THE GREAT GONZO
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EXTRAORDINARY DANCING AND ENTERTAING PEOPLE
Male
105 years old
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 6/15/2006
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Dating, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | UNKNOWN | | Body type: | 2' 0" / Athletic | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Occupation: | GREAT ENTAINER |
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About me:
Just when you thought there was no future in being a Gonzo fan…
I've always loved Gonzo. From the first time the little blue weirdo stepped out on a certain stage and announced to a restless audience that he would eat a rubber tire to the music of "The Flight of the Bumblebee", Gonzo's took up a special place in my heart. Even as a very young child, I identified with his enthusiasm touched by melancholy, his obsession tinged with mania, and his creativity born of destruction and daring.
But I quickly learned that being a Gonzo fan was not all fun and games. Although Gonzo did become one of the Muppet Show's top billings, he never was really a star. The stars were Kermit and Miss Piggy. Being Kermit's sidekick gave Fozzie a little more screen time than the average second banana, but basically, the pig and the frog were it. Don't get me wrong - I have always liked Kermit, Piggy, and Fozzie - but, I must confess, during many Muppet Show backstage scenes, I was secretly ignoring the foreground action to see if Gonzo might be standing upstairs near the dressing rooms or just wandering around through the props and backgrounds. If he was, I didn't watch anyone else.
Needless to say, my favorite episodes were "Gonzo" ones, like when Gonzo falls in love with Madeline Kahn, when Gonzo decides to leave for India to become a movie star, when Gonzo auditions dancing chickens, when Gonzo plays Darth Vader, when Gonzo puts himself through his own torture of chambers as a happily loopy Sheriff of Nottingham. What Gonzo fan can forget our beloved little blue whatever's "I Am Strolling Down Memory Lane Without a Single Thing to Remember" or "The Wishing Song"?
And, of course, that beautiful, haunting ballad "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday". I must confess that song had a pretty amazing effect on me when I first heard it at 9 years old. And as I traveled through my teenage and adult years, it continued to be an inspiration to me. Just like Gonzo himself, it epitomizes sad longing and eternal hope simultaneously. Somehow hearing and singing along with it always made me feel better in bad times.
But did any of us Gonzo fans ever dream one of our favorite Muppet anthems would become a movie?
And what a movie, from the beginning dream sequence where Gonzo is rejected a ride on the ark for being one-of-a-kind to his joyous reunion with his original family and his equally happy reunion with his adoptive one, "Muppets From Space" is an interesting, happy, and sweet film. Even non-Gonzo fans can enjoy Rizzo's "Shawshank Redemption" escape from the lab rat horror and the gang's crazy efforts to get into the compound. We're treated to Pepe's antics, Bobo's gentle bumbling, as well as lots of cameos by other old-time favorites like Scooter and Sam the Eagle. Like any good Muppet movie, it's furry, frantic, and, foremost - fun.
But best of all, "Muppets From Space" is a dream come true for Gonzo fans. We always knew that Gonzo was a star but had reluctantly grown used to our little favorite being overshadowed by the frogs and the pigs and the bears of the world. But with "Muppets From Space", our faith has been vindicated - the big-screen story of Gonzo's journey into his origins has proven that even "whatevers" have interesting histories and fascinating personalities. Or should I now say, "aliens"?
And may the fish be with you too.
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