Yes, another one. This one is not exactly about how creepy all of his roles are (especially that Kelly Leak--scary!) or anything like that; they are more about coincidences that I have found in roles all throughout his career (isn't it sad how I have an eye for this kind of stuff?).
For one, did you know that in 1974, he guested on an episode of The Partridge Family, the one entitled "Strike Out King," where Danny joins a baseball team? Then, two years later, he would go on to star in a little baseball themed movie you may know called The Bad News Bears. So an early chunk of his career had something to do with baseball.
Then (and yes, I suppose this is straying into "creepy" territory), a bunch of his movies deal with bad things happening to children (Little Children, a part or two of Watchmen, A Nightmare on Elm Street--2010). More often than not (except for Rorschach, who was just investigating it), he was the one who was doing it/had done it.
Also, many of his characters only have one name: Eric, Bill, Moocher, Dave, Einstein (no, not that one), Dukes, Guerrero, Stick, Turk, Harlan, Tom, Kraik, Tony, Rusty....
He once delivered pizza to a guy who had edited one of his movies (this was when his career was in its "practically nonexistent" phase).
His son's name is Christopher, and as we all know (or you should, if you've read this blog at all--cough cough, "Eldo" page, cough cough), that is the first name of Chance in the now-departed Human Target.
Moocher and Kelly Leak both had tempers and liked to hit people (Moocher more than Kelly, but woe to you if you dare call Kelly's dad a "f----t.").
"Kelly" and "Guerrero" both mean the same thing, "warrior." How appropriate.
He acted opposite Kate Winslet in both Little Children and All the King's Men.
He's one of the partners to Chance's bodyguard; he played a bodyguard in All the King's Men (the one where his name was "Sugar Boy").
When he stopped acting, he drove a limo for a bit; in the "Taking Ames" episode of Human Target he played a driver.
He lives and is the president of JEH Productions in San Antonio, Texas, the same state graced by his Bears and their Bad News in Breaking Training.
There is a racehorse named Kelly Leak. I'm not kidding. I think he even won some sort of big race or something. Hold on. Here. Check it out yourself. I've done the work for you, loser. http://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Kelly_Leak
A stretch? Maybe, but think about this: That's what the five-foot-five (and a half) Jackie Earle Haley has to do every time he wants something that's high up on a shelf.
Go Jackie Earle Haley! And go Kelly Leak! Win one for the Looper!
Yeah. I had to go there.
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