Movie Trivia: from "Being There"

What is the source of the "Basketball Jones" cartoon video that Chauncy is watching on TV, I think when the Shirley Maclaine character is trying to jump his bones?

cartoon/music vid while the "Basketball Jones" song plays, a combination of music and spoken word, with the lead singing/speaking in a falsetto type voice.

that is definitely it! Thanks!

http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/lyrics/b/basketball_jones_featuring_tyrone_shoelaces.txt

The video is done by Cheech and Chong. I think this movie is the only place that the video ever appeared, but I could be wrong - it might have had some TV play as a video, but I don't think it did.

cartoon on the web, fat chance!

Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones
Got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oooeeeooo

Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones
Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'
In fac', I was da baddest dribbler in da whole neighborhood
Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball
And I loved that basketball
I took that basketball with me everywhere I went
That basketball was like a basketball to me

I even put that basketball underneath my pillow
Maybe that's why I can't sleep at night
I need help, ladies and gentlemens
I need someone to stand beside me
I need... I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life
Someone I can pass to
Someone to hit the open man on the give-and-go
And not end up in the popcorn machine
So cheerleaders, help me out

{cheerleaders sing repeatedly...}
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones)
(I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo)

Oh, that sounds so sweet
Sing it out
C'mon Coach Booty, Red Blazer, sing along with me
That be bad, honky
Yeah
I want everybody in the whole stadium to stand up and sing with us
Oh yeah, sing it out like you're proud
All right, everybody watchin' coast-to-coast, sing along with us
Bill Russell, sing along with us
Chick Hearn, sing along with us
Chris Schenkel, don't sing nothin'

Oh, it feels so good
Gimme the ball
I'll go one-on-one against the world, left-handed
I could stuff it from center court with my toes
I could jump on top of the backboard, take off a quarter, leave fifteen cents change
I could... I could dribble behind my back
I got more moves than Ex-Lax
I'm bad, I could dribble with my tongue
Here I go down court, try to stop me
You can't stop me 'cause I got a Basketball Jones
Here I come
That's my hook shot with my eyebrow
Yeah, I could dunk it with my nose
I'm, I'm bad as King Kong, gimme the ball I'm hot, I'm hot as...,
I'm hot as..., I'm hot as... uh Uh, uh, uh, uh

(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)
(Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, Basketball Jones)

but I just like to watch....



Khash.

How did the book's author die, and where?

What did he always carry in his car trunk?

(Strange questions, I know, but he was an unusual guy)

If so, the rest I couldn't tell ya.

He also narrowly missed being slaughtered by the Manson family.

the suffocation, and didn't know about his near encounter with the Manson family.

As to the trunk: the mute boy in The Painted Bird (ostensibly based on the Kosinski's WWII experiences in Poland) carried with him a large can with holes in it and attached to a string. The boy would light a fire in the can and swing it at attackers. Its been many years since I've read the book, and my memory may not be accurate.

But after his death, a friend of K's said that K always carried just such a can in his trunk, which K would visit every few hours to reorganize. Apparently he was still traumatized by his childhood experiences.