-- The Tom Sizemore Fanzine

We applied for permission to print transcripts of Tom’s interview from Hollywood.com. Their reply was the following. "I forwarded your message to my superiors and they haven't responded for several weeks. So while they are making up their minds, I'll tell you that for now, we have absolutely no policy, which I am aware of, regarding the thing which you wish to do. So you could do it or not, but I don't know yet what Hollywood Online's official position on that would be."

For this reason, and the fact that we have heard nothing else since 10th March 1998, we have decided to go ahead and print the transcripts. Hope you enjoy them. We may be in prison as you read this!!!!

"Well the creature was there, the scene where I’m in the water, right before the end and he rears up. I was right there. And that, actually, was one of the more difficult things to do, was to act with the creature, because we all know it’s not a creature (laughs). I as an actor know it’s not a creature and, you know, acting afraid for your life can be difficult especially...I’m not one given to believing in ghosts, so to speak, so that was hard for me, to interact with the creature, but actors have been doing it, you know, since the beginning of time. Frankenstein...the Wearwolf...Jaws. I mean Richard Dreyfus, who I know, knew that shark wasn’t going to eat him and he had to act like he thought it was."

"It is a little different when you’re with human beings. They impose...they can be imposing in a way that something inanimate can’t, you know. Doing a scene with Robert De Niro was different to doing a scene with a creature. I mean Robert De Niro brings with him a certain history and integrity and dignity and that makes it different, you know? It’s more realistic acting with people."

"Myself, I try to steer clear of controversy. I’m good friends with Oliver. Obviously he makes controversial movies and he doesn’t steer clear of controversy. I think that John Grisham, obviously he’s a power broker now and he can speak out and people are going to like what he says because he’s had such a successful string of books that have been made into movies. Everyone has their opinion and he has his opinion and you’re going to write it down because of this and, um, like I said he’s been very successful. He’s made people a lot of money. His opinions about what we did on Natural Born Killers, to me, I find his opinions uneducated. He doesn’t know the nature of what...I think you’ve got to look at that movie as...Natural Born Killers was a serious movie but it’s meant to alarm. It’s not meant to, I don’t think, enrage young people to go out and kill people. That wasn’t what Oliver Stone was saying. He was saying that the media and violence and fame, that there’s such a premium on this...fame. That fame has become so important in twentieth century America that it can lead to the enshrinement in the hall of fame for misdeeds, you know. And Lee Harvey Oswald is as famous as Jonas ???. It’s not that Oswald shot the president, who knows if he did or didn’t but you know what I mean he just was sounding some kind of an alarm bell, more or less. I don’t think he was trying to incite people, I know he wasn’t trying to incite violence, where Grisham says the movie’s irresponsible to young people and I disagree with him.

I WAS PLAYING J EDGAR HOOVER AND, I DON’T KNOW ALL THE INS AND OUTS OF WHY THE PROJECT WAS CANCELLED BUT IT WAS. I THINK THERE WERE PROBLEMS. THE PRODUCER’S NAME WAS GARY LUCAZY. HE USED TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF PARAMOUNT. HE’S A VERY DIGNIFIED MAN. AND THE DIRECTOR, BRYAN GIBSON, I THINK YOU PROBABLY ALL HAVE MET. THE HOMOSEXUAL ASPECT OF THE SCRIPT THAT THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE WHO DID NOT FEEL THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH PROOF THAT HOOVER WAS HOMOSEXUAL. THAT WE COULDN’T DEPICT HIM IN THE FASHION THAT WE WERE GOING TO. SO WE COULDN’T DO THE PROJECT BASICALLY. BECAUSE IT WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT PART OF OUR SCRIPT.

IT WAS WELL TOLD, IT WAS WELL WRITTEN. BUT THERE WERE THINGS IN IT THAT WERE SHOCKING. THE WAY HE PUNISHED HOMOSEXUALS AND THE WAY HE USED HIS POWER. IT WASN’T ONE LITTLE THING, YOU KNOW. HE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL. WELL, I DON’T KNOW IF HE WAS OR HE WASN’T. HE WENT TO DINNER AND HE DROVE TO WORK WITH THE SAME MAN FOR 45 YEARS, CLIVE TOLSEN, AND HE HAD LUNCH WITH HIM EVERY DAY. AND HE LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER TIL HE WAS 43. HE NEVER HAD A FEMALE INVOLVEMENT. HE NEVER MARRIED. HE NEVER HAD A GIRLFRIEND. YOU KNOW, THERE WERE A LOT OF SIGNS THAT HE HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH CLIVE TOLSEN. SO WE WERE TAKING THE APPROACH THAT HE HAD THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CLIVE TOLSEN. THAT THEY WERE INVOLVED INTIMATELY AND WE DEPICTED IT, WE DEPICTED THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RELATIONSHIP. SO, A GREAT DEAL OF THAT, WHEN YOU DO BIO-PICS, YOU’RE GOING TO BE GUESSING AT THE EXACT THINGS THAT WERE SAID. EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW CERTAIN THINGS HAPPENED, WE WEREN’T IN THE ROOM WHEN THEY HAPPENED SO THERE’S A NATURE OF A LEAP OF IMAGINATION WHERE THE CREATOR HAS TO FILL IN THE THINGS THAT HE THINKS WERE SAID. JACK AND BOBBY KENNEDY HAD A CONVERSATION AT THE OVAL OFFICE, WE ALL KNOW THAT. WHATEVER THAT PROJECT WAS...‘SIX DAYS IN OCTOBER’...WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY SAID. WILLIAM DEVANE, I THINK, PLAYED PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND MARTIN SHEEN PLAYED BOB KENNEDY. IT’S THE SAME TYPE OF THING WITH THIS ‘HOOVER’ PROJECT. THERE WERE THINGS THAT THE CREATORS WERE IMAGINING, BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW. THESE TYPES OF THINGS HAD A VERY GOOD LIKELIHOOD OF HAPPENING. AND THERE WAS SOMEBODY WHO DIDN’T BELIEVE THAT.

