Flashback to 1990 SFU

Flashback to 1990 SFU

I am watching for who knows how many times Apocalypse Now. A movie so twisted that it's so good. It's a surprise everyone of the key players survived the experience.

• Lawrence Fishburne was 14 and was on drugs like just about everyone else on the set.
• You could write a book about Brando's problems
• Martin Sheen almost died
• I wonder how much of Dennis Hopper was acting?

Sofia Coppola witnessed all this. After all that goofiness, Taking Winona Ryder's place in Godfather and directing Bill Murray in a drama must have been a breeze.

OK but I did not write this to talk about a Vietnam movie. I wrote this to talk about one of my earlier terms in SFU. It was a Sociology class. And we were in our small weekly discussion groups lead by a teaching assistant (graduate student).

We were saying our names. Then he said "Emilio Estevez" (you know Martin Sheen's son/ Charlie's brother) . You can tell. He hated this ritual and he also could not lie. A little bit later in the term a bunch of us were talking . He was telling us how stupid people were asking if he was named after him. The guy was about 20 in 1990. Its not like Emilio was a celebrity in 1970.

Yes this is a stupid story to remember 18 years later but hey , that's me.