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Book News
The Billy Bob Tapes May 15
Are the rumors true? Did Billy Bob Thornton complete a hardcover book with the world-famous Governor of the Heart of Texas, country-western singer/songwriter, mystery novelist, and tequila and cigar bon vivant Kinky Friedman?
Well, um, yes. They're true!
Look at the following evidence. We've got the cover!
We at Billybobapalooza can tell you a few things about this book.
First of all, it's called The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts.
The book features commentary from Robert Duvall, Dwight Yoakam, Tom Epperson, and Daniel Lanois, four of the most important creative collaborators in Billy Bob's extraordinary life as an actor, writer, director, and musician.
There is a moving and keenly observant introduction written by Angelina Jolie.
It arises from a series of conversations that American music legend, mystery novelist, and humorist Kinky Friedman conducted and recorded with Billy Bob. Kinky describes it as an "eye-opener!"
Because nobody can tell a story quite like Billy Bob, it's ribald, irreverent, surprising, touching, and funny as hell. It also helps that Billybobapalooza good-time gal and founding Planeteer Sage helped with the transcription chores. Here's a dandy description from Amazon.com:
Raised in small-town Arkansas, Billy Bob Thornton grew up amid a rich storytelling tradition. See, the South is just different than other places. . . . You can feel the ghosts there. As a kid, he would sit on the porch listening to his family or some old man down the road spinning yarns about colorful neighbors. These stories didn't have to be made up. The characters were already there, so the stories just came out of the characters we knew. Thus was borne his Oscar®-winning masterpiece SLING BLADE and now The Billy Bob Tapes—a narrative based on late-night conversations with Kinky Friedman and other friends who gathered 'round to hear Billy mine a cave full of ghosts.
Billy grew up shooting squirrels, playing drums in VFW clubs, and dreaming of rock 'n' roll stardom or pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals. Then at sixteen he took a drama class to meet chicks—and met Mrs. Treadway, who noticed the young man's talent and encouraged him as an actor and writer. "You don't know what it's like to be a drama teacher in a small town in Arkansas where nobody really cares," she said, "but let me tell you something. You can do this." Everything I've accomplished since, I can trace back to this woman, Maudie Treadway."
The colorful characters, stories, and experiences of his youth would find their way into Billy's work, in his films and music, and in his perspective and attitude. It's like the old saying goes: you can take the boy out of the hills, but you can't take the hills out of the boy. That boy did leave the hills—for Hollywood Hills. A true fish out of water, he recalls stories of miserable jobs, the cheapest accommodations, and physical hunger—but also a devoted writing partner Tom Epperson, a life-changing acting teacher in L.A., and a compassionate nurse who snuck him milk shakes when he was near starvation. But there was always the dream of being an actor, and his fortunes turned when he served hors d'oeuvres as a catering waiter to legendary director Billy Wilder, who advised him, "Write about your interesting life."
Billy's long career in Hollywood yields stories of inspired collaborations and failed ones, true friendships with other actors and musicians, and good friends gone too soon. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he reflects on the critics, the culture around fame, and the challenges of conveying an artistic vision in film. Most striking is Billy's clear-eyed perspective about the magic of entertainment, and how we perceive it in a rapidly changing world. With passion, unvarnished honesty, wry humor, and a little help from friends Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, Dwight Yoakam, Tom Epperson, and Daniel Lanois, Billy Bob finally talks.
And . . . we have book-signing dates!
Tuesday, May 15th,
7:00 pm Book Signing and Q&A at Barnes & Noble – Union Square
33 East 17th Street New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, May 16th,
7:00 pm Book Signing at Bookends
211 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Thursday, May 17th,
7:00 pm Book Signing at Book Revue
313 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743
Monday, May 21st,
7:00 pm Book Signing at Barnes & Noble – The Grove
189 Grove Drive, Suite K30,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Billy Bob Takes the Rap for Prisoner of Southern Rock
Billy Bob has written the foreword for Prisoner of Southern Rock, a memoir by Michael Buffalo Smith that will be published by Mercer University Press in 2012.
Prisoner of Southern Rock is the unlikely story of one Southern boy's rise from near poverty to become a respected Southern music historian, specializing in the sub-genre known as Southern Rock. The book traces the Buffalo's journey from his meager beginnings in Upstate South Carolina to his work as a musician and journalist during his college years and his destined founding of the Southern rock magazine Gritz following a near death experience from a chronic bacterial infection. He is nationally recognized as The Ambassador of Southern Rock.
