TIMROTHFAN Digest 131 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Stupid responses to the Stuipid Tim Surveys by KmFdMily@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 07:39:40 -0500 From: KmFdMily@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Stupid responses to the Stuipid Tim Surveys Message-ID: <961130073940_1985263879@emout06.mail.aol.com> ok, as my knowledge of tim movies is limited i only answered a few, and they are alll ridiculously stupid, but oh, well... ~boxers or briefs -- i don't know but i certainly hope boxers, i like them so much more than briefs.... though i wouldn't mind seeing him in either... ~one question: WHY in the name of god are you still married to that THING?? have you completely disregarded all those obscene ESP messages i've sent you??? ~money or tim: money. i know the die hard fan answer would be tim, but the way i see it, maybe i could just but him with the money... i know ten mil. probably isn't that much to him, but hey, i come with the deal and i'm his destiny, so how could he turn it down?? ~coffee flavor---> i'm a huge fan of black coffee.... i think he'd be black coffe, strong and wonderful dark black cofffee.. ~dyed hair: madonna vs. tim---> i'll bet she's died it more, but it doesn't matter, he always manages to look good in most colors, which is more than i can say about madonna, the mousy brown freak... ~desert island item---> well, my first choice would definitely be a hot tub... but, as that seems highly impossible, my second choice would just be a good romantic album, maybe the cure's disintegration.... ~all tim characters at a party---> definite chaos, but inevitably a scene i would NOT want to miss... ~designated driver: mr orange, definitely... straightedge cop, and he's "super cool..." ~macarena q.---> in protest of that ridiculous song i refuse to even answer this question., i HATE that song. with a passion. ~cutest moment---> ok, hard to xplain ---- when, in reservoir dogs, they're being assigned their code names & getting lectured on why they shouldn't fool around & tell jokes on the job, they show his face for just a minute, he looks really contemplative, and he just looks absolutely perfect there... weird choice? i don't know... ~who would i have a relationship with---> definitely and without question mr. orange. << can you tell that i adore that movie?? >> well, that's about it. i'm pitiful, i know, but i don't care... i luv these ridiculous surveys... ttfn, M* ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 131 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 132 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) I'm moving by Jennifer Wolf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:47:34 -0800 (PST) From: Jennifer Wolf To: Tim Roth List Subject: I'm moving Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone, On December 16th I'm going to graduate from the UW and move to San Francisco to manage the High Five magazine (http://www.highfive.com for those of you who are interested). My student account will probably expire within a month of that date. I may be able to keep the mailing list running for a while (the UW only requires that a student be on the list, so I'll need to find someone else to just subscribe to the list) but I need to find someone to take over hosting the web pages. If you, or someone you know, would like to take over the Tim Roth Web page from me, send me an email and I'll send you all the files (or you can just download them off the web yourself, but that seems rather slow and annoying) and redirect visitors to the new site. If I can't find anyone to take the files, the pages will have to die until I have the time and money to set them up again. Don't be discouraged, though, because someone in Arizona has reserved the www.timroth.com domain name (it doesn't work yet, so don't bother trying), and hopefully s/he will have something up and running soon. Running the pages doesn't take that much time -- it all depends on how much time you want to put into it. So, if this sounds like something someone who has server space would like to take over, let me know. Jennifer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jennifer H. Wolf email: jenhwolf@u.washington.edu Maintainer of the Tim Roth mailing list and unofficial web page: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jenhwolf/timroth/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 132 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 133 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) premiere January 97 by Anne M VanVelzen 2) Re: premiere January 97 by Berit Kristin Nesje Ellingsen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:07:26 -0600 (CST) From: Anne M VanVelzen To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: premiere January 97 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII just thought i'd tell you all that there's an article about Everyone Says I Love You, plus a really nice ad for it in the new Premiere. if you want me to transcribe it, i can do it when i get done with work. later anne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:28:56 -0800 (PST) From: Berit Kristin Nesje Ellingsen To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: premiere January 97 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If you've got time, Anne, please write a transcript ! It would be such a nice diversion now in this season dominated by last minute papers and horrifying exams... ;) Berit. ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 133 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 134 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: arena dec 96 by maria rosaria 2) Re: arena dec 96 by David.Wright@oberlin.edu 3) Re: Super Silly Roth Survey II (fwd) by wendy king 4) Re: Simply Stupid Tim Survey (stress STUPID) by wendy king 5) Gridlock by Anne M VanVelzen 6) Re: arena dec 96 by Berit Kristin Nesje Ellingsen 7) Re: arena dec 96 by maria rosaria 8) Re: arena dec 96 by KmFdMily@aol.com 9) Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts by johntravolta@juno.com (Roger "Verbal" Kint) 10) Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts by Nc33@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:34:02 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96 Message-ID: <199612041334.NAA01710@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" if you want me to type down the arena article...raise your hands... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:09:21 -0400 (EDT) From: David.Wright@oberlin.edu To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, maria rosaria wrote: > if you want me to type down the arena article...raise your hands... > > Yes! Yes! I raise my hand.... --David ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:26:13 +0000 () From: wendy king To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Cc: Tim Roth Fans Subject: Re: Super Silly Roth Survey II (fwd) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:54:08 -0600 (CST) Anne M VanVelzen=20 wrote: > here's another=20 one...=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > 1. Do you think Tim wears boxers or briefs? Which would ya rather see > =09him in? I can quite ho nestly say that I would like=20 to see him in Calvin Klein tight holding pants.=20 >=20 >=20 > 2. If you could only ask him one question what would it be? > If somebody asked you to cut off their finger for=20 =09=A31000 would you do it? >=20 > 3. Which would you rather have: $10,000,000 or one day with Tim? (Be=20 > honest) > =09Honestly $10,000,000 because then I would become=20 famous for having that much money and then I'd probably=20 meet him anyway. >=20 > 4. If Tim was an ice cream flavor, what would his name be? > =09Raspberry Ripple >=20 > 5. Archibald Cunningham vs Ted The Bellhop: Who kicks butt? Why? > (feel free to add your own names to the list, just justify it) > Ted the Bell boy because he seems as though he is going=20 to be a bit of a sad loser and not be able to handle the=20 situations he is placed in, but then by some miraculous=20 change on the characters behalf he turns into a self-aware,=20 knowledgable smart arse who knows what he wants and how to=20 get it, for instance with the children and then also he=20 knows how to make money by questioning the Hollywood stars=20 until they give him loads of money and then doesn't=20 hesitate to do what they asked him to do, even though they=20 didn't really mean it.