This is no small feat, but nor should it be a surprise. Blassie rubs her belly, talking friendly to her and telling her its for good luck. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of the best movies ever made only at tcm. My breakfast with blassie is a parody of louis malles my dinner with andre and unlike that classic work, this movie is nowhere as memorable. November 2017, the falls 1980, my breakfast with blassie 1983, possibly in michigan 1983. Andy and fred discuss wrestling andys success with wrestling women is discussed at length, then change the topic to techniques for keeping your hands clean, why not to eat pancakes or waffles, giving. Ladies and gentleman, the man youre about to meet in this article is the most interesting man of the last 50 years. My breakfast with blassie 1983 watch on kanopy, fandor. See what historic, important and momentous events in history happened on march 20. My breakfast with blassie commercials sambos restaurants. It is a mostly improvised parody of the popular art film my dinner with andre and. The venus flytrap, which closed after only two performances in april 1983. This was one i had never heard of and was not expecting.
Im from hollywood my breakfast with blassie dvd for sale the bond between these two completely different people unusually comes out when talking about. If an items price differs from the price shown here, the price listed at will be correct. Please take care of yourselves, and take care of someone else. This was used as the title for a 1999 movie about andy kaufman, starring jim carrey.
Later on in the film, he rubs her belly again, and then. For my breakfast with blassie, we begin with lost and deleted footage from the film. Sometime ago i received the 1982 scifi horror film the aftermath from vci entertainment and mvd. My breakfast with blassie 1983 the movie database tmdb. My breakfast with blassie is a 1983 film starring andy kaufman and professional wrestler classy freddie blassie. Andy kaufman eats breakfast with former wrestling champion and selfproclaimed king of men freddie blassie. Released 1983, my breakfast with blassie stars andy kaufman, fred blassie, linda burdick, laurie burton the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 5 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Aug 01, 2005 the film begs for more action, thrills, and jokes, or more dramatic and painful revelations. Linda lautrec and johnny legend wrote and directed this 1983 parody of louis malles my dinner with andre, with comedian andy kaufman and world wrestling federation champ fred blassie discussing. The interrogator from the carol burnett show full sketch duration. The film my dinner with andre, is made up almost entirely of a highly intellectual dinner conversation between two old acquaintances at an upscale restaurant on. In a 2006 interview, zmuda told the opie and anthony show that he was masquerading as tony clifton with david letterman, and that letterman did not find out until years later.
Bob zmuda occasionally portrayed kaufmans tony clifton character on stage and for television appearances. And its for real a decent biographical comic on the great comic andy kaufman, mostly focused on andys wrestling. Also featured is kaufmans partner bob zmuda, who plays a nosy fan. The rest of the film, except for the ending which was snippets of kaufmans bus ride back, was a sixty minute film of kaufman and blassie having breakfast in a restaurant. Then, after she walks away, he tells kaufman, now we dont have to tip her so much. Kaufman appeared in the 1983 film my breakfast with blassie with professional wrestling personality classy freddie blassie. Im from hollywood my breakfast with blassie on dvd 081227660123 from rhino. Lyrics and video for the song man on the moon by r. It was long rumored that kaufman faked his death in 1984 as part of the ultimate practical joke against society. Featuring an ultra low budget and a threeday shoot, the story concerns a wrestler fred blassie and his apprentice andy kaufman improvising dialogue and anecdotes over breakfast at a southern california diner. Born in new york city on january 17, 1949, andy kaufman began performing at age 8. Everything from hygiene,rest room habits,pregnancy,women,welfare. My breakfast with blassie is the onscreen chronicling of that meeting. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world.
Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of. This movie provokes a guiltypleasure curiosity, followed by a yearning to somehow feel above the ridiculous performance youre witnessing. In essentially a twoman tourdeforce that parodies the betterknown dinner with andre by louis malle, my breakfast with blassie features the late andy kaufman he died from lung cancer soon after this film was released and freddie blassie as two egocentric wrestlers roles they. This is a parody of the film my dinner with andre starring andre. Top 10 movies based on the wrestling industry screenrant. This is a parody of the film my dinner with andre starring andre gregory and wallace shawn. Mar 29, 2019 as the film opens, crumb, complete with his trademark cheap suit, thick glasses and porkpie hat, sits crosslegged on the floor, listening pensively to a scratchy blues record from his extensive and rare 78rpm album collection. The pair engaged in an infamous later revealed staged onair altercation on late night with david letterman, and kaufman spoofed wallace shawn and andre gregorys uberart film my dinner with andre by chatting with pro wrestler classy freddie blassie over breakfast in hollywood. This film was shot in four and a half hours in a single day. Classy freddie blassie appeared in a liveaction segment of the cartoon hulk hogans rock n wrestling. Find out where my breakfast with blassie is streaming, if my breakfast with blassie is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Andy might have fell completely off the map if not for him.
