Unfortunately, the death toll in Hollywood (especially for young, 80’s teen celebrities) seems to be rising, as we learned this morning that beloved Teen Beat Hall-of-Famer Corey Haim, 38, died of an apparent accidental prescription drug overdose in his Burbank home, where he was taking care of his cancer-stricken mother.

First Boner, now Lucas? What is this world coming to?

Haim struggled with drug addiction since his first experience on a movie set in 1987, when he starred in ‘The Lost Boys’ with Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric. His rise to teen heart throb status alongside the “other Corey” Corey Feldman brought us some tubular movies as ‘The Goonies’, ‘Dream A Little Dream’ and ‘License to Drive’ (some of my personal favorites). But all that fame had a price and he found himself yet another washed up celebrity battling addiction well into his 30’s.

Although the first reports early this morning stated that Haim’s death was drug-related, the official reports are now saying there were no illegal drugs in the home and that Haim was suffering from those mysterious “flu-like” symptoms and taking multiple prescription drugs similar to another celebrity death recently (Brittany Murphy). Interesting, and more than a little disturbing and sad.

So we bid a final farewell to another piece of our childhood in the passing of Corey Haim. Godspeed Lucas. And dream a little dream for me…the 80’s wouldn’t have been the same without you.

The fictional character of Ben Linus portrayed by Michael Emerson on ABC’s Lost is one of the most important characters of the show. Not only is this evident in his role as a leader of “the others” but also in how he was chosen as the narrator of the Lost recap episode preluding the start of the sixth season of Lost.

Originally an enigma, Ben Linus turned out to be one of the most important figures of the show. He always manages to convince the other characters to do things they wouldn’t normally do and manipulating them by luring their ids, egos and deep personal motivations. If there were one major, central character of the show Lost that ties together all the characters in some fashion, it would most likely be Ben Linus.

At first, it’s tough to distinguish Ben Linus as a noble or evil character since what, at first, seems to be personal motivations later turn out to be motivations influenced by his dedication to either the keeping of the island’s secrets or the fulfilling of Jacob’s desires.

An impressive 27 million people voted this week to decide which two guys and which two girls would be saying goodbye on the American Idol results show last night.  Whether they voted for the best voices, cutest faces or most sparkling personalities was the question. Thank God they weren’t voting on group performing ability, because, as usual, the requisite pre-recorded group performance at the start of the show was just as hideous and awkward as usual, maybe more so, this time a cheesy, embarrassing version of “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas. Contestants lip-synched and mugged for the camera as they performed their stiff, generic dance moves to the popular, overplayed song and you could even see the self-deprecation in many of their eyes.

But I digress.

Not many surprises, unless you count the fact that last year’s soulful contestant Danny Gokey sang a country song (huh?)  as the “real” performance of the evening. I was completely confused, since he was one of my favorites last year, but not as a country singer. So his performance didn’t impress me much. But his glasses did; they were pretty rad. So there’s that.

Tim Urban managed to squeak his way through again. The judges watched back the tape and realized how much Michelle Delamor actually blew and America realized it and voted her off. Jermaine opened his church-singing, loud-mouth pie-hole as usual when he was voted off, John Park’s lack of “spiciness” failed to get him through and America finally realized that Haeley Vaughn really can’t sing and is, well, just annoying. However, I think Jermaine found the rest of Michelle’s gloves, which is a relief because I hate to see good fabric go to waste.

So I was two for four, not too shabby. I think America pretty much got it right this week, aside from the fact that they keep on insisting on keeping Tim Urban strictly for the fact that he looks like a Glee cast member.  Well, we can’t keep him around FOREVER, can we?

Can we? Please tell me we can’t.

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Mars Volta Widow (official video)

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The Widow is a song written by the Mars Volta. The song was released on their 2nd album entitled “Frances the Mute”. Mars Volta first performed the song in 5/04 and Wiltern Theatre in LA where they had a 3 night residence at the end of the tour that was supporting their debut album “De-loused in the Comatorium”.