=20 > =20 ---------------------- wendy king w.v.king@cant.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:27:56 +0000 () From: wendy king To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Cc: Tim Roth Fans Subject: Re: Simply Stupid Tim Survey (stress STUPID) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:59:47 -0600 (CST) Anne M VanVelzen wrote: > > 1. If Tim was a coffee flavor what would he be? > Kenco de-caf > > > 2. If Tim degraded himself so much to star in Four Rooms 2: The Return > (copyright Anne), would you still see it? How many times?? ;) > Might see it once just because he's in it, might even wait until it came out on vid. > > > 3. Who has dyed their hair more times: Madonna or Tim?? > Madonna > > > 4. If you were stranded on a desert island with Tim (stop drooling > ladies!), what would you bring? > Scrabble > > > 5. Sum up Tim in one word (these are getting tougher huh?) > Delicious > ---------------------- wendy king w.v.king@cant.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:30:12 -0600 (CST) From: Anne M VanVelzen To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Gridlock Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII last night i was running the projector at the campus film, Fargo (good film), and we had a preview reel... well, on that preview reel, there was a preview for Gridlock'd, starring Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.... it looks good... really good.... i won't say any more it's gonna be awhile for the premiere article, i just got some bad news later anne "Become vengence, David. Become...wrath." -- Kevin Spacey as John Doe in SE7EN "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist. There was a gang of hungarians that wanted their own mob. They realized that to be in power, they didn't need guns, or money, or even numbers. They just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn't" -- Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint in "The Usual Suspects" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:50:49 -0800 (PST) From: Berit Kristin Nesje Ellingsen To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, maria rosaria wrote: > if you want me to type down the arena article...raise your hands... > > Si, Maria ! Berit. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:15:05 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96 Message-ID: <199612042115.VAA19595@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> if you want me to type down the arena article...raise your hands... > Yes! Yes! I raise my hand.... >--David Ok! Just give me the time...it's a dreadfully long article...I might just post it in *episodes*. Maria Love, . Maria ___ // (;._.;)// ( Y )K/ ();*;() (_)-(_) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 17:48:29 -0500 From: KmFdMily@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96 Message-ID: <961204174828_1818190168@emout16.mail.aol.com> ::raises hands frantically and jumps out of seat:: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:50:53 PST From: johntravolta@juno.com (Roger "Verbal" Kint) To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <19961204.201823.4551.2.johnTravolta@juno.com> On Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:30:12 -0600 (CST) Anne M VanVelzen writes: >last night i was running the projector at the campus film, Fargo (good >film), and we had a preview reel... well, on that preview reel, there >was >a preview for Gridlock'd, starring Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.... it >looks >good... really good.... i won't say any more Ah yes, Tim the heroine addict, right? All of my idols (almost all of them)m have played heroine addicts or drug abusers or actually are! Just so you know the list: Tim (gridlock--I hadn't known the title) Gary Oldman (Sid&Nancy) Eric Stoltz (Killing Zoe, not to mention a heroine dealer in Pulp Fiction) Ewan McGregor (OBVIOUSLY!!! Trainspotting--a movie ABOUT heroine) Johnny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) Juliette Lewis (The Basketball Diaries) Leonardo DiCaprio (The Basketball Diaries) John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) Uma Thurmon (Pulp Fiction) Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting--OK, so I just think the guy's funny, especially the interview on speed) Malcom McDowell (just for A Clockwork Orange, after that he went down hill) OK, the list goes on, unfortunately Kevin Spacey has yet to play on, but I'm confident he will someday!! OK, real heroine addicts and drug abusers that I idolize (all of which are authors): Lewis Caroll Irvine Welsh William Burroughs Hunter Thomas (I wouldn't be surprised if Vonnegut was a druggie, but if he isn't I love him anyway) Bye, Gren. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:55:31 -0500 From: Nc33@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <961204215528_1651299743@emout04.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 96-12-04 20:29:33 EST, you write: << Ah yes, Tim the heroine addict, right? >> Heroin. Heroin addict. If he were playing a heroine addict, his character would be obsessed with Joan of Arc or Wonderwoman. A one vowel difference can make all the difference. Although there are heroines who do heroin, I suspect. Courage takes its toll. ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 134 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 135 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) OFF... and all my idols are heroine addicts by AimeeNorth@aol.com 2) Re: OFF... and all my idols are heroine addicts by renyoj@popalex1.linknet.net 3) Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts by renyoj@popalex1.linknet.net 4) Off: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts by "Marlow, Marguerite [CSU]" 5) Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts by ailsa 6) Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts by johntravolta@juno.com (Roger "Verbal" Kint) 7) Re: arena dec 96, part one by maria rosaria 8) by drmakarowski@gulf.net 9) Re: Arena article, part one by David.Wright@oberlin.edu 10) Re: arena dec 96, part one by mdo1 11) Re: Arena article, part one by Nc33@aol.com 12) Re: Arena article, part one by maria rosaria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:38:33 -0500 From: AimeeNorth@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: OFF... and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <961205093533_1588111346@emout01.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 96-12-04 20:29:33 EST, you write: > Eric Stoltz (Killing Zoe, not to mention a heroine dealer in Pulp > Fiction) He also played an addict in a made-for-HBO movie, which was on this past summer... the name escapes me.. but it was quite good. aimee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:46:10 -0600 From: renyoj@popalex1.linknet.net To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: OFF... and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <9612051546.AA00600@popalex1.linknet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Yes, but WHAT a heroin dealer! He was so fabulous in Pulp fiction, that I can't begrudge him. I love the cell phone scene. "are you on a cell phone? WHo is this? I don't know who you are?" Debra At 09:38 AM 12/5/96 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 96-12-04 20:29:33 EST, you write: > >> Eric Stoltz (Killing Zoe, not to mention a heroine dealer in Pulp >> Fiction) > >He also played an addict in a made-for-HBO movie, which was on this >past summer... the name escapes me.. but it was quite good. > >aimee > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:49:25 -0600 From: renyoj@popalex1.linknet.net To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <9612051549.AA01083@popalex1.linknet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" don't mean to ask a stupid question, but which one was Johnny Lee miller in Trainspotting? Debra At 07:50 PM 12/4/96 PST, you wrote: > >On Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:30:12 -0600 (CST) Anne M VanVelzen > writes: >>last night i was running the projector at the campus film, Fargo (good >>film), and we had a preview reel... well, on that preview reel, there >>was >>a preview for Gridlock'd, starring Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.... it >>looks >>good... really good.... i won't say any more > >Ah yes, Tim the heroine addict, right? >All of my idols (almost all of them)m have played heroine addicts or drug >abusers or actually are! >Just so you know the list: > >Tim (gridlock--I hadn't known the title) >Gary Oldman (Sid&Nancy) >Eric Stoltz (Killing Zoe, not to mention a heroine dealer in Pulp >Fiction) >Ewan McGregor (OBVIOUSLY!!! Trainspotting--a movie ABOUT heroine) >Johnny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) >Juliette Lewis (The Basketball Diaries) >Leonardo DiCaprio (The Basketball Diaries) >John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) >Uma Thurmon (Pulp Fiction) >Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting--OK, so I just think the guy's funny, >especially the interview on speed) >Malcom McDowell (just for A Clockwork Orange, after that he went down >hill) >OK, the list goes on, unfortunately Kevin Spacey has yet to play on, but >I'm confident he will someday!! > >OK, real heroine addicts and drug abusers that I idolize (all of which >are authors): >Lewis Caroll >Irvine Welsh >William Burroughs >Hunter Thomas >(I wouldn't be surprised if Vonnegut was a druggie, but if he isn't I >love him anyway) > >Bye, >Gren. > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Dec 96 15:50:00 PST From: "Marlow, Marguerite [CSU]" To: "'timrothfan'" Subject: Off: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <32A75FC3@courier.lmu.ac.uk> Hi! Debra, You said: >don't mean to ask a stupid question, but which one was Johnny Lee miller in >Trainspotting? Sick boy *Marguerite* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:07:01 -0500 (EST) From: ailsa To: Tim Roth Fans Subject: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > don't mean to ask a stupid question, but which one was Johnny Lee miller in > Trainspotting? sick boy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:23:52 PST From: johntravolta@juno.com (Roger "Verbal" Kint) To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Gridlock, and all my idols are heroine addicts Message-ID: <19961205.122403.6999.3.johnTravolta@juno.com> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:49:25 -0600 renyoj@popalex1.linknet.net writes: >don't mean to ask a stupid question, but which one was Johnny Lee >miller in >Trainspotting? > >Debra > He was Sick Boy or Simon or SI, as he has many names in the book. I love Ewan more, I've loved him ever sinse I saw Shallow Grave, and he's going to be in a movie with Nick Nolte (I think) called Nightwatch sometime. Gren/ Which remonds me, another heroin adict, of course was played by harvey Keitel in "The Bad Lieutenant", depressing flick. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:06:18 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96, part one Message-ID: <199612052206.WAA21664@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ESCAPE FROM L.A. Tim Roth is chatting away about why he wants to move to New York when he suddenly stops in midsentence. We're drinking in an Irish pub, just off the Bowery in Manhattan. Roth is dressed in usual jeans and T-shirt and is, as usual, a couple of days shy of a shave and a shampoo. A couple walking by outside have stopped by the window and are waving in a determined effort to catch Roth's eye. He waves back with a smile. Rather dopily, I ask if they're mates of his? "Naaah, just fans, I guess." I don't know why it should seem such a surprise that people actually recognise Roth on the street, but it does: There is somethig slightly unexpected, slightly askew about the idea that Tim Roth might be a bona fide big-screen star. His face doesn't quite fit. "Roth" and "stardom" - the two words don't quite click. He probably wouldn't complain about that, though. It's pretty clear that he doesn't want to be thought of as a "star". But then again, plenty of people know his name and his face, whether it fits or not. After a while, some more people come up to the window and wave. It continues to happen every now and then throughout the evening. After a relaxed bar crawl through Little Italy, we eventualy wind up getting a burger. Obsessives will perhaps be disappointed that his choice is a Whopper, not a quarter pounder with or without cheese. But as we're leaving, as Roth wanders out, in his odd, slightly stiff-legged walk, a walk just this side of a strut, as he's about to chomp his Whopper, someone yells out, "Yo Tim! Yo Tim! Loved you in Pulp Fiction, man." "People tend to be very respectful", he says outside, between mouthfuls. "You do get those guys who start off very nice and by the end of the night they want to beat you up. It happened a couple of times in Scotland, when I was shooting Rob Roy. But generally people are really friendly...though they will tell you if they don't like your films. I've sat with a couple of young guys in a bar one night and they told me from film to film why they didn't like what I did, which was fair enough." Of course, Roth has done more than enough to rack up a little recognition value. He has been in two of the most talked about films of the decade - Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. He also took the lead in the most hyped film of last year, Four Rooms, the portmanteau comedy set in a Hollywood hotel and directed by Tarantino, Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell and Robert Rodriguez: In between, the wigged-out toothsomely camp excess he brought to his bad guy role in the men in kilts epic Rob Roy picked up a BAFTA award over here and won him brownie points with Hollywood execs. More recently, he's worked with Woody Allen and even found time to rack up some modelling work - a recent campaign for Prada. "I didn't know who they were at first," he smiles. "But it was a laugh. It only took an afternoon's work and they've been really sweet. They made suits for me, when I got the award. So I've picked up lots of freebies and, yes, I'm up for more work. In the long run, I can see myself taking over from Kate Moss." Roth has even been annointed by the mega-glossy Vanity Fair, who last year put him on their big fold-out cover shot of up and coming actors in Hollywood, alongside the likes of Leonardo Di Caprio and Matthew McConnaughey. But he didn't quite fit in. It wasn't just that at 35, he was a little older than the most of the well-groomed young contenders around him. He looked a bit haphazard standing there. He did, he says, feel a little uncomfortable. "If you look closely at that photograph, you'll see it's actually of me trying to get off the cover of Vanity Fair. I found that a bit embarassing. It was great to be on the cover. Apparently it's the one to be on and, you know, thank you very much. But it did feel a bit silly. All of us there were sitting around wondering, 'What the fuck are we doing here. We're not this school of actors, so what are they trying to do?'". It reminded him of another slightly daft cover shoot he did about ten years ago for a Face story celebrating the Brit Pack, a posse of young home-grown actors (Roth, Gary Oldman, Paul McGann, Daniel Day Lewis, Colin Firth) who were, apparently, gunning for Hollywood, on the verge of kicking the Brat Pack's ass. All of the actors involved have done fine since then, though if you're keeping scores, Daniel Day Lewis has come out on top. He's the one with the Oscar, the one who pulled off a credible stab at an action film - Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans - and also worked with Martin Scorsese. But Roth isn't too far off. He does own up to being a little surprised by how thing have worked out. "It's weird. There was a bunch of us who all came up together. I suppose it started with Phil Daniels, who was the bee's knees, then a whole slew of us came up behind him - me, Gary, Danny, Paul. When I was coming up, I thought Paul was going to be it. He'd done the Monocled Mutineer (the controversial Alan Bleasdale TV series about a WWI deserter), he was