Billy Bob shows YOU – the new breed of ENQUIRER reader –how to twist a walk-away yawn interview into an insane worldwide media frenzy!
a) Show up to a radio interview to hype your band –
b) get psychotronic when they talk about your past as an award winning actor/director
c) discuss in great detail your desire to win the Famous Monsters of Filmland monster model customizing contest back in the 1960s.
Now instead of digging through dirt, "experts" are combing back issues of the classic monster mag to identify Thornton’s entry. (Hint: it has an Aurora King Kong on the cover – pictured)
Here’s a transcript of the interview (so you don’t have to waste time scrumming through a 10 minute video to find the good stuff)
BILLY BOB: …I just liked baseball when I was a kid.
INT: …Heh. And you almost became a professional baseball player, right?
BILLY BOB: I dunno. …Maybe.
INT: You didn’t love music when you were a kid?
BILLY BOB: Uh… Uh… I subscribed to a magazine called Famous Monsters of FilmLand . The publisher was guy named Forrest J. Ackerman, who passed away recently.
INT: Do you remember what you were listening to musically, when you were a kid?
BILLY BOB: They had a contest, where you could build your own model, and it could be like a King Kong, or it could be anything… they made these plastic models in those days, that you could buy and then put together. But this was like a thing you could create your own world of it. Make telephone poles and make the railroad tracks and everything.
And uh.. I actually did enter it once. I didn’t win anything. But I gave it a shot. It was a big deal for us kids in those days.
INT: Uh… and uh, where was the music in all that?
BILLY BOB: Uh… music? No, it was a monster magazine.
