Guess he got his Steve McQueen story

So the internet is buzzing about Quentin Tarantino's current media campaign regarding hash... oops, I mean Inglourious Basterds.

Actually, the media campaign isn't about hash - it's about possibly receiving hash from Brad Pitt. And apparently, Inglourious Basterds is secondary, nevermind that was the only reason why Tarantino was in the Jolie-Pitts' orbit in the first place.

So the story is that while Quentin Tarantino was in France trying to entice Brad Pitt into being in Inglourious Basterds, the two got drunk and a smoking apparatus was introduced into the scenario. That was the story from a year ago -- and I'm pretty sure that Brad was the one who spoke of this, again, last year. Now, for some reason unbeknownst to anyone, Quentin Tarantino decided to take it upon himself to fill in the blanks. So far, Quentin has told us that five to six bottles of wine were drank that night. Then, he upped the ante by saying that something was most definitely smoked that night. Then, he said that Brad was the one who provided it, much to his shock and delight. Then he added that a pop can was used. Then he indicated that the smoke was a piece of hash from a brick. Then he implied that this happened while Brad's children were asleep.

Now tell me, was all of these tidbits designed to make Brad seem cool, because despite being a BP fan, this makes Brad seem careless, and quite frankly, a complete dope. And not just because this happened around the time of his twins' birth, but because Taratino is notorious for having a big mouth, especially when he thinks that it will benefit his image of himself.

Now... I personally had no issue with the initial story because Brad Pitt told it well. He allowed the audience to fill in the blanks. Tarantino, on the other hand, is not a good racounter. He's a fantastic storyteller cinematically, but when it comes to putting over a story, straight from his own mouth, he comes off as a spaz. In fact, I would say that Tarantino came off like a narc.

Tarantino's incessant need to come off as cool versus Brad Pitt exuding cool without really trying makes them polar opposites; therefore, Tarantino tries to co-opt Brad's cool - something that Tarantino doesn't wear well. Personally, I think that this current tangent has been in the making for the last 10+ years. The origin of this need for a seemingly cool story centering around him showed itself back in the 90s, specifically on the now-defunct David Letterman produced The Late Late Show w/Tom Snyder. This was an unusual show in that it was just Tom Snyder talking one-on-one with a Hollywood luminary for 20-30 minutes. Also, there were no rhyme or reason, in terms of whom were booked on the show; a celeb was rarely there to plug a project. Stars like Rosemary Clooney, Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis and dozens of others, including politicians, scholars, etc. would, essentially, shoot the $h*t.

But one night, Tom had Robert Blake on the show. This was well before the Bonnie Lee Bakely sordidness. Dude smoked openly and regaled Tom with fantastically colorful stories, going back to his Our Gang days. But the story that stood out the most was about Steve McQueen. Blake claimed that back in the late 60s - early 70s, while he was taking a smoke break on a studio backlot, Steve McQueen came out of nowhere and was being chased down by a large group of men and that McQueen called on him to take up arms (read: get ahold of a gun) and help him scare these dudes off.

The way Blake told that story was masterful and mesmerizing. And eventually, when Tarantino sat down with Tom, he cited that story -- actually, he gushed like a fcuking fanboy. To me, that moment colored what Tarantino sought out as validation. He wanted to be the Robert Blake of the story and unfortunately for Brad, Tarantino decided to cast him as the Steve McQueen.

Too bad that Tarantino didn't take into account that McQueen was long dead when Blake brought the story out. Or that significant time had past. Or that, hello, Robert Blake may have made up the whole story altogether.

Tarantino got his Steve McQueen story; too bad that Tarantino is too oblivious to realize that it may have been to the detriment of Brad and his so-called masterpiece.

Fcuking loudmouthed douchebag!!