Wicked Chasm
“As a kid I had a huge crush on John Phillip Law after I saw him in The Russians are Coming!, The Russians Are Coming!,” a producer friends recalls. “Anyway, one day I was in the post office on Fairfax and Santa Monica Blvd. in the late ’80s. That post office was a depressing green-fluorescent lighthole back then. Remember that that whole general area was on the dinghy side before the posh Whole Foods opened across the street and gave the neighborhood a facelift.
“So I’m standing there and suddenly I see a guy with bony white legs in cheap shorts, a faded T-shirt and a torn straw beach hat. I got a little closer as I used the xerox machine, and when I saw who it was I gasped — John Phillip Law. I was horrified. He looked like a homeless person. Later on I heard an anecdote from a close friend who had rented the lower level of a duplex in the hills that Law owned. He said that he/they moved out quickly after they realized Law was stark raving mad.”
Really? I would have put differently. I would have said “after they realized Law had more or less tipped over into eccentricity.”
GEORGE PRAGER SAYS…
I saw Stephen Furst in a Little Caesars on Pico. Looked happy, well adjusted.
Wells to Prager: And that ties in how, exactly?
GEORGE PRAGER SAYS…
Just making conversation. Waiting for my car at Jiffy Lube.
KIT LATURA1 SAYS…
FURST POWER. Always light up when he shows up in anything. I’ve got UP THE CREEK on vhs, collecting dust. Time to pull it out.
FACE THE CREEK.
Wells to Kit: A life of hard living and playing whirligig bang-pow! with your liver won’t bring anything but the Bukowski bends. Restart the engine with fresh oil, spanky.
John Phillip Law showed up at a Dennis Hopper Q&A in 2008, to both of their enjoyment. This ‘Wicked Chasm’ piece is the first, and I think is sure to be the last, time I’ve read anything suggesting Law had any particular mental issues. Eccentricity I can probably buy, but who isn’t a bit eccentric. Law seemed fine on the DIABOLIK commentary and did interviews before and after with Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas.
Hopper and Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSn-QPUi0yg
That’s nothing. My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Law pass out at a Baskin Robbin’s one night.
I was at the Glendale CVS the night that they picked up Wayne Maunder for shoplifting a large bottle of Maker’s Mark and two packs of baseball cards. As they escorted him out of the store he raised his voice. He got a Clayton Kershaw and wanted to keep it. The cop took the card out of his hands and he began screaming “BUT IT’S CLAYTON KERSHAW OFFICER, CLAYTON KERSHAW!”
DEE ZEE says…
I saw Law once at the West Hollywood Trader Joe’s. He was trying to return a pineapple. He didn’t have a receipt or anything so the cashier said that there was nothing she could do. He got down on his knees and begged her. He was really tall, so he was still taller than the cashier, who was short and Korean. FInally, the exasperated manager came over and gave him three bucks and he left, thanking everyone profusely. I guess the Korean lady still hadn’t forgiven him for The Love Machine.
RASHAD says…
The Dodgers have been sucking lately.
Happens…look at Margot Kidder. Hope she’s doing better these days.
What the fuck exactly is your problem with John Phillip Law that you feel compelled to casually shit on him and his memory for two posts out of your day? Jealous or something? Total asshole behavior, so what’s your beef?
To be serious: I knew J-P fairly well in his later years, and even did a Q&A or two with him at the American Cinematheque. He was unfailingly warm, polite–and well-dressed. And definitely sane. He may well have had down periods in his life–many folks do–but that doesn’t mean he was always at the end of his tether.
The Dodgers have been sucking lately.
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