{"id":2420504,"date":"2026-05-17T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2420504"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:28:27","slug":"thomas-g-waites-reflects-on-the-thing-1982-and-his-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thomas-g-waites-reflects-on-the-thing-1982-and-his-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas G. Waites Reflects on &#8216;THE THING&#8217; (1982) and His New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"600\">Respected actor, writer, director, and musician <strong data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"68\">Thomas G. Waites<\/strong> has spent decades building a career that spans film, theater, television, and now music. Best known to horror fans for playing Windows in<em><strong> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Thing<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em>, Waites recently released <em data-start=\"271\" data-end=\"290\">Heartbreak Waites<\/em>, a raw and soulful album blending rock, blues, Americana, and deeply personal storytelling. Alongside powerhouse performers Tony Daniels, Cedric Allen Hills, and Annie McGovern, Waites channels heartbreak, resilience, politics, humor, and hard-earned life experience into music that feels honest and lived-in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Thing (1982) - Trailer HD 1080p\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/24gOJUbTGpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"870\">In this conversation with Pop Horror, Waites discusses his songwriting process, the origins of Heartbreak Waites, surviving the pandemic, and of course, his memories of working with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">John Carpenter<\/span><\/span> on one of horror cinema\u2019s most enduring classics. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasgwaites.com\/heartbreak-waites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas G. Waites &amp; Heartbreak Waites<\/a> will be Live in Concert on June 26 @ 2:00\u20134:00pm, at the New Hope Winery, in New Hope, PA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heartbreak Waites\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jyMyN3xAjuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"870\">[NOTE: This interview has been edited for length and basic grammar reasons. Also, the full interview will be available completely unedited on the podcast Critical Wade Theory.]\n<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"875\"\/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-section-id=\"1inmqgw\" data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"1945\">Songwriting, Acting, and Heartbreak<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"1065\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>So some of my questions will be about your music and your album, but I\u2019m going to have like half of them be about, of course, the classic horror movie that you\u2019re known for.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1101\"><strong data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1088\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1101\"><strong>The Thing<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1191\"><strong data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1117\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PopHorror:<\/span> <em><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Thing<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong>. I\u2019m sure you expected that, right?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1280\"><strong data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1214\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Yeah, and I\u2019m happy to do it. You know, I\u2019d do anything for John.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1947\" data-end=\"2028\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>Do you approach songwriting the same way that you approach acting?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2030\" data-end=\"2248\"><strong data-start=\"2030\" data-end=\"2051\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> I would say I probably do in that it\u2019s a creative process. There\u2019s this space you have to get in with yourself alone. That\u2019s between you and your shadow self, and you have to come up with a story.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2250\" data-end=\"2572\">In that regard, it\u2019s the same. As a young actor, and as a director too, I spent a lot of time alone with the script, studying and going over the words. \u201cWhat am I missing?\u201d Looking up politically and socially what was going on at the time and all the amalgamation of events that create this thing called a play or a movie.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2574\" data-end=\"2781\">Now in TV, it\u2019s just, \u201cGet in, hit your mark, say your lines, and get the fuck out as fast as possible.\u201d Shows like <em data-start=\"2690\" data-end=\"2704\">The Punisher<\/em> or <em data-start=\"2708\" data-end=\"2718\">Homeland<\/em> have to move at such a rapid rate. It\u2019s like an assembly line.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2783\" data-end=\"3095\">Whereas a film like <strong><em><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Thing<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong>, you get two weeks to rehearse. That\u2019s a luxury you can\u2019t even imagine as an actor. You get to find a character and create relationships. \u201cHow do I feel about this one? How does he feel about me?\u201d John engendered a beautiful atmosphere for us to work in.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3097\" data-end=\"3330\">But yeah, I\u2019d say I approach songwriting the same way. Just as passionately. I know I\u2019m 71 and people think, \u201cAre you out of your fucking mind going out on the road and trying to play music?\u201d Maybe I am. But the point is, I\u2019m driven.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3097\" data-end=\"3330\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3332\" data-end=\"3394\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>Out of your mind in a healthy and creative way.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3396\" data-end=\"3507\"><strong data-start=\"3396\" data-end=\"3417\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Right. I\u2019m not out murdering anyone. I\u2019m just trying to get people to sing along with me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3509\" data-end=\"3590\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span> And with a group name like Heartbreak Waites, what was that about?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3592\" data-end=\"3838\"><strong data-start=\"3592\" data-end=\"3613\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> So <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">John Goodman<\/span><\/span> is a mate of mine. We came up together and did a TV prison movie back in 1982. We spent a couple weeks in Dallas together and closed down more than one juke joint while we were there.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3840\" data-end=\"3982\">I used to have this line when I\u2019d try to pick up girls when I was younger. I\u2019d say, \u201cDon\u2019t fall in love with me, baby. I\u2019ll break your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3984\" data-end=\"4225\">Then I had a punk band in the \u201980s called The Pushups where I\u2019d take my shirt off and do one-handed pushups as part of the act. John Goodman sat at the bar yelling, \u201cHeartbreak Waites! Heartbreak Waites! Let\u2019s hear it for Heartbreak Waites!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4227\" data-end=\"4317\">Thirty-five years later, I thought, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m naming my band Heartbreak Waites.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"4319\" data-end=\"4322\"\/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-section-id=\"17yk9cj\" data-start=\"4324\" data-end=\"4350\">Turning Pain Into Music<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"4352\" data-end=\"4438\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span> Were there specific life experiences that shaped the core of the album?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4440\" data-end=\"4493\"><strong data-start=\"4440\" data-end=\"4461\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Yeah. Specifically, heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4495\" data-end=\"4672\">We\u2019ve all had our heart broken. It could be romantic, fraternal, parental. Someone you\u2019ve opened yourself up to suddenly puts a knife in your back and it\u2019s like, <em data-start=\"4657\" data-end=\"4672\">Et tu, Brute?<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4674\" data-end=\"4938\">That