Timothy Bottoms

What a pretentious movie.

As a law school graduate, I am glad I wasn't in that old boy's class. We had some question and answer sessions but in the end there wasn't time, so we were crammed. Might as well have been a county seat lawyer, more practical and satisfying I should think.

Most of the questions were really rather superficial as if the scripwriters didn't know a challenging contract law question from an easy one. They should have got better advisers.

Annoying movie. I guess “realistic” at the time - but dated badly.

The professor, who was very camp, enjoys stellar work and home conditions for his efforts.

Never saw the movie but I remember the TV series. I watched one episode and that old hammy British actor was so over the top, I never went back for seconds.

One of the dated things is that some of the students are married.

Saw that movie years ago and haven't seen it since.

Timothy Bottoms was the best thing about The Last Picture Show.

And that's really saying something.

Thanks R8. I forgot about that movie. I didn't think it lived up to it's hype but it was very good. Jeff Bridges was adorable. OMG, now I'm remembering Cloris Leachman (sp?) and Ben Johnson! I have to find this on Netflix or Amazon --- have to watch it again. Thanks!

OP I'm confused. Were you really asking about him being a bottom or were you asking us to discuss his movie roles. Please clarify...

He played Bush in the short-lived parody of the Bush White House by the South Park guys. It was really funny.

John Houseman was not English

R12 Thank you! I stand corrected.

Excuse me, I am R5. I never said squat bout J H being English or not.

R14 I was not replying to you.

Oh God! Now I'm offending multiple people. Sorry! I'm R6 and was responding to R12. Forgive me R5. I hope to die in a grease fire.

He was cute back then and aged well.

I confuse him with the young man who won the Oscar for Ordinary People...Timothy Hutton.

R18 Buck could have been a lawyer.

R6, who did you mean by “ that old hammy British actor“?

R20 - the answer is upthread at R12 but I'll repeat for you: R12 told me that the hammy actor to whom I was referring was NOT British. The hammy actor was American - John Houseman.

R21, Houseman was born in Romania, came to the US in his 20s and became a US citizen in his 40s. And he was not hammy in The Paper Chase but may have appeared to be on the verge of hamming when the fussy academic nature nearly overcame hammy Prof Kingsfield, his character. There are some good shower scenes with Timothy Bottoms.

If you google Timothy Bottoms nude, scroll down and there is a video on Xhamster of him walking full frontal to the camera.

Does anyone know in what part of Britain John Houseman was born? He sounds like he's from Birmingham.

R24 He was born in Bucharest Romania.

John Houseman was Patti Lupone's acting teacher at Julliard and she revealed in her autobio that her grabbed her and choked her because of her diction.

Houseman was correct.

I love Patti Lupone! And that SOB Houseman choked her? Those damn Brits.

He was a Romanish, R28.

Oscar says, "Timothy Bottoms is Tops!"

R29 Romanish? Like Polanski?

R31 Someone has to get through to the drunken queens here that the guy was born in Romania. If Romanish/Polanski piques the attention deficit, so be it.

I love this thread! Half of you don't get the joke and the other half keep promoting it!

The only thing I liked about that movie was Lindsay Wagner!

R33 is ... practically perfect in every way ...

R34 I forgot about Lindsay Wagner - thank you! She deserves her own thread.

They showed "The Paper Chase" on TCM a few days ago. It seems very dated. I especially hated the romance between Bottoms and Lindsay Wagner. He's walking along and this very attractive blonde woman runs up and grabs his arm, saying someone is "following" her. He escorts her home. Then shortly after, he comes back to her place and knocks on her door. She lets him in...and they fuck! She said she would have invited him in the first night but for...I don't remember. But anyway, it was insane. Here's this guy, this stranger, who's not even that attractive, and she invites him in and fucks him? I know it's the seventies where everybody fucked everybody but even so it still seemed crazy.

[quote] But anyway, it was insane. Here's this guy, this stranger, who's not even that attractive, and she invites him in and fucks him?

That's why they hated us and we got AIDS and they hated us and they continue to hate us.

I used to love that anonymous sex thang. Sometimes I didn't even know the guy's name until after we had cum in each other's mouths. Othertimes we just walked away after swallowing, without any formal introduction at all.

R37 Yikes! Yes, the 70s were sexually crazy. I'm grateful I lived through that decade. To R38, it wasn't just gays - it was everyone. Everybody fucked everybody with no thought of consequences. Yes, there was a Woodstock feeling but there was also a doomsday feeling to that era. Maybe it was the VietNam war. I don't know. But we just didn't give shit then. Again, I'm grateful to have gotten out healthy!

I just never understood Susan's immediate attraction to Hart. I can understand HIM wanting to jump her bones immediately; she was model beautiful. But him, with his corkscrew curls and caterpillar mustache? Yech! I have no idea why should would have wanted to jump into bed with him.

R41 That's how it was. "Boys" ruled and girls wanted to be accepted by them so they latched on to anyone. Oh, wait. Is it so different now?

I watched it on TCM and it was the second time, the first being when it came out. I was reminded of how popular snorkel jackets were back then.

So cute in Last Picture Show. Seeing him naked 40 years later is just not the same.

SPOILER for anyone who hasn't seen "The Paper Chase." At the end of the movie (and at the end of the novel it was based on) Hart makes a paper airplane out of his law school grades and sails it off into the sea without even looking at them. So what the fuck does THAT mean? That he doesn't give a shit about law school anymore? Has his sneering, stuck up girlfriend finally convinced him that law school is a crock, so why bother? I thought it was a stupid ending.

[quote] law school is a crock

I agree. Also in the movie, the Prof was one of the laziest educators I've ever seen.

[quote]John Houseman was Patti Lupone's acting teacher at Julliard and she revealed in her autobio

Didn't she also make some comment about how some girl kissed his penis?