During the concert Mars Volta dedicated “The Widow” to former member Jeremy Ward who had died of a drug overdose in 5/03. After the release of Mars Volta Widow it peaked at #95 on the US billboard charts, which made “The Widow” Mars Volta’s first single to chart. The Widow also reached #20 in the singles chart of the UK. The Widow also reached #7 on the Billboard modern rock chart.

Mars Volta’s Widow is the only pop structured song on the album “Frances the Mute”. The Widow features a trumpet cameo from Flea after the 2nd chorus of the song.

The Widow single contains the 14 minute track “Frances the Mute” which was taken off as the initial opening track to the album for unknown reasons.

Tuesday night’s American Idol surprised the audience with a strange twist of events. People at home tuned in to see the girls perform and instead the boys hit the stage because contestant, Crystal Bowersox was taken to the hospital that morning for an undisclosed medical problem that would prevent her from performing. The guys graciously agreed to swap nights, even though it gave them less rehearsal time, and although they claimed they all felt confident to get up there and wow the judges, their performances really made one wonder whether they could have used that extra day.

Mike Lynche, new daddy and “Mr. Personality” kicked off the night with his rendition of James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s World.” And although it was a marked improvement over his previous week’s mediocre karaoke-esque performances, it was still a bit more form over substance, with his cheesy poses and facial expressions taking precedence over the actual singing. But all the judges jumped on the Lynche train, Ellen even saying he was “the one to beat” and Simon said he went from a “pussycat to a lion in one week.”   It may just have been enough to keep him around for yet another one.

Next, John Park bored us to death with a version of John Mayer’s “Gravity” that had me zoned out and going over the grocery list in my head halfway through. His “adequate” voice just isn’t enough to make up for his complete lack of personality onstage and Randy agreed by saying that he didn’t bring anything “spicy” to the song. Spicy? John Park? This kid is reaching for “interesting.” I think Simon had it right when he said he thought that Park’s a capella group, Purple Haze, might be getting their singer back this week. “In 20 minutes, we are going to forget that performance” he quipped. Nah, I would give it about 10 if I hadn’t written it down.

Casey James aka Calvin Klein underwear model aka Kara’s cougar love obsession was up next, choosing a song that had been done numerous times by other Idol contestants, “I Don’t Wanna Be,” by Gavin Degraw. Apparently he didn’t get the memo that it’s LAME to do a song that has been done a bunch of times, especially when you aren’t going to be TOTALLY AWESOME. So yeah, he wasn’t as impressive as past weeks, but he’s still just so damn pretty and can properly rock out on the electric guitar, so I still give him two thumbs up.  The judges thought he was stiff and didn’t bring the presence he has brought in the past and there was a bit of love lost with Kara who said that he had taken “two steps backward” this week. Simon may have hit the nail on the head when he suggested that Casey isn’t returning Kara’s calls. Bitter much Kara? Hmmmmmm???

Ellen’s unripened banana, Adam Lambert, came out and showed how “ripe” he could be with his acoustic guitar and sang “Everybody Knows” by John Legend. Total difference from last week, a lot more confident, and there is no doubt that this boy’s voice is like warm, dark chocolate – sinful and intoxicating. But he still has a long way to go. And preferably his mullet will not go with him, because I’m sorry, it needs to go. He needs a date with a stylist STAT.  The judges were all pleased with his transformation, but Simon pointed out his lack of “killer instinct.” I’m not sure this banana has a shred of “killer” anything in him, but we’ll have to wait and see if he can take that “killer” voice and make it to the top.

Todrick, Todrick, Todrick. Poor Todrick Hall. The one American Idol contestant the judges keep telling to STOP changing songs and making them his own. Apparently he just doesn’t do it well. After his performance of Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It” last night, Randy finally just told him to pick a song and sing it like it is. And although everyone has been warning him that he is more like a dancer who can sing instead of a singer who can dance, both Kara and Ellen said they wanted to see him dance more. Can you say mixed signals? I say put the boy out of his misery and send him home, because I’m with Simon on this one – it was like a bad theme park performance.

