Long before Apollo 13, Titanic, Twister and Big Love made him into a global screen star, Bill Paxton blew my tiny teenage mind.
Paxton was still an unknown aspiring actor when he directed and starred in a notorious 1980 music video by the eccentric Los Angeles comedy-rock duo Barnes & Barnes, "Fish Heads," a trippy milestone in post-punk surrealism that feels like one of David Lynch's more Wtf epics condensed into five reality-warping minutes. A friend of the band, Paxton succeeded in getting the clip aired on Saturday Night Live, and curious British TV networks picked it up...
Paxton was still an unknown aspiring actor when he directed and starred in a notorious 1980 music video by the eccentric Los Angeles comedy-rock duo Barnes & Barnes, "Fish Heads," a trippy milestone in post-punk surrealism that feels like one of David Lynch's more Wtf epics condensed into five reality-warping minutes. A friend of the band, Paxton succeeded in getting the clip aired on Saturday Night Live, and curious British TV networks picked it up...
- 2/27/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
First and foremost: Whichever mad genius in the "Amazing Race" production staff made the call to use Barnes and Barnes' "Fish Heads" over the closing credits of Sunday (October 20) night's episode deserves a share of all future Emmys the show happens to win. "Amazing Race" is not prone to using joke credits songs, so hearing "Fish Heads" come out of nowhere at the end of the episode was masterful. If you've never seen the "Fish Heads" video, you really must. You can now spend the next hour watching that on repeat. Young Bill Paxton! Bill Mumy! What more...
- 10/21/2013
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
But Ben Heckendorn did. Pretty much from scratch, too, apart from the basic pinball-machine parts like flippers and so forth. He's been working on it since 2005. We showed you a preview of it a few months ago, when it was a work in progress. Now it is finished. And why did he make a pinball machine based on the movies of Bill Paxton? You might just as well ask why Keats wrote of Grecian urns, or why Kilmer wrote of trees. Because why not, that's why.
Heckendorn lays it all out on his blog, with many photos documenting the process. The game has audio and/or visual elements from Titanic, Aliens, True Lies, Frailty, Club Dread, Near Dark, A Simple Plan, Weird Science, and many more. There's even a reference to the music video for "Fish Heads," which Paxton appeared in. Are there also elements from Independence Day, Mr. Wrong,...
Heckendorn lays it all out on his blog, with many photos documenting the process. The game has audio and/or visual elements from Titanic, Aliens, True Lies, Frailty, Club Dread, Near Dark, A Simple Plan, Weird Science, and many more. There's even a reference to the music video for "Fish Heads," which Paxton appeared in. Are there also elements from Independence Day, Mr. Wrong,...
- 3/30/2010
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
Bill Paxton holds the distinction of being one of only two actors -- Lance Henriksen is the other -- to be "killed" by a terminator (in The Terminator), an alien (in Aliens), and a predator (in Predator 2). "Wait a minute," he says. "I think I was only maimed by the terminator. But I was certainly killed by the alien and the predator." Clearly this man is no stranger to sci-fi blockbusters.Paxton has come a long way from such over-the-top supporting roles as sneering elder brother Chet in Weird Science, whiny Pvt. Hudson in Aliens, and the sleazy car salesman pretending to be a spy in True Lies. Well-crafted dramatic turns in Apollo 13 and A Simple Plan, and time behind the camera directing the films Frailty and The Greatest Game Ever Played, have led the one-time character actor to something he's long dreamed about: playing a romantic lead.
- 1/27/2009
- by Cassie Carpenter
- backstage.com
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