The memoir combines stories from his life growing up with stories of life on the road, backstage, and onstage with many of the bands he idol-worshipped during his early years. These are the life and times of the man known around the world as “The Ambassador of Southern Rock.” The book includes a chapter on Buffalo’s meeting and becoming friends with Billy Bob Thornton and the members of The Boxmasters.
When the book comes out, you can bet that we'll have direct links for you to buy it!
"I finally got tired of listening to myself bitch about how I wish they would make better movies."--Billy Bob
Photo: Van Redin
Fans of the triple-threat rejoice! Billy Bob has written, starred in, and directed a cool new project: JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR. What, you want more? Okay, well how about that he wrote the script with his ONE FALSE MOVE partner Tom Epperson? Not old-school Billy enough for you? Okay, dig this: the first superstar to join the cast was Billy Bob's mentor and frequent co-star, Robert Duvall (SLING BLADE, THE APOSTLE, A FAMILY THING). He was quickly followed by Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick, Francis Conroy, Ray Stevenson,Irma P. Hall, John Hurt (good gravy--my college crush!), Tippi Hedren, Shawnee Smith, Katherine LaNasa, Marshall Allman, and John Patrick Amedori
JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR had its world premiere at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival (in fact, it was the sole U.S. entry). At the festival, Billy Bob commented to reporters, "I was complaining a lot about the state of movies in America . . . Instead of complaining, I decided to just write one and direct it, and it's a story that I'd had in my head for a long time."
At a press conference for PUSS 'N' BOOTS, Billy Bob explained, “It’s tonally SLING BLADE-like. I think there’s probably more humor in it than SLING BLADE, but it’s, once again, very dark humor as usual. It takes place in the 1960s, and we’re hoping that it will come out sometime in the late spring or fall of next year. We literally just finished it so we’re still working in post production on it.”
He added, “Just so you know, Jayne Mansfield is more of a metaphor for the movie. It’s not about Jayne Mansfield’s death or anything like that. It’s mentioned, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s really about how war affects different generations, done in sort of a darkly humorous way. And about the examination of life and death and the fear and fascination with both.”
BBT and crew (including BBT's go-to cinematographer Barry Markowitz) shot on location in Cedartown, Georgia, where the town was spruced up to evoke the fictional Alabama burg of Morrison circa 1969.
Jim Caldwell (Robert Duvall) is the wealthy patriarch of the Caldwell clan. A poor communicater, Jim has troubled relationships with his four children. He is embarrassed by his ex-soldier son, Carroll (Kevin Bacon), who has transformed into an anti-war protestor who likes his recreational drugs. Older son Skip (Billy Bob) is a veteran Navy fighter pilot who can't seem to win his old man's approval. Third son Jimbo (Robert Patrick) is the closest to his father, but Jimbo is bitter that he spent his time in the service doing laundry instead of seeing combat. Jim's only daughter Donna (Katherine LaNasa) has provided him with two grandsons (Marshall Allmann and John Patrick Amedori), whom Jim likes to take on road trips to go look at car wrecks.
Decades ago, Jim's wife Naomi (Tippi Hedren) left Jim and their four children to marry Kingsley, an English widower (John Hurt; did I mention he was my crush in college?) with two children of his own. Naomi moved to England with Kinglsey. She has recently died from cancer, so Kingsley and his grown children--Camilla (Frances O'Connor) and Phillip (Ray Stevenson)--travel to Morrison with Naomi's body to honor her wishes to be buried there.
Stoking further these interfamilial tensions is the war in Vietnam, which Billy Bob has termed "the real subject, which is how different generations view war, how different generations are affected by war, and how that affects the family."
The relationship between Jim and Skip taps into Billy Bob's own past, who recently remarked about his father Billy Ray, "He was a very intense guy who I don't think I ever had a conversation with." The film's title comes from Jim's obsession with car crashes. When Billy Bob was four, Billy Ray began to take him to the scenes of local car crashes.
Billy Bob says that he has always yearned for "the approval and acceptance of older men." He has found no better surrogate father or mentor than in Robert Duvall, whose appearance in JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR marks their fifth onscreen appearance together.
Here is a link to a wonderful AP Video wherein Billy Bob discusses the relationships in the movie, and John Hurt (sigh) talks about Billy Bob as a director.
