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Joan Leslie 1925 – 2015
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 20, 2015
We learned last week of the passing of lovely star Joan Leslie at the age of 90. Timothy was lucky enough to share the screen with her (and Sterling Hayden), however briefly, in one of his earliest film appearances. That film was Hellgate (1952), the entertaining Western prison drama written and dir read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 18, 2015
Tim Carey’s total face time in film noir probably doesn’t add up to an hour, if that. But oh, what a face! That uber-creepy countenance and mad-genius acting methodology make almost all of his performances unforgettable. It certainly seems that Carey commanded far more camera time than h read more
Video of the Week: “The Outfit” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 14, 2015
Here’s another one from the archives. It’s Timothy’s pivotal scene from John Flynn‘s The Outfit (1973), with a crackling screenplay by Flynn from Donald Westlake‘s novel. Tim’s ill-tempered gangster Jake Menner learns a hard lesson from bent-on-vengeance Earl Mack read more
Happy Columbo Day!
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 12, 2015
“Ransom for a Dead Man” (3.1.1971) “Dead Weight” (10.27.1971) “Fade In to Murder” (10.10.1976) Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are comme read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 11, 2015
The casting of the supporting players took a similarly far-flung approach. Off-Hollywood fringe dweller and everyone’s favorite lunatic Timothy Carey and the clearly bemused and bewildered former matinee gargoyle Victor Mature are the film’s guest stars: Carey as its all-purpose Maldoror, an avatar read more
Video of the Week: Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show, 1963 revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 7, 2015
We received the sad news today of the passing of Gail Zappa, Frank Zappa‘s widow and the fierce guardian of his legacy. It seems appropriate, then, to reach back into the archives and re-post this video of young Zappa’s appearance on The Steve Allen Show back in 1963. He talks a bit abou read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 4, 2015
Provocatively disavowing, then, the realist documentary mode, The Killing instead embraces a kind of ironic quotation that repurposes popular genre conventions and formulas. Take, for example, one of The Killing‘s most stingingly cynical moments, the charged scene in which a deranged sniper, p read more
Pic of the Day: “Crime Wave” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 29, 2015
To celebrate the birthday anniversary of the great Ted de Corsia, born in Brooklyn this date in 1903, we take another look at Crime Wave (1954), directed by Andre’ de Toth. This is a publicity still for the film under its original title, The City is Dark. Also appearing here are (left to righ read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 27, 2015
Scene 1957 / Paths of Glory – Timothy Carey kills a cockroach. U.S. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Timothy Carey. Why It’s Key: A quintessential character actor achieves his apotheosis when his character kills a bug. To cover up his vain blunders, a French general (George Macready) read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 20, 2015
The Insect Trainer’s main character, Guasti Q. Guasti, is convicted of murder after farting so powerfully that a woman falls from her chair, hits the floor and dies. The play is characteristic theatre of the absurd, full of non-sequiturs and jarring stage action. Carey was hard at work rehearsing read more
Pic of the Day: “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 17, 2015
In anticipation of tonight’s airing of the Lillian Roth biopic I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) on Turner Classic Movies (9:00PM PST, 12:00AM EST), we present another screen shot from Timothy’s don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-him appearance about halfway through the film, as a sweat read more
Video of the Week: “Dead Weight”
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 16, 2015
OK folks. This week’s video is a prime example of how not to present a video online. As today is the birthday anniversary of the late great Peter Falk, I was hoping to share one of the three episodes of Columbo in which Timothy appears. I found this one on YouTube. It’s “Dead Weigh read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 13, 2015
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Video of the Week: “Minnie and Moskowitz” full length film
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 9, 2015
Our video this week is John Cassavetes‘ comedy/romance/slice-of-life drama Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) in its entirety. Timothy’s cameo near the beginning of the film, verbally sparring with Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) is justifiably famous. It’s only about 5 minutes long, but it read more
Pic of the Day: “The Odds Against Donald Jordan” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 7, 2015
Once again by request of my dear husband, we take another look at Moose, the hep-cat bookie of the Mannix episode “The Odds Against Donald Jordan”. We first met Moose on March 1, 1969. Here he discusses the gambling history of the aforementioned Mr. Jordan with a none-too-pleased Mannix read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 6, 2015
“I was stuck in a TV series [21 Jump Street] that was—you know, not to bite the hand that fed me, it put me on the map, so to speak—but it was very frustrating because you realize you end up saying more of someone else’s words in the span of a year than you get to say your own, especially when read more
Happy birthday to me!
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Aug 31, 2015
Today’s my birthday. You know what that means. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Aug 30, 2015
“A bad actor is rich, unique, idiosyncratic, revealing of himself,” Jack Smith once wrote. Timothy Agoglia Carey (1929–1994), subject of a 10-day retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, was surely all of those things, but he was not exactly a bad actor—this Brooklyn-born, apparently self-taught read more
Video of the Week: Los Angeles, The City in Cinema: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1978)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Aug 26, 2015
Our video this week is a thoughtful analysis by essayist Colin Marshall of John Cassavetes‘ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1978 director’s cut) as it relates to the city of Los Angeles itself. Timothy is briefly glimpsed in the restaurant scene in which Mort (Seymour Cassel) delivers t read more
Quote of the Week
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Aug 23, 2015
Although some directors consider Carey “hard to work with” his talents have been used in devious ways many times. He’ll do an incredible screen test, they tell him “thanks but no thanks” and have another actor study his performance and copy it for the actual film! Timothy’s son, Romeo read more