The movie is completely bonkers and completely eighties, but watching hulk rip it up on the big screen as essentially himself is a fun treat. Hes an filmmaker, creating such cult classics as, my breakfast with blassie 1983 and the 70s skin flick, teenage cruisers 1977. Life and legend wrestling, in is this guy for real. The breakfast club 1985 breakfast at tiffanys 1961. I resisted watching this for many years and had actually seen the parody of it, my breakfast with blassie, as a teenager and due to andy kaufmans hatred of this, assumed it would be stodgy and pretentious but finally ended up seeing it on sundance or ifc a number of years ago and found it incredibly charming, fun and fascinating the.
My breakfast with blassie is a parody of louis malles my dinner with andre and unlike that. Dec 29, 2018 outside the tv arena, kaufman appeared alongside the singer deborah harry in the illfated broadway play teaneck tanzi. My breakfast with blassie is a movie starring andy kaufman and professional wrestler classy freddie blassie. As with much of andy kaufmans work, my breakfast with blassie is extremely selfdeprecating, showing kaufman as being timid yet egotistical, using his role as latka on taxi as a way of trying to impress people. Oct 07, 2000 just in time to scoop the criterion release of the engaging but muchmaligned conversation film my dinner with andre comes the longawaited. Aug 21, 2019 seeing as how he was there in the middle of the real thing, piper was perfect to match the comedy and the wrestling, and its always cool to see members of the samoan dynasty on film. The movie takes place in real time, and we see the entire meeting between the two over a friendly breakfast at a downtown. As a fan of my dinner with andre, i got a pretty big kick out of seeing the same guy in a different movie.
Box brown returns to the subject that gave him his breakthrough in andre the giant. In the movie the two are seen discussing the news and about whats been happening to themselves, mostly andys and freddies wrestling careers, in the world of entertainment. Director johnny legend introduces the 50 plus minutes of footage, which includes alternate takes, outtakes, and raw footage of the shoot. My breakfast with blassie letterboxd your life in film. Just in time to scoop the criterion release of the engaging but muchmaligned conversation film my dinner with andre comes the longawaited. During the course of my therapy, my shrink deduced that i was indeed addicted to multiple medications. They did a fine job recreating it for the carrey film. Fallen soldiers gone but not forgotten with photos. He arranged with the producers of fridays, another sketch comedy show, to completely derail it the night he hosted in february 1981. Always remember dont trust the opinion of my breakfast with blassie 1983 on the internet because the authors paid to write a comment. My breakfast with blassie by linda lautrec, johnny legend.
See where to watch my breakfast with blassie on reelgood. Was i going to wake up and find myself dead well, fear not, dear friends. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things. My breakfast with blassie 1983 my breakfast with blassie. Is this guy for real the unbelievable andy kaufman by box brown. Performance artist andy kaufman still selling the injured neck he suffered at the hands of jerry the king lawler has breakfast with legendary pro wrestler and manager fred blassie as they discuss life. Completely devoid of the usual humor that goes along with such a film, the edukators isnt quite funny and isnt quite sad, and unhappily, not quite believable.
Performance artist andy kaufman still selling the injured neck he suffered at the hands of jerry the king lawler has breakfast with legendary pro wrestler and manager fred blassie as they discuss life, breakfast, pro wrestling and various ways of insulting people. We soon learn that bizarre and dysfunctional dont even come close to describing crumbs family. Andy kaufman and fred blassies my breakfast with blassie premieres. It all begins with my breakfast with blassie, originally released in 1983. My breakfast with blassie is a movie starring andy kaufman and professional. Still upon seeing it again for the first time since its theatrical run and aside from the fact that the romantic plot shouldve been caught in the crosshairs of a sniper in its screenplay formtheres more than enough plot here for the filmmakers to utilize for the film that salvages it and then some. The film spoofed the 1981 comedydrama my breakfast with andre, and featured the madcap humor of both kaufman and blassie interacting with each other, as well as other people in the. My breakfast with blassie 1983 directed by johnny legend, mark. His later standup routine was unorthodox, but it caught the attention of hollywood, and he was soon. My breakfast with blassie, a meal genre film starring the late andy kaufman of the show taxi and the late freddy blassie, world heavyweight. Yer no bergmans profile letterboxd your life in film. My breakfast with blassie andy kaufman hops on a hollywood bus to visit and eat breakfast with his old friend, freddie blassie, selfproclaimed king of men and professional wrestler. He also made a short film, my breakfast with blassie, in early 1984. Kaufman and blassie are being served breakfast by a very pregnant thai waitress.
