Trivia fact: Bob and Vincent appeared in the Dennis Hopper/Jodie Foster movie, Backtrack. Vincent as the head of a crime family who had Joe Pesci do his bidding. Bob had a short speaking part as a chain saw artist. A most entertaining film. Kind of like Hearts of Fire, it’s an acquired taste for some. But I think it’s a classic.
Bob Dylan appear?
I’m not sure that they ever appeared in a film together, however, last night I staggered home after a night of quaffing beer and slumped down in front of the TV… what was on?… only a really old black and white movie with Dylan in it… he was playing Count Dracula… and was pretty convincing too… the only disappointment was that he didn’t do the soundtrack… that sounded like an experimental Tom Waits piece.
Dylan usually looks his age (and the rest). He has often appeared on stage stiffened by corsetry, not to pull in his stomach but to support his back. And in his latest incarnation, accepting an Oscar this year for the Wonder Boys film-soundtrack song Things Have Changed, he decided upon the innovation of a small pencil moustache, the effect of which is to make him look oddly like Vincent Price, and at least as sepulchral.
If you put the various Dylans over the last 50 years in a row—from earnest folknik of 1962 to the current Vincent Price Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher Dylan—the witness behind the one-way mirror would object that these perps have nothingin common. I mean who are all these guys? Oh, well, you’d have to say, it’s a sort of Desolation Row type police lineup.
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