Theophilus Punoval
The Queen says it's OK...
Dennis Hopper and John Cassavetes, gentlemen who had a certain reputation among the cognoscenti of cinematic madness, had to take a back seat to il capo di tutti capi of Hollywood lunatics: Tim Carey.
Largely inhabiting the darker corners of filmdom, Carey scuffed around for a few years until hitting his stride. In "The Wild One" he ad libbed by squirting beer into Marlon Brando's face, which went over so well with Brando that in an off-screen fracas he stabbed Carey with a pen.
He did two memorable pictures with Stanley Kubrick, "The Killing" and "Paths Of Glory". Kubrick said Carey's ad-libbed walk to the firing squad in "Paths" led him to encourage the cast of "Dr. Stangelove" to improvise. Another Carey high point came in "Poor White Trash". The only way to describe that dance he did is wiggy at its most. Check it out on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclvoYf_5mI&feature=related
But his most outrageous moments came when he wrote, directed and "starred" - if you can call it that - in "The World's Greatest Sinner". If you've seen it you know, and if you haven't you wouldn't believe a description anyway. A very young Frank Zappa did the music at Studio Z in 1962, and to the end of his days told stories of Tim Carey's lunacy.
He was too far out and was dropped from the part of Fanucci in "The Godfather II" because, as Francis Ford Coppola said, he made Robert DiNiro nervous.
It's impossible to inflate the reputation of a man who out-crazied Frank Zappa, terrorized John Cassavetes, drove Marlon Brando nuts and ran such rings around Stanley Kubrick that he said Peter Sellers was sane by comparison.
Tim Carey finally shorted out in 1994.
Largely inhabiting the darker corners of filmdom, Carey scuffed around for a few years until hitting his stride. In "The Wild One" he ad libbed by squirting beer into Marlon Brando's face, which went over so well with Brando that in an off-screen fracas he stabbed Carey with a pen.
He did two memorable pictures with Stanley Kubrick, "The Killing" and "Paths Of Glory". Kubrick said Carey's ad-libbed walk to the firing squad in "Paths" led him to encourage the cast of "Dr. Stangelove" to improvise. Another Carey high point came in "Poor White Trash". The only way to describe that dance he did is wiggy at its most. Check it out on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclvoYf_5mI&feature=related
But his most outrageous moments came when he wrote, directed and "starred" - if you can call it that - in "The World's Greatest Sinner". If you've seen it you know, and if you haven't you wouldn't believe a description anyway. A very young Frank Zappa did the music at Studio Z in 1962, and to the end of his days told stories of Tim Carey's lunacy.
He was too far out and was dropped from the part of Fanucci in "The Godfather II" because, as Francis Ford Coppola said, he made Robert DiNiro nervous.
It's impossible to inflate the reputation of a man who out-crazied Frank Zappa, terrorized John Cassavetes, drove Marlon Brando nuts and ran such rings around Stanley Kubrick that he said Peter Sellers was sane by comparison.
Tim Carey finally shorted out in 1994.
