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March 06, 2007
[QUOTE]: Joe effin' Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas reviews some of his greatest shit-fits: To Paul Verhoeven. "'If you use that tone of voice with me again, I'm going to come over this table at you." To Disney execs in the boardroom: "Take your hands off my dick and tell me the truth." Why such the hot head, Susan Dominus wonders in the Telegraph's Seven magazine. "I think part of it 
is that I grew up as an immigrant kid feeling very marginalised, kind of like a second-class citizen... [S]creenwriters are very marginalised in L.A., very much like second-class citizens, and I think it's possible that I said, fuck you—not me. It would have been so much easier.' Of course, it's one of the things that makes Eszterhas ultimately likeable: despite all the bluster he was clearly passionate about what he did... Wearing a Hell's Angels T-shirt that says 'Live to Ride', and weighing a good deal less than he did at the time of his diagnosis, Eszterhas still sits heavily... His voice, post-surgery, has a gravelly quality, like Gene Hackman's might sound 20 years from now... Life obviously moves at a slower pace for him these days. Instead of going to see Basic Instinct II at the premiere in Los Angeles, he and his wife headed over to the local [Ohio] multiplex at midday, when they often have the cinema to themselves. ('We like to joke that we have the biggest private screening-room of anyone we know,' says Eszterhas, laughing with a very Santa Claus-like heave of his shoulders.)"
Posted by Ray Pride at March 6, 2007 12:03 AM
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