One sad note: Rick Dial was all set to play a character named Bucky in this movie when he abruptly passed away. We spied on one of the Morrison, Alabama main street storefronts, a storefront emblazoned with the sign "Dial's Fine Furniture."
We are grateful to the Cedartown paper, delightfully named the Polk Fishwrap, for news updates (not to mention the photo of Robert Duvall at the wheel, snapped by the Fishwrap's Lowell Vickers that we borrowed because it matches our background color).
From The "Did I Mention John Hurt Was My Crush?" Department
BAFTA Honors John Hurt
On February 12, 2012, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) honored British actor John Hurt with a special lifetime achievement award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House.
The Academy invited Billy Bob to present John Hurt with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. Billy Bob called him an "actor's actor" in his introduction.
In addition to playing Billy Bob's stepfather in JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR (see unavoidably large news item above), John Hurt has turned in indelible performances in ALIEN (remember the hapless space miner whose torso erupts with the newborn chest-buster?), MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor), THE ELEPHANT MAN (Oscar nomination for Best Actor), the HARRY POTTER films, the recent TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, MELANCHOLIA, 1984, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, HELLBOY, V FOR VENDETTA, DEAD MAN (another film with Billy Bob), ROB ROY, CONTACT, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, and unforgettable turns on TV in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT, and as the bloodthirsty Roman emperor Caligula in I, CLAUDIUS.
Upon receiving a standing ovation, Hurt quipped, “Who would have thought all those years ago that I would have been sharing the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Billy Bob Thornton? How fabulous.”
We fans who love you both heartily concur, Mr. Hurt. Bravo!
Upon leaving Berlin (where the top award, by the way, is the Golden Bear), Billy Bob jetted straight out to Vancouver to film RED MACHINE, a (ahem) grizzly thriller set in the Alaskan wilds.
The story follows
James Marsden (X MEN, ENCHANTED) and Thomas Jane (HUNG, yes, and so good in THE MIST) as a pair of estranged brothers who go on a camping trip in the remote wilderness of their native Alaska with their girlfriends to try and mend their fraternal fences. The two-day family outing in the great white north goes horribly south when they are attacked, then relentlessly pursued by a monstrous grizzly bear. This is clearly not Yogi Bear or Gentle Ben territory because this particular specimen of Ursus arctos horribilis goes by the nickname Red Machine.
Billy Bob plays
an Alaskan bear tracker whom James Marsden has described as very much like Robert Shaw's Quint character in JAWS. The cast includes Adam Beach (THE FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, COWBOYS AND ALIENS), Scott Glenn ("You spook easily, Starling?"), Kelly Curran (HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER), and Michaela McManus (THE VAMPIRE DIARIES). Piper Perabo (THE PRESTIGE) plays Thomas Jane's fiancée, a photographer whose ability to survive the escalating danger may be hampered by the fact that she is deaf.
And if you're wondering just how red this machine can get, it is being directed by David Hackl (SAW V) from a script by J.R. Reher.
No word yet if Sarah Palin will make a cameo appearance as a Mama Grizzly.
Number one, baby! NUMBER ONE! PUSS 'N' BOOTS opened at number one and fended off all comers for a second weekend. And now it's going gangbusters on DVD.
It's all downhill from here for Billy Bob as he lends his dulcet baritone voice to the evil character of Jack in the SHREK sequel PUSS 'N' BOOTS. Joining a cast that includes Antonio Bandaras (of course!), Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianikis, and Amy Sedaris (as Jack's cohort, Jill), Billy Bob plays his most fetching role yet. Puss teams up with Humpty Dumpty and a clever feline fatale named Kitty Softpaws to steal the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs. This quest puts him up against two mean and butt-ugly outlaws: Jack and Jill. Will Jack prove to be Billy Bob's crowning achievement?
Here's what Billy Bob told Movie Fanatic about the process: ". . . fairy tales and nursery rhymes, when you’re kids you don’t think about it, but you grow up and you notice that those things are pretty dark. I can’t believe that we read those things to our kids! Hansel and Gretel terrifies me. Doing this and being able to make these edgy weird characters out of ones that are traditionally not, I mean, you saw the pictures, I decided yesterday that something went wrong when they went up the hill to get the pail of water. When they came back down, it was a whole new world. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I’m a rookie at this, and so for me it was a great experience period. Chris (Miller), as Salma and Antonio said, is a terrific director. I wouldn’t have known, left to my own devices, how to do something like this. Chris just stood there and said, “Say this and say it like that.” I just went, “Oh, OK.” I like working with a director in the animated world because usually in live action movies, the director is the first guy I go over and grab by the neck. I didn’t have to strangle him one time.
