Crispin Glover C or D?

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Michael J. Fox's dad in Back to the Future. Weird smoking guy in Charlie's Angels. The psychotic gang leader in River's Edge. Bartleby in, uh, Bartleby.

He always overacts, but it usually works. I mean, River's Edge is all serious and grim, but it seems like Glover is trying to be funny with his exagerrated California surfer accent and his "Maaaaannn"s, but somehow he's scary too. Of course, he's classic in Back to the Future, and for suing Spielberg after they hired another actor to copy his performance after he refused to be in Back to the Future II. Saw Bartleby last night, the movie was merely ok but Glover was pretty fantastic, giving a relatively somber and understated performance, but still pretty creepy.

So: opinions on Glover?
Anyone heard his Crispin Hellion Glover album?
Anyone see the remake of that rat movie that he was in recently?
Any stories about his notorious talkshow appearances after Back to the Future?
Has anyone seen Rubin and Ed? It looks promisingly weird.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked him in Back To The Future...thats about it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

His album is like the aural equivalent of the rack.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

doesnt he do a version of "these boots were made for walking"
he played an amusing Warhol in 'the doors'

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

YES his version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" is the aural equivalent of when my cat died when I was 17 and my boyfriend made fun of me for being sad, except not even that cool.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.horror.it/cinema/news2002/img/glover_crispin.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked his haircut in Bartleby. That's how my dad looks in photos from the 70s.

http://www.tipjar.com/dan/images/bartleby.jpg

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

'McFly!'

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

He's got my friends haircut.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"No Biff."

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"You get yr...DAMN HANDS...offa herrrr..."

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I honestly think thats the only movie he was good in. Maybe if he didn't try to be a fuckin weirdo all the time he would have a better career. I'm fully expecting a mass of Crispin lovers to come flip out like the DMB thread.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

any relation to danny glover?

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

++His album is like the aural equivalent of the rack.

please explain this.

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a Glover lover, but I see what yr saying, Chris. I love his weirdness, but it's so unrelenting that it reminds of the beginning of Ghost World where Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansenn are watching the "weird" comedian on TV and making fun of him, saying "Look at his shoes. If he's so weird, why is he wearing Nikes?" except that Glover doesn't seem to have any cracks in his weird facade, other than agreeing to be in Charlie's Angels.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there's any explanation necessary for that comment, actually.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic in Dead Man as well. Willard looks.. strange

What's he like in Like Mike?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

When ILM was a wild frontier town:

Crispin Glover

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, Dastoor.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

FWIW Jimmy the Mod and I never hooked up for that "getting pissed" thing so promised on the previous Crispin Glover thread :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I personally like him best in "The Orkly Kid"--about a kid who is secretly obsessed with Olivia Newton John. This short film was based on another film starring Sean Penn, which was based on a short documentary film about a real kid in Utah obsessed with Olivia. I've seen all three and the first one is astounding.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

His album is like the aural equivalent of the rack.

You actually bought it, heh heh heh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually didn't buy it--I know another ILXor who did though, and defended it to me...His name might or might not start with an A and he might or might not work for a major weekly news publication in the United States. Just sayin'.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Noted for future reference (oh, the mystery).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, this is basically what i was aking when i said "please explain this"

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, you wanted to know who owned it? That's a bit of an oblique way of asking.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

there is a Crispin Hellion Glover on friendster. there is no good reason that I know this.

"You get yr...DAMN HANDS...offa herrrr..."

one of the many things that I was famous for in college was my willingness and ability to deliver this line on a regular basis. gone, apparently.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that's disappointing. We could've used you about a year ago when we had to run out on this dude at a FAP cos he was feeling up all the chixors breastestes.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, yeah?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't he direct a movie with an entirely autistic cast?

I remember his interview in the Onion AV Club being a very intelligent and cogent presentation of his weirdness.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ally being difficult shokah!

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, yeah?

Don't be ridiculous. I feel up my own.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

How is that being difficult, exactly?

Ally: Says something equivalent of "The album is evil"
kephm: asks for explanation but apparently meant something else
Ally: *confused*

If you ask me, you're the difficult one. DEFEND YOURSELF.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was amused by the surreal event of his signing autographs at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. There was a line of people and everything.

And he actually looked....happy. It was disturbing. I found myself looking away quickly, so as not to absorb too much of the awful spectacle.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, My density has bought me to you.

― kephm, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

you should have walked over spouted out the "no biff" line and punched him in the beak.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

They weren't autistic, just regular tards

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate his cameo in Dead Man--it's like a 20th century performance art suddenly gets plopped down in the middle of the late 19th century, with no real dividend. It's the most jarring of all the selfconscious anachronisms in that film.

