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[liz_marcs]

Okay. Why did no one inform me that Christian Clemenson who played Socrates Poole in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. also played tub-o-lard Balthazar in S3's 'Bad Girls' on Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

And for you Firefly phr3aks on my list:

Are you aware that the sawed-off shotgun used by Brisco County's Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) was later used by Zoë on Firefly?

Well, now you know.



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[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Really?! To both of those? That's awesome I had no idea! CC has shown up in a bunch of weird, random shit over the years :D

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Looking both CC's and JC's IMDB profiles, it's very obvious that they're in the "Hey! It's that guy!" brigade.

What's really hilarious is that I've seen JC in a bunch of stuff on tv and he's always been one of those guys to me, yet he managed to be completely unrecognizeable to me as Lord Bowler. It wasn't until I was taking a brain break and looking around some sites and saw him out of Lord Bowler make-up that I recognized him.

Yeah, CC's and JC's resumés are even more random than BC's.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Christian Clemenson was also the serial killer Abel Poole on Veronica Mars. Great stuff.

Julia, I need to put the Briscoe County DVD on my Christmas list

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

*cracks up*

The whole "Abel Poole" thing has got to be a hat-tip to his earlier role of Socrates Poole.

Honestly, the commentary on the pilot eppy is worth the price of the DVD set all by itself. It's really, really that good. There's a lot of oral history of Hollywood, how westerns are made, and the end of the Warner Brother studio lots/studio system tucked into it. There are few actor-producer commentaries out there that are better. It's right up there with the actor-producer commentaries for Babylon 5. It isn't just pointing out what's on the screen, it's telling you how it was done.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Bruce Campbell is one of the great radio interviews of all time, right up there with Sherman Alexie for being intelligent, amusing, and vastly knowledgable. So I'm sure his commentary has got to be a gas.

Julia, he's much more impressive talking about acting than he is acting

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

*is jealous*

I cuold kind of tell beacause BC just knows how to play to crowd. He really can use the BC "public personna" to wow an audience, at least from what taerowyn and I saw when went to see Bubba Ho-Tep two weeks ago. He gave a half-hour open Q&A before the film.

I actually asked him about DVD Commentaries and whether he prepared for them. After he put me on the snarky spot, he honestly answered that preparation time kind of depended. If it was a movie he worked on for 3 years and knew it backwards and forwards, he didn't usually need preparation.

If it was something he worked on 10 years ago and his memory was blurry, he tended to go back, print up a list of people and who did what, and do a little bit of preparation so he wouldn't miss out on acknowleging all the people that worked hard on a project.

To be honest, that actually says a lot about the kind of guy he is in RL, if you ask me. *shrug*

Best actor in the world? Nope. But he's probably the most fun to watch because he's having a lot of fun.

[stephanierb.livejournal.com]

Actually, Christian Clemenson's character on Veronica Mars was named Abel Koontz, not Poole.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

#headdesk#

Welcome to the world of deep reversals; I checked that twice and still got it wrong.

Julia, I know a man named Dick who I always call Jim. Unless he is Jim, and I call him Dick.

[cindywrites.livejournal.com]

His VM character was named Abel Koontz.

(I can't believe Abel Koontz was Balthazar!)

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

I'm so looking forward to watching these! It's sitting on our to be watched pile.

I didn't know either factoid and both are beyond cool!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

*bounces*

Once I got beyond the pilot (where I spent approximately an hour-and-a-half asking myself, "What the hell am I watching?"), I've fallen so completely head-over-heels with this show.

Honestly, it's been the ultimate in "Cheer-up emo-girl" for me over the past month. Plus, I didn't realize how much I missed sweeping television theme songs. The Brisco opening and closing themes are definitely among the best I've heard. For some bizarre reason, it just makes me immensely happy to listen to them (I don't think I've fast-forwarded through the opening or closing credits yet and I'm up to Disc 5).

More trivia, the theme song to Brisco County is now used by NBC sports productions and has been used for the World Series and the Winter Olympics (they talk about it in the commentary for the pilot).

Seriously, you'll be in serious love with it.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

That is so going on my Netflix queue!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has been wibbling about this series for years and she threatened to give me the evil eye until I caved and put it at the top of my Netflix que.

I may have to buy it as a Christmas present to me because I'm so down with the Brisco County love right now.

[sumthingneo.livejournal.com]

I love little bits of info like that.....

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

So do I. It was just some totally random thing I found out today and had to share.

[m-mcgregor.livejournal.com]

Well, now you know.

Excuse me, but I believe it's a rule that you must follow that with: "And knowing is half the battle."

I wouldn't want to see anyone get into trouble for not following proper procedure.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I thought it wwas: "And that is the rest of the story" (Paul Harvey joke).

I also just found out that Christian Clemenson (Baltazar on BtVS, Socrates Poole on Brisco County, and Abel Poole on Veronica Mars) won an Emmy this year for a guest-staring role on Boston Legal.

He's like — so totally random in so many ways.

[bellatemple]

OMG! I totally didn't notice that. I did know that he played Abel Koontz on Veronica Mars . . .

Still enjoying Brisco, I presume?

[skipp-of-ark.livejournal.com]

Go rent/watch The Fisher King sometime -- CC is the voice of (and later on in Jeff Bridges' hallucination, plays) Edwin, the disturbed caller to Jeff Bridges' radio show who shoots up the restaurant Robin Williams' character and wife are dining at and then kills himself, thus setting up the whole plot of the movie. (As if you need another reason to see a Terry Gilliam movie with Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, and Michael Jeter, RIP).

[(Anonymous)]

One of the nice things about IMDB is going back over the series cast listings for shows like Buffy and such and discovering who had appeared on the shows, which leave you mutter, "I never knew that"....

[sumthingneo.livejournal.com]

One of the nice things about IMDB is going back over the series cast listings for shows like Buffy and such and discovering who had appeared on the shows, which leave you mutter, "I never knew that"....