Sure, but the people have no means to 'rise up' with anything. It's not like they can get access to weaponry, or even any kind of money. Plus, there is a legit cult of personality going on there. There are people who have tried to escape, but it's always rough going. I don't know how SK treats refugees from NK, not…

North Koreans have been taught for decades that South Koreans are practically animals. I mean, I hope for the people something can happen someday, but Kim, from what I've read, has no interest in engaging SK, at all. The Kims were close to the USSR at one point, but I doubt Putin has much interest in them now, except…

Other way around; actress wife first, then husband. But you are correct in that Kim did give him money to work with, and some creative liberties, albeit ones that had to be cleared first.

"Sure, it's always failed in the past, but this time? This time it'll be different!'
—some general somewhere, every moment of the day

Probably as many as my 10,000 records, or whatever. 'Gaze upon my wonders, oh world,' I cry out, and then they just point out that I don't have some Portuguese Oi! collection from 1994 or something.
It's hard out there for a pimp, is what I'm saying.

The whole thing is insane. I actually was half-wondering if the book was fictional, but it appears not.

I think the fail-safe the Kim family has installed; i.e., starving the citizenry into obedience, probably has limited the capacity for any regime to collapse. Military coup probably the only possible option, and that never ends too well, either.

I'd hoped for better than that, tbh

Yep, that's it. Really remarkable read. The whole time I was thinking 'Man, I'd love to see this made into a movie.' But good luck finding a studio to product it after that 'Interview' fiasco.

I wasn't scolding. Just one of the only times I could mention that book, which, of course I can't remember the title of, anyway. I like others to know that I'm well-read, because than they will look upon me with a kind of awe.

I read a book about a year ago about the North Korean film industry; more to the point, it was about a South Korean film director whose wife was kidnapped by NK, then years later, he was, as well. It was because Kim Jong Il was a big film fan, and wanted NK to have a really strong film industry to compete with the…

Yer last questions are unanswerable, because any actual answer will sound so ludicrous, your mind will not be able to process them in any meaningful way. I've been asking them for years, and finally had to stop. Wheel in the sky keeps on turning, and all that.
But anyway, yeah, early Reynolds stuff could be pretty…

I probably should've kept going with it, but it became kind of exhausting after awhile. I think, in terms of their relationship, Kinski and Herzog were 'workers', in a carny/wrestling/boxing sense, just shooting promos on each other verbally to keep themselves amused. I'm a great fan of the work of both men, but also…

Yeah, that's the one. I think Baker lived here in Colorado for a time back in the 90s, maybe. I seem to recall someone I worked with at Wax Trax saying he owned a ranch with polo ponies on it or something. Also said he was a total loon.
The rest of what you describe reminds me of the Klaus Kinski autobiography from…

Saw "Hell or High Water",which I thought was very good, although not quite as compelling as I'd hoped. Performances good (Bridges close to an affectation as a performance, but kept it to a minimum), and while I thought Chris Pine was very good, I couldn't help but think that Timothy Olyphant would've been a better fit…

Have you seen the documentary from a few years back about Baker? It was really well done. The man is a misery, but his career quite fascinating.

Best football movie of all time is "The Longest Yard" with Burt Reynolds.
I'm speaking of the 1974 version, not the terrible Sandler remake.

As others have mentioned, it's meant to be, in it's way, a parody of a soap opera. It has it's moments of oddities as it carries on, but in many ways it remains a soap opera. I mean, it was on ABC in prime time in 1990. There's only so much they were gonna do.

It also would've cost them $27

This album was originally called 'Kopell', yes.