Jermaine Sellers did a poor-man’s version of “What’s Going On?” by Marvin Gaye. I don’t know what was worse, his outfit or his version of the song.  I’m not sure if even Jermaine’s close relationship with the Big Guy upstairs can save him from the cutting block this week. Simon voiced his concerns that he is not sure whether he would be there next week and I must say that I agree.

Oh Andrew Garcia. You were one of my favorites right from the beginning. And I loved your performance last week even though the judges were sadly misguided. But this week, you muddled through James Morrison’s “You Give Me Something” and I was so disappointed. Please bring back your unique style next week and make me happy. And by the way, the judges are on to you too. So let’s do something that will make your famous version of “Straight Up” look like an N’Sync  B-side next week, shall we? OK then.

The cutie pie with the big voice, Aaron Kelly, was next up, and although he came through with his impressive pipes once again, why, oh why did he choose to sing “My Girl”? Simon’s remarks that it was “too old fashioned” were an understatement. More like too campy and completely irrelevant.  But he’ll be sticking around for a while anyway, so let’s hope he can pick some better songs in coming weeks.

Tim Urban went the safe route by choosing a song that lived 100% in his sweet spot by singing “Come on, Get High” by Matt Nathanson, and although it was “nice,” and he still looks like Zac Efron, which is a plus, it just isn’t enough to compete against the other heavy hitters in this competition. Ellen had the best idea out of the bunch and suggested that he joined the case of Glee. I see a love interest for Kurt in the future – Fox, you should get on that as soon as Tim is voted off, which I am guessing is going to be soon.

Finally, Lee Dewyze was a pretty big hit with his version of “Lips of an Angel.” I like this guy. My first impression of him was that he looked kinda douchey, but the guy certainly can sing. He needs to work on his stage presence, but as Kara said, he definitely has the commercial voice for radio. I am not sure I agree with Simon that he is “vocally head and shoulders above the rest” in the competition, but he is an early favorite that I will be looking forward to hearing more from.

The girls finally made it on Wednesday night, including Crystal Bowersox, looking healthy as a horse. And, may I add, with markedly whiter teeth than ever before. Thank you to the cosmetic dentistry team of American Idol. We still don’t know what was wrong with her, although the buzz points to diabetes. All I know is that I am glad she made it back.

BOW-ER-SOX!

I am a fan, what can I say?

Singing Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Long as I Can See The Light,” she didn’t disappoint this fan right here.  Her beautiful, booming voice was strong and confident and she proved that she is the real thing. Randy “Zen” Jackson said she is “true and the truth is reality,” while Ellen said she has “true, raw, natural talent.”  Simon said he underestimated her, and compared her to Kelly Clarkson, and if that means what I think it means, then all I have to say is…

BOW-ER-SOX!!!!!! All the way baby. Let’s just hope she can stay healthy…

Haeley Vaughn, the smiley 16-year-old guitar strumming teenie bopper took on Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb,” a mighty big song for such a little girl. As it turned out, it was a bit too big. I was reminded of a middle school talent show as I watched her croon Hannah Montana’s hit song, and cringed as she reached for those big notes and didn’t quite get there. Randy kept it real and told her it “didn’t work” and that it was “excruciating.”  And although Ellen started off by telling her she was adorable, she agreed with Randy and said she didn’t “connect” to the song.  I think Simon said it best when he said it was a “complete and utter mess” although in theory it should have worked. The best laid plans of mice and teenage girls, I suppose.  I think Haeley might be in trouble next week, unless her bubbly personality can save her like Tim Urban’s Zac Efron-esque face saved him last week.

Lacey Brown chose “Kiss Me,” and it was, well…cute. She looked cute, it sounded cute, and she’s just cute. But this isn’t American Cutie Pie, this is American Idol.  The unique tone of her voice has the potential to be great, but this song didn’t showcase that at all. Randy said she didn’t add anything to it, Ellen said it was just “adorable” and Simon said it was forgettable and didn’t prove herself as an artist. Sounds like Lacey needs to up her game if she is still around next week. Less cute, more awesome singing Lacey.

