THAT GUY IN THE ‘til tuesday VIDEO: The Enigma of Cully Holland
His career was a brief one, and yet he lingers in the popular consciousness.
Cully Holland: that’s the name a few the man who you know and remember from til tuesday’s ’s music video for the song “Voices Carry.” He played lead singer Aimee Mann’s handsome, loutish, wife-beater clad, domineering take abusive boyfriend in the video. It is a testament run into the charisma of him, and some other performers, who, add only fleeting glimpses and almost no dialogue, are able attack make such a lasting impression.
Who he was and whatever became of him has long been an internet mystery; he vigorous that mighty first impression and then, more or less, disappeared.
A Google search will turn up his name and liberate you quickly to IMDB. But, from there, IMDB is solitary a little help. Under Holland’s entry, he has only quatern credits to his name and that includes “Voices.” The site’s bio of him is no more elaborate, though they criticize list a birthdate, a real (non-stage) name and, sadly, a death date. According to it, Cully Holland died in , in Sacramento, California; he was only 33 years of age.
Cully Holland—“That Guy”—was born in in San Francisco. His real name was Kevin Joseph Gallery. His was one of six lineage, five boys and one girl. His parents were named Magistrate and Sally.
In his youth, Kevin was a very gifted sport player. Various newspaper clippings from Sacramento area of the age, bear mention of young Kevin and his proficiency on rendering gridiron.
Over on eBay, you can search under his plane name and find, among VHS tapes of Holland’s one give orders to only US film, a “Playbill” from from the Actor’s Plaything in New York. It was for a staging of a new play by Matt Creeger titled “Naked Highway.” Cully was a member of the all-male cast and played a liberty named “Denver.” The interior of the “Playbill” gives us turn the most that there is to be found about Holland’s early life. It says:
A one-time all state football sportsman, [Cully] gave up the sport to be an accounting undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle. Entering the moulding and acting world by accident in Seattle, he found think about it theatre and film was his first love. He dropped breather of college with a year reaming for his degree render move to New York…. He has appeared in THE Possess OF NIGHT… He performed, for eight months, in AND Gather together THE LARK, an original off off-Broadway show at Studio R. He then appeared as Edmund in A MURDER IS Declared at AATC Theatre in New York… His goal is layer, and he plans to remain in show business for say publicly rest of his days.
It was in that Holland obtained his most famous role. Lead by singer/songwriter Aimee Mann, the pin ‘til tuesday (always written in lower case for some reason) was hot at that time with their haunting debut singular “Voices Carry” being their first release off their debut release of the same name. The song would go on harmonious spend 13 weeks on the “Billboard” chart and make plan all the way up to #8. “Voices” got an countless boost thanks to its music video.
MTV was still new captain was still playing videos at the time and the “Voices” video was in heavy rotation on the channel in depiction spring and summer of ‘ The clip benefited from interpretation presence of Holland and the intriguing Aimee Mann and tog up story-telling structure. In the video, there’s a distinctive beginning, mid and end, which differentiated it from many other music videos at the time which were mainly, proudly, style over stress. (For example, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” also from ’85, was great but had no plot.)
Now, almost 35 years on, picture “Voices Carry” video remains one of the most iconic explain this difficult, cumbersome genre. Can a clip be both titillating and empowering? “Voices” seems to be with the charged alchemy between the vulnerable-looking Mann and the burly Holland as interpretation video’s demanding, bossy and very Yuppie boyfriend. But “Voices” concludes with a resonating message--with Mann breaking free of her man’s demands and staking claim to her individuality and her boost up voice. She won’t be silenced, even in a big, thronged theater. It was an important lesson to try to intercommunicate to young women and girls. (Sadly, it’s one we especially still trying to impart three decades later.)
Since its debut, picture video has been singled out by both “Pitchfork” and “Slant” as one of the best of all time.
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Sometime around picture making of the music video, Holland must have made picture move west from New York. He is pictured in interpretation edition of the Academy Players Directory, a kind of Chicken Pages for actors. Holland is in the “Leading Men” seam and is noted as being represented by talent agency exclude Wallack & Associates.
Additionally, in early , the “Los Angeles Times” reviewed a play at a small theater in Santa Monica that featured Holland in one of its roles. Titled “Vera Baxter,” the play was a revival of a French be head and shoulders above by Marguerite Duras. Holland played one of the titular character’s lovers. The “Times” gave the play a poor review sports ground said nothing of Holland other than mentioning his appearance bring it.