the sexiest fucking man on earth and all that, but it never quite happened for him in America, which was weird." Still, if you'd been taking bets ten years ago, your money would have been on Oldman. Perhaps because they shared the same son of lower-middle-class south London background, Roth and Oldman have always been lumped together in the public imagination. Certainly, they broke through over here doing the same kinds of parts - young men slightly out of place, out of kilter, with too much energy to quite know their place, young men pushing at the hierarchies and class barriers of Britain. They worked for the same people. Roth's first role was as the rabidly desperate skinhead teen Trevor in Alan Clarke's Made in Britain. Clarke also gave Oldman one of his best ever roles as the mouthy estate agent/football hooligan in Al Hunter-Ashton's The Firm. They also worked together in Mike Leigh's wonderful study of estate survivalism, Meantime, with Oldman this time playing the skinhead (famously going nowhere in a concrete barrel) and Roth as the gonky loser Colin, sniffing and shambling under a hale of fraternal abuse from elder brother Phil Daniels. The link with this Lewisham-born mate hasn't always worked in Roth's favour. For a while, he was almost in Oldman's shadow. Just before the release of Reservoir Dogs, I remember a Spanish journalist at a film festival near Barcelona suggesting to Roth that he could be the next Gary Oldman. Certainly, it always seemed as if Oldman was going to do the business in Hollywood. But since the relative failure of Dracula, he seems to have gradually lost his way, winding up recently in spectacular clunkers, like the vaguely barmy Beethoven bio-pic Immortal Beloved or Demi Moore's slice of silicone-injected Hot Gothic, The Scarlet Letter. In retrospect, Roth seems to have been cannier about it all, though he denies ever calculating things much. But by not attempting to "take hollywood", he has gradually carved himself out the sort of career enjoyed by the likes of Harvey Keitel or Steve Buscemi, a cereer in which he can balance more interesting work in the independent sector, films he really wants to do (eg James Gray's ferociously downbeat Russian-Jewish gangster flick Little Odessa) with the odd low-key studio picture to pay the rent and keep his profile high (eg Rob Roy). Things are going well enough for him to be able to think about moving away from LA. He never wanted to wind up in Hollywood, he says. His dream was to live in New York. Now he thinks he's established enough to be able to pull it off, so he's here looking at lofts, wondering how to convert them into family homes or build roof gardens for the kids, checking out the view. He's just come from the perfect place:"You should see the view. On one side you've got the Empire State and the Chrysler Building, the other side it's the Twin Towers." All in all, he's not done too bad over the past few years. back in 1993, he was still paying off debts and back taxes and living in a fairly small Hollywood apartment. I know, because one night I broke in. Journalists who interview Hollywood actors are always hustling for more access, though perhaps this was taking things a little too far. Actually I don't even have the excuse of work. I broke in mainly because I was a bit drunk and desperate for a piss. Perhaps I should explain. When Reservoir Dogs was on the international film festival circuit, I interviewed Roth in Barcelona. Perhaps because I didn't spend hours trying to probe his psyche but got drunk and messed about instead, he seemed to quite enjoy it. When I went to LA to interview someone else, he invited me over to a party at his place. I went with another journalist, but by the time we arrived - not that late - everyone had gone. The place was empty but the lights were on, the windows open. It looked as if they had just nipped out. The people in the flat upstairs thought they might have gone for a beer. So we hung around on the balcony, drank the beers we'd brought and pretty soon needed the toilet. There was a pot plant outside, but it didn't look like it could bear both our contributions, so I decided to hop through the window and look for the bathroom. When I told Roth about it later, he said it was lucky he hadn't switched the alarm on. "It's hooked up to some kind of rapid response team, real Nazis. they would have bundled you into a van and dumped you straight in jail. And I didn't come back for a while, so you'd have been there for the weekend." If I'd been professional about it all, I guess I would have made the most of the opportunity and started rifling through the bins and nosing round the bedroom, in search of uesd tubes of pile cream or nipple clamps and strap-ons. As it was, I had other things on my mind. After locating the bathroom, I went to the kitchen and checked the fridge. Roth and his mates had cleaned it out. Ther was no beer in the house. Bastard, as he might say. Perhaps I should have looked a bit harder for "useful material". After all, when you interview Roth, you don't come away with that much of it. Not that the experience isn't fun. But you don't get to indulge much in-depth analysis about why he does what he does. "Who the fuck wants to talk to actors, I mean, really", he says now. "My problem is that it becomes so important, so much weight is attached to what Tom Cruise has to say about whatever. Push comes to shove, I'd rather not do it at all. I really wouldn't. If it were possible to get away without doing it, I would, but you can't do that now. It's in your contract, when you do a film." (TO BE CONTINUED) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:58:23 -0600 (CST) From: drmakarowski@gulf.net To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <199612052258.QAA29636@pompano.pcola.gulf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks Maria, you made my day! I'm ready to do the tape switch, how about you? Jovanna ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 23:18:42 -0400 (EDT) From: David.Wright@oberlin.edu To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part one Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Thank you so much, Maria...I can't wait to read the rest of it... I noticed that this is yet ANOTHER article that starts off by talking about how the interview took place in a bar and all. I think I've yet to read a Tim interview that did not mention this. You've all noticed it too, right?!?! What, does Tim specifically demand that the writers say this? I liked the reporter's description of how Tim walks. I too have always thought he has a really funny walk (in a cool way, of course). The Woody Allen film opens tomorrow, right? Is it opening in anyone's immediate area? It's sure not opening in Oberlin, surprise surprise. I'll have to wait and see if it's opened back home -- i.e., Denver -- when I go back for Christmas. --David ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 22:18:27 -0600 From: mdo1 To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: arena dec 96, part one Message-ID: <32A79E93.366F@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Maria, Whoa!!!!!!!! I guess you're little pinkies are worn to the bone. thanks for putting out the arena story for all the drooling Rothies. I am holding my breath for the next installment. Marilyn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 01:31:09 -0500 From: Nc33@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part one Message-ID: <961206013108_1219914090@emout14.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 96-12-05 23:22:42 EST, you write: << Thank you so much, Maria...I can't wait to read the rest of it... I noticed that this is yet ANOTHER article that starts off by talking about how the interview took place in a bar and all. I think I've yet to read a Tim interview that did not mention this. You've all noticed it too, right?!?! What, does Tim specifically demand that the writers say this? >> I'd like to add my thanks, too, Maria. The first half was great, but it must have been a bitch to type. Looking forward to part 2, if your fingers hold out. I think TR just spends a lot of time in bars, period, so the law of averages lands most interviewers in them, too..... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 06:46:06 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part one Message-ID: <199612060646.GAA27970@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi luvvies! Just give me the time to get back from school (got a temporary job as teacher of German in a secondary school) and eat something and...I'LL GIVE YOU MORE! The Tim Roth Fan official typewriter ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 135 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 136 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Everybody says I love you by David.Wright@oberlin.edu 2) Everybody says I love you by Anne M VanVelzen 3) Re: Arena article, part two by maria rosaria 4) Re: Arena article, part two by David.Wright@oberlin.edu 5) Re: Arena article, part two by maria rosaria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:41:33 -0400 (EDT) From: David.Wright@oberlin.edu To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Everybody says I love you Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I just read the review of Everybody Says... in the New York Times. They called Tim's character the best supporting character and said that he was a "hilariously predatory ex-con" or something like that. No mention of how well Tim sings. The ad copy in the paper said that the movie opens only in New York and Los Angeles this week. It seems to be getting great reviews so far. --David ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:06:20 -0600 (CST) From: Anne M VanVelzen To: Tim Roth Fans Subject: Everybody says I love you Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII here's a movie review from USA Today on Everyone Says I Love You ALLEN'S 'LOVE' SONG CAN CARRY A TUNE Everyone Says I Love You (3 stars out of 4) is Woody Allen's colorsaturatedand openly experimental "I love New York" musical, with a cast of non-singers offering tentative hellos to sharps and flats. If it doesn't quite mandate a veiwer to song burst, this sweet conceit ought to glue a grin on your face until its crucial next-to-last scene hits a clunker note. Despite stop-offs in Venice and Paris, most of the beguilingly odd confection deals with an extended clan whose posh Upper East Side digs are one clean, not mean, streets. As Allen's ex-wife, Goldie Hawn now wed to Alan Alda, and both dads' offspring mingle harmoniously as the city gloriously changes seasons over a calendar year. Now living in Paris, frequent visitor Allen is also an easy fit, with daughter Natasha Lyonne eager to stage-manage a solution to his dreadful love life. In a scenario out of filmmaker Allen's 1988 drama _Another Woman_, she pushes dad to contrive a chance meeting in Venice with married Julia Roberts. This May-December duo has little in common, though Allen conspires in traditional screen-farce fashion to convince Roberts otherwise. Their singing, however, is tin-ear compatible. Otherwise, Roberts is used uncommonly well, while others fare passably with a musical lineup of standards. Hawn can really sing, Alda can a little, and if you stretch it, _Primal Fear's_ Edward Norton even recalls the late song-and-dance man Bobby Van. Genuinely spirited is Allen's affectionate spoofing of musical conventions. Street panhandlers break into tune, as do burn victims and pregnant women in an outrageous hospital number. With ex-con Tim Roth's courtship of Alda-Hawn daughter Drew Barrymore also heavy on guffaws, it's a shame that a wistful penultimate scene between Allen and Hawn falls so flat. Yet some of Allen's Love-fest may merit amorous academy reciprocation after this one-week Oscar-qualifying run.. ---- woo-hoo.... in the same paper, they said that this film has an outside chance of being nominated for best picture... and i just hope that woody allen's prior track record with his supporting actors, coupled with what what just said about Tim being the best in the supporting cast, maybe our boy will get nominated again!!! later anne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 21:11:03 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part two Message-ID: <199612062111.VAA19111@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" These days, he often wants to help the films he's in all he can, so he does it, and tries to have some fun or at least a few drinks in the process. Leaf through some Roth cuttings and you find that most of his interviews take place in bars. You also find a fair few journalists perplexed by his refusal to talk about his childhood or his parents' divorce. They want to know "where all the angst and violence in his performances comes from and where it goes" and they get miffed when they all get out of Roth is "that's my business" or "fuck all that". You can understand why that might be frustrating, though you can also see why Roth doesn't necessarily want to play along. If you're serious about understanding your past, there are people much better at helping you than the average celebrity interviewer. Beyond that, you get the feeling that confessing to hacks about your inner pain is another part of the "star role" that he'd rather pass on. Stars are expected to delve for our delectation. Behind it lies a fairly crude pop psychological stereotype - the idea that actors are somehow damaged, all over the place, in the grip of an inner chaos and, by implication, a gift they can't control. You can understand why some people wouldn't want to play along. For what it's worth, it's clear that his past contains a measure of everyday sadness that somehow feeds into his work. "I suppose you could say I had an absent father," he says. "My parents split up when I was pretty young. We visited all the time and spent time with him, but I never really got together with him. I think I loved him always and forgave him. I think that's one of the most basic things about children - that they're prepared to forgive anything. But when I was in my twenties, I realised how wonderful he was and that, for all his mistakes, I loved him; and then he died, so it was all kind of too late. That kind of residue is...there. You don't realise it, but the incredible effect they have on you...a male figure in your life. He was the male figure in my life...for good or for bad." Divorce doesn't just cause psychological pain for the kids involved. It also dislocates them socially. Family can slide down the social scale, find themselves shunted out of the comfortable life they were living. You wonder whether Roth didn't experience something like that. Clearly, things didn't quite turned out as planned. He failed exams for the grammar schools in his area and wound up at a seriously haard Brixton comprehensive. Ditching his middle-class accent for something more street-level became a matter of survival. It might sound too close to stereotype to say that was there where he started acting. But you can still hear something from his past when he talks now about his approach to work. He once told me that his "method", influenced by Mike Leigh, was to try to know everything about the character, so "they" - journalists, critics, whoever, can't "get you". The standard critical line is that with his tough-guy roles, Roth is compensating for being bullied at school. Maybe. Actually, when you hear him talk about his school, it sounds as if other kids were the least of his troubles. He has plenty of stories about dodgy teachers who didn't care, in particular a Mr Black. "He used to beat us, used to beat children. There were some nasty fuckers there, people who were just really bad with kids, bad at teaching kids. Go figure. Bastards, I hated them all." Roth obviously used his experiences at school and the rage that built up inside while he was there in his debut, Made in Britain. Even now, well over a decade on, it's still a blistering performance, a superbly controlled study of youthful energy blocked and frustrated so that it turns sour and self-destructive. All that was a long time ago, but clearly Roth is still affected by his experiences. It's interesting how often the subject of violence towards kids comes up when you talk to him. And his first stab at directiong will be a film about child abuse, an adaptation of Alexander Stuart's novel The War Zone. Roth and