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After 67 screen kills, actor Bill Oberst Jr. says “Death is my business now.” Exclusive interview for the Jed Bundy serial killer blog.
British fansite names Bill Oberst Jr. The King Of Horror…despite the actor’s lack of royal garments. The Queen is not amused.
(Los Angeles, CA) Actor Bill Oberst Jr., who has played his share of monsters and cannibals, was asked "Do you think people taste like chicken?" in an interview with StuffMonstersLike.com today. Oberst answered: "You know I am really glad you asked that. No! People do not taste like chicken at all. I don’t know where that came from. It’s a gamier taste, like elk, along the legs and kind of a wild-fowl taste, like duck, up the arms. The palm is the sweetest section – it is kind of like chicken but with a little brown sugar. I’m just guessing, of course." (read more...)
From Facebook's Take This Lollipop guy. As seen on MoreHorror.com Presenting Bill Oberst Jr.'s Severed Ear..
“I have to have the violence or I can’t connect with the character” - actor Bill Oberst Jr. in interview for MoreHorror.com at the Shockfest Film Festival in Hollywood with Dawna Lee Heising. Oberst has killed 14 people in his monstrous screen roles. He’s currently being seen by millions of Facebook users as the cyber-stalker in Take This Lollipop from director Jason Zada. With over 11 million likes it is
Actor Bill Oberst Jr, best known as the cyber-creep in Take This Lollipop, the most popular Facebook application ever, is the subject of a new t-shirt design from Mental Shed Studios. It’s the 2nd shirt done in honor of the horror actor, joining a design from top genre site MoreHorror.com, and joins a growing list of merchandise bearing the actor’s name or likeness including a very realistic severed ear and a rosary with skulls in place of the traditional beads. Oberst is launching a new website next week which will include a store to sell all of it. The actor is not shy when it comes to marketing. “I love it” he says, “Actors are products.” Director Jason Zada’s Take This Lollipop set records in it’s 30-day run as a viral Facebook application, garnering 10.5 million “likes” and 50 million unique hits from around the globe. The horror-themed application which ended earlier this week put users in the middle of a frighteningly personal cyber-stalking experience and drew press coverage from CNN, the New York Times, Ad Age and hundreds more news outlets worldwide.
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from London/ Daily Mail online, Friday, October 28, 2011: Reading you like an open Facebook? Spooky interactive video mines social network to show risks of sharing personal details online… Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054687/Spooky-interactive-video-mines-Facebook-risks-sharing-personal-details-online.html#ixzz1c7YBBNso
7 millions hits on TakeThisLollipop.com and counting. AdAge.com tells the story behind the viral sensation. Interviews with creator & director Jason Zada and actor Bill Oberst Jr. by media & marketing expert Porter Gale.
“That damned Oberst. Does this man ever blink?” ( from Jason Lees’ review at Morehorror.com of actor Bill Oberst Jr.’s performance in the noir short ASSASSINS. Writer/Director Mike Bonomo. The no-blink advice is from Michael Caine’s book ‘Acting In Film’ which Oberst says is “the six bucks I ever spent.”
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