The Henry Rollins Show is the very reason he's in town.
"But that's what hopefully makes the show interesting. Since you are working in such a tried and true medium, what could we possibly do to make it different?
What would be different than any other damn talk show? Well, me, so I'd better bring all my discontent at what I see in other talk shows in and go, 'OK, let's shows Rove McManus so blatantly tries to emulate, hosted by the likes of David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien.
that person," Rollins says.
"I don't wanna do the Jay Leno 'patter' with these people."
impassioned rant rather than a stand-up routine, musical box, and a less obvious approach to interviewing. Take the time Penelope Cruz, the Oscar-nominated Spanish actor still best known for dating Tom Cruise, appeared on the show.
Sahara," Rollins says. "I said, 'I didn't see it. I'm not gonna see it.
I wanna ask you about Don't Move.' She plays a prostitute in it and it's in Italian. She does all these great movies in Spain and Italy and she won, like, the European Oscar for that thing.
She lit up "
Movie Extra. The idea was to make an expanded, less film-specific version of Rollins's previous program, Henry's Film Corner, films over blockbusters. Still, he wasn't above taking a swing at the odd obvious target.
"Oh, yeah - Alien vs. Predator. I said, 'How dare they take these two franchises that everyone likes, hybridise them and work.
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