Stuart have just finished working on a first draft of the script. Roth insists he's staying firmly behind the camera. "Acting and directing would be to much to concentrate on. The lead part is a 14-year-old boy, who's in every scene, so, as a director, I've got my work cut out." So why did he choose this for his first stab at directing? "I read the book and thought it was phenomenal. And favourite films of mine are things like My Life As A Dog, because it's about what we do to our kids. As a father, I think about it. I'm lucky to be in a position to make films about that, though probably no-one will see it. It has no car chases. It's not hip guys with guns. I want to make a disturbing film about childhood. So consequently it will have an audience of three." It may be a while before The War Zone appears, but in the meantime, Roth has plenty of films on the way. First out seems likely to be the new Woody Allen movie, Everyone Says I Love You. "It's a full-on musical, singing and dancing and all that. I sing two songs, two duets with Drew Barrymore. I did the singing. It was very embarrassing. They're not looping someone's else's voice over it. I was very surprised. It's probably a crap old fucking performance. I pretty much don't care - I had a good time working on it. He's somebody I always wanted to work with." Also on the way is Buddy Giovinazzo's Gasoline Alley, a more typical Roth indie low-budget effort about the relationship between two brothers. Peter Greene, the deeply dodgy back-door copper from Pulp Fiction, co-stars. There's another low-level studio film, currently called Hoods, a Thirties gangster movie set in Harlem starring Larry Fishburne, Andy Garcia and Vanessa Williams. Roth plays Dutch Schultz: "My performance is very physical, very over the top. It's a bit like Rob Roy. It will either work or it will just go through the fucking floor and I'll get killed for it." When we meet, Roth has just come from the Chicago set of Gridlock. Roth is full of enthusiasm about the project and his co-star Tupac Shakur (who died a couple of weeks after this interview). "It's about two junkies trying to get off heroin in downtown LA. Me and him are the junkies." So how did he find Tupac? "Old Six-pack - he was sweet. He's two different people. When we were inside and he didn't have to be the man that they all want to see, he was the funniest fucker, very witty, very intelligent. But when he was on the street..." he mimes the shutters coming down. "I actually said to him what's it like to have to do that all day. He said it was fucking exhausting. I really liked working with him." So, if he has the time, will he be renewing his working relationship with Quentin Tarantino at some point? There have been suggestions that Roth is "Tarantino's De Niro" - one of those silly, slack comparisons journalists love. If anything, Tarantino is his own De Niro. Stiil, the pair are firm friends. Tarantino cast Roth very well (as guys trying to keep it together in sticky situations, trying to maintain as things spiral out of control) in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Roth comes on rather protective when the director's name comes up. "People are really ripe to kill him now. People don't like his acting stuff. The thing about that is he's really doing what he wanted to do. I think he always really wanted to be an actor and it never worked. Now he can, so he's doing it - love it or hate it. I'm sure he's hurt by what people say about him, but it doesn't stop him. He's certainly got balls, Quentin." Both Tarantino and Roth caught a measure of critical flack the last time they worked together, on the ill-fated Four Rooms. Roth wasn't surprised by the overall reception, though he blames it all on the studios. "When we started doing it, when we were doing it, it was a little experimental movie. But they did the full-on Disney hype to hell, financiers in the editing room, the whole thing, so it deserved what it got. I saw a really early rough cut which was kind of fun, because each section had a distinctly different style, and that was the idea." He picked up some criticism for the Jerry Lewis jitters of his performance as the nervy, nerdy bellhop Ted. "Yeah, but I also get a lot of compliments from it. I meet people who say they love it. They get it on video, get drunk and have a good time. You can have a laugh with it. I decided the first day on the set to be broad with it. Being subtle wouldn't have worked. But then you rely on the editors' sense of comic timing. And each director has a different approach to timing, so it was always going to be difficult." He says, as far as he knows, Tarantino is laying low. "A while ago, he said to me, 'I'm sick of fucking picking up a magazine and seeing myself. I'm trying to hide and it just doesn't work.' I think he's managed to drop out of sight now and he's writing, which is what he does best." Any idea what he's doing? "Who knows...I know he loves blaxploitation movies. He said he wanted to do one himself. Perhaps he doing that. But I really have no idea." So will he be working with Tarantino on one of his self-penned projects? Roth grins. "If he was making a movie and called me up and said I want you to be in it. I would do it, whatever. You know you wouldn't need to see the script. You'd just need to say yes." (TO BE CONTINUED) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 22:02:05 -0400 (EDT) From: David.Wright@oberlin.edu To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part two Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, maria rosaria wrote: > These days, he often wants to help the films he's in all he can, so he does > it, and tries to have some fun or at least a few drinks in the process. Leaf > through some Roth cuttings and you find that most of his interviews take > place in bars. Wow! Did we call that one or what.... Thank you again, Maria. I hope you don't mind all this typing. I think this is the most detailed Tim article I've ever seen. How many more installments do you think there will be? --David ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:00:22 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part two Message-ID: <199612070700.HAA00620@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I hope you don't mind all this >typing. I think this is the most detailed Tim article I've ever seen. How >many more installments do you think there will be? David, I'm having fun, instead! I knew it was worth sharig this interview (and now my presence on this sacred list has finally a sense...). Part three will be the last and there you'll find the stork news and...MORE! Maria ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 136 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 137 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Arena article, part three by maria rosaria 2) Re: Arena article, part three by mdo1 3) Re: Arena article, part three by maria rosaria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:45:54 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part three Message-ID: <199612071445.OAA16558@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At some point in a leisurely bar crawl, Roth takes me to the Bowery Bar. Though this place is not what it once was, nobody here is about to wander over and ask Roth for an autograph. The sound system is playing an Eighties nostalgia compilation, Spandau Ballet warbling their way through "True", that sort of thing. When you get Roth on to politics, it can feel as though you've started up some kind of old Eighties loop. Perhaps because he got out at the start of the Nineties, he has the kind of vehemence you remember having, but have somehow lived through. He fulminates about "Lady Di" ("she was always a fucking right-wing bitch") but saves the bulk of his scorn for Margaret Thatcher. "She's being treated like Nixon was over here - they ask her opinion on things, but this woman was a fucking disgrace. She should have been jailed for what she did, sinking the Belgrano. But she gets millions for writing her memoirs - I wouldn't piss on her memoirs. "There's something about being a displaced person," he continues. " I've watched the run up to the election over here with a dispassionate point