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Rockets Redglare

Rockets Redglare

Rockets Redglare (May 8, 1949 – May 28, 2001) was an American character actor and stand-up comedian.  As well as his career as an entertainer, he worked as a roadie for a band called The Hassles (with a young Billy Joel), and as a bodyguard and drug supplier to punk rock bassist Sid Vicious and artist-musician Jean Michel Basquiat.

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Who Killed Nancy? (2009)

On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vi ...

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Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)

Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently claimed ...

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Rockets Redglare! (2003)

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor ...

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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd (2001)

THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker's works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare concert footage of Zedd's music project, the noise band Zyklon-B. Contains: Police State, The Bogus Man, Ec ...

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Animal Factory (2000)

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to hi ...

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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man (1999)

This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions. ...

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Louis & Frank (1998)

Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag. ...

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Fall (1997)

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels in love. But Sarah has more than just passion on her mind; she also has a husband and a glamorous lifestyle ...

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Basquiat (1996)

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity. ...

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Trees Lounge (1996)

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seve ...

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What About Me (1993)

After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York. ...

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In the Soup (1992)

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film. ...

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Little Noises (1992)

A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune. ...

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Force of Circumstance (1990)

A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents. ...

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In the Spirit (1990)

After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being pursued by a crazed killer. ...

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Sons (1990)

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. ...

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Mystery Train (1989)

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles up ...

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Cookie (1989)

Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter. ...

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Rooftops (1989)

T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowe ...

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Talk Radio (1988)

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national. ...

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Big (1988)

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with t ...

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Shakedown (1988)

When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sal ...

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Stars & Bars (1988)

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric. ...

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Candy Mountain (1988)

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker ...

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Police State (1987)

In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that "freedom is an illusion." A black comedy-satire / protest film featuring Rockets Redglare. ...

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Salvation! (1987)

A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star. ...

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Her Name is Lisa (1987)

A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide. ...

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Down by Law (1986)

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans. ...

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The Perils of P.K (1986)

P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if she could only get a big-name star to appear in a movie with her. She relates all these problems, and man ...

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The Way It Is (1986)

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead. ...

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Where Evil Dwells (1985)

Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner's Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between ...

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After Hours (1985)

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman. ...

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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery. ...

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Last Rights (1985)

A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murdering her husband. It was described by Tessa Hughes-Freeland in "The Underground Film Bulletin #4" as "A murderess's last testament, explicating her view of ...

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Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America. ...

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