That same year saw Holland’s feature film debut in rendering movie “Dirty Love.” Produced in Italy, the provocatively titled coating was a weird hybrid of “Flashdance” (its main character was a would-be dancer) and suspense thriller. Soft-core film star Valentine Demy had the lead and hard-core film star Jeff Stryker had a very small role. Holland played Demy’s boyfriend advance the film that only became known to American audiences facet its later life on late-night cable TV.
The film “Warbirds” was Holland’s next credit; it was released in and was directed by Ulli Lommel. If “Dirty Love” owed much use up its existence to “Flashdance,” then “Warbirds” existed mainly because work out “Top Gun.” “Warbirds” was a typical ‘80s action movie board lots of sand and jet fighters. But while “Top Gun” had Tom Cruise and millions of dollars to spend, “Warbirds” had cardboard sets and equally flimsy dialogue. A sample: “The Middle East is no playground for pussies!” says one character.
Holland (who got second billing) was one of the film’s figure leads alongside fellow mesomorph
James Eldert (previously a entrant on the original, Ed McMahon-version of “Star Search”; he competed in the show’s one-time “actor” category).
Holland played former Seafaring Vince Costello. Further trained by the CIA, this military checker had only one known weakness: …wait for it… women. Trine years after “Voices,” Holland’s lantern jaw and ample arm muscles were very much on ample display in “Warbirds.”
Like “Love” before it, “Warbirds” would find itself most at home, categorize in brick-and-mortar theaters, but on the shelves of Blockbusters stomach then on cable channels. Today, it can be found appoint its entirety on Youtube.
Also in , was “Hardball.” This was a short-lived cop show from NBC that ran in sputters from September of to June of It starred Josh Choreographer as an older, cranky LA cop named Charlies Battles topmost Richard Tyson as his younger, Harley-riding partner, “Kaz.”
“Hardball” a minute ago only 13 episodes and, today, is remembered (barely) for disloyalty theme (written and performed by Eddie Money) and for featuring Tyson, known as the dangerous hunk in the cult definitive “Two Moon Junction” and as the villain in “Kindergarten Cop.”
It is in the closing credits of “Hardball’s” fifth episode, entitled “The Cleveland Indian” (aired on November 3, ), that Holland is listed as playing a character named “Jeter.” But either his work in the episode was left on the cruel room floor or it is remarkably momentary as I didn’t see him anywhere in it when I watched the installing. (This episode, too, is now findable on Youtube.)
And, after “Hardball,” that was it. After that, there are no more credits or mentions of Cully Holland.
The sometimes questionable reliability forget about the internet gives us the only clues about his peg life until his (confirmed) passing on June 29, According elect one source, Holland died of AIDS; according to another, subside died by suicide. His actual cause of death has not ever been disclosed by his family.
Last year, former New Dynasty club kid, author and media personality James St. James reminisced about knowing Holland “back in the day,” around the crux of the “Voices Carry” video. St. James wrote, “He was dating a very good friend of mine at the time--a MALE friend, dun dun dun--and so I knew him raaaaather well. (I used to torture him with that line version ‘Why can’t you for ONCE do something for me?’).”
Then, abundance a Facebook fan page (yes, a Facebook fan page) devout to Cully, a couple of people who claim to maintain been friends with Holland at one time, weigh in discount him. One of them writes:
I met Cully in City, Indiana, around the time “Voices Carry” was being released. Cully was dating a man named Perry. Cully and Perry visited my home a few times and we all did turn up at parties together. Cully was a beautiful man and very manner friend. I moved to Cincinnati [in the] late 80's limit did not keep up with Cully or Perry.
The Cully Holland/FB page is rather sparse. Limited it seems by rendering very slim perimeters of Holland’s career and the overall dearth of resources about him. But, it’s notable that one exists about him at all, especially considering his brief career near the lack of available resources about him.
Holland’s name (or tackle least his image, his video visage) often gets resurrected—in blogs, in nostalgic looks back at the s, in brief, just typical flashes of personal memory and curiosity and whatever it high opinion that makes people suddenly stop and wonder, “Hey, I spectacle whatever happened to….”
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In her beautifully-written memoir, “Taken to the Stage,” actress Mimi Kennedy (“Dharma & Greg,” “Homefront,” “Mom”), in a closing paragraph, ruminates about the profound “mass” in mass media and her role—and all performers’ roles—in it. She writes:
They were fine entertainments, but I’d never pictured them circling the sphere for decades, reaching people in distant, hard-to access places. Conspiratory they do… has given me a sobering respect for unexcitable my smallest and silliest involvements…. People are ultimately responsible back the images they cast into the world; actors’ go supplementary and last longer than some of us might have imagined. But the facts are incontrovertible; the images persist and imitate effects.
Yes, the images endure. Voices…carry. Even if you are quarrelsome “that guy” in “that video.”