of view and it's very interesting. I never felt it was very interesting at home. I just felt they were disgusting. I just wanted her to fucking die - or get caught in a really bad sex scandal with 14 queens from Addis Ababa." In a way, all this is tangled up with the frustration Roth felt during the Eighties. It seemed to be going well enough for him at the start. With Made in Britain, Meantime and The Hit, Stephen Frears' existential Brit gangster flick, under his belt by the middle of the decade, he seemed like the archetypal post-punk success story. But again, things went out of kilter. He found himself blocked, unable to get the kind of work he wanted. He became, by his own admission, a bit of a self-destructive pain. He drank, slept around, pissed off his mates. The thing was, he says, he needed to work and "they" wouldn't let him. So he had to go. His break came when he was cast as Van Gogh in Altman's Vincent And Theo. That got his name known in America, he scored a couple of roles in independent movies, packed his bags and left. For a while he was depressed and guilty about it all. Is he still bothered by going? "Fuck all that. I'm way over that. No guilt over leaving at all. I'm pleased to be out of England bacause I grew up in the wrong time there. I grew up during Thatcher's rise and fall and anyone who grew up then is better off out of it. I'm very fortunate in that I can live somewhere else. When I first moved to America, I had no money. I couldn't make the next month's rent. Now I can, but it may change, in which case I don't know what I'll do - I doubt if I'd go back to London. I'd rather go to France. I couldn't go back to Britain. I hate those people - not the Btritish people. I hate the politicians over there." Someone once said that social mobility is the key to Roth. It's true that he hates being pinned down. He hates being placed. That's one reason why he went to America - he got away from class structures and classroom memories, away from laddy parts and diminishing horizons. He's even (unconsciously) losing the vocal traces of his homeland. Now, his accent hovers somewhere between south London and New York. Strangely, he sounds more convincing now playing Americans than Brits - there was something a little odd about his cockney accent in Pulp Fiction... His decision to go for American roles when he got to the States was the smartest thing he did. Oldman showed him the way, he says. In a way, it's all about flexibility too, escaping categories. "I always thought that if I played Americans and I was good enough at the accent, then with a bit of luck they'd think I was American, then when they found out I wasn't, I would get cast in anything. It would be like, 'get that guy in', not 'get that English guy' but just 'get that guy in'. It's kind of worked out for me that way." Most Roth profiles note how happy he seems these days. Perhaps it's down to the fact that he has worked a lot over the past few years, and grown up through his work; got a few things out of his system; lost the edginess he had. Roth puts it down to being married and in love and getting a new family together. He and his wife, Nikki, have one baby son, Hunter, and another boy on the way, due around the end of the year. Roth wants a daughter and is thinking of trying again. "If we have another boy, fine. We'll leave it and maybe adopt when we get a bit older". He's also spending a lot of time with his 12-year-old son Jack, from a previous relationship, and blabs away proudly about his achievements at school. In part Roth's move to New York is for his kids. He doesn't want them to grow up in LA, around the film industry, wants them to grow up in a "real city". So has becoming a dad again changed him? "I don't know. It certainly sorts your priorities out." He tells a story about being in LA recently, driving his son Jack and a couple of his friends to a restaurant. "I realised the precious fucking cargo I had in my old, fucking, beat-up truck and slowed down, became this ridiculous old-aged-pensioner driver. I'm sure one of the subliminal things about moving to New York is I won't have to drive anymore. Driving terrifies me - it's like having a fucking gun and firing off in the general direction." So will fatherhood and family life change the roles he plays? Is he about to put his name down for The Return Of The Flipper? "I don't think so. Actually, that's not true. I would love to do a kids' movie, but one of those old twisted movies made in the Fifties, the scary ones." Tim Roth in a children's film? Actually, it's not that much of a stretch. A few years ago, you could say there was definitely a Roth role, something that mixed violence with vulnerability, laddy aggression with a kind of insecurity and uncertainty. But he's leaving that behind, trying different things, from the clownish physicality of his performances in Rob Roy and Four Rooms to the shutters-down minimalism of his hitman in Little Odessa. His success has brought a measure of clout in the American indie world. He can help to get some films made. So it will be interesting to see the body of work he puts together over the next few years. "At the moment, I am trying to do as many different kinds of things as I can," he says. There's going to come a point where I'm not going to be able to. But right now, I'm of an age where I can. I'd like to do some wacky comedies so I go off and do that, or some weird shit, or whatever. Those opportunities aren't going to be around for that long. When I hit 40, someone else will probably get offered the parts that are coming to me now." It sound as if he's got things all worked out. "I still don't have a game plan, as they say over here. Never had one, don't really want one. The only thing I would like is to be an actor, in the sense that Harvey Keitel or Harry Dean Stanton are still actors. I never want to be the leading man. You start off as a leading man, you're fucked. You're limited. I want to be an actor for all my life. So I have no problem playing second or third fiddle." For the moment at least, he still has the room to manoeuvre. After he finishes his burger, we chat for a while. He has to go off and meet his wife. They want to check out their prospective new home at night, have another look at the view. I have to get back to my hotel but I'm not quite sure how to get there. Neither is Roth, so he stops someone on the street and asks the way. They don't recognise him at all. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 13:01:23 -0600 From: mdo1 To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part three Message-ID: <32A9BF03.2B9E@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MARIA, THANKS FOR THE ARTICLE. IT WAS GREAT, ONE OF THE BEST I'VE READ. YOU'RE A PEACH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO ALL THAT TYPING. tHER IS A BOOK STORE HERE THAT CARRIES "ARENA" THEY JUSDT HAVE'NT RECIEVED THE NEW ISSUE YET. ARE THERE ANY GOOD PICTURES? IF NOT I'LL PROBABLY FORGET IT. MARILYN ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:30:12 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Arena article, part three Message-ID: <199612071930.TAA25425@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I forgot to add a big THE END at the end of it. The article was by Jim McClellan. The picture are just as COOL as the article Maria ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 137 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 138 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Everybody says I love you by maria rosaria 2) Re: Everybody says I love you by mdo1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 17:47:30 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Everybody says I love you Message-ID: <199612081747.RAA24251@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Los Angeles Times Woody Allen's interview "On the other hand there was Tim Roth. Apparently music coordinator Dick Hyman called up Allen and expressed reservations about Roth's singing abilities, which, given the vocal limitations of the other actors, is saying something. 'Tim Roth was amazing', Hyman says. 