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It was a time when I was trying to find my place within the business. I was figuring out who I was and where that person intersected with the world of commerce. It was like I was sitting there with a ventriloquist’s dummy on my knee. And the dummy is made out of wood. And after a while you start to hate each other.
Tom Waits gives the devil his due | Film | The Guardian : This is one of the best and funniest articles I’ve read in a while (thanks to the author’s faithfulness to Waits’, uh, “way”). Who else but Tom Waits could say, “I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.” !
Long story short, Tom Waits is playing the devil in Terry Gilliam’s new film, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, a role Gilliam said he was born to play. I can’t imagine a better fit for him either.
(My compliments to The Criterion Collection’s Current for this gem)
