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Interview: Anvil on Smoking Weed, What Derailed Their Career and Meeting Clint Eastwood
Canadian heavy metal band Anvil was headed for super stardom in the early 80s, touring with the likes of Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and the Scorpions. Then suddenly, they disappeared in to obscurity. Now with the release of the new documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, directed by Hollywood screenwriter Sasha Gervasi, the group may finally find the success that has eluded them - even though they've kept playing and recording all this time. Formed when they were teenagers in the 70s, guitarist and lead singer Steve "Lips" Kudlow, now 53 and drummer Robb Reiner, 51, are currently working on their 14th album. I sat down with the duo for an exclusive chat for the Huffington Post.
Zorianna: What was the dream for you guys back in the 80s and how is it different today?
Robb: It's the same now as it was back then - fame, recognition, music.
Lips: We've always continued to play live, but the difference now is making $500 for a gig versus $5000.
Huffington Post: Iron Man Meets Iron Woman
Can you work tomorrow morning on the movie Iron Man?"
The e-mail from the casting director caught me off guard to say the least; not because I'm a journalist and not an actress and not because this had all started with a casual conversation with Avi Arad the movie's producer. It caught me off guard because I had just unplugged myself from a breast pump and if you have no idea what that's like then picture being hooked up to one of those electric pumps they hook onto cows to drain them of their milk so the world can have their Sugar Smacks. It's impossible to think of yourself in front of a movie camera when you don't feel worthy of the photo booth at Target. So of course I wrote back, "Yes!"Huffington Post: You Don't Know Dick
Up until recently, Hollywood wasn't doing Dick. But now they are. I'm talking about going balls out, literally, on full-frontal male nudity in films.
This month, two new releases boast "the man-gina" as co-star: Universal Pictures' Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and New Line Cinema's Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
And it's about time. Women have been prancing nude on-screen for decades but only recently has equality reared its penis-shaped head.
