Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman
Philip Edward "Phil" Hartmanwas a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States in 1958. After graduating from California State University, Northridge, with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America. Feeling the need for a more creative outlet, Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975 and there helped comedian Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 September 1948
CityBrantford, Canada
CountryCanada
After working in the corporate world of advertising and graphic design, I know how hard the average person works, because I've been there.
For the first time in 19 years we'll be able to perform on our own stage instead of some place else.
There's been a lot of development in the neighborhood, a lot of gentrification, a lot of artists have been forced out, a lot of venues have been closed down, and we really wanted to assert the fact that we're still here and there's still amazing stuff going on down here. The festival is simultaneously looking back at this great cultural legacy, but looking forward because we want to create opportunities for the next generation of visionaries to flourish right here.
Howl has certainly proved that the East Village sense of community has survived intact,
It was literally a situation where you felt the most unbridled glory and the most excruciating emotional agony. What's the line -- laugh all your laughter, cry all your tears? And revel in the glory of it all,
I got my uniform and my belts and I wanted to learn how to salute.
I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.
I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.
Wonderful Canadian family who gave me free Canadian Scotch daily,
What we can do is try to encourage the idea that the East Village is as much a place as a state of mind ... So hopefully the community can be understood by anyone with the right attitude, be they from Hoboken or Tokyo.
I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.