September 12, 2004

Over Scrod-Smears, Page 315.

"I'm not even talking about something that's kitschy or trashy, an AIP picture. These were lousy made-for-TV movies, flat, one-dimensional, and still his eyes would be glued to the tube. After a while, I realized you could literally be showing him anything, you could turn it upside down and put it out of focus, and he'd be watching it like a kid with a pacifier, a lonely little boy in his living room, where he was safe. It was sad and beautiful at the same time."

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