Today, our quote of the day in our continuing look at 32 people from the 32 countries in The World Cup belongs to Chilean Experimental Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky who shocked the world with his surreal western "EL Topo" in 1970.
According to the IMDB, he later wanted to film the science fiction novel "Dune" with Orson Welles in a leading role, but David Lynch beat him to it, and that version of "Dune" (which I believe has also been remade for tv) did not have Welles.
Jodorowsky also conducted the 2005 wedding between shock rocker Marilyn Manson and kinky film star Dita Ven Teese (well, we aren't fully certain which profession she's in). They divorced in 2007.
As for futbol, Chile faces Spain tomorrow which along with the Portugal-Brazil game is expected to be one of the more exciting first round games. Today, Slovakia stunned Italy 3-2 with two goals from Robert Wittek (25th min. and 73rd min.) and another one from Kamil Kopunek in the 89th minute. We presume Slovak tennis sensation Daniela Hantuchova (see earlier entry) is quite happy!
"El Topo," which was a midnight movie phenom in its day, is available from Netflix. The film was a favorite of the recently deceased Dennis Hopper, who assuredly would have loved this quote from Jodorowsky:
"I ask of film what most Americans ask of psychedelic drugs."
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