Born today, 30 Dec., in 1945, Lloyd Kaufman, producer, writer, director,
the co-founder of Troma Entertainment and one of the magnificent
bastards responsible for, among so many other off-the-wall classics, the
Toxic Avenger movies, POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD, TERROR
FIRMER, TROMA'S WAR and TROMEO & JULIET. Highbrow snobs may scoff at Lloyd's
shoestring productions, with their abundance of bodily fluids, breasts,
beasts and lowbrow humor, but for all these stif
f-necked
snoots' very tasteful tsk-tsk-ing, Lloyd is something they can't touch,
something one doesn't often find in the picture business or, indeed, in
life: a genuine original. In a milieu abundantly populated by painfully
unimaginative knock-off artists, Lloyd makes movies that aren't like
anything you've ever seen. He's borne the spirit of indie cinema through a
lot of years when it seemed in danger of being snuffed out entirely.
One hopes he will continue to do so for many more to come.
--j.
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