American: The Bill Hicks Story

[Jeff]

[sunny]

This looks like the best thing evar.

[elfismiles]

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 65#p323765

American - Bill Hicks Story trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKN39bVFLNY

AMERICAN The Bill Hicks Story - Kevin Booth unseen footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Voplkf4xCg

"interview footage" I'd not seen before at the 6:15 mark... wonder if its from the unaired "unfilmed" tv series he was almost a part of.

BILL HICKS on War & Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZQ2Fx1j9E

[barracuda]

I wish they could have gotten a more convincing actor to play the Hicks part. That guy looks just like Alex fucking Jones!

[82_28]

Goddamn I love that guy.

[Nordic]

Wasn't Russell Crowe slated to make a Bill Hicks pic?

[sunny]

Wasn't Russell Crowe slated to make a Bill Hicks pic?

Yes, but I'm not sure it's getting anywhere recently.
Russell Crowe plans Bill Hicks project.

[nashvillebrook]

http://www.wtfpod.com/


Marc Maron's most recent WTF podcast with Ron Shock (#54) has some amazing insight into Bill Hicks -- his life and death. Shock retells a story about the night Hicks died...complete with unexplained phenomena. It's worth a listen.

[82_28]

http://www.wtfpod.com/


Marc Maron's most recent WTF podcast with Ron Shock (#54) has some amazing insight into Bill Hicks -- his life and death. Shock retells a story about the night Hicks died...complete with unexplained phenomena. It's worth a listen.

Thanks for this Nashville! Listening now. I love this guy. Haven't gotten to the Hicks part, but his feelings on Vegas are spot on.

[82_28]

Alright. Listened to it. Three words: Holy fucking shit! Amazing stories. Thanks again!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

AAAAAaaaaaagggghhhhh!!!!

"His biggest battle had only just begun..."

**Two consecutive shots of Hicks chugging booze**

AAAAAaaaaaaaagggghhhhhh, nooooo! You don't have to be Hugh Manatee Wins to see what they are implying, and are intending to show at exhaustive length in the film itself, right there. By the time of Waco, they'll be showing him as an actual drunk. A dying drunk who has "gone over the edge." They'll have the supporting cast standing around talking about how he used to be so sharp, but he's wasted himself now.

It'll be like in "Walk The Line" where they spend a fair amount of screen-time on Johnny Cash's amphetamine and booze addictions, showing his career slump and familial misery, writing these years off as his lowest point:- without once mentioning the fact that he was deeply engaged in prison reform and Native American rights issues throughout that period. Sometimes his engagement was embarassing, like pretending to be an Indian himself, but no more embarassing than him being drunk and stoned, which they were happy to show.

I can see how they are going to portray this Bill Hicks already. And it's not the Bill Hicks that I like to imagine I know. Some of those scenes look like outtakes from Smallville.

It's also deeply inspiring to hear him say "if you're in marketting, kill yourself," at the end of a trailer for a movie. FFS.

[streeb]

It's also deeply inspiring to hear him say "if you're in marketting, kill yourself," at the end of a trailer for a movie. FFS.

No shit. I never realized irony could actually metastasize.

[elfismiles]

Thanks for that WTF podcast... great stories.

The first time I ever saw Bill Hicks was Alex Winter's IMPACT Video Magazine...

"How far up your ass does his dick have to be before you realize, HEY! He's FUCKIN US!!"

"hey, nos esta cogiendo"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxCTY1s6M4

"HI ! I'm Alex Winter and welcome to IMPACT video magazine; brought to you by Stuart Shapiro, the creator of Night Flight. Impact is dedicated to the idea that the mainstream media ignores a lot of the most exciting and important themes in our culture. Music, art, politics; IMPACT delivers it all, straight and uncensored. Every issue will feature vicious political satire with Bill Hicks, ..."

http://www.alexwinterfansite.com/IMPACT.htm

[happenstance]

Thanks so much for that WTF-podcast. Since Bill died long before audio-collections & interviews were so easily generated and distributed on the net I feel like we missed a giant well of "I knew him" stories from friends and fellow-comics. To hear this important, interesting story all these years later is amazing but it's also a reminder of "why isn't there more of this?" Hopefully the filmmakers cast a wide net when they interviewed people for the documentary. We should hear reviews soon, by the way, since it debuts at SXSW this week!

Btw, there's some more Hicks talk in the Doug Stanhope episode of WTF. Let me know if there's others that you hear.

[happenstance]

"See this movie. Force people you know to see it with you. Drag them kicking, and screaming. Bill Hicks needs your help."

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/SXSW-Hav ... 17574.html

Kevin Booth on "American Drug War" reference on Bill Maher Show:

http://www.dead-frog.com/blog/entry/cla ... ill_maher/

"American: The Bill Hicks Story is a great film. It's funny, sad, an incredibly powerful moral filled film, and it does pack an emotional punch that can't be ignored. It's just streets ahead of so many other films, biographical or not, and really does deserve a huge audience."

http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2 ... ory_1.html