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Michael Des Barres Who Do You Want Me To Be

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Michael Des Barres Who Do You Want Me To Be	comment	Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me to Be? is a 2020 documentary telling the colorful life story of British character actor and almost-rock-star Michael Des Barres, directed by J. Elvis Weinstein of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. Born to a teenage dancer and an Impoverished Patrician father, Des Barres had an unstable childhood as his father was imprisoned and his mother suffered periodic psychotic episodes. He started acting at a young age, however, and by the late 1960s he was fronting a band called Silverhead, which didn't really have any hits but got him noticed in the London rock scene.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Des Barres cycled through different groups after that while still acting, going through two marriages, and fighting a drug habit. The height of his career was probably in the mid-1980s, when he co-wrote the song "Obsession," which became a hit for Animotion (and which gives the film its subtitle), and toured with supergroup The Power Station after original lead singer Robert Palmer backed out, starting with a widely watched gig at Live Aid. Shortly after that, he played one of his better-known roles as a recurring villain on MacGyver (1985).Some of the famous friends he picked up along the way are featured as Talking Heads in the film, including actors Don Johnson, Gabriel Byrne, and Ed Begley, Jr., director Allison Anders, and members of Duran Duran and The Sex Pistols.
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Michael Des Barres Who Do You Want Me To Be / int_5313c266	comment	Bookends: The first time we see Michael in the film, he's in a fancy picture frame identifying him as the 26th Marquis Des Barres. The film ends with his son Nicholas similarly framed and identified as the 27th Marquis Des Barres.
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Michael Des Barres Who Do You Want Me To Be / int_963e36bd	comment	Boarding School of Horrors: Michael's aristocratic lineage gets him into some prestigious English boarding schools, but according to him, all the nasty stories you've heard about them are true — including the pederasty.
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Michael Des Barres Who Do You Want Me To Be / int_9b60b728	comment	Addled Addict: By everyone's account, Michael had become this before he quit drugs in 1981. Second wife Pamela says that she'd basically resigned herself to the fact that he would sometimes just disappear for days or weeks. Michael says that what drove him to quit was when he looked in the mirror and realized "I looked like Iggy Pop's mother."
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Michael Des Barres Who Do You Want Me To Be / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Michael and Pamela Des Barres. At one point, she calls him "the best ex-husband."
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