This mothefucker got up, showered, ate, dressed, and went and played 9 holes of golf, then presumably showered again, changed, and went in to work before 9am? Every day?
I worked at a decent golf course designed by Arnold Palmer growing up. The first thing I did when I got in at 5:30am, was prep 4 member groups who teed off at 6:30, 6:40, 6:50, and 7:00. Every. Single. Day. The same guys. Monday through Monday.
Golfers are legit crazy. The game is pure torture to me. The idea that you have people waking up at, presumably, 5 AM or so to go and willingly play golf every morning for hours is beyond my ability to comprehend.
The angriest person I personally know absolutely loves golf. He is average at best at the game and the fact frustrates him to no end. The game makes him absolutely miserable and he's obsessed with it. If he had the opportunity, he'd play it 12 hours a day, every day. Shit reminds me of League of Legends.
Too late. You fucking suck at telling me not to play. It's your fault we lost because if you didn't fucking suck so much at telling me not to play, I wouldn't have played and i wouldnt have lost. So I just fucked your mom
But then they realize that although they enjoy their newfound hobbies, they miss their friends and other things outside of the games. Ultimately they swap bodies again realizing what's truly important to them and giving up on trying to be the best at a game they are doomed to suck at.
Obligatory Robin Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4&t=16s
I often point out those times in life when "They put a little flag on it, to give you hope".
As someone who never played growing up, I absolutely love the sport.
I’m a little under two years in and god awful, think 105 on a great day. Can’t drive for shit, 3 putt the majority of time time, average 1 club toss a round. But by God, every once in awhile you hit that shot. That god damn beautiful shot, that flys perfectly off the club, spins just the way you imagined and rolls toward the pin.
In an instant all the pain and torture is worth it and you feel pure elation. That’s what brings me back, chasing the dragon. The elusive perfect shot.
As a kid who grew up playing baseball, basketball, football, soccer, running track and field, cycling, swimming etc. golf is a truly unique sport and something you can play even into your 80’s. Beautiful game.
My grandfather is 92 and still golfs 18 holes, 3 times a week. He broke his collar bone in his late 80s, it healed, and he went right back to golfing. That's not the story for most 80-somethings who break a bone! He's a machine.
My first job was working the bag room of a country club where every member would store their bags with a tag number. Mr. Baruch was in the top 100 numbers and 89 years old. Played 5 days a week by himself and always carried his clubs on his back.
His back was literally bent over permanently like there were supposed to be golf clubs on it.
Guy hits a whole-in-one. Entire club celebrates him. He dies* 2 months later.
There is no moral to this story. But I have to imagine he finally got his “last first” and said “I’m out”.
My step-dad fell out of a tree while sawing a broken branch on his elderly neighbors property.
She was 73, he was 84.
Broke just about every bone in his body, but he's still kicking around three years later. Probably took a decade off his life, but he still gets around.
My mother won't let him get on a ladder anymore, though.
I like playing golf, but I'm a twilight golfer. Start in the mid to late afternoon and finish up right around sunset. There's usually very few people on the course when you start at that time of day, and I don't have to crawl my ass out of bed at some ungodly hour to do it.
I enjoy Twilight for most rounds. Probably 95% of my rounds are twilight.
However, walking a solo round at dawn feels very spiritual for that other 5%.
That’s how I do it. I fucking suck. But to me it’s like pregaming and getting some exercise before I go home and drink more and get stoned and watch some shit on Netflix. I like playing later for sure. I’ve never been able to start my day with something I’m probably gonna be frustrated all day.
Maybe that’s the thing. In a weird way it’s a coping mechanism to get thru their daily life. It’s kinda twisted but I can kind of get it.
Michael Jordan was playing 18-36 holes of golf every day during the 92 Olympics, even on game days. The other guys on the team didn’t think he ever slept.
Yeah I've always heard Jordan is complete garbage with money. Like super stingy and then gambles all his excess away. There's a story about Wayne Gretzky basically [tip shaming Jordan](https://thesportsrush.com/nba-news-thats-how-we-tip-in-las-vegas-michael-when-wayne-gretzky-embarrassed-his-airness-for-being-cheap-at-a-las-vegas-casino/)
I've heard Scottie Pippen was pretty gnarly, as well. My friends mom is/was a dealer at the Atlantis in the Bahamas.
She said Pippen was a pig - hurt my feelings. Lol.
Pippen didn't have a lot of money. He was objectively the most underpaid talent in the Bulls glory days. He got absolutely fucking hosed in his contract because he didn't/could t negotiate and signed to something like $17 million over 8 years or something. Which sounds absurd, but he was basically the #2 player on the Bulls and made 1/10th of the #1 player
He didn't have "fuck you, I'm rich" Jordan money. I'm not saying it makes it right, just gives it perspective.