But you really are cute. Did I mention you are cute?

Katie Stevens sang “Girl Put Your Records On,” and it was basically a sub-par version of Corinne Bailey Rae’s version. Plus, she barely moved from the same spot in the middle of the stage. Plus, she creeps me out because she is 17 and sings like a 40 year old woman. Ellen’s advice was for her not to sing something she would hear in her dentist’s office, which is always good advice. And the rest of the judges were pretty much all in agreement that she needed to stop choosing boring, old lady songs and sing some more powerful  stuff to show off her voice. Which is good, even though it sounds like a 40-year old woman’s.

Didi Benami’s rendition of “Lean on Me” left something to be desired. Although she has an awesome, unique sounding voice, she just didn’t rock out the Bill Withers classic. It was like a phoned in karaoke performance. WRONG SONG CHOICE Didi. Kara told it like it is, and said “It just wasn’t good.” Pick a better song, and try again next time Didi. I have a feeling you will be around next week to redeem yourself, but you better make it good.

Michelle Delamor sang “Arms Wide Open”. Minus one point for singing a Creed song right off the bat. Then minus one point for wearing gloves with only fingers. Then minus a bajillion points for sucking. Nuff said.  But apparently Kara and Simon shared some peyote before the show because they both liked it.  Whatever.  I’d give her another shot, but she needs the rest of her gloves.

Lily Scott, singing “Change Gonna Come,” impressed us again with her pure artistry. This girl knows who she is, and I like who she is. She just rocks. She can sing, she can play guitar and she hypnotizes. She was Randy’s favorite performance, and Ellen said she has “it.” I don’t know what “it” is, but she has it. Kara said she had her first “moment” in the competition and she was “riveted.” Simon said she made the point about how you make yourself relevant. This “mismatched” contestant is shaking things up and I am liking it. As much as Crystal B? Ehhhh, maybe not. But it’s a close race. Run Lily run!

Katelyn Epperly played piano for the first time while singing Coldplay’s “Back to The Start” and I was impressed.  I thought it was beautiful with a capital B. Randy and Ellen thought it was too slow. But Kara said she “kinda loves” her. And so do I. I am looking forward to hearing more from Katelyn.

Paige Miles sang “Walk Away” by original American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson. Maybe it’s just because I have heard that song 56,427 times, but it didn’t thrill me. She sang it well, but it sounded pretty much like it sounded all 56,427 times I heard it on the radio so I tuned out about halfway through. Randy agreed with me, but Ellen loved it. Since Kara wrote the song, of course she was a fan, but Simon was on my side. Simon’s my homeboy. She needs to take that strong voice and choose the right song to knock our socks off next week.

Siobhan Magnus tackled Aretha, that brave little thing. “Think,” to be exact. Who would have “thought” that a skinny white girl would be able to sing Aretha? But she did. And she did it well. But she certainly is different. You know, in a good way? I think? The judges were four for four on Siobhan’s performance, but Simon agreed that she adds a certain “color” to the competition.

So here’s my prediction, I say Todrick and Jermaine are going home for the dudes and Haeley and Lacey are packing it in for the girls.

We will find out tonight, tune in to Fox at 8/7 central and I will have the recap here tomorrow of the results show!

If you grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, you knew him as the lovable, somewhat dim-witted sidekick to Mike Seaver on Growing Pains. He played Boner Stabone and he provided plenty of comic relief on the prime time sitcom that ran from 1985-1992. Andrew Koenig is still most remembered for this role, and when he went missing on February 14 in Vancouver, the internet was aBuzz and aTwitter with “Where’s Boner?”

Unfortunately, we found out the answer to that question on Thursday, February 25th, when the body of 41-year-old Andrew Koenig was found in in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. A search party consisting of family and friends found him hanging from a tree in the densely wooded marshy area where police had been searching for days. His father gave a press conference that afternoon to confirm that his son had taken his own life. He also admitted that his son had suffered from depression and that he had sent his father a note after he had gone missing in which he had seemed “despondent.”

