Happy Booger Day
This is the newest Holy Day of Obligation on the Scoopy Calendar – Curtis Armstrong’s 71st birthday.
Like all of my saints, Curtis makes any movie or show better by his very presence. He started out as the snarky sidekick in almost every single youthploitation film of the 80s: Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Risky Business and all of the Nerds movies. His characters had names like Ack Ack and (of course) Booger. He continued his sidekicking on the Moonlighting series, supporting Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.
He later matured into more mainstream character parts, including a great job in a non-comic role in Ray as Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic records, and an important figure in the incorporation of gospel, R&B and jazz music into the mainstream.
In addition to his day job as an actor, Curtis is many other things: a game show host and a Baker Street Irregular, for example. Above all Booger is the loveable epitome of all things nerd.
But 71 years old? How can that be?
And Katie Holmes is 61. 😮 Time flies …
She’s going to turn 46 in a few weeks.
“This place is a pigsty!” “Thank you!” “You should be ashamed of yourself!” “Fuck you! Who died and made you God?” “I’m Dudley Dawson, people call me Booger” “I’m Wong Po, people call me Snotty” Booger belches… Snooty BELCHES like a God! “MASTER!” “Soon my son, you will take over for me!”