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For “God” Hilliard, rock music is the spark that wakes a slumbering, egotistical fascist within his sleepy-eyed insurance salesman facade. After his everyday existence as an unfulfilled white-collar...
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Tim Carey, 27 Not at All Shy. His Publicity man said of Tim Carey: “He needs a press agent like he needs a hole in the head. He’s his own best advance man.” Carey, an unsophisticated 27, is at the...
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Pic of the Day: “Across the Wide Missouri”
Our pics this week are going to have something of a theme – Timothy’s death scenes. He gave his all in his death scenes. He once quoted Marlon Brando as telling him, “Tim, you’re the only actor that I...
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Carey spoke in pidgin Deutsch in the lobby of Munich’s most luxurious hotel to Germany’s leading actress, Maria Schell. He says: “I didn’t know she was famous. I saw a pretty girl and tried to date...
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Zappa still thought that the best way to get his music played was to write film scores and in June 1961 another opportunity presented itself: The World’s Greatest Sinner, one of the most eccentric...
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Tim Carey and Seymour Cassel had a number of personal conflicts, and a few fights almost broke out between them. Carey was a notorious ham and scene-stealer, averse to direction, who more or less did...
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Timmy always seemed to have a project going, but I guess that’s par for the course with creative personalities. I don’t recall the origins of The World’s Greatest Sinner. He wanted to combine religion...
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Timothy Agoglia Carey was born in 1929. His father Joseph was second-generation Irish, a former fireman who lost his job after an accident and died of a stroke at work in a Wall Street elevator. His...
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THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER (1963) Music like the worst nightmare the Cramps ever had. Timothy Carey – the charismatically malevolent “heavy” of The Killing, The Wild One, Paths of Glory, and East of...
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PENNY BLOOD: How did you manage to direct a peculiar talent like Timothy Carey in What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971) and in “Set Up City,” a 1975 episode of Baretta? HARRINGTON: I’m in that little...
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Of course we’re here to see Carey shake and rattle like a Santeria shaman, and that’s what he does. He’s also sweet and fatherly at times–nervously maniacal at others. His truck with deviltry has the...
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Pic of the Day: “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” revisited
Today’s pic revisits John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), the enigmatic portrait of a man in crisis but who’s trying to avoid it like all get-out. Timothy is rather unforgettable as...
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Whether looming over the strangely invertebrate James Dean as the muscle of the local brothel in East of Eden or buying the farm in a whisker-quick saloon shoot-out with Marlon Brando in One-Eyed...
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I recently heard from a fellow named Richard Luzzi, who shared a wonderful story about meeting Timothy in El Monte in the late 1950′s. Just a few more details about when I met Tim. He must have just...
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Romeo Carey recently heard from Bill Winckler, the son of Betty Sturm, who portrayed one of God Hilliard’s devoted followers in The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962). His mother had some fascinating...
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GL: You got fired from your first job, didn’t you? TC: That’s right. Billy Wilder fired me from Ace in the Hole [51]. I’d just gotten out of drama school in New York, and I’d gone to California, where...
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“I did a snake scene at a personal appearance in Hartford, Conn., and had trouble getting a girl to help. I mean, I didn’t want to get my mother for it… My mother wants me to be a priest.“ - From My...
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“My personal opinion is that [The World's Greatest] Sinner is very unusual,” [Gil] Barreto observes. “Nobody else but Tim would have dared to make a movie like that. Very controversial, especially when...
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Previously unbeknownst to us, Romeo Carey, upon his first visit to the [Dead Flowers] exhibition in Philadelphia, revealed the origin of one of Timothy Carey’s signature “dances,” first devised for the...
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Timothy Carey was a poet. - Don Calfa, during our interview yesterday. Romeo Carey and Don Calfa at Don’s place, June 1, 2013. Friends til the end.
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