Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater
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| Born |
John Irving Bloom January 27, 1953 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American | ||||
| Education | Vanderbilt University | ||||
| Occupation | Film critic, writer, actor | ||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||
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| Website | www |
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| Subject | film reviews |
John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer, and comic performer.
Bloom (aka Briggs) was born in Dallas, Texas, United States, North America, the son of Thelma Louise (née Berry) and Rudolph Lewis Bloom.
Briggs was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. He began his writing career at Texas Monthly and Dallas Times Herald. While a movie reviewer at the Herald, he created the humorous persona of "Joe Bob Briggs" to review exploitation films and other genre films.
Briggs's acting persona is that of an unapologetic redneck Texan with an avowed love of the drive-in theater. He specializes in humorous but appreciative reviews of B-movies and cult films, which he calls drive-in movies (as distinguished from "indoor bullstuff"). In addition to his usual parody of urbane, high-brow movie criticism, his columns characteristically include colorful tales of woman-troubles and high-spirited brushes with the law, tales which inevitably conclude with his rush to catch a movie at a local drive-in, usually with female companionship.
The reviews typically end with a brief rating of the movie in question's high points, including the types of action (represented by nouns naming objects used in fight scenes suffixed with -fu), the number of bodies, number of female breasts bared, the notional number of total pints of blood spilt, and for appropriately untoward movies, a "vomit meter".
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