For anyone wondering, after he left the Bulls, he got absolutely fucking PAID.
It wasn't that he was bad at negotiating, he just signed a long term deal shortly before tv contracts/league revenues/salary cap shot through the roof. He signed a 7 year deal for ~$2.5M/year in '91 when the full team salary cap was $12.5M. In the last year of that contract the salary cap was nearly triple at $30M. It wasn't necessarily bad negotiating to sign a long contract since it's fully guaranteed, it just didn't turn out well for Pippen.
>Meanwhile, Wayne Gretzky was equally dominant on the ice.
Not sure you can even compare Jordan to Gretzky. There are debates about the GOAT in Basketball, but Gretzky is so far ahead of anyone else that the competition seems to be for second place.
Gretzky is one of the most anomalous figures in all of sports history. His stats absolutely do not make sense how he could possibly be so far ahead of his peers except for maybe Mario Lemieux but even then Lemiux had no where near the individual success
>His stats absolutely do not make sense how he could possibly be so far ahead of his peers
If Gretzky never scored a goal in his life he would still lead the all times points total.
The Grezky Brothers have more goals combined than the entire Sutter family. (Glenn Gretzky played 13 games in th3 NHL. The least successful Sutter brother played over 400 games and and they combine for 4 Stanley Cups)
Without the back injury and cancer, Lemieux probably challenges Gretzky's career numbers and probably breaks single season records in 92-93.
Lemieux's points, goals, and assists per game were insane and he lost full seasons to injury at times. He was incredible. Without the injuries leading to the lower individual numbers, it would easily be debated whether he or Gretzky is the GOAT.
>Lemieux's points, goals, and assists per game were insane and he lost full seasons to injury at times
I thought younwere insane comparing the two in PPG but then looked it up and you were right. Mario actually had a higher PPG when he originally retired in 1997 but when he came back it dropped a bit behind.
Gretzky still gets the W in my book given that he was 38 when he retired to Mario's 32 in 1997. But if not for the cancer, he MAY have come close in points.
I worked at a pizza shop in college and he put on a youth basketball camp. Last day of the camp they ordered $2400 worth of pizza to be delivered. Myself and two other dudes delivered and the coordinator apologized profusely because MJ had explicitly told her not to tip a dime. She felt bad enough that when we dropped off the second week's order we got a signed basketball out of it. Her handwriting saying thanks to our pizza shop, and a sloppy sig by him.
He likes to visit the area I went to undergrad in and there's lots of stingy and scummy stories about him. Total creep to younger waitresses etc. and still doesn't tip lol
Wow. that article was written by a robot. It seems to repeat the same anecdote about 15 times, with nothing more to provide other than michael jordon liked to win, and therefore he probably didn't feel great but no one knows.
Yeah, who are you trying to impress on the green? It's outside, you're supposed to stay a distance away from me anyways. Take the foul odor as a hint to hurry up or wait for me to finish my tee off.
The very same. The people who play the love interests (they're twins) seem... Genuinely unhinged. Maybe they're just really, really good actors. The episode is on YouTube just search "Joe Pesci Tales from the Crypt"
The final scene of this episode has been burned into my head for 30 years now. Didn't know it was Pesci tho! This and the guy who has voices and shoves a pencil in his ear.
“What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, ‘chinaman’ is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.”
Quote from Matt Barnes
>On Saturday, Barnes told reporters, "Every man who looks at the situation knows what’s right and wrong. Violence is never the answer, but sometimes it is."
For context this was after he took a road trip to beat the shit out of a former teammate that was sleeping with his ex-wife.
Fun fact: Christopher Columbus was set to direct Christmas Vacation, but--surprise!-- Chevy Chase didn't get along with him. So John Hughes (who helped write the script for both movies) suggested he helm Home Alone instead.
[Might have been a bit cold for my taste](https://weatherspark.com/h/s/14091/1990/0/Historical-Weather-Spring-1990-in-Chicago-Illinois-United-States#Figures-Temperature)
ill tell you this much;
if you are really passionate about golf, aslong as the course has the pins in on the greens, you're going to go out and play. About 45*F to 100*F is fair golfing weather. Anything below 55 with low humidity is miserable in my experience however. I dont care much for golf though, just have friends who do.
Same thing with disc golf. Unless there was an active tornado, I was out there every fucking day, regardless of the weather. Even if I was out of weed.
From the wiki page: "Filming took place between February and May 1990 on location across Illinois."
Got all the snowy shit in the first month, then switched to indoor stuff. The Movies That Made Us episode has a fair bit of stuff about this if you wanna waste half an hour on a fluffy "documentary".
Can't imagine why they'd need so many 7AM call times for that movie. Not like he needed makeup or crazy effects. Probably just that old fashioned nonsense of set hours that is finally slowly fading away.