Of special note: Billy Bob is violently allergic to cats.
From The "Time to Grow a Pair (of Mirror Balls)" Department
THE BAYTOWN DISCO: Dance to
the
Beat-Downs!
Billy Bob and Eva Longoria star in THE BAYTOWN DISCO, an action-packed indie redneck comedy (surely that's a recognized genre on the IMDb) which was shot in Slidell, Louisiana last spring and is locked and loaded for release this year.
Eva Longoria plays Celeste, a desperate trailer dweller who hires a trio of in-bred losers known as (not making this up) the Oodie Brothers to rescue her godson, a special-needs child named Rob (played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who looks a bit like Lucas Black from SLING BLADE). Celeste claims Rob is being abused by her violent ex-husband Carlos (Billy Bob). Is Carlos violent? Well, Celeste has the old bullet scars to prove it. Southern gentlemen that they are, Lincoln, Brick, and McQueen Oodie (respectively played by Daniel Cudmore, Clayne Crawford, and Travis Fimmel) accept Celeste's cash and manage to hijack the boy.
Turns out, Carlos isn't going to give up Rob without a fight, so he unleashes his personal death squad of (not making this up) "whore assassins"--hot strippers scantily dressed to kill. It sounds like Uncle KILL BILL mated with Granny HUNTER'S BLOOD (Billy Bob's film debut, you may recall) to produce this deep-fried epic of guns, small-town sheriffs, muscle cars, Federal agents, and very shallow gene pools.
Directed by Barry Battles, who co-wrote the script with Griffin Hood, THE BAYTOWN DISCO also stars Michael Rapaport, Andre Braugher, Paul Wesley, Agnes Bruckner, Serinda Swan, former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Quinn Early, and--major excitement--Zoe Bell, one of the world's greatest stuntwomen. Bell did the heavy lifting for Uma Thurman in KILL BILL and starred as herself in Quentin Tarantino's grindhouse thriller DEATH-PROOF.
We know very little about Billy Bob's next writing/directing/acting project, AND THEN WE DROVE, which is being produced by Alexander Rodnyansky (that fine citizen of Russia who is producing JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR).
Billy Bob describes it as a story of a detective who goes on a road trip and picks up a mysterious woman. He recently told Vulture.com, "It's a very ethereal story. Sort of a landscape kinda movie, and soundscape."
From The "Yes, Virginia (and No, We Don't Mean Billy Bob's Mama)" Department
There is a BAD SANTA 2
At least it's in negotiations, and we hear that not one, but two scripts are in development. As Hisfineself said to the Belfast Telegram, "Hopefully we can get close to the first one. But hopefully the fans will at least get a kick out of seeing the character again, and that's my hope for it - that people will get a charge out of seeing that character doing his thing again."
Currently, we're looking at a fall 2012 shoot and a Christmas 2013 release. Only 577 more shopping days!
Last week was a terrible couple of months for fans of old school coolness everywhere. Dick Clark (see below), Dark Shadows' Jonathan Frid, Don Cornelius, Whitney Houston, Earl Scruggs (see below), journalist Mike Wallace, Davy Jones, and the biggest heartache of all for Planeteers and music lovers: Levon Helm.
We can scarcely add better words to the great tributes that have already been paid to Levon Helm in the past few days. He was a musician's musician--a first-rate drummer who could also handle lead vocals and did on some of the greatest songs of the last 50 years: The Weight, Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Just to name a few.
He was also a talented actor, garnering raves for his work playing Loretta Lynn's husband in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER and as Jane Fonda's husband in THE DOLLMAKER.
Like Billy Bob, he was a native Arkansan.
Battling throat cancer for years didn't keep this good man down. Helm started his popular Midnight Rambles--live jams with unbelievable, dream-come-true lineups of musical guests sharing the stage with The Levon Helm Band.
