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Dear Buzz,
I really really like Transformers. It is amazing. After reading about the Transformers sequel in your
film pages I just thought I’d contact you and see if you are fellow Transformers fans? But more impor-
tantly I’d like to pose the question that, if you were a Transformer, which one would you be?
Jack (aka Starscream)
Dear Starscream (aka Jack),
Well I must say we do indeed admire your passion and delight for Transformers. And we chose your
letter because we also hold Transformers close to our heart and would thus like to address your
points. Personally, we would invent a new transformer called Buzzotron Prime that would take
a quickie
the shape of a magazine and spread itself across many a cool outlet in South Wales in an attempt
to spy on rogue Decepticons such as yourself. And if you’re reading this, we’ve got you. Unlucky
Starscream. Checkmate.
with...
Dear Buzz,
Reading your piece on Rome has made me want to go. However, I am still undecided. Convince me.
MICKEY ROURKE
Claire
You’re well known for being a boxing aficio-
nado. Did the time you spent in the ring help
Dear Claire,
you with The Wrestler?
Well everyone knows the most important cultural thing to ever happen in Rome is that Bruce
Not at all. I always say it’s like ping-pong and rugby.
Lee fought Chuck Norris in the coliseum as part of the movie Way Of The Dragon. If that doesn’t
And it was hard for me because everybody said,
convince you I don’t know what will. Well maybe the fact that it is one of the most beautiful,
“He’s a former boxer; he should be able to pick this
up.” But boxing, the way you move, everything, is
art-fuelled, culture-drenched places you will ever go. Every corner holds a shard of history and
hidden and quick. In wrestling, everything is slow
romance that will stay with you for quite some time indeed. And if that still doesn’t float your boat
and obvious and well seen. It was not a sport I had
then well, I’m rubbish aren’t I?
any respect for because it’s predetermined and it’s
entertainment. But I’ve got to tell you something, I
had three MRI scans in two months.
1 – Britain had animal welfare laws
Being a Method actor, playing someone like
WE DIDN’T
before it had child welfare laws
Randy, someone so close to you, it must have
felt perfect?
2 – A new word is created in the
Sure, it’s true, because I am a Method actor and eve-
KNOW THAT
English language every 98
rything I do I personalize. So when I read the material,
minutes
sure, there is the whole thing, this shame element, this
man who has hope but is living in a state of hopeless-
LAST MONTH
3 – Only one in 10 Tourette
ness.
Syndrome sufferers swear (We’re
Were you a tough kid?
hoping/praying this will go at
When I was a little kid, I was frightened of con-
least some way towards putting frontation, until it all broke out one day. There was
an end to all those disgustingly
some kid in the yard, he’d failed the grade a few
unfunny impressions people do)
times and had been put back – he almost had a
f*cking beard, man! He had some pointed shoes
4 – Just two people in the world
on and began kicking my shins. I remember getting
know the recipe for Irn Bru
up and something came over me. I just beat the
shit out of him and the next day at school, people
5 – The pilot and co-pilot on a treated me differently.
passenger plane are not allowed
to have the same meal in case
And you developed your passion for boxing
around that time?
they both get food poisoning
Yeah, me and my step brothers would put up a
speed-bag in the yard and go down to this gym in
Miami. I’d go in, 12 or 13 years old and Ali would
you what?
either be there or Jerry Quarry. It was the Mecca of
boxing in the mid-60s. It was a happy time.
So is that why you returned to boxing when
you ran into serious trouble in Hollywood
“
Sheep have ears?
during the 0s? Or was it a chance to hunt
for oblivion?
– Housemate
I think that both those things appealed to me. It
was a dangerous time – and things got worse. The
“
”
So you can’t put cardboard in the oven? But isn’t it
final wake-up call came when my wife left me. I’d
t
lost everything, my house, my wife, my career and
he same as a microwave? It doesn’t make sense.
friends. And as I passed by the mirror that night
I had a glimpse of what other people saw and I
-An ex-housemate.
”
thought, “No wonder people are afraid of you”.
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