'I didn't think he was able to handle it. He learned much better than I gave him credit for.'" In an Italian magazine I found the titles of the songs Timmy sings: "IF I HAD YOU" "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 18:43:34 -0600 From: mdo1 To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Everybody says I love you Message-ID: <32AB60B6.6CA@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit maria rosaria wrote: > > >From the Los Angeles Times Woody Allen's interview > "On the other hand there was Tim Roth. Apparently music coordinator Dick > Hyman called up Allen and expressed reservations about Roth's singing > abilities, which, given the vocal limitations of the other actors, is saying > something. > 'Tim Roth was amazing', Hyman says. 'I didn't think he was able to handle > it. He learned much better than I gave him credit for.'" > > In an Italian magazine I found the titles of the songs Timmy sings: > "IF I HAD YOU" > "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME" MARIA, GIRLFRIEND, YOU ARE THE OFFICAL INFO QUEEN OF THE TIM ROTH FAN GROUP . THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO YOU HAVE DISPENCED THIS WEEKEND. I FOR ONE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE "EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU", BUT IT HAS'NT BEEN RELEASED HERE YET. WISH YOU WERE HERE SO WE COULD SEE IT TOGETHER. IT WOULD BE GREAT FUN SO SEE IT WITH SOMEONE WHO IS AS BIG A FAN AS ME. MARILYN ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 138 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 139 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Arena Article by Michdurham@aol.com 2) Re: the zoo keeper by maria rosaria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:15:21 -0500 From: Michdurham@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu (timrothfans) Subject: Arena Article Message-ID: <961213131521_1920295577@emout17.mail.aol.com> A big "thank you" to Maria for typing all that out. It's the best thing I've ever seen about Tim. Cheers, Michelle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 18:43:04 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: the zoo keeper Message-ID: <199612131843.SAA11578@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We've heard about another mysterious Timmy movie called the "Zoo Keeper". My friend read it is dated 1995. I also found this title in one of the links in Jen's page (Kathie's Tim Roth Wallpaper Page). Who will help in my search for more infos? ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 139 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 140 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: everybody says i love you by maria rosaria 2) by Berit Kristin Nesje Ellingsen 3) Vincent & Theo by selbert@spessart.com 4) Re: Vincent & Theo by mdo1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:41:45 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: everybody says i love you Message-ID: <199612182041.UAA02574@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I just listened to Tim's song "If I had You". It's old fashioned romantic stuff and he's GOOD at it! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:48:34 -0800 (PST) From: Berit Kristin Nesje Ellingsen To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII test test test test test ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:43:44 +0000 From: selbert@spessart.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Vincent & Theo Message-ID: <03434457708832@spessart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just joined the list, and my first order of business is to ask if anyone knows where I can get a copy of "Vincent and Theo." I love this movie! Tim is perfecto in it, and Paul Rhys is great too. I tried ordering a copy from Video Flicks in Canada, but they had none, and told me it was out of print. If anyone knows where it can possibly be found (I live in Oregon!), or if someone can sell it to me...? Before I go, my thoughts on Tim Roth. I first saw him when my sister and I rented "Reservoir Dogs," followed closely by renting "Vincent and Theo" and seeing his marvelous performance in "Murder in the Heartland." Will anyone ever release that on video? Anyway, his perfection of character just overwhelmed me immediately. Some actors just enter the screen and take you over, and Tim Roth is one of them. His work is art! That's it! Janice ** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:29:48 -0600 From: mdo1 To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Vincent & Theo Message-ID: <32B8C4BC.4035@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit selbert@spessart.com wrote: > > Just joined the list, and my first order of business is to ask if anyone > knows where I can get a copy of "Vincent and Theo." I love this movie! Tim > is perfecto in it, and Paul Rhys is great too. I tried ordering a copy from > Video Flicks in Canada, but they had none, and told me it was out of print. > If anyone knows where it can possibly be found (I live in Oregon!), or if > someone can sell it to me...? > Before I go, my thoughts on Tim Roth. I first saw him when my sister and I > rented "Reservoir Dogs," followed closely by renting "Vincent and Theo" and > seeing his marvelous performance in "Murder in the Heartland." Will anyone > ever release that on video? Anyway, his perfection of character just > overwhelmed me immediately. Some actors just enter the screen and take you > over, and Tim Roth is one of them. His work is art! That's it! > > Janice > > ** HI JANICE, IF YOU CHECK ALL THE VIDEO STORES ON THE NET YOU MIGHT FIND ONE WITH A COPY OF "VINCENT AND THEO". I HAVE FOUND SEVERAL TIM VIDEOS THAT WAY. I DON'T PERSONALLY HAVE THAT PARTICULAR VIDEO SO I CAN'T HELP WITH A COPY. BEST OF LUCK WITH YOU'RE SEARCH. MARILYN ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 140 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 141 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: captives by Amys26@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:36:53 -0500 From: Amys26@aol.com To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: captives Message-ID: <961219183645_1687312861@emout05.mail.aol.com> I saw Captives on video recently and I have to say that although it was a bit slow at points, Tim was looking quite good. He definitely should stick with the long hair although changing his appearance to suit the roles is good. He and Julia Ormond had excellent chemistry too, she may have redeemed herself after terrible performances in Legends and Sabrina. Can't wait for Everybody says I Love You. --amy s. ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 141 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 142 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: the zoo keeper by mdo1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 14:44:25 -0600 From: mdo1 To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: the zoo keeper Message-ID: <32BC4C29.4B45@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit maria rosaria wrote: > > We've heard about another mysterious Timmy movie called the "Zoo Keeper". My > friend read it is dated 1995. I also found this title in one of the links in > Jen's page (Kathie's Tim Roth Wallpaper Page). Who will help in my search > for more infos? Maria, I have been searching for "Zoo Keeper" and I can't find a listing for this movie anywhere. I've checked all the movie sites on the web that I could find, with no success. I wonder if it was made in England therefore it won't show up on any U.S. movie sites. How are you coming with you're search? Marilyn ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 142 **************************** TIMROTHFAN Digest 143 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: happy holidays! by maria rosaria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 12:46:19 GMT From: maria rosaria To: timrothfan@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: happy holidays! Message-ID: <199612241246.MAA03774@uniserv.uniplan.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ^ A MERRY CHRISTMAS ^^^ TO ALL MY ROTHIAN ^^^^^ MATES!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^^^^^^ MARIA ROSARIA ^^^^^^^^^ III ------------------------------ End of TIMROTHFAN Digest 143 ****************************