Celebrities had used social media, as they so often do, to aid in the search for Koenig. Stars such as Sarah Silverman, Felicia Day and of course, Twitterati queen Alyssa Milano all joined in on the efforts. Joel McHale tweeted “No joke here, ‘Soup’ family friend Andrew Koenig missing in Vancouver.” Just goes to show, sometimes celebrities other than Alyssa and Ashton use Twitter for things other than pimping their television shows and telling dirty jokes.

His Growing Pains co-star, Kirk Cameron reached out as well. Earlier last week he issued a statement saying “I am praying for his family during this time of distress and for his safe return. Andrew, if you are reading this, please call me.” But, there was no call.

Sadly, there was no happy ending for Andrew Koenig, a man who was described by colleagues as a “really talented guy” and a whole generation of 30 and 40-somethings are mourning the loss of a favorite sitcom character. RIP Boner. You will be missed.

Frank Alexander: Food alright?
Alex: Great sir, great!
Frank Alexander: Try the wine!

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Alex: No time for the old in-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.

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Alex: Eggiwegs! I would like… to smash them!

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Alex: What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence.

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Alex: We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.

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[first lines]
Alex: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

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Alex: Well, well, well! Well if it isn’t fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!

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[about his wife]
Frank Alexander: She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a flu epidemic! The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A VICTIM OF THE MODERN AGE! Poor, poor girl!

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[Alex has just struck Dim on the legs]
Dim: What did you do that for?
Alex: For being a bastard with no manners, you haven’t a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise, O my brother!
Dim: I don’t like you should do what you’ve done and I’m not your brother no more and wouldn’t want to be.
Alex: Watch that, do watch that O Dim, if to continue to be on live thou, dost wist?
Dim: Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I’ll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime. I’m not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won’t have it.
Alex: A nozh scrap anytime you say.
Dim: Doobiedoob, a bit tired maybe, best not to say more. Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right-right?

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Alex: As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time – Now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones use like, inspiration and what Bog sends. Now it was lovely music that came into my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do.

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Alex: Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.

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[Alex chats up two girls sucking penis-shaped lollies]
Alex: Enjoying that are you my darlin’? Bit cold and pointless isn’t it my lovely? What’s happened to yours my little sister?

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Alex: Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in my gulliver so I had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for awakening.

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Alex: What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got, say, pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angels’ trumpets and devils’ trombones. You are invited!

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Frank Alexander: Who on Earth could that be?
Mrs. Alexander: I’ll go and see.

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Billy Boy: Lets get ‘em boys!

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[Alex encounters his old friends, who are now police]
Alex: It’s impossible! I can’t believe it!
Georgie: Evidence of the ol’ glassies! Nothing up our sleeves, no magic little Alex! A job for two who are now of job age! The police!

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Alex: Hi, hi, hi there! At last we meet. Our brief govoreet through the letter-hole was not, shall we say, satisfactory, yes?

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Alex: The Durango ‘95 purred away a real horrowshow. A nice warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts!

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P.R. Deltoid: I’ve just come from the hospital; your victim has died.
Alex: You try to frighten me. Admit so, sir. This is some new form of torture. Say it, Brother Sir.
P.R. Deltoid: It’ll be your own torture. I hope to God it’ll torture you to madness.

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Alex: You know what you can do with that watch? Stick it up your arse!

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[last lines]
Alex: I was cured, all right!

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Prison Chaplain: If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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Alex: I’ve suffered the tortures of the damned, sir
[with innocent reinforcement]
Alex: – tortures of the damned.

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Chief Guard Barnes: Are you able to see the white line painted on the floor directly behind you, Six-Double-Five-Three-Two-One?
Alex: Yes, sir.
Chief Guard Barnes: Then your toes belong on the *other* side of it!

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[Staring at Alex's penis]
Chief Guard Barnes: Are you now, or have you ever been a homosexual?

