{"id":740,"date":"2009-05-15T04:10:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T04:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-05-15T04:10:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T04:10:23","slug":"my-breakfast-with-blassie-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/my-breakfast-with-blassie-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:fr-->My Breakfast With Blassie (1983)<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:fr--><code> <\/code><br \/>\n<strong><em>Andy Kaufman hops a Hollywood bus and meets <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>professional wrestler \u00ab\u00a0Classy\u00a0\u00bb Freddie Blassie for breakfast<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available on DVD<br \/>\nJune 16, 2009<br \/>\nThrough MVD Visual<\/p>\n<p>A full twenty five years after his death, Video Service Corp and  MVD Visual celebrate Andy Kaufman&rsquo;s unique brand of comedy with the  release of My Breakfast With Blassie on June 16th. This film offers  insight into the state of mind of Kaufman before his fatal cancer  diagnosis, which some people to this day think was a hoax. Kaufman was  memorably portrayed by Jim Carrey in the Milos Forman biopic Man On the  Moon, which focused on Kaufman&rsquo;s career and life, including his later  obsession with professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>My Breakfast With Blassie, filmed in 1983, features Kaufman and  wrestling legend Fred Blassie, self-proclaimed King of Men and coiner of  the phrase \u00ab\u00a0pencil-necked geek,\u00a0\u00bb as they meet for breakfast and discuss  wrestling, hygiene, stardom and whether to eat bacon or sausage.<\/p>\n<p>This classic piece of performance art from one of our greatest  comedians was deemed, \u00ab\u00a0often crude, but always creative,\u00a0\u00bb by TV Guide  and also features a heaping plate of bonus features, including lost  footage of Kaufman, bonus footage, a making-of feature and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Given our commitment to bringing quality comedy and classic  performances to DVD, we&rsquo;re thrilled to release this,\u00a0\u00bb stated VSC  President Jonathan Gross, \u00ab\u00a0Andy Kaufman made a career creating his own  theatre of the absurd that blurred the lines between comedy and public  disturbance long before Tom Green, Sascha Baron Cohen and Johnny  Knoxville&rsquo;s crew.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Street Date: June 16, 2009<br \/>\nRetail: $19.95<br \/>\nRun Time: 65 minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Video Service Corp.<\/strong><em> Since its 1993  founding by former rock critic Jonathan Gross, Video Service Corp has  been a leader in releasing cult films on DVD, including Bruce McDonald&rsquo;s  Hard Core Logo, Kenny and Spenny&rsquo;s first feature, Pitch, and the women  in prison classic Chained Heat.<\/em><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Kaufman hops a Hollywood bus and meets professional wrestler \u00ab\u00a0Classy\u00a0\u00bb Freddie Blassie for breakfast Available on DVD June 16, 2009 Through MVD Visual A full twenty five years after his death, Video Service Corp and MVD Visual celebrate Andy Kaufman&rsquo;s unique brand of comedy with the release of My Breakfast With Blassie on June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films-en-dvd-et-bd","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tedpublications.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}