I have no real opinion on Glover otherwise except that his shtick seems like some extended private joke.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

His appearances in movies have that strange unreality effect, like Christopher Walken's cameos. Inevitably I'm thinking, "Hello! Does Crispin Glover not exist in your world?"

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

He was good and unshowy in Nurse Betty.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure if I want to be him, or just start talking like him.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like a 20th century performance art suddenly gets plopped down in the middle of the late 19th century, with no real dividend

fair point. maybe because it's early in the movie - he has to take you hipsters back in time instead of just starting in period? paralleling the spatial journey? also, "Erie" for "Cleveland" isn't very 20th century. and the movie is certainly pre-gilded age, no?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah but by that reasoning Clover's cameo actually sort of impedes the movie's journey back into the 19th century.

I think it's a Jarmusch problem actually, as even in a relatively austere and purposeful movie like Dead Man he has to show you how hip he is by having Iggy Pop cameos and the like. I wish I could excise the cameos from that movie, save of course for Robert Mitchum.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The overall design of the scene on the train is magnificent though; Depp periodically dozing off (the screen fades to black) and waking up to find an entirely different, and increasingly wild, scene.

All Jarmusch really needed to do to make that movie exciting was apply certain European art film ideas to the Western with some intelligence and restraint, and he did by and large succeed.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My cat can eat a whoooole watermelon! (did anyone say that yet?) Rubin & Ed should've won the Nobel prize.

― Scaredy Cat, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

His cameo in Wild at Heart is so great and hilarious.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't even remember that one; is he a bank teller or something?

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Laura Dern's cousin - "I"M MAKING SANDWICHES" puts cockroaches on his anus, y'know standard Crispin Glover stuff

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I met him once. He was nice.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

He was the best thing about the new Charlie's Angels movie (which combined a lot of individual good things, such as various songs on the soundtrack, into an overall feh).

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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OK, so it falls apart a little in the second half. Basically the first half has this dark humor that makes the movie fun and weird, but in the second half it turns more angsty and melodramatic. But ok holy shit, if you check this out on DVD, go to the extras and watch the video for Crispin Hellion Glover's cover of "Ben." All I will say is that it involves CG, women in lingerie, about 100 white rats, and some weird old men, one of which has a Hitler mustache.

― NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 2 November 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The amount of his schtick that CG ripped off from Rozz Williams is absolutley hellacious.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh hush, you.

― NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 2 November 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

OH THE ARTASTICNESS! (NSFW)

http://www.crispinglover.com/images/WIIPreview.mov

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I WANT MY RUBIN AND ED DVD GODDAMMIT.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really think anything about him, but unlike amateurist I love his cameo in Dead Man.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched Rubin and Ed the other day and it is excellent.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck yeah it is, where'd you get it?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a Crispin Hellion Glover on friendster.

not anymore

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I had "Crispin" in my friends list on myspace and he suddenly disappeared there too.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck yeah it is, where'd you get it?

My housemate has it on vhs.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

For taking a machete through the face and a bottle opener in the hand in Friday the 13th 4, CLASSIC.

For his cover of Ben's Song, CLASSIC.

Overall:

Pretty classic.

― Film Frank, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post
grr...I'd get it off ebay but I'm sure the second I buy it on VHS for like $70 or something it will be announced for budget DVD.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The amount of his schtick that CG ripped off from Rozz Williams is absolutley hellacious.
-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), November 2nd, 2003.

Crispin Death

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

so I finally saw the Crispin doing the high kick on David Letterman thing... wow.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember him being funny in that "Twister" indie (not Helen Hunt and the cow).

He will live forever through River's Edge, BTTF, the Letterman kick and the album.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I still haven't seen the Letterman thing. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The indie film Twister...wasn't Burroughs in that?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

remember that thing he did on letterman?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oop, too slow

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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My favorite actor/person ever. He makes everything he's in worth watching. He's so consistant. In order; the greatest human beings ever:

Crispin Glover
Dennis Hopper
Christopher Walken

River's Edge was amazing. Willard was fantastic. His stint in Charlie's Angel's 2 was the reason I watched the movie. He is so unique and fringe and utterly perfect. His interest in starting a movement in art is also noteworthy/great

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dennis Hopper has been in some truly terrible films, and been pretty bad in them. Cool guy, though. His paintings aren't half bad!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

>The indie film Twister...wasn't Burroughs in that?

Yep, target shooting in the barn, I think.

The under-30 set seems to revel mostly in a once-splendid actor like Walken trashing his talent as a steadily employed freakshow. (Exceptions like "Catch Me If You Can" and the Jonze video notwithstanding.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.crispinglover.com/whatisittralerwebfour.mov

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

so he gets no props for "My Tutor?"

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

The Beaver Trilogy is showing in Brooklyn at Barbes tomw night at 8!!

Wikipedia

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I love The Beaver Trilogy -- really fascinating stuff.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

you think the Jonze video isn't a freakshow?