My breakfast with blassie, his indie film lampooning another indie film, my dinner with andre, which andy viewed as achingly pretentious. It is a mostly improvised parody of the popular art film my dinner with andre and is set in a restaurant where kaufman and blassie have a discussion over breakfast. What we get is an inbetween mash of romantic ideals, a botched kidnapping, and some very good time wasted while the perpetrators could have been out going to college, getting better jobs, or being productive members of society rather than ineffective. Legends own film starring kaufman, my breakfast with blassie, is the only louis malle parody ever to star a professional wrestlerwith the exception, of course, of the scarlet maniacs 1977 opus, murmur of the heartpunch. In the liner notes for part lies, part heart, part truth, part garbage 19822011, peter buck recalled how the music for this song came together. New favorites horror movies lady directors short films shudder 2019. Lynne margulies, sister of the film s director, johnny legend, appears in it, and became romantically involved with kaufman. From the breakfast club dvd to kurt vonneguts breakfast of champions if breakfast is in the name, you came to the right place. The movie starts off with andy kaufman taking a ride on the city bus to sambos in l. Margulies later codirected the 1989 kaufman wrestling compilation im from hollywood, and published the 2009 book dear andy kaufman, i hate your guts.
You can write, my breakfast with blassie 1983 is a good movie, but it can be is a bad movie. The film was intended as a spoof on my dinner with andre. Lynne margulies, sister of the film s director, johnny legend, appears in it. As the film opens, crumb, complete with his trademark cheap suit, thick glasses and porkpie hat, sits crosslegged on the floor, listening pensively to a scratchy blues record from his extensive and rare 78rpm album collection. Watch my breakfast with blassie, the shockumentary film by linda. If you know of any videos that are not posted here, please let the webmaster know of them. Jay is right to stand up against sean and frank in discussing this utterly blase film. My breakfast with blassie, his indie film lampooning another indie film, film mydinnerwithandre, which andy viewed as achingly pretentious.
I am attempting to expand my film experience and appreciation. The driving force behind this dvd is the strength of its bonus features. My breakfast with blassie staring andy kaufman and professional wrestler classy freddie blassie filmed at and inside of the downtown north hollywood sambos. My breakfast with blassie 1983 stream and watch online. My breakfast with blassie where to stream and watch. This album isnt completely about breakfast, but the parts that are make it worthwhile. Feb 04, 2019 sometime ago i received the 1982 scifi horror film the aftermath from vci entertainment and mvd.
Kaufmann, complete with neck brace and in the midst of his intergender professional wrestling phase, meets an old hero, the. See, id never seen my breakfast with blassie before thanks for that, oz. Take that, audience tony clifton would berate and even outright verbally abuse his audience at the slightest provocation. My breakfast with blassie was conceived of by linda lautrec and johnny legend as a satire on my dinner with andre. Perhaps film junk is not the venue for me any more. Time has done something curious to my breakfast with blassie, the 1983 comedy with the offbeat pairing of funnyman andy kaufman and professional. Completely absurd and ridiculous, its also one of the funniest things ive seen all month. The film my dinner with andre, is made up almost entirely of a highly. Freddie blassie in my breakfast with blassie 1983 andy kaufman in my breakfast with. My breakfast with blassie dvd 1981 video service corp.
Lynne margulies, who met kaufman during the filming of my breakfast with blassie, was in a relationship with kaufman from 1982 until his death in 1984. There is simply a plethora of more thoughtful and wellcrafted experiences, perhaps even from some foreign directors. Andy has breakfast with fred blassiethe king of men. After my home caught fire i was packing and discovered it. Legacy in january 1984, kaufman was diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Andre gregory has a supporting role in henry jagloms last summer in the hamptons, where he plays a very similar character, basically himself, i imagine. The film was a parody of the art film my dinner with andre. Not only was wrestling in the rocks blood, but movies were, too.
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