Our favorite renaissance man enjoyed his late-night sandwiches in Wild at Heart. In his appetite-suppressing What Is It? snails are taken with a pinch of salt. And in the upcoming Beowulf, his Grendel will presumably feast upon human bones. So what’s eating George McFly lately?
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December 01, 2006
By Julian Sancton
“It’s easy for me to be this weird crazy guy,” Crispin Glover protests over lunch at SoHo House in Manhattan. But he doesn’t protest that much. Dressed in black, his pale eyes darting around the room, he seems comfortable with the typecasting.
There are two Crispin Glovers. They are the same person in the sense that Jekyll and Hyde are one and the same. There is the one most famous for playing George McFly in Back to the Future and the Thin Man in the Charlie’s Angels franchise. That Crispin is easy to swallow. The other is Crispin Hellion Glover, also the name under which the actor signs his own, more personal projects. Hellion has written several books, with such titles as Oak-Mot and Rat Catching, which he distributes through his company, Volcanic Eruptions. Scrawled and scratched onto existing 19th-century texts, they read like psychedelic Victorian screeds. And for the past ten years, Hellion has been working on a film trilogy that will—as long as he has anything do with it—never be released.
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