biography while he was alive, why all the interest posthumously? "Stop putting a fucking dollar sign on everything," as he said.
I suggest a boicott of the proposed movie; please tell your friends not to support the cheapening of Hicks' work.
Incidentally, this project smacks of a marketer's revenge on Hicks for his marketing sketch ;)
Dick Cheney, because he's the master hard seller.
FYI Russell Crowe is a k1w1, he was born in NZ and whilst he moved to the lucky country at an early age he is not from god's country..
He does prefer to be classified as an Australian but we don't want him, any country in need of a has-been actor? You can adopt your very own chubby, racist beer swilling*, no good actor.
*Although beer swilling has been put in here as a detriment it is only for effect and is certainly not considered a detriment by this poster
Hud Dunlap: watch this okay?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1366476727111157120
Somehow I can't see Russell stepping into Bill's shoes very well. Have to agree on Denis Leary, he's just a Tesco Value Bill Hicks. Bill is probably waiting patiently for Denis on the other side... http://www.haku.co.uk/b3ta/BillHicksDenisLeary.jpg
It's a half-hour weekly show that I will host, entitled Let's Hunt and Kill Russell Crowe. It's a fairly self-explanatory concept: Each week we let the hounds of hell loose and chase that no-talent Ocker motherfucker across the globe until I catch him by that fruity ponytail, pull him to his knees, and put a shotgun in his mouth like a big black cock of death *BOOM*
Sigh, I hear kittens dying.
About the only person I could take semi-seriously as Bill is.. No, wait, there no-one. Maybe Chris Morris with a strap-on merkin accent, but even that's a stretch.
Sarah Bee:
I'll start the pump up, you drive your truck on around back..
(RIP Bill, you irreplaceable fucker)
Please don't mention that moronic piece of shit on the same page as the blessed St Bill of Hicks, anyone that unoriginal that they have to steal Hicks' worst material because it was more "tv friendly" deserves to suffer in tripe like Rescue Me, has it been cancelled yet?
Alien, because that's what "network friendly" was to Bill Hicks.
"I am an American and I never heard of the guy."
Oh my God, you're an American? Well, fuck me pink, gets the flags out guys, this prick's American. Shit, if he hasn't heard of Bill Hicks then obviously he never existed!
I now have an amusing vision of Bill Hicks running around on stage with a falsetto voice shouting "I'm an American, I'm an American". Well, congratu-fucking-lations dickhead, no fucker's heard of you either.
My girlfriend despite having amazing breasts doesn't have a clue as to who the genius that Bill Hicks is. Have Russell Crowe play him and she'd be interested in finding out for herself... So would many others.
Hicks is a legend, his material is still relivent today, I'd truely love to know his thoughts on the war "against" terror, Hicks would be on fire if he were alive today.
Plus with any luck they may take some of his ideas into count, in particular the special effects.
"Do you want your grandma dying like a little bird in a hospital room... her translucent skin so thin you can see her last heartbeat work its way down her blue veins? Or do you want her to meet Chuck Norris?"
but the first bill hicks dvd i bought, i felt a bit like i'd been raped after i watched it, cause it cost me £7 and it was only about half an hour long. fuckin hilarious though, and i dont blame him for it.
personally, id go with bill bailey doing bill hicks. that could work well. not in an "accurate portrayal" kind of way, more of a "watch bill bailey act like a twat" kind of way. yes.
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