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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: Porky's director, son killed in car crash |
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A sad day for Canadian culture and horny preteen boys everywhere:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/04/04/obit-clark.html
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Robert Clark, who directed the Canadian-made hit film Porky's, was killed Wednesday along with his son in a car crash in Los Angeles, police and the filmmaker's personal assistant said.
Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark's assistant.
Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic A Christmas Story, and his son were killed Wednesday in a car wreck. Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic A Christmas Story, and his son were killed Wednesday in a car wreck.
(Twentieth Century-Fox/Associated Press)
The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PT, said Lieut. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman.
The driver of the other car was allegedly under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a licence, Vernon said.
The driver, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles, remained hospitalized and will be booked for investigation of gross vehicular manslaughter after being treated, Vernon said. A female passenger in his car also was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, police said.
Clark, also known for the beloved holiday classic A Christmas Story, was born in New Orleans and raised in Florida � a setting he would revisit in his work.
He came to Canada in the 1970s and used government tax credits to make films such as Black Christmas and Porky's � a 1982 ribald comedy about a group of Florida teenagers trying to lose their virginity �which became one of Canada's top-grossing films.
The film was made with a budget of $4 million US. According to the Internet Movie Database, it pulled in over $105 million in North America alone.
In an interview last December with the Globe and Mail, Clark called the unexpected success of the film a fluke. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| How is this an occassion to crack jokes? |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Given the nature of Robert Clark, he'd likely appreciate and like the joke... |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| freethought wrote: |
| Given the nature of Robert Clark, he'd likely appreciate and like the joke... |
He'd be happy about the death of his son? |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:12 am Post subject: |
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No, he died too, ya know. He'd be happy that people would use humour to deal with his death and to celebrate his life. I never said anything about his son, I spoke about the director, and infact mentioned him by name.
Why are you trying to pick a fight? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: |
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No, he died too, ya know. He'd be happy that people would use humour to deal with his death and to celebrate his life. I never said anything about his son, I spoke about the director, and infact mentioned him by name.
Why are you trying to pick a fight? |
His son died too. You do realize it? So tell me how he would appreciate people making fun of this? Other people were injred from what I remember. I see absolutely no humor here, none at all. |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:33 am Post subject: |
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Who is 'making fun of' his death? I know his son died too, but no one is making fun of him, it was a comment/tribute to his best known and most successful work.
Sometimes when a musician dies they don't want people to stand around and cry, they ask for a concert to be put on. Others ask people to gather at the pub they always went to and have a beer and a laugh.
This man liked to make fun of things. Just about everything he ever made was a comedy. So making a comment which is very apropos and a tribute to what the man did and his most successful work isn't making fun of him, it's a tribute to him.
His son died, yes. He died. But rather than just mourning, people can celebrate his life, and that's what was done. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| I said it before, the left feels nothing but spite for life. |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| I said it before, the left feels nothing but spite for life. |
I'm sure 2000 years from now the great and wise Jinju will be quoted with Socrates and the Bard. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| I said it before, the left feels nothing but spite for life. |
So, when God was giving out brains, did he skip the neo-cons or just forget? I'm thinking he did it on purpose to give Satan a fighting chance to win.
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Bob Clark made the quintessential horny teen boys movie. So comments about horny teen boys are entirely appropriate when announcing his death.
Actually, I thought that Octavius's "Canadian culture" comments might be a joke, because Porky's is sometimes held up as "proof" that the only Canadian films that do good box office are low-brow trash. And Clark's Black Christmas was one of a string of cheap slasher films that received government funding in the 70s and 80s.
But I acknowledge that Octavius was probably not making a joke with his remarks. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| freethought wrote: |
No, he died too, ya know. He'd be happy that people would use humour to deal with his death and to celebrate his life. I never said anything about his son, I spoke about the director, and infact mentioned him by name.
Why are you trying to pick a fight? |
His son died too. You do realize it? So tell me how he would appreciate people making fun of this? Other people were injred from what I remember. I see absolutely no humor here, none at all. |
Give it a rest. Death is a time to celebrate a person's life.
You don't need to be involved in the arts to appreciate that. I was summoned to my uncle's home at 9pm one evening, just moments before died of cancer. He was already passed away when my brother and I got there. We all got drunk and cracked jokes while waiting for the paramedics. My uncle wouldn't have wanted it otherwise. He had made my cousins promise there'd be laughter and joy when he left his home for the last time. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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Glad to see I am not the only one who realises it. |
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