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Joel Osteen won't open his church that holds 16,000 to hurricane victims because it only provides shelter from taxes. #HoustonStrong
Alan Spencer
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Alan Spencer
@MrAlanSpencer
Creator of Sledge Hammer! and Bullet in the Face.
- Homeless people are being swept aside from Union Station so the Academy Awards ceremony can award a film called "Nomadland" about homelessness.
- Little known story: Gene Wilder didn’t attend Marty Feldman’s funeral, but phoned his widow a few weeks afterwards, asked how she was doing. Understandably, she was a wreck. He clarified: “I meant financially, because if you don’t own your home… I will buy it for you.” #saint
- I met Vincent Price and told him how his film “Theater of Blood,” wherein he played a crazed actor killing off meanspirited reviewers using Shakespearian guises, was the primary reason I passed all my English classes, making him my favorite teacher. He laughed and whispered in
- When I was a kid, I thought it was cool that Marty Feldman publicly disparaged the parent company of Universal by mentioning MCA alongside the KKK in a movie he made for them, effectively ending his writing and directing career in Hollywood. Years later, from the perspective of
- In the next James Bond movie, the villain’s evil plan should be to leave the world exactly as it is right now, not change a thing.
- I never saw those as “anti-Trump” tweets from Mark Hamill. Those were anti-despotism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-tyranny and pro-democracy and freedom of speech tweets, professing the same values from his massively popular films.
- A message to the FBI agents that raided Mar-a-Lago: "We love you, you're very special."
- My other memorable exchange was with a former VP of NBC asking me if a scene would have “suspenseful music” and I told him it would sound like Bernard Herrmann. The VP asked who Herrmann was. I explained Herrmann composed scores for Alfred Hitchcock like “Psycho” and “Vertigo”.
- I met Roger Moore and told him I was depressed and went to see “The Spy Who Loved Me” and it cheered me up. His response was perfect: “Well, that’s what it’s for, dear boy.”
- If only we held Supreme Court Justices to the same standards as SNL cast members.
- Trump called the NYT story about his finances "fake news" because it's behind a paywall and he can't afford to read it. #TrumpIsBroke
- I don't know if Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, but I'm sure Steven Seagal's costars did.
- When an old friend visited him on the set of “Young Frankenstein” and remarked what a big star he’d become, Gene Wilder humbly dismissed it with “Everyone is a star to somebody.” As Marty Feldman said about Gene Wilder: “Gene isn’t as nice as he seems… he’s even nicer.”
