Stephen Williamson
@nextimaginaut
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1/2 And then don’t forget Dennis Hopper’s even more explicit Trump caricature as Super Mario Bros.’ (1993) President Koopa (complete with sexual predation), now all the uncannily prescient by his character plot (i.e. perpetrating an illegal coup to assume the presidency and then perverting the
Notably also the first of his Trump caricatures with the second Batman Returns’ Max Schreck
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The combo of the robe and greasy hair whipped back like may have actually been as much a purposeful evocation of Jack Torrence here (so as to further convey what a failed deadbeat American father he is) as it is of Bridges’ The Dude: media.timeout.com/images/12091...
Nearly all of my books are currently boxed up, but I can proffer this gem #esotericbookchallenge