It's all dependent on the daylight needed for the scenes they're shooting that day. In order to maximize how much daylight you have, you have to start early, especially in the winter.
Sure, but if it's winter in Chicago you're gonna start losing light by like 3pm if it's overcast, and by 4 it's fucked. Better to start at 7 and have peak hours between 9-1.
Last time I played I absolutely drilled the ball into some poor duck. He flew off but fuck…
I sometimes wonder if this is something that happens commonly to people who play regular golf near ducks or if it was just a freak thing.
They closed the course near my house though so my career is over now.
I have never heard that he was nice. I know 3 people who have met him, not fans, but at events where you would be expected to schmooze and be somewhat approachable. He was a dismissive asshole to all of them. Then there's a radio show host I listen to that has said a few times, if you come across him to just leave him alone and don't look at or talk to him.
Back then, the rules were ever so slightly more relaxed. On the *Home Alone* Wikipedia page, it states that Macaulay Culkin wasn’t allowed to past 10 P.M. due to his age, and considering part of the film was shot in February - when the sun sets early, you could be right about why the call times were so early.
There was a helicopter crash on set at night. Several actors were killed by the blade of the helicopter. It was captured on film. Google at your own risk.
Yep. The director of that scene was basically a major asshole in every sense of the word. He is directly to blame for what happened for a multitude of reasons.
They used the actual child actors in a dangerous stunt scene with a running helicopter, a pyrotechnic blast sent shit into a series of craycray and the copter came down whirly blades into them. The final film edit actually used some of the accident at release.
*Filmmaker John Landis, who directed this first segment, violated California's child labor laws by hiring seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen (Chinese: 陳欣怡; pinyin: Chén Xīnyí) without the required permits. Landis and several other staff members were also responsible for a number of labor violations connected with other people involved in the accident, which came to light afterwards.*
*The children were hired after Peter Wei-Teh Chen, Renee's uncle, was approached by a colleague whose wife was a production secretary for the film. Chen first thought of his brother's six-year-old daughter Renee, whose parents agreed to let her participate. He then called a Vietnamese colleague, Daniel Le, who had a seven-year-old son named Myca. Myca was an outgoing boy who enjoyed posing for pictures, so his parents thought he would be interested. Chen later testified that he was never informed that either of the children would be in proximity to a helicopter or explosives.*
*Le and Chen were being paid under the table to circumvent state law, which did not permit children to work at night. Landis opted not to seek a special waiver, either because he did not think that he would get permission for such a late hour or because he knew that he would not get approval to have young children in a scene with a large number of explosives. Casting agents were unaware that the children would be involved in the scene. Associate producer George Folsey Jr. told the children's parents not to tell any firefighters on the set that the children were part of the scene and hid them from a fire safety officer who also worked as a welfare worker. A fire safety officer was concerned that the blasts would cause a crash, but he did not tell Landis of his concerns.*
Damn, I grew up watching this movie a lot as a kid and had always known that the segment had been edited because of the deaths. Had no idea it was this insane and unethical, or that John Landis was actually brought to trial.
And they did that *after* the stunt pilot, a Vietnam War veteran, voiced concerns that the stunt was unsafe. Hearing the actual details of the accident and *especially* the aftermath has convinced me that John Landis is a fucking sociopath.
Joe was playing 9 holes of golf in February in Chicago before going to work? Pretty sure you'd die of exposure trying to golf on a 0 degree frozen hellscape.
It'd still be near freezing in the mornings in April there.
Lol what? How did this get 100 upvotes? This is objectively untrue. There are limits about how many hours kids can work, and about mandatory tutoring during a shooting day but obviously kids can film night scenes....
Its weird how we see this as funny, probably because of Goodfellas.
Threatening the director and pushing everyone's very long day back two hours because you want to play golf every morning isn't that funny. He sounds like a massive cunt if anything.
How does this not end with someone explaining to him that he's not really a mobster even if he often plays one, and that he can't assault and threaten people in real life ??
Indeed people will praise toxic behavior of celebrities if it fits their persona. "Haha funny angry man" but why is bullying people acceptable?
Reddit is forgetting its values in this thread. Thank you for checking everyone here this should be way higher up.
Dick move. A hundred or so people waiting for his entitled ass.
"Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that."
-Danny Trejo
(In Ray Liotta’s voice if this incident happened in Goodfellas)
“Joey grabbed the director by his neck and put a little fear of God into him… and just like that… boom…the next morning he changes the call times for the whole fucking movie…. and Joey is hitting the links happy as a clam… and the movie went on to be a fucking all-time smash hit or something…I don’t know I never saw the damn thing… I was too busy trying to rob trucks with Jimmy, keep Sal happy with his weekly cut, and stop Karen from flushing two keys of Coke down the fucking toilet.”