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Prison Chaplain: What’s it going to be, eh? Is it going to be in and out of institutions like this? Well, more in and out for most of ya! Or are you going to attend to the Divine Word and realise the punishments that await unrepentant sinners in the next world as well as this? A lot of idiots you are, selling your own birthright for a saucer of cold porridge! The thrill of theft! Of violence! The urge to live easy! Well, I ask you what is it worth when we have undeniable truth – yes! Incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists! I know! I know my friends! I have been informed in visions that there is a place darker than any prison, hotter than any flame of human fire, where souls of unrepentant criminal sinners like yourselves…!
[an inmate belches, prompting the rest to laugh]
Prison Chaplain: Don’t you laugh, damn you! Don’t you laugh! I say like yourselves scream in endless and unendurable agony! Their skin rotting and peeling! A fireball spinning in their screaming guts! I know! Oh yes, I know!
[Another inmate makes a raspberry noise, prompting them to laugh again]

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Chief Guard Barnes: Pick that up and put it down properly!

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Minister: What crime did you commit?
Alex: The accidental killing of a person, sir.
Chief Guard Barnes: He brutally murdered a woman, sir, in furtherance of theft. Fourteen years, sir!
Minister: Excellent. He’s enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He’ll do.
Governor: Well, fine, we could still look at C-block…
Minister: No, no, no. That’s enough. He’s perfect. I want his records sent to me. This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition.
Alex: Thank you very much for this chance, sir.
Minister: Let’s hope you make the most of it, my boy.

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Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It’s a sin, it’s a sin, it’s a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What’s all this about sin?
Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom: Are you referring to the background score?
Alex: Yes.
Dr. Branom: You’ve heard Beethoven before?
Alex: Yes!
Dr. Brodsky: So, you’re keen on music?
Alex: YES!
Dr. Brodsky: Can’t be helped. Here’s the punishment element perhaps.

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Alex: There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a-howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as if it were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, especially when they were old like this one was.

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Alex: It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

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Alex: Hi, hi, hi, Mr. Deltoid!

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[Listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]
Alex: Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!

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Alex: Naughty, naughty, naughty! You filthy old soomka!

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[Alex has the tramp pinned down]
Tramp: Go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don’t want to live anyway,not in a stinking world like this one!
Alex: Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?

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Prison Chaplain: Choice! The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. The insincerity was clear to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
Minister: Padre, there are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime and with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian, ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify, sick to the heart at the thought of killing a fly. Reclamation! Joy before the angels of God! The point is that it works.

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Alex: It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

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“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim. And we sat in the Korova Milkbar, trying to make up our razudoks what to do with the evening.”–Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the “humble narrator”

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Alex: Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

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Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?
Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.

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Alex: Initiative comes to thems that wait.

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Minister: You seem to have a whole ward to yourself, my boy.
Alex: Yes, sir, and a very lovely place it is too, sir, when I wake up in the middle of the night with my pain.
Minister: Yes… well, good to see you on the mend!

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Minister: Public opinion has a way of changing.

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Minister: Punishment means nothing to them, you can see that. They enjoy their so-called punishment.
Alex: You’re absolutely right, sir.

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Alex: You needn’t take it any further, sir. You’ve proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I’ve learned me lesson, sir. I’ve seen now what I’ve never seen before. I’m cured! Praise god!
Dr. Brodsky: You’re not cured yet, boy.

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Minister: Oh, yes. I understand you’re fond of music. I have arranged a little surprise for you.
Alex: Surprise?
Minister: One that I hope that you will like. As a um… how shall we put it? As a symbol of our new understanding. An understanding between two friends.

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Alex: So I waited and, O my brothers, I got a lot better munching away at eggiwegs, and lomticks of toast and lovely steakiwegs and then, one day, they said I was going to have a very special visitor.
[the Minister enters]
Minister: Good evening, my boy.

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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon Quotes

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
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He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
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I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!
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I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.
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I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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All we are saying is give peace a chance.
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All you need is love.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
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Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.
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Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
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Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
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Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.
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Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
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Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
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My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
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It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
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When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
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Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
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There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.
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We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.
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You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
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You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.
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