Ron wrote many songs for Billy Joel. Italian restaurant, Angry Young Man, We Didn’t Start the Fire, Capt. Jack and others. Billy Joel is extremely talented and this doesn’t take away from anything he’s done. It’s almost always a gift if Ron writes a song for you but in fact there are no gifts in H-wood, they must have a financial arrangement, but this is as close to a gift as they come.
I strongly suspect that Billy is a descendent of The Late Great Buddy Rogers. I won’t tell you why though.
Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford with their “adopted children” Ron and Roxanne
I’m returning to “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”. A great book and an even better film, now a classic. I had theorized that Billy Bibbit played by Brad Dourif was Ron Howard. Not from a point of narcissism but simply statistics, if I go looking for someone specific to be Ron I’m correct over 90% of the time. I’ve gone to look for Billy Bibbit twice as Ron. I think I’m close enough to call it a match. Ron is a mass of scars from head to toe. A couple in particular are easy to spot. The one visible here, but you have to look, is on the left shoulder. The skin flap coming up from the back is easiest to spot. This is likely to be Ron. Nurse Ratched could be Cheryl, I need to work on this and I’d have to see the film again because I believe she plays Candy who’s a loving woman who sleeps with Billy. If anyone is going to sleep with Ron in a film it’s Cheryl. See below
From, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched and Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit aka Ron Howard.
Candy and Billy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest…aka Cheryl and Ron Howard!Cuckoo’s Nest launched the careers of many an actor.
Many in the cast of “Taxi” were in “Cuckoo’s Nest”. Danny Devito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli. That’s Jack Nicholson in the front, I don’t believe he was on Taxi. Notice the man to the left of Jack. I don’t believe it’s Robin Williams but it sure looks like him. It’s important to remember details like this because this could be a relative or they could have aged him up. How do we figure this out? The man in the photo some decent scarring of his right arm in the antecubital fossa (ha ha big words go look them up). Here’s a photo of Williams, also a bunch of scars but it seems everyone in H-wood has them. You have to memorize everyone’s scars and see what matches. Conclusion…none yet…something to pay attention to.
If you have a truly visceral hate for me, not just a mislike or mistrust skip this blog. It’s not going to be pretty and it will be worse for you. If you can tolerate it advise others if it should be viewed by them.
I warned the kid right before he started…”Now we’ll see what you’re made of.” A line I borrowed from the film “Apt Pupil”.
From Wikipedia: Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella of the same name by Stephen King. In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Naziwar criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and acts of the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.
I tried to warn the kid off. Against all odds there he was standing in front of me. I told him I thought he was undercover and asked him if he really wanted to do this. When I said to him, “Now we’ll see what you’re made of” he gave me a smug look like who the ef are you.
Ian McKellen says it to Brad Renfro, well actually to himself and the audience, in the film after he throws Brad down a flight of stairs to engage in battle with a homeless person he had captured.
The link above gives reviews of the film. I saw the film during the period when if you were a fan of Stephen King you’d sit in a movie theater and when the film started you’d say…”Hey wait a minute…I read this book!!” This happened all the time because who could remember the name of everything he wrote with book titles containing four books. Case in point…Shawshank Redemption originally Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption.
Here’s the part you should skip.
Since we’re talking about Apt Pupil about Nazis and Rita Hayworth came up I’m going to post something that I left out of my videos. I don’t know whether Florence Lounsbery had any clue what she was doing or portraying when she did this. She did not commit the atrocities that Ilse (Irma Ida) Grese did but they used her to portray this woman as the most virulous female of the holocaust…Ilse Grese…The Beast of Bergen Belsen.
Ilse’s name is misspelled above, she also went by Ida and Irma
Anne Frank, the author of the Diary of Anne Frank, not the woman in the photos, supposedly went to Bergen Belsen. Bergen Belsen was one of the concentration camps my father survived.
I see the alcohol is flowing freely…not just coffee tonite.
There is a trailer for this film which has a snappy tune to it but it kinda made me nauseated so I passed on posting it.
Here John Lounsbery finds out about some of his wife’s extracurricular activities.