| re: Meat Loaf: The Dead Ringer Movie And Tour | |
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Conas 10:52 pm UTC 03/04/11 |
| In reply to: | Meat Loaf: The Dead Ringer Movie And Tour - steven_stuart 11:46 pm UTC 03/02/11 |
| This "Dead Ringer" movie is always cropping up and still no one seems to have a copy and no one on here has even seen it yet. Surely Jim and Meat have a copy or would no where to get one if they didn't. Warioloaf has a lot of things, but I'll be singing his praises if he can root out a copy of this. > From Meat Loaf's Wikipedia Page: > > "In 1980, Meat Loaf started working on Dead Ringer. Jim > Steinman wrote all of the songs, but had little else to do > with the album. The tour they planned, to support the > album, was cancelled after one show, because they ran out > of the money that the studio advanced them. David > Sonenberg also convinced CBS to advance more money for the > making of the movie Dead Ringer, which was shown at the > Toronto Film Festival and won some favorable reviews, but > was poorly considered after Sonenberg re-edited the > movie." > > I wonder why the Dead Ringer tour only had one date. Is > this true? This is the tour that Ted Neeley says he loved > being a backup singer on. But there was only one gig? No > wonder Karla decided not to take part. She must have known > that something fishy was going on. > > What a shame that they don't release one of the two > versions of the Dead Ringer movie on DVD. I am guessing > that Jim and Ted Neeley will be in there somewhere. > > I saw this Dead Ringer information on Wikipedia when I was > looking at Meat's Wikipedia page to check that the movie > "Roadie" (which starred Meat) was in fact called that. It > was after a board discussion about really awful movies and > I think most people would agree that "Roadie" was really > awful. I have argued on the board that a really awful > movie is better than a mediocre movie. > > It's a shame that Meat wasn't offered parts in great > movies because he is a very talented actor. I think Jim > has said that. He was wonderful in that episode of > "House". Why did he make a stinker like "Roadie"? He had > just sold 45 million albums. Surely he could have done > better for himself. | |
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