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Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015

January 6 Survivor posted:

tbqh the worst aspect of being a tankie is having to pretend that Steven Seagal is good or cool everyday I get new emails with my directives from the kremlin and it's like normal stuff like pretend the holodomor didn't happen or that NATO isn't great and like ok sure, that's easy enough to post about online but there must be one guy working there who's always asking us to post positive things about Seagal online and at this point I just don't know if I got it in me man

maybe I should ask to be moved to the "shill for Xi Jinping" division?

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Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015




Dongicus posted:

lmfao i just checked the profile and it left out some really funny key context


In the meantime, Seagal wanted more creative control, more substance. He had big ideas for big scripts, such as the one he wrote about AIDS, which was, as he movingly explained to studio executives, hatched by the C.I.A. in order to eradicate blacks and gays. The studio passed.

One day an executive walked into Seagal's trailer and found Hollywood's reigning manly man ... weeping. "Oh, I'm reading this script," Seagal explained, still misty. "It's the most incredible script I've ever read."

"That's fantastic," the executive said. "Who wrote it?"

Seagal didn't miss a beat. "I did," he replied.


https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2002/10/seagal-under-siege

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

By the time Under Siege 2 went to video, Seagal's box-office appeal had "plateaued." With each misstep, from The Glimmer Man (1996) to Fire Down Below (1997), Seagal became a bigger liability, his waistline increasing, his hairline retreating. When Warner Bros, put him on a strict diet and supplied him with a trainer, they found cookie crumbs on the fitness equipment.

Dongicus posted:

"It's really quite amazing," says producer Damian Lee. "The staff really treats Steven as a guru. When you go over there and you have a meeting with him, you may be sitting there and he will be served plates of fruit and meat. It's almost like obeisance and offerings. They call him Rinpoche. You're over there for a business meeting and you're not offered a cup of tea or a glass of water and you've been waiting and waiting. Rinpoche comes and he's served this and he's served that. You won't be served anything."

Dongicus posted:

While barnstorming Hollywood in support of 1988's Above the Law, Seagal regaled journalists (and pretty much anyone who would listen) with dark allusions to his years in Japan working with, among others, the Central Intelligence Agency. "They saw my abilities, both with martial arts and with the language," he told the Los Angeles Times. "You could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors."

Dongicus posted:

Celebrities face nuisance suits all the time, often from no-account parasites grubbing for a quickie settlement. Seagal seems to respond to accusations with his own accusations followed by shadowy recriminations against the accusers, be they private individuals or professional journalists, whom Seagal routinely calls "scumbags" and "cocksuckers." Often, Seagal's wrath comes courtesy of his attorney Martin Singer, who once took the tack of suing a journalist before his story was even written. In 1993 a reporter who contributed to this article, John Connolly, began investigating Seagal for Spy magazine. Singer filed slander and libel suits against Connolly, alleging that he had falsely stated that Seagal associated with murderers and members of organized crime and had solicited murder.

After Connolly's article was published, the suits were withdrawn. The story contained bombshell allegations ? by former Seagal associates, including , an ex-C.I.A. operative named Robert Strickland, who'd collaborated with Seagal on an aborted film project. In 1990, Strickland said, Seagal had opened an attache case filled with $50,000 and asked him to kill a former friend and colleague of Seagal's. The article also quoted a "toplevel security consultant" who claimed that in 1991 Seagal had asked him what it would take to "whack" a certain man from Chicago. Shortly thereafter Seagal denied the charge and questioned Strickland's sanity. (Note; V.F.'s editor, Graydon Carter, was a co-founder of Spy, and I was one of its writers, but neither of us worked there in 1993.)

Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015


no podcast poo poo in here

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