In 2008, Billy Bob and the Boxmasters were invited by Levon Helm to perform in a Midnight Ramble at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy's reponse? “Are you kidding me? I’m beside myself. The fact that we got the invitation is so special to us. And we got a couple of younger guys who can’t even believe we are doing this. And I have to say, we’re pretty confident on stage. Every one of us is just as nervous as cats.”
It was jawdropping lineup. Along with The Levon Helm Band, the guest stars for that September 17, 2008 show were Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow, Delbert McClinton, Buddy Miller, Sam Bush, John Hiatt, George Receli, Allison Kraus, and Robert Plant. Plus the overjoyed Billy Bob and the Boxmasters.
But there's even more icing on this cake. The evening's recording became an album: Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman. The album was nominated for AND WON
the 2011 Grammy for Best Americana Album!
From the "It's Been 9 Days in the Desert . . . Just Name the Damned Horse Already!" Department
Standing Up for America
As Billy Bob well knows from his own experience, there's nothing like getting your star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. So he took the left and John Stamos took the right as Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, the two surviving members of the folk rock trio America, got their honor at last. Sadly, the third member Dan Peek passed away last year. 2459th star and were on hand on Monday to unveil their plaque, which is located outside Los Angeles' Musician's Institute.
Earl Scruggs, who passed away March 28 at the age of 88, gave us more than Foggy Mountain Breakdown and The Ballad of Jed Clampett. As the New York Times noted, he was "the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of musicians and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music . . . ." He was the master of bluegrass, a quintessentially American genre of music, and his mastery bridged the 20th and 21st centuries.
Billy Bob appeared on Scruggs' 2001 album Earl Scruggs and Friends, singing the lead vocal on Ring of Fire. Others appearing on the album included Elton John, Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Vince Gill, John Fogerty, Don Henley, Johnny Cash, and Steve Martin (of course, on banjo). Scruggs is shown in the above photo to the left of Billy Bob; to the right is Scruggs' son Randy.
Dick Clark, America's oldest teenager and the man who brought rock 'n' roll into our living rooms every week, passed away. Here he was with Dwight Yoakam, singer Jamie O'Neal, and Billy Bob at the February 27, 2001 press conference to announce of the nominations for the 36th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
The Boxmasters will be releasing Bellflower, their fourth record on Vanguard/Sawmill Records. As with their previous releases, Bellflower is a 2-CD set: one disc of original songs and one disc of cover songs. Bellflower comes on the heels of the band’s current CD, Modbilly, which reached the Number one spot on the Americana Radio Chart for two consecutive weeks and was named one of the top 100 Records by the Americana Music Association in 2009!
Looking for something with that certain Waffle House je ne sais quoi?Coffee Fool has conjured up a smoky, Italian-roasted (and why not? Billy Bob's part Italian and he smokes!) Kona blend.
How would you like that ground? At Coffee Fool, you can get a 12-ounce or 2.25-pound bag ground to your exacting specifications: Whole Bean, French Press, Coarse Grind, Perk, Drip Grind, Grindhouse (no, wait, that's a Tarantino flick), Very Strong Drop Grind, Very Fine Grind, Turkish, and Espresso. Like Billy Bob himself, it's a little bit country, it's a little bit rock 'n' roll. If the up-tempo ballads don't rouse you from your post-roadhouse stupor, then a shot of this stuff'll cure
whatever ails ya.
First comes love, then comes marriage. But if you are a serviceman or woman for the United States, in between those two joyous life stages can come war, dashing hopes, dreams, and plans for what should be the happiest day of your life. Billy Bob has connected with Gil Cope, a professional photographer who has founded the Warrior Wedding Project. As Cope describes it:
The Warrior Wedding Project is my effort to give back to the men and women who go in harm's way on our behalf. The couples involved with the Warrior Wedding Project pay absolutely nothing. I absorb all costs involved with shooting their wedding. This includes all travel & hotel expenses, hiring a second shooter, a photographers assistant, as well as providing the couple a site where friends and family can either download the images for free, or order prints at cost. It's my dream to be able to offer my couples as much as possible - that's where you come in.
Billy Bob has always been a big supporter of our people in the services, often performing free concerts on military bases. He is also a supporter of the Warrior Wedding Project. If you wish to support this wonderful cause, click here.
Thanks to Lynne Eagan, a good FOBB (Friend of Billy Bob), you need never suffer
this humiliating catastrophe again! You can learn about Shower Vision
and the new
Kitchen Vision by visiting ShowerVision.com!