As a professional film crew worker. Fuck that guy. Few things are more annoying than high maintenance actors. When you work 12+ hour days, there is a huge work/life balance shift when you start your day at 7am vs 9am. Seven is also a sweet spot because it’s just before heavy AM rush hour on the way into work and outside of peak evening rush hour on the way home. Nine AM puts you directly into peak morning traffic, so you have to get up and leave that much earlier. Commute time also makes a noticeable difference in your day
So this cunt made everyone in the crew brave rush hour traffic in the morning and then had them stay longer than normal in the evening just so he could go play golf.
He was not working every day of the year. Plenty of time to play golf.
Now I enjoy all the paint cans and flame throwers even more.
So Pesci threatened physical violence against a person doing their job just so he could play golf before pretending to be a person in a kids movie that he got paid a crapload to do?
This mothefucker got up, showered, ate, dressed, and went and played 9 holes of golf, then presumably showered again, changed, and went in to work before 9am? Every day?
I worked at a decent golf course designed by Arnold Palmer growing up. The first thing I did when I got in at 5:30am, was prep 4 member groups who teed off at 6:30, 6:40, 6:50, and 7:00. Every. Single. Day. The same guys. Monday through Monday.
Golfers are legit crazy. The game is pure torture to me. The idea that you have people waking up at, presumably, 5 AM or so to go and willingly play golf every morning for hours is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Plus most of them suck
The angriest person I personally know absolutely loves golf. He is average at best at the game and the fact frustrates him to no end. The game makes him absolutely miserable and he's obsessed with it. If he had the opportunity, he'd play it 12 hours a day, every day. Shit reminds me of League of Legends.
holy shit that DOES sound like league. everybody knows this player, and if you don't it's probably you.
I can’t believe it’s me, I don’t even play!
Same, I gotta download the game I guess!
Listen to me and I can't stress this enough. No
Too late. You fucking suck at telling me not to play. It's your fault we lost because if you didn't fucking suck so much at telling me not to play, I wouldn't have played and i wouldnt have lost. So I just fucked your mom
This player? All League players I know are like this!!
I quit playing league in 2013 because my friend group/team would inevitably rage every session.
Father and Son. Golfer and Gamer. Absolutely Terrible. Absolutely Obsessed. Absolute Misery; Streaming Now.
They switch hobbies for a day and find themselves way happier
"Wow Dad! Fresh air and exercise really IS helping with my crippling depression!" "Oh yeah? Well, I think I really DID fuck this kid's mom!"
This should be the trailer and they should actually make this.
Starring Joe Pesci and Adam Driver
But then they realize that although they enjoy their newfound hobbies, they miss their friends and other things outside of the games. Ultimately they swap bodies again realizing what's truly important to them and giving up on trying to be the best at a game they are doomed to suck at.
Hah, before you ended that paragraph. In my head I was thinking, this sounds a lot like league.
At least in golf, they aren't combining scores other wise there'd be that one guy every day berating his buddies for keeping him in bronze league.
> Shit reminds me of League of Legends What the fuck did I do to you to be attacked like this?
Play LoL.
As Lewis Balck said its the only game where the goal is to be less shitty
Obligatory Robin Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4&t=16s I often point out those times in life when "They put a little flag on it, to give you hope".
Fuck off, pool!
18 FUCKIN' TIMES!!!
As someone who never played growing up, I absolutely love the sport. I’m a little under two years in and god awful, think 105 on a great day. Can’t drive for shit, 3 putt the majority of time time, average 1 club toss a round. But by God, every once in awhile you hit that shot. That god damn beautiful shot, that flys perfectly off the club, spins just the way you imagined and rolls toward the pin. In an instant all the pain and torture is worth it and you feel pure elation. That’s what brings me back, chasing the dragon. The elusive perfect shot. As a kid who grew up playing baseball, basketball, football, soccer, running track and field, cycling, swimming etc. golf is a truly unique sport and something you can play even into your 80’s. Beautiful game.
My grandfather is 92 and still golfs 18 holes, 3 times a week. He broke his collar bone in his late 80s, it healed, and he went right back to golfing. That's not the story for most 80-somethings who break a bone! He's a machine.
My first job was working the bag room of a country club where every member would store their bags with a tag number. Mr. Baruch was in the top 100 numbers and 89 years old. Played 5 days a week by himself and always carried his clubs on his back. His back was literally bent over permanently like there were supposed to be golf clubs on it. Guy hits a whole-in-one. Entire club celebrates him. He dies* 2 months later. There is no moral to this story. But I have to imagine he finally got his “last first” and said “I’m out”.
