In
LA Weekly, Peter Relic writes about his attempt to profile Evel Knievel for
Rolling Stone earlier this year.
From the other end of the phone came a sigh: “Peter, I don’t want or need Rolling Stone to do a story on me after all these years. In 1974 Rolling Stone sent a shit named Joe Eszterhas to write a story about me when I attempted to make my Snake River Canyon jump. And when the story came out, the title of the story was "King of the Goons." It hurt, it hurt very much, and I know a thing or two about pain. Now, I’m not judging your insides by the cover of your magazine. I’m sure you’re a decent human being. And God knows we all make mistakes. [Pause.] I made some of my biggest live on national television. But Rolling Stone made a mistake when they ran that story.”
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In a nutshell: reporter can't get an interview with EK, BB quotes only paragraph that's not pure filler.
That paragraph really makes me feel like EK was a heck of a guy. He succinctly, and sincerely, tells the reporter "nothing personal, but no."
Evel was a 'heck of a guy' alright. Anyone ever read the Wikipedia entry on him? It's quite a fascinating read. I had no idea about half the stuff he was mixed-up in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel
Total maniac, but I loved him as a kid for sure.
Whatever happened to Super Dave Osborne, anyway?
The LA Weekly used to be an actual GOOD weekly newspaper.
Over recent years it's devolved into some sort of mutant VARIETY or HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, with all sorts of impossible-to-fathom interviews and articles...not to mention it's bizarre collection of regular nonsensical "LA oriented" editorial cartoons (all in a "we can't draw" Gary Panter vein
The LA Weekly recently did an interview with "I'm Not There" director Todd Haynes that was more about interviewer insights and opinions.
With the advent of sloppy and bogus internet and blog "writing", newspapers have simply hit the skids (in all formats and markets)
The LA Weekly's Evel Knievel article is simple more pointless fluff and more of why I never pick it up anymore.
I remember that back-cover comic book ad for Evel Knievel's line of toys vividly. I eventually conned my parents into getting me the Stunt Cycle, Stunt Chopper, and the Sky Cycle. Never was able to get the Scramble Van, though.
Sigh...
I've seen Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein) on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development. His brother is Albert Brooks.
Does anyone have a link to the Rolling Stone story written by the shit?
Joe E.'s nastyness has a radioactive half-life like unto plutonium.