The B-Masters Cabal

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• #1 by lyzard on February 17, 2008 - 9:45 pm

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  This one’s more of a Freudian slip than a typo:

  >> such as a musical version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hype

• #2 by Matthew Fudge on February 19, 2008 - 8:29 am

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  Didn’t this also happen to Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice? This is why my wife won’t let me get into law enforcement/vigiliantism.

• #3 by lyzard on February 19, 2008 - 3:56 pm

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  Don’t you think, though, that playing this stuff while you were actually married would be pretty damn creepy? That’s part of the unnerving quality of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, at any rate for me, seeing Heather Langenkamp playing “Heather Langenkamp”, and having her husband die, and her kid freak, and the funeral….

• #4 by Ken Begg on February 19, 2008 - 4:10 pm

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  Yeah, but at least those weren’t Langenkamp’s real life husband and kid. How about Tom Laughlin staging in and filming his own wife and daughter being shot down by the government in exquisite, blood-spurting detail? John Derek photographing all his wives for Playboy, and filming sex scenes with Bo. Roger Vadim filming sex scenes with pretty much all of his wives. And then there’s Dario Argento’s work with his daughter Asia…

  As to this, I’m not sure Hasselhoff has enough of an interior life to get genuinely disturbed, but I’m sure it was weird.

• #5 by lyzard on February 19, 2008 - 4:21 pm

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  Oh, granted, all that’s creepy – but with the director/actor dynamic, it’s a different variety of creepy; externally creepy, creepy to us as on-lookers. The dead wife/husband thing seems more like, I dunno, two people in a relationship ill-wishing it.

• #6 by Ken Begg on February 19, 2008 - 4:48 pm

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  Maybe you’re creeped out because of all those daydreams you yourself had about marrying the Hoff after reviewing Baywatch Down Under? I remember all those Hasselhoff beefcake pics you chose to illustrate the first half of that piece. Talk about creepy!

• #7 by lyzard on February 19, 2008 - 4:56 pm

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  Editor Ken, asleep at the switch:

  [Editor Ken: Sans instructions, I had to illustrate this article in a manner I thought Liz herself would have, had she the opportunity. I hope she likes it.]

  Man, this is sicker than your Zeppo Marx fetish! At least you try and didn’t blame that on me!

• #8 by Ken Begg on February 19, 2008 - 5:00 pm

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  Hmm, and yet you wrote that article. Who’s to say you didn’t put that bit in yourself?

  Not that I blame you, I stress. As an obvious paranoid schizophrenic with a David Hasselhoff obsession, you’re the real victim here.

• #9 by lyzard on February 19, 2008 - 5:21 pm

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  Ken, you fool! You know I only have eyes – and ears – for Trevor Goddard! (Who I was pleased to see in a bit part of something I was watching the other day – and doing another appalling accent. What was it with that guy!?)

  As for the ‘paranoid schizophrenic’ bit, well, no argument.

• #10 by Ken Begg on February 19, 2008 - 6:10 pm

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  Touche!

• #11 by lyzard on February 20, 2008 - 5:44 pm

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  HA, HAAH!!!! YES!!!! From today’s Sydney Morning Herald:

  THE bizarre career revival of former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has encompassed viral email campaigns, souvenir mugs and cringeworthy ’80s rock remakes, but he will not truly have achieved cult status until this year’s Easter Show.

  The organisers of the show announced yesterday that the chisel-chinned heart-throb would be immortalised with his own showbag – the Hoff Bag.

  Standing alongside show icons such as Bertie Beetle and Dorothy the Dinosaur, the Hoff Bag will come complete with imitation wig and sweatbands, and costs $18.50.

  The announcement has raised a few eyebrows. The bag – geared at teens and young adults – includes a “don’t hassle the Hoff” stubby holder and a matching bottle opener, raising concerns it could encourage teen drinking.

  The president of the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, Dianne Giblin, said it was inappropriate that items related to drinking be included in bags for sale to children.

  The show’s general manager, Michael Collins, said the bag was “really for young adults” and had been cleared by NSW Police and the Health Department. “There’s been a trend in recent years of the 18, 19, 20-year-olds buying dress-up bags and this is really for them,” he said.