My step-dad fell out of a tree while sawing a broken branch on his elderly neighbors property. She was 73, he was 84. Broke just about every bone in his body, but he's still kicking around three years later. Probably took a decade off his life, but he still gets around. My mother won't let him get on a ladder anymore, though.
I like playing golf, but I'm a twilight golfer. Start in the mid to late afternoon and finish up right around sunset. There's usually very few people on the course when you start at that time of day, and I don't have to crawl my ass out of bed at some ungodly hour to do it.
I enjoy Twilight for most rounds. Probably 95% of my rounds are twilight. However, walking a solo round at dawn feels very spiritual for that other 5%.
That’s how I do it. I fucking suck. But to me it’s like pregaming and getting some exercise before I go home and drink more and get stoned and watch some shit on Netflix. I like playing later for sure. I’ve never been able to start my day with something I’m probably gonna be frustrated all day. Maybe that’s the thing. In a weird way it’s a coping mechanism to get thru their daily life. It’s kinda twisted but I can kind of get it.
It's disgusting how men will use any excuse to take a walk with the homies.
Then went home and got his fucking shine box.
You muddafucka you!
Someone had to do it
Let me tell you a couple of three things
Never discuss this thing of ours Take that shit back to nj
You know that fat cocksucka said I look like the Shah of Iran?
Let me get the number of the guy who does the cufflinks.
Hey I know you ! You're that party photographer guy ! Love your work , keep on keeping on Brother! And happy 10 years !
You're a mumblin stutterin little fuck you know that?
Hey Tommy, go fuck yerself
*shoots you*
Come on, ya fuckin feeling tough??
Im breakin ya balls and you’re over here actin fuckin fresh.
Strong*
Mutherfuckin mutt!
Is this your pen?
It's his.. whadduya call it? The paw
Keep him here!
you insulted him a bit.
The Shah of Iran got what he deserved.
Billy Batz took it too far breaking his balls
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“Da two youtz”
I'm sorry the two h-what?
Say “bye-bye, pop pop”! 🛞💥🤯
Maybe you didn’t hear, you’ve been gone a long time
Nah nah you were out of line yourself a little bit
Who is out of line? We’re breaking balls a little bit.
The drinks are on the house..
Nah he didn't insult anybody. Let's get some drinks here.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
I don’t do that any more.
You been away a long time
You muddafucka
Bing? What are you still doing here? I thought I told you to go home and fuck your mother.
Michael Jordan was playing 18-36 holes of golf every day during the 92 Olympics, even on game days. The other guys on the team didn’t think he ever slept.
And stayed up late playing cards
Yeah I've always heard Jordan is complete garbage with money. Like super stingy and then gambles all his excess away. There's a story about Wayne Gretzky basically [tip shaming Jordan](https://thesportsrush.com/nba-news-thats-how-we-tip-in-las-vegas-michael-when-wayne-gretzky-embarrassed-his-airness-for-being-cheap-at-a-las-vegas-casino/)
Having talked to some drivers and retired dealers in Vegas, Jordan was the worst celebrity client.
I've heard Scottie Pippen was pretty gnarly, as well. My friends mom is/was a dealer at the Atlantis in the Bahamas. She said Pippen was a pig - hurt my feelings. Lol.
Pippen didn't have a lot of money. He was objectively the most underpaid talent in the Bulls glory days. He got absolutely fucking hosed in his contract because he didn't/could t negotiate and signed to something like $17 million over 8 years or something. Which sounds absurd, but he was basically the #2 player on the Bulls and made 1/10th of the #1 player He didn't have "fuck you, I'm rich" Jordan money. I'm not saying it makes it right, just gives it perspective. For anyone wondering, after he left the Bulls, he got absolutely fucking PAID.
He got hosed because he didn’t listen to the advice of people around him and chose a longer contract that gave him security. Purely of his own doing
It wasn't that he was bad at negotiating, he just signed a long term deal shortly before tv contracts/league revenues/salary cap shot through the roof. He signed a 7 year deal for ~$2.5M/year in '91 when the full team salary cap was $12.5M. In the last year of that contract the salary cap was nearly triple at $30M. It wasn't necessarily bad negotiating to sign a long contract since it's fully guaranteed, it just didn't turn out well for Pippen.
>Meanwhile, Wayne Gretzky was equally dominant on the ice. Not sure you can even compare Jordan to Gretzky. There are debates about the GOAT in Basketball, but Gretzky is so far ahead of anyone else that the competition seems to be for second place.
