Inarguably eccentric 43-year-old Hollyweird actor, Crispin Glover -- who won everyone's <3s as the awkwardly nerdy George McFly in the 1985 hit Back to the Future – was seen out and about in NYC recently to promote Beowulf, in which he voices Grendel, (and also to promote his own cinematic work called, "It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE").
Tuesday afternoon found him at the Met Museum browsing the collections. Glover has a passion for Czech castles, and apparently beds-down with his current girlfriend, Mara LaFontaine, in the former residence of late Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. WHUT? yes i live in smetana's old house, yes im a nerd, what of it, got a prob? The NYTimes Fashion & Style pages relays:
"[Crispin Glover] patrolled the museum’s sumptuous period rooms with Ms. LaFontaine, looking for decorating tips for his 15-bedroom castle in the Czech Republic. (“Bedrich Smetana wrote his last opera in the room I’m using as my den,” he said.)"
ha ha haha, smetana's 15-br castle? ok gimme a call when ur ready 2 spend some real $$$ & play iwth the big boys.
Rumor has it he dropped acid when he was on the Letterman show in 1990, which is the same show where he tried to karate kick poor Dave in the head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALapHYNSmoA
Posted by: number five alive | November 12, 2007 at 04:07 PM
Unfortunately "Beowulf" is really bad. Sometimes I felt like watching a kitschy Wagner production (let's say "Lohengrin") where the director tried to be "realistic". I can't believe that Academy Award winning - for Scorsese's wonderful "Age of Innocence" - Gabriella Pescucci did in fact design those costumes. Not to mention all those shaggy beards... As if they had sacked Bayreuth's costume depot. And the digitally generated "characters" are as appealing as second-rate wax figures.
Posted by: Pier Luigi Itsybitsy | November 13, 2007 at 01:15 AM