I saw this picture of John Goodman portraying a college professor in “Treme” and immediately thought of Ashley Morris. Do I have an overactive imagination on this or am I late to the game on something everyone else already knows?
9 thoughts on “Ashmo in Treme”
Not an overactive imagination. The character is partly, if not mostly, based on Ashley.
Dear God in heaven.
I don’t think you’re imagining. My bet is that Goodman or someone else connected with “Treme” knows about Ashley, and that knowledge helped form Goodman’s character.
Next to a Saints’ Super Bowl that’s the best thing ever.
Just too, too cool. And in a year when I KNOW Ashley would have enjoyed the hell out of the season the Saints are having. Very sweet.
No, Simon told us at his Octavia Books event that he was planning a character based on Ashley.
Stealing your pic to update my latest post.
FYYFF
Simon himself knew of Ashley while the man was still alive. We had a “Wire” blog called “That New Package” at http://newpackage.wordpress.com, and Simon read it and occasionally commented. He left a moving comment the day we announced that Ashley had died (http://newpackage.wordpress.com), and I think Simon was just kind of affected by the whole thing. If you read the last few months of Ashley’s blog you know how sucky some of his personal life was going with all the handling the estates of his parents and “sister”; Ashley life was inspirational and his death was tragic, and Simon knows a great character when he sees one.
That being said, the character is inspired by Ashley, but the character isn’t literally Ashley. It’s a similar dude with similar opinions who uses language that will be very familiar to all of you to express his opinions about the fucked-up-edness of the city post-K.
I may or may not know more, but certain people will get in trouble and I’ve been told they will sic Felicia Pearson on my ass if I give away too much.
Sorry, the link to Simon’s comments on Ashley’s death is here:
Not an overactive imagination. The character is partly, if not mostly, based on Ashley.
Dear God in heaven.
I don’t think you’re imagining. My bet is that Goodman or someone else connected with “Treme” knows about Ashley, and that knowledge helped form Goodman’s character.
Next to a Saints’ Super Bowl that’s the best thing ever.
Just too, too cool. And in a year when I KNOW Ashley would have enjoyed the hell out of the season the Saints are having. Very sweet.
No, Simon told us at his Octavia Books event that he was planning a character based on Ashley.
Stealing your pic to update my latest post.
FYYFF
Simon himself knew of Ashley while the man was still alive. We had a “Wire” blog called “That New Package” at http://newpackage.wordpress.com, and Simon read it and occasionally commented. He left a moving comment the day we announced that Ashley had died (http://newpackage.wordpress.com), and I think Simon was just kind of affected by the whole thing. If you read the last few months of Ashley’s blog you know how sucky some of his personal life was going with all the handling the estates of his parents and “sister”; Ashley life was inspirational and his death was tragic, and Simon knows a great character when he sees one.
That being said, the character is inspired by Ashley, but the character isn’t literally Ashley. It’s a similar dude with similar opinions who uses language that will be very familiar to all of you to express his opinions about the fucked-up-edness of the city post-K.
I may or may not know more, but certain people will get in trouble and I’ve been told they will sic Felicia Pearson on my ass if I give away too much.
Sorry, the link to Simon’s comments on Ashley’s death is here:
http://newpackage.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/open-thread-for-ashley/#comments