Director and writer Bob Clark no longer walks among us my friends.
Bob Clark, director of such classics as Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, Porky’s and Baby Geniuses (okay, maybe that last one wasn’t so classic) was killed in a car crash yesterday along with his son. They were driving down the Pacific Coast Highway when a drunk driver in an SUV swerved into oncoming traffic.
Ok, we have to forgive the guy for Baby Genius movies. Sometimes you just gotta pay the bills.
But this guy directed PORKY’S!!! This is the movie that introduced me to what women were all about when I was eight! That alone has shaped my future and taught me not to stick my penis in a hole in a wall that leads to a girls shower. How valuable is that bit of information? Imagine how your world would be had you not learned of this.
That, and the lamp. If Christmas Story taught us anything, it was that a fishnet stocking covered woman’s leg makes a fine lamp suitable for the front window, and that you can take an eye out with a Red Ryder BB gun.
And to top it all off, Bob was a Canadian. Delivering these messages to the masses in popular media.
And let’s not forget She-Man a movie directed and written by Bob in which a soldier is forced to take estrogen and wear lingerie when he’s blackmailed by a violent transvestite. Maybe they will remake this 67 classic with Chris Tucker in it. Gold baby, solid Gold.
RIP Bob Clark, you will be missed. As for the drunk driver (who survived), you deserve far worse than any punishment you ever get.
