It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...
Thanks for putting that up... it's wonderful. I was just reading Eric Idle's tour journal "Fat Bastard" and he talks about how kind Chapman was. I hadn't known that he was a doctor first.
ReplyDeleteIdle also tells the story of how the Pythons would amuse themselves by speculating on who they would cannibalize first, if they were stranded at sea in a life raft. General consensus: Cleese. Because he was the biggest and meatiest.
I might be able to eat Cleese. Idle seems like his meat would be kind of stringy.
ReplyDeleteGilliam looks well-marbled, but I don't know if I could handle the dreams.
ReplyDeleteEat his heart!
ReplyDeleteCapture his power!
(Man, I wish they'd show that ritual on Pokémon.)