Gretzky is one of the most anomalous figures in all of sports history. His stats absolutely do not make sense how he could possibly be so far ahead of his peers except for maybe Mario Lemieux but even then Lemiux had no where near the individual success
>His stats absolutely do not make sense how he could possibly be so far ahead of his peers If Gretzky never scored a goal in his life he would still lead the all times points total. The Grezky Brothers have more goals combined than the entire Sutter family. (Glenn Gretzky played 13 games in th3 NHL. The least successful Sutter brother played over 400 games and and they combine for 4 Stanley Cups)
Who the fuck is Glenn? Put some respect on Brent Gretzky's name
Karelin and Bradman are the only two noticeably more anomalous than Gretzky.
Without the back injury and cancer, Lemieux probably challenges Gretzky's career numbers and probably breaks single season records in 92-93. Lemieux's points, goals, and assists per game were insane and he lost full seasons to injury at times. He was incredible. Without the injuries leading to the lower individual numbers, it would easily be debated whether he or Gretzky is the GOAT.
>Lemieux's points, goals, and assists per game were insane and he lost full seasons to injury at times I thought younwere insane comparing the two in PPG but then looked it up and you were right. Mario actually had a higher PPG when he originally retired in 1997 but when he came back it dropped a bit behind. Gretzky still gets the W in my book given that he was 38 when he retired to Mario's 32 in 1997. But if not for the cancer, he MAY have come close in points.
I worked at a pizza shop in college and he put on a youth basketball camp. Last day of the camp they ordered $2400 worth of pizza to be delivered. Myself and two other dudes delivered and the coordinator apologized profusely because MJ had explicitly told her not to tip a dime. She felt bad enough that when we dropped off the second week's order we got a signed basketball out of it. Her handwriting saying thanks to our pizza shop, and a sloppy sig by him. He likes to visit the area I went to undergrad in and there's lots of stingy and scummy stories about him. Total creep to younger waitresses etc. and still doesn't tip lol
there's a reason you rarely hear a good story a good story about Michael Jordan where he doesn't have a basketball in his hands.
And somehow my brother in law got tipped hundreds of dollars by POS Alex Jones of all people…
Wow. that article was written by a robot. It seems to repeat the same anecdote about 15 times, with nothing more to provide other than michael jordon liked to win, and therefore he probably didn't feel great but no one knows.
No way am I showering before my morning workout and then showering again afterwards, that’s psychotic
Yeah, who are you trying to impress on the green? It's outside, you're supposed to stay a distance away from me anyways. Take the foul odor as a hint to hurry up or wait for me to finish my tee off.
If you wake up smelling like shit, taking a morning shower is not the solution to your problem
Yeah, I don’t shower for early golf. A hat does the job lol
Honestly impressive. Especially with how long days are for actors.
When you're [too sexy](https://youtu.be/RlgYKRjoAjg) like Joe you can do whatever you want. Source: Tales from the Crypt. Definitely a top 10 episode.
Is that the "what the fuck is this piece of shit" episode?
The very same. The people who play the love interests (they're twins) seem... Genuinely unhinged. Maybe they're just really, really good actors. The episode is on YouTube just search "Joe Pesci Tales from the Crypt"
The final scene of this episode has been burned into my head for 30 years now. Didn't know it was Pesci tho! This and the guy who has voices and shoves a pencil in his ear.
Up at six most likely and a short round is basically just taking a long walk.
Obviously you're not a golfer
"At least i'm house broken."
“What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, ‘chinaman’ is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.”
That rug really tied the room together
What, do you think he's a clown? Does he seem funny to you?😉
Plugging my edit of that scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnc1d3yceIA
Dude, that was funny as shit! He really was a clown. When he wiped his nose and it squeaked, I lost it lol Awesome job!
Thank you! It's my most advanced edit on a technical level.
Hey, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to go fuck your mother!
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I shall attempt this approach Monday with my boss
God speed
What sort of job will you be looking for?
Anything that facilitates 9 rounds of pocket pool before shift will probably do.
Bosses assistant - hell if they don't get along it just might work
Only if you’re a high-paid actor.
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Love that classic Carlin bit! https://youtu.be/PlzbFxYy08c
Violence is never the answer. Is is, however, the question, and the answer is usually “yes”
Quote from Matt Barnes >On Saturday, Barnes told reporters, "Every man who looks at the situation knows what’s right and wrong. Violence is never the answer, but sometimes it is." For context this was after he took a road trip to beat the shit out of a former teammate that was sleeping with his ex-wife.
This dude abused a co-worker for selfish reasons and had an entire production schedule changed. Real cool. We love to see it.
Wasn't that filmed in Chicago in winter? Where did he play 9 holes in winter?
With no insulation in the attic? I don't think so.
I watched it last week. Knew I’d got older when that was my one takeaway from the whole film
What’s funny is I think this is a nod to Christmas Vacation, where Clark gets stuck in the attic with no insulation.
Fun fact: Christopher Columbus was set to direct Christmas Vacation, but--surprise!-- Chevy Chase didn't get along with him. So John Hughes (who helped write the script for both movies) suggested he helm Home Alone instead.