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Morbs I jealous

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

no gabb, a good dance number + flying is not a freakshow.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

slides/ What Is It? in Asbury Park this weekend, too bad I hafta drink the Derby.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

What is it? Is possibly the most disturbingly erotic thing I've ever experienced, besides seeing my babysitter naked. CLASSIC TO THE MAX.

― valoss, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Crispin Glover's It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE. - Opens Wed Nov 21 in NY

21-yo GF and a Czech castle!

Odd Man In
By ALEX WILLIAMS

WHEN you have a reputation as Hollywood’s reigning deviant, the weirdest thing you can do is act traditional. This is perhaps why Crispin Glover — an actor who counts a century-old ophthalmologist’s wax model of diseased eyes as a prized possession — seemed eager to discuss his stodgy enthusiasms for Tchaikovsky and antique furniture en route to dinner at Jean Georges on a recent evening out with his girlfriend, Mara LaFontaine.

“I realize I have this reputation for being an eccentric,” said Mr. Glover, 43, who gained fame playing neurasthenic oddballs in ’80s films like “Back to the Future” and “River’s Edge” (and, more infamously, being tossed from an interview with David Letterman after aiming a karate kick at his head). “But the truth is that I really like to do the same things that most 80-year-olds do.”

Mr. Glover, whose machete cheekbones make him look like a handsome gargoyle, provides the voice of the demon Grendel, alongside Angelina Jolie, in “Beowulf,” the digitally enhanced adventure movie that opens this week. Next week, Mr. Glover will premiere his second directorial effort, the self-financed “It is Fine. Everything is Fine!” about the sexual fantasies of a wheelchair-bound man with cerebral palsy.

With two movies to promote, most actors might hit the Sunset Strip nightclubs, entourage in tow. But Mr. Glover, a professed loner, preferred a Tuesday afternoon browsing the Metropolitan Museum of Art before a 5:45 dinner.

At the Met, Mr. Glover, in a black velvet pinstriped suit (shades of Yves Saint Laurent, shades of Nosferatu) patrolled the museum’s sumptuous period rooms with Ms. LaFontaine, looking for decorating tips for his 15-bedroom castle in the Czech Republic. (“Bedrich Smetana wrote his last opera in the room I’m using as my den,” he said.)

Pausing in a Venetian bedroom from the early 18th century, Mr. Glover admired the statuary. “I’m not usually a cherub person,” he said donnishly, “but the carvings are spectacular.”

Ms. LaFontaine, 21, an actress and student from Utah, said that any similar splash of color in his 16th-century castle would be welcome. “It’s spooky,” she said. “There are shutters on every window that make it black inside.”

Later, while enjoying the $98 prix fixe menu at Jean Georges, Mr. Glover explained that fine food (along with Czech castles) is one of his few indulgences.

Otherwise, he said: “I buy everything on eBay. Suits. Cars. Shaving cream. You can save a lot of money.”

Mr. Glover disputed the general perception, “that I’m insane.” Yes, his 2005 directorial debut, “What is It?”, depicted live snails being sliced by razors, and explicit sex involving actors with Down syndrome.

And yes, the most “Hollywood” thing they have done lately, she said, was to hear Beethoven’s Ninth at the Hollywood Bowl.

Still, Mr. Glover admitted that he might want to network more, for the sake of his career (he even recently read Dale Carnegie). But not tonight.

Finishing their kir royales, the couple strolled off for a nightcap at the St. Regis hotel, where the décor was Beaux-Arts, the lights were low, and the out-of-date — and their kindred spirits — are never out of place.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

How does Glover have enough money to buy a castle?

― milo z, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

gained fame playing neurasthenic oddballs in ’80s films like “Back to the Future”

Plus sued dudes for making a fake Crispin in BttF2?

― n/a, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

he couldn't have had points in BttF.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

At least we know who Tim Burton will eventually cast in the biopic of himself, assuming Depp's not booked.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I know somebody who knows his gf!

― da croupier, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

I am very proud about this!

― da croupier, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

what the HELL do they talk about?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Rubin and Ed is a masterpiece

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

he has a gf? he is always around a group of 18 year old goth chicks

― chaki, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

she wrote him a fan letter with pic and he said come on down!

― da croupier, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

whatta creep

― chaki, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Marty McFly's dad is insane

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 29 December 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALapHYNSmoA&feature=related

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

the Big Problem

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 November 2010 16:00 (fifteen years ago)

Does anyone know what the solution is? Crispin says he's surprised how many people figured it out, but I never could.

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 4 November 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

interesting Back To The Future stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcG61w474zY

― piscesx, Thursday, 27 June 2013 10:17 (twelve years ago)

ten years pass...

happy 60th to this masterful american artiste

― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:46 (two years ago)

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