Vincent Gallo is a Republican???????????????????????????

[Egalitarian Zetetic]

this can't fuckign be, he is creative and intelligent, it has to be a misprint no fucking way.

http://amiannoying.com/(sykt1giybrgixtzl1eqq0g2j)/Default.aspx

The Resume
(April 11, 1962- )
Born in Buffalo, NY
Wrote/Directed/Starred in 'Buffalo 66'
Works on numerous independent films
Appeared in 'Honey Baby (2002),' 'Get Well Soon (2001),' 'Hollywood Salome (1998),' 'L.A. Without a Map (1998),' 'Buffalo '66 (1998),' 'Perfect Moment (1997),' 'Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997),' 'Arizona Dream (1993),' 'Goodfellas (1990),' 'Way It Is, The (1984)' and 'New York Beat Movie (1981)'

Why he might be annoying
He looks like a serial killer.
He was a Yamaha Formula 2 motorcycle racer.
He is quite in love with himself.
He wrote an infamous interview with himself for Grand Royal magazine which was deemed to risque to print.
He trashes anyone and everyone (except himself) in the press.
He told buddyhead.com he would 'hire a crack-head to chop you up into little pieces' for publishing the Grand Royal interview.
He is a right-wing republican who lists Richard Nixon as his first idol.

Why he might not be annoying
He doesn't drink, take drugs, or smoke.
He is tremendously talented and has succeeded wildly at every undertaking he has attempted.
He has a blue collar work ethic, never showing up late and showing up every day.
He is self-taught.
He turned his back on Hollywood after 'Buffalo 66,' because he wanted to follow his creative instincts elsewhere.
He is extremely intelligent.


Credit: Holyroller

[romantico]

1. He's a total dickhead!

A buddy of mine who LOVED Buffalo 66 saw him in New York & approached him.Told him he was a fan,loved his movie,blah blah blah,etc.Vincent cut him off & asked him if he was done.My friend was to affraid to ask for an autograph.

He also mocked Roger Ebert for giving his film Brown Bunny a bad review.Said something like, "Oh good well he's got cancer"Total jerk!

[gottaB]

6. Did anybody not give Brown Bunny a bad review?

As a metaphor for Republicanism, maybe it has redeeming quality--but wait, iirc Gallo apologized at Cannes for subjecting the audience to such tripe. Brilliant. Hypocrisy too. It *is* a metaphor for Republicanism.

[otohara]

2. I Think He is Horrible

he's so angry about his new movie being panned and not distributed. His leading lady is fellow thug Chloë Sevigny - she's icky

He is a bitter no talent hack in my opinion and that makes him a perfect republican

[bhunt70]

3. I love VG, been a fan forever.`

He says some pretty far out stuff but I seperate his artistic talent from the person.

[romantico]

4. If he's a typical RWinger

He'll talk all anti-Hollywood & tell you how liberals have no morals.Meanwhile, in his film Brown Bunny I hear theres a scene where Chloe gives him oral sex that is so graphic thats the reason no one will distribute the film.I've got nothing against nudity in films or even an adult love scenes between two adults.But to bitch about those who do the same as you do is just hypocritical!Don't you love these wingers who preach about family values & decency but feel they're not to be included.Bo Derek suffers the same problem.

[hughee99]

7. I've seen several of his movies

and I don't get the impression that he spends lots of time preaching family values and decency. Perhaps he's not a typical RWinger.

[West Coast Democrat]

8. I heard that Chloe is a Republican also

I have no idea why. I guess they're just trying to be different or something.

[sallydallas124]

11. I heard that too

I think being anti-Bush/conservativism is actually cool now, especially among young people. My impression is that they're trying so hard to be anti-cool in order to be cool that their choices are made solely on the basis of this and not something heartfelt. They both seem incredibly self-possessed, a la Ann Coulter.

[NashVegas]

5. Buffalo '66

Bored me to tears. Seriously overrated.

He doesn't drink, take drugs, or smoke.

I don't trust a man with no visible vices.

He has a blue collar work ethic, never showing up late and showing up every day.

Sounds like the product of a Catholic education ("god'll strike me dead if I play hookey").

on edit:

About Brown Bunny:

"That this film was admitted into Cannes as an Official Selection is inexplicable. By no standard, through no lens, in any interpretation, does it qualify for Cannes. The quip is: This is the most anti-American film at Cannes, because it is so anti-American to show it as an example of American filmmaking." Roger Ebert.

[PeaceProgProsp]

10. He went to Sweet Home High School. Public School.

[devilgrrl]

12. Sweet Home???? I thought he was from North Buffalo.

Not exactly Sweet Home territory.

[PeaceProgProsp]

15. He's from the suburbs. Working class suburbs.

But still the suburbs.

[devilgrrl]

16. Uhh... are you from Buffalo?

The Working Class suburbs... working class isn't exactly the word I would use for Amherst, which is where Sweet Home HS is. I'd use Middle Class as opposed to working class.

[PeaceProgProsp]

17. Gallo's father was a barber and an ex-cop.

IIRC.

He was working class.

And I think of Sweet Home as working class/ lower middle class. Once they save a little money, people from Sweet Home move a little farther to the east, to Williamsville, or Clarence, and then they're more solidly middle and upper middle class. The most common biography of someone who moves out of Sweet Home: UB professor finally gets tenure, or former engineering grad student a couple years into career saves enough and moves.

I'd be surprised if the average (savings + equity in home, adjusted for the bubble which will pop) were much higher than $20K for longer term Sweet Home residents. I think of an adult who has less than a year's salary in savings as working for a living, and therefor, working class. I don't think of it so much as working in a factory.

(My cousins grew up in Buffalo.)

[indigobusiness]

9. Buffalo 66 was ***EXCELLENT*** ...perfection in indy filmmaking...

All the inside Hollywood stuff was a trip. He is a true genius of film. B 66 went over a lot of peoples heads, but art usually does.
What a flick!!!!!
As creepy as he is, it is a HOOT that he is said to be a Republican... Odd justice in that... woud love to see him seated next to Falwell and Limbaugh at the convention.

[jdsmith]

13. Vincent Gallo: Artist, Magus, Touchy as an Eyeball

from ABCNews.com:

After film critic Roger Ebert lambasted Brown Bunny at last year's Cannes Film Festival as the worst entrant ever, director Vincent Gallo called him a "fat pig" with the "physique of a slave trader" and put a curse on his colon.

Ebert, who has struggled with cancer, responded that images of his colonoscopy were more interesting than Brown Bunny.

"I'm certainly not gloating," Gallo told Knight-Ridder news service last August. "I don't believe in black magic, and I don't really believe I could have given him cancer for real. If I had any metaphysical powers, I would heal the sick. I did think it was bizarre that I said it and it happened, but I'm not happy he has cancer."

Ebert, who has twice undergone surgery for cancer, is said to be in good health. He stands by his assessment of Brown Bunny. "I have not seen every film in the history of the festival," he says, "yet I feel my judgment will stand."

[indigobusiness]

18. Walking contradictions

are always the most interesting.

[PeaceProgProsp]

14. His movies are sort of conservative. He hates his working class roots.

In interviews he talks about how much he hates his parents' world and that's basically what Buffalo 66 is about. What he likes is the idea that his modeling and his moviemaking and his travelling to Europe make him a better person than his father.