I finished making the screencaps from "Gorky Park". I'm going to miss it. Not the scene with Brian Dennehy and the tree though. That one upsets me.

"Gorky Park" is actually one of the first memories I have with William Hurt. My family ran a video store. We'd rent out VHS tapes from our actual kitchen. You know. Those clunky things that were in boxes. Well when my sister and I were young we'd help to put the tapes back in the empty boxes. There were always these tapes that no matter how hard we looked for them we could not find the boxes to. One of these mysteries was a film called "Gorky Park". It was like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. It was elusive and an obsession.

Well one day I was on the ground. Don't ask me why. I have no memory. I was about 7 or 8. All I remember is being on the ground and looking under a shelf. Lost amid the bird seed and budgie feathers (my family had budgies up on the top video shelf that would occassionally poop on our customers heads) there was a tape case. I pulled it out. It was the long lost "Gorky Park". I remember being happy about finding it. I can't remember what I thought of William Hurt. I think I thought he was handsome. I remember the photos on the case because I was curious about the film after it having been MIA for so long. Also, despite what people say, and how deceptive it can be, people usually do judge a book by the cover and you usually will judge if you want to give a movie a chance by the case.

Years later a neighbour would give me the book to "Gorky Park". I never got around to reading it. Maybe I will someday.

I added some more King of Queens: Shrink Wrap screencaps. I know, I know one of them is just of William Hurt's knee. I'm pathetic I know.

I think that probably Mr. William Hurt would ask me why I am bothering with so many screencaps in the first place. I'm sure he'd say "I want to be known as an actor. Those are photos. They don't move. They are the opposite of action."

And I would say "Well, if you click the 'next' button fast enough they move."

To which he may say "..."

And I would then have to explain in my ineloquent way, because I am very very shy,  that, "Well, actually, one single picture can make me remember a whole sequence. It happens in my head, you see. One photo can remind me of how a character acted or reacted, the arch of a brow, the tilt of the head or the waving of a hand. I can hear the dialogue in my head. I can see the movement. I don't need a photo to do that but when I see a photo it works that magic inside my mind. And visuals are important to some extent or else God would have made us all look the same. It's just that the problem doesn't come from saying that someone is handsome or beautiful the problem arises when someone says that someone isn't either of those. Every single person is gorgeous unless their soul has been completely corrupted and that is probably a rare occurrence."

I have no idea what Mr. Hurt would say to that but I think the second thing he would probably ask is "What are you doing putting words in my mouth?"

If you go through the promotional image sections to William Hurt films you will see multiple copies of the same image. This seems a little strange right? Or maybe it just looks like I haven't been paying attention or I have a bad memory. Aha!  There is a reason, however. I like different qualities to different photos. I like how some are closer and some are farther away.

This is probably strange in itself. Just ignore me and enjoy the photos whatever quality they may be.

I added a gallery to William Hurt's stage work. So far all I have in there is Hurlyburly. I saw a nice photo once for Beside Herself. I will kick myself forever because I've never been able to find the darn thing again!

Sigh.