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Re: Cool, Rare Interview

Didn't Rev Jim have 2 quotes on blueberries ... one being "I
understand blueberries but will someone explain gooseberries to
me" ...

Wasn't the other? "not all blueberries are blueberries and not all
blueberries are blueberries" ...

I'm not finding the latter quote anywhere online ... it was Rev Jim
who said this, right?

Thanks.
--- In forchristopherlloydfans@yahoogroups.com, cllort <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> I found an interview that was published in late December, in
> anticipation of Lloyd's appearance in the "Master of Horror"
anthology
> series on Showtime. Here's the text of the interview, from the
Colpey
> News Service:
>
> HEADLINE: Christopher Lloyd
>
> BYLINE: Eirik Knutzen
>
> BODY:
>
>
> Neither friend nor foe of the horror genre, Christopher Lloyd had to
> think twice before he accepted the role of burned-out, mentally
> unhinged writer Everett Neely in the "Valerie on the Stairs" episode
> (based on a Clive Barker story) of the "Masters of Horror" anthology
> series.
>
> "Like all comic actors, I would like to have a juicy, colorful, rich
> dramatic part once in a while, just as dramatic actors want to take
on
> a comic role occasionally - at least that's how 'Valerie on the
> Stairs' attracted me," Lloyd explained. "Usually, I'm offered an
> eccentric comic role, something like Emmett 'Doc' Brown in 'Back to
> the Future,' Rev. Jim Ignatowski in 'Taxi' or Uncle Fester in 'The
> Addams Family.'"
>
> As a failed writer living with several other failed writers in a
home
> for failed writers, Neely takes a new, young failed writer in the
> group, Rob Hainsey (Tyron Leitso), under his wing. Soon it becomes
> apparent that the weird scribe and some of his cohorts at the
boarding
> house have brought a frequently nude professional victim, Valerie
> (Clare Grant), and her ugly captor/demon (Tony Todd), to life via
> their demented imaginations.
>
> Besides playing a gnarly character in the process of breaking down
> psychologically, Lloyd chose to get involved with the project
because
> the creator, executive producer and director is Mick Garris, a
> gentleman he worked with on the two-part TV horror
movies "Quicksilver
> Highway." The 68-year-old actor also loves working in Vancouver,
> Canada, due to its proximity to great ski resorts.
>
> Always employed somehow, Lloyd shoots an independent film
titled "Last
> Call at Murphy's" in January, was recently seen in the Christmas
> telefilm "A Perfect Day" and has a slew of projects in the can,
> including the animated feature "Fly Me to the Moon." His last TV
> series as a regular was Pamela Anderson's "Stacked," a venture
> mercifully euthanized after 20 episodes.
>
> The son of a lawyer and a housewife was born and raised in Stamford,
> Conn., along with his older brother Samuel Lloyd (also an actor, as
is
> his son, Samuel Lloyd Jr.). He prepped at the Fessenden School in
West
> Newton, Mass., but graduated from a public high school before
> attending New York City's famed Neighborhood Playhouse.
>
> "My father wanted me to follow in his footsteps and go to law
school,
> but it really didn't appeal to me," Lloyd recalled. "I was around
the
> theater a lot as a kid - at home in Connecticut and in New York
City -
> and discovered that acting was something I could do and enjoy doing
it.
>
> "It seemed like something that I had a knack for," he continued
> casually, "and I started out in summer stock pretty early. But I
> didn't really get going until I did an off-Broadway play called
> 'Casper' around 1970."
>
> By the time Lloyd moved to Hollywood on a permanent basis, he had
more
> than 200 stage productions to his credit.
>
> His portrayal of the highly unstable Taber in "One Flew Over the
> Cuckoo's Nest" brought Lloyd to the attention of the film industry,
> and he then went on to rack up kudos with "Goin' South," "The Onion
> Field," "Mr. Mom," "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," "Back to
the
> Future," "Back to the Future, Part II" and "Back to the Future,
Part III."
>
> Whenever the motion-picture business slacked off, he plugged the
holes
> as a regular or recurring character on such episodics as "Best of
the
> West," "Taxi," "Tremors" and "Stacked." Recent and future feature
> films include "Enfants Terribles," "Flakes," "Food Fight" and the
> animated "The Tale of Despereaux."
>
> "Taxi" was Lloyd's first major break - a stroke of luck almost
beyond
> his expectations.
>
> "Working with a superb group of people - cast, writers, producers,
> crew - opened an enormous amount of doors for me," he said with
> deliberate understatement. "Then the extraordinary 'Back to the
> Future' trilogy capped everything for me. These things simply don't
> come along every day."
>
> Lloyd hasn't had much luck in terms of a series with longevity since
> "Taxi" more than 20 years ago, but refuses to give up.
>
> "If a project has a great team of writers - without writers you have
> nothing - a wonderful cast and a fine director, I promise to be very
> open to it. Of course, I can't get tired of it in three to four
years
> either."
>
> The craggy-faced actor - thrice divorced and childless - also has
> found happiness at last in Santa Barbara, Calif., with his
girlfriend,
> Lisa Loiacono, and her 9-year-old son, Jacob.
>
> "I have a wonderful, lovely woman and her fantastic son," he said
> matter-of-factly. "They have changed my life."
>





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I found an interview that was published in late December, in anticipation of Lloyd's appearance in the "Master of Horror" anthology series on Showtime. Here's...
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http://halife.com/entertainment/tv_closeup3.html You can check out the interview and an accompanying image at the above website....
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Didn't Rev Jim have 2 quotes on blueberries ... one being "I understand blueberries but will someone explain gooseberries to me" ... Wasn't the other? "not all...
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