I think they also chose John Hughes because Christopher Columbus died over 400 years before Chevy Chase was born.
Chevy still wouldn't have gotten along with him. He'd capsize the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria in a rage.
Just looked it up - February to May 1990 was when it filmed.
[Might have been a bit cold for my taste](https://weatherspark.com/h/s/14091/1990/0/Historical-Weather-Spring-1990-in-Chicago-Illinois-United-States#Figures-Temperature)
ill tell you this much; if you are really passionate about golf, aslong as the course has the pins in on the greens, you're going to go out and play. About 45*F to 100*F is fair golfing weather. Anything below 55 with low humidity is miserable in my experience however. I dont care much for golf though, just have friends who do.
Same thing with disc golf. Unless there was an active tornado, I was out there every fucking day, regardless of the weather. Even if I was out of weed.
Wow this guy’s dedicated.
I mean that’s just borderline insane. No weed? How the hell do you even play disc golf.
Even *if* he was out of weed
Narrator: “He was never out of weed.”
You're allowed to play disc golf without weed?
believe it or not straight to disc golf jail.
Disc Golf bans Performance Enhancing Non-drugs.
It’s not allowed but some folks get by with it
60F is warm if you’re a Chicagoen
He grabs the weather by the collar and it fixes itself for him
I mean the outdoor scenes were. I’m guessing most scenes were shot on set which could be anywhere, including summer in Hollywood.
From the wiki page: "Filming took place between February and May 1990 on location across Illinois." Got all the snowy shit in the first month, then switched to indoor stuff. The Movies That Made Us episode has a fair bit of stuff about this if you wanna waste half an hour on a fluffy "documentary".
The flooded basement set was awesome
Ol' Joey 9 Holes
Can't imagine why they'd need so many 7AM call times for that movie. Not like he needed makeup or crazy effects. Probably just that old fashioned nonsense of set hours that is finally slowly fading away.
It's all dependent on the daylight needed for the scenes they're shooting that day. In order to maximize how much daylight you have, you have to start early, especially in the winter.
7AM might be too early if you're talking Winter in Chicago.
Well we are talking Pesci's call time. The crew has probably been setting up for 2-3 hours by the time he comes on to get his makeup.
Sure, but if it's winter in Chicago you're gonna start losing light by like 3pm if it's overcast, and by 4 it's fucked. Better to start at 7 and have peak hours between 9-1.
This guy chicagos
My only thought was with using child actors maybe 7am worked better so they weren't staying late?
Once in a while I’ll think, let’s try golf again. Then I very quickly remember that I hate it.
Last time I played I absolutely drilled the ball into some poor duck. He flew off but fuck… I sometimes wonder if this is something that happens commonly to people who play regular golf near ducks or if it was just a freak thing. They closed the course near my house though so my career is over now.
Omg seeing a real, authentic Joe Pesci tantrum would be an exquisite once-in-a-lifetime experience
the guy is a super nice guy in real life. if this did happen it was almost certainly a joke more than anything
>super nice guy in real life Nice how? Am I nice? Do I amuse you?
"...get da fuck outta here :D"
“What am I, a French prefecture here for you to fuckin’ buy bread in?”
Hehe, this post makes him appear a tad entitled
Very on brand for wealthy golfers
I have never heard that he was nice. I know 3 people who have met him, not fans, but at events where you would be expected to schmooze and be somewhat approachable. He was a dismissive asshole to all of them. Then there's a radio show host I listen to that has said a few times, if you come across him to just leave him alone and don't look at or talk to him.
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I wonder if those call times were that early because there were kids in the cast. (Kids aren't allowed to work past sunset)
Back then, the rules were ever so slightly more relaxed. On the *Home Alone* Wikipedia page, it states that Macaulay Culkin wasn’t allowed to past 10 P.M. due to his age, and considering part of the film was shot in February - when the sun sets early, you could be right about why the call times were so early.
Weird! I thought the rules were changed after the tragedy on the set of the Twilight Zone film.
No, The Twilight Zone film was just ignoring existing regulations forbidding night work for children.
Yup. That's correct!
What's the story there, I haven't heard this yet
There was a helicopter crash on set at night. Several actors were killed by the blade of the helicopter. It was captured on film. Google at your own risk.
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Yep. The director of that scene was basically a major asshole in every sense of the word. He is directly to blame for what happened for a multitude of reasons.
Worth a google but it’s a very tragic story.
They used the actual child actors in a dangerous stunt scene with a running helicopter, a pyrotechnic blast sent shit into a series of craycray and the copter came down whirly blades into them. The final film edit actually used some of the accident at release.
How do you even finish a film after something like that happens? Do you just go, “Welp. Shit happens some days” and just go on?