Add some pizazz to the way you view the world!
From the "That Burger's About the Size of Texas, Mr. President" Department
BBT's Hideaway at K-Bob's Steakhouse
The Sorocco El Defensor Chieftain (one of the best newspaper names we've ever heard) reports that John Woodworth is the new operations director for Billy Bob Thornton's Hideaway,
a mini-restaurant bar and grill adjacent to the famous K-Bob's Steakhouse located in Sorroco, New Mexico.
Woodworth has devised a menu with an average entrée price of about $7 and a selection of 20 rare wines from around the globe. Entrees includes the secretly spiced Armageddon Burger on a Kaiser roll, plus beer batter fries, which Woodworth serves with Roseblum Zinfandel from Paso Robles, California. Additionally, Woodworth has instated Wednesday Night Wine Dinners and a wine club called the Hideaway Club.
As the El Defensor Chieftain puts it, "The Wednesday Night Wine Dinners consist of a three-course dinner paired with three wines specially selected by Woodworth. The price of the dinner is $19.99 per person. Membership for the Hideaway Club is $40 per month and includes an engraved wine glass, a wine club T-shirt and four wine dinners."
Hey! Sign us up!
The restaurant is located at 1123 NW Frontage Road in Sorocco. Call (575) 835-2900 for further information.
Requests for unsigned photos, letters 'n' greetings for Billy Bob, and other whatnot now go to:
Planet Billy Bob
17216 Saticoy Street, Suite 378
Lake Balboa, CA 91406
By the way, we are getting a lot of e-mails from people in Russia asking for autographs. We do not have autographs, but we are always happy to send Billy Bob's fans from Russia and everywhere else our free, unsigned black and white glossy photos of Billy Bob from All the Pretty Horses, as well as headshots from MONSTER'S BALL. We've also got ARMAGEDDON programs from the 1998 world premiere. We'd love to give one to you for free! See our Contact info for more details!
Want to send Billy Bob a message he'll actually read? Visit our MySpace page and leave us a greeting! Throw in a picture (Billy Bob likes to see photos of his fans!) and Webmistress Amélie will print it out and personally deliver it to Billy Bob (now that she bought a refurbished color printer from a mysterious Russian connection). We can't make any replies (we get thousands of posts, and Billy Bob does not know how to compose or send an e-mail to save his life), but he will read and enjoy each and every one. And click here for more Contact Information.
Check Out Billy Bob's Music You Should Hear picks on Amazon.com!
Want to send Billy Bob a message he'll actually read? Visit our MySpace page and leave us a greeting! Throw in a picture (Billy Bob likes to see photos of his fans!) and Webmistress Amélie will print it out and personally deliver it to Billy Bob (now that she bought a refurbished color printer from a mysterious Russian connection). We can't make any replies (we get thousands of posts, and Billy Bob does not know how to compose or send an e-mail to save his life), but he will read and enjoy each and every one. And click here for more Contact Information.
We at Billybobapalooza can tell you a few things about this book. 
Fans of the triple-threat rejoice! Billy Bob has written, starred in, and directed a cool new project: JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR. What, you want more? Okay, well how about that he wrote the script with his 
He added, “Just so you know, Jayne Mansfield is more of a metaphor for the movie. It’s not about Jayne Mansfield’s death or anything like that. It’s mentioned, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s really about how war affects different generations, done in sort of a darkly humorous way. And about the examination of life and death and the fear and fascination with both.”
On February 12, 2012, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) honored British actor John Hurt with a special lifetime achievement award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House. 
PUSS 'N' BOOTS
Billy Bob and Eva Longoria star in THE BAYTOWN DISCO, an action-packed indie redneck comedy (surely that's a recognized genre on the IMDb) which was shot in Slidell, Louisiana last spring and is locked and loaded for release this year. 
We can scarcely add better words to the great tributes that have already been paid to Levon Helm in the past few days. He was a musician's musician--a first-rate drummer who could also handle lead vocals and did on some of the greatest songs of the last 50 years: The Weight, Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Just to name a few. 
It was jawdropping lineup. Along with The Levon Helm Band, the guest stars for that September 17, 2008 show were Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow, Delbert McClinton, Buddy Miller, Sam Bush, John Hiatt, George Receli, Allison Kraus, and Robert Plant. Plus the overjoyed Billy Bob and the Boxmasters.
All
