Sunday, December 19, 2004

Stop Turge Babonet

You remember Turge Babonet, of course...He's the possibly fictional film producer whose advertisement in Craig's List I brought to your attention in this post.

As you'll recall, I couldn't find this man, who purported to be a big-time film producer, on either Google or IMDB, leading me to believe that it was a false identity, and the whole post was a joke. But now, we have an Anonymous post on that article directing me to a site campaigning against the scourge of Turge Babonet, whom they claim is widely considered "the Flemish Orson Welles."

Am I the victim of some mass Internet prank? Is this all a publicity campaign for Christopher Guest's new mockumentary, chronicling the life of one Mr. Turge Babonet? Or is Turge for real, an artistic genius unfortunately directing films in a language spoken only by 6 million people worldwide? I'll do my best to find out for you, Inertia-ites, if you define "my best" as "nothing except wait for more clues in my comments section."

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:22 PM

    He's Baaaaaaaaaackk....

    Asst. Wanted

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    Reply to: anon-54544289@craigslist.org
    Date: 2005-01-05, 11:18AM PST


    Help Wanted/Asst.

    See url for details

    http://www.geocities.com/filmwerk2425/

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  2. Anonymous12:38 PM

    You can bid to wash his car on eBay!


    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5549630389

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  3. Anonymous4:57 PM

    Since Mssr. Babonet and his staff have been too busy trying to get his car washed, which was repossessed anyway, it has been up to the folks at the anti-Turge camp to assemble what will serve a the definative T.B. filmography (ie avoid these films at all cost)
    http://www.geocities.com/stopturgenow/filmography.html

    Upcoming will be a list of quotes where we can only guess T. Babonet did not know that microphone was on.

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  4. Anonymous10:50 AM

    I found these in the Internet Movie Archive. Is this the same Turge Babonet?

    http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse.php?collection=opensource_movies&cat=Turge%20Babonet

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