I HAD A CERTAIN JACKET, I PROBABLY, MY WIFE, I JUST RECENTLY MARRIED, SHE WAS MY GIRLFRIEND FOR A LONG TIME AND NOW SHE’S MY WIFE (LAUGHS). BUT I HAD THIS CERTAIN PAIR OF JEANS I LIKED TO WEAR TO MEETINGS ON MOVIES BECAUSE I HAD GOTTEN MY FIRST JOB IN THESE JEANS...FIRST SIGNIFICANT JOB, WHICH WAS ‘HEART AND SOULS,’ WHICH WAS BACK, I THINK, IN 1991. IT’S ALMOST ‘97 SO THESE JEANS ARE...AND I’D HAD THESE JEANS ALREADY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. MY PUBLICIST IS LAUGHING BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THESE JEANS. MY EXCUSE FOR WEARING THEM WAS I GOT MY FIRST BIG JOB IN THESE JEANS AND THEY’RE IMPORTANT JEANS. AND I CAN’T THROW THESE JEANS OUT, AND I WANT TO WEAR THEM. THEY’RE NOT VERY GOOD LOOKING ANY MORE. THEY’RE RIPPED UP. I LOOK LIKE A GRUNGE KID IN THEM WISH IS KIND OF COOL FOR A TEENAGER BUT I’M 34! AND MY WIFE DIDN’T LIKE THEM SO I DID HAVE TO RETIRE THE JEANS! I HAVE SINCE BEEN HIRED. I WAS HIRED TO DO ‘HOOVER’ (LAUGHS). I DIDN’T HAVE THE JEANS ON!

Okay, it’s coming up to New Year’s Eve, 1999, and Lenny, (Ralph Fiennes), has been sent a ‘clip;’ a digitally recording where the viewer is able to feel every emotion of the person who had the original experience. This clip just happens to end with the death of a close friend of Lenny’s ex-girlfriend, Faith, (Juliette Lewis), and Lenny becomes concerned about her safety.

This movie has a great cast: Tom, Juliette, Ralph, Vincent D’onofrio, Michael Wincott and Angela Bassett. As much as I hate sci-fi pictures this just happens to be incredibly watchable. Tom, Juliette, Vincent and Ralph are wonderful in their roles. This is not to say that the rest of the cast aren’t, I’m just extremely biased!

My only problem lies with the hairdresser. He/she seems to have taken great pleasure in making some of my favourite actors look dreadful. In my opinion this is a crime that should be punishable by death. Juliette with red hair I can deal with, (kinda reminded me of Micki from the band Lush), but DO NOT MAKE TOM WEAR WIGS!!!!

A couple of scenes are quite hard to watch but that is due to the excellence of the acting more than anything else. This movie is superbly tense and drags you onto the edge of your seat for most of it’s duration, This is not to be filed under ‘Easy Viewing’ beside ‘Heart And Souls!’

‘Strange Days,’ although violent, is an intelligent thriller that deserves your attention.

Okay the time is nigh that our favourite, and undoubtedly the coolest, actor took his place amongst the rest of Hollywood’s finest. The Walk of Fame is maintained by the Hollywood, CA Chamber of Commerce and, according to them, Nominations are accepted by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce during a scheduled 60-day nomination period announced to Hollywood's entertainment trade publications and print and broadcast media.

Nomination of an individual or group must be approved by the Walk of Fame Committee, sometimes requiring several annual nominations before a nominee is selected to receive a star. The ten to fifteen most qualified artists nominated are eligible for a star to be installed in the Walk during the subsequent year. Those not selected for the current year are requested to resubmit for the following nomination period.

The criteria for receiving a star consists of the following: professional achievement, longevity of five years or more, contributions to the community and the guarantee that the celebrity will attend the dedication ceremony if selected.

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Write for your own nomination form, copy it and get as many people as possible to send it in!We have applied for a nomination form and, to save you the trouble, will include a copy with each copy of the next issue. Post to newsgroups! Email your friends! The more people who know about it, the better!