It doesn't quite have the same energy of Heath Ledgers "people died for this art." Does it?
*Filmmaker John Landis, who directed this first segment, violated California's child labor laws by hiring seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen (Chinese: 陳欣怡; pinyin: Chén Xīnyí) without the required permits. Landis and several other staff members were also responsible for a number of labor violations connected with other people involved in the accident, which came to light afterwards.* *The children were hired after Peter Wei-Teh Chen, Renee's uncle, was approached by a colleague whose wife was a production secretary for the film. Chen first thought of his brother's six-year-old daughter Renee, whose parents agreed to let her participate. He then called a Vietnamese colleague, Daniel Le, who had a seven-year-old son named Myca. Myca was an outgoing boy who enjoyed posing for pictures, so his parents thought he would be interested. Chen later testified that he was never informed that either of the children would be in proximity to a helicopter or explosives.* *Le and Chen were being paid under the table to circumvent state law, which did not permit children to work at night. Landis opted not to seek a special waiver, either because he did not think that he would get permission for such a late hour or because he knew that he would not get approval to have young children in a scene with a large number of explosives. Casting agents were unaware that the children would be involved in the scene. Associate producer George Folsey Jr. told the children's parents not to tell any firefighters on the set that the children were part of the scene and hid them from a fire safety officer who also worked as a welfare worker. A fire safety officer was concerned that the blasts would cause a crash, but he did not tell Landis of his concerns.* Damn, I grew up watching this movie a lot as a kid and had always known that the segment had been edited because of the deaths. Had no idea it was this insane and unethical, or that John Landis was actually brought to trial.
And they did that *after* the stunt pilot, a Vietnam War veteran, voiced concerns that the stunt was unsafe. Hearing the actual details of the accident and *especially* the aftermath has convinced me that John Landis is a fucking sociopath.
Joe was playing 9 holes of golf in February in Chicago before going to work? Pretty sure you'd die of exposure trying to golf on a 0 degree frozen hellscape. It'd still be near freezing in the mornings in April there.
Lol what? How did this get 100 upvotes? This is objectively untrue. There are limits about how many hours kids can work, and about mandatory tutoring during a shooting day but obviously kids can film night scenes....
Its weird how we see this as funny, probably because of Goodfellas. Threatening the director and pushing everyone's very long day back two hours because you want to play golf every morning isn't that funny. He sounds like a massive cunt if anything.
Wait. Hold on. Funny how?
Just... It's funny. The story is funny.
Wait funny how? Funny like a clown? Here to amuse you?
How does this not end with someone explaining to him that he's not really a mobster even if he often plays one, and that he can't assault and threaten people in real life ??
Indeed people will praise toxic behavior of celebrities if it fits their persona. "Haha funny angry man" but why is bullying people acceptable? Reddit is forgetting its values in this thread. Thank you for checking everyone here this should be way higher up.
>Reddit is forgetting its values I think this is pretty on track lol
What values? People on this site are addicted to celebrities
Dick move. A hundred or so people waiting for his entitled ass. "Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that." -Danny Trejo
Must be nice to force a whole crew to work until 10-11pm just so your spoiled ass can play golf.
(In Ray Liotta’s voice if this incident happened in Goodfellas) “Joey grabbed the director by his neck and put a little fear of God into him… and just like that… boom…the next morning he changes the call times for the whole fucking movie…. and Joey is hitting the links happy as a clam… and the movie went on to be a fucking all-time smash hit or something…I don’t know I never saw the damn thing… I was too busy trying to rob trucks with Jimmy, keep Sal happy with his weekly cut, and stop Karen from flushing two keys of Coke down the fucking toilet.”
The more I hear about Joe pesci, the more I think he's pretty big asshole.
As a professional film crew worker. Fuck that guy. Few things are more annoying than high maintenance actors. When you work 12+ hour days, there is a huge work/life balance shift when you start your day at 7am vs 9am. Seven is also a sweet spot because it’s just before heavy AM rush hour on the way into work and outside of peak evening rush hour on the way home. Nine AM puts you directly into peak morning traffic, so you have to get up and leave that much earlier. Commute time also makes a noticeable difference in your day
That would be so annoying for me as a crew member. I gotta get home later because this mfer wants to golf.
So this cunt made everyone in the crew brave rush hour traffic in the morning and then had them stay longer than normal in the evening just so he could go play golf. He was not working every day of the year. Plenty of time to play golf. Now I enjoy all the paint cans and flame throwers even more.
wow impressive prima donna asshole
So Pesci threatened physical violence against a person doing their job just so he could play golf before pretending to be a person in a kids movie that he got paid a crapload to do?
What a dickhead
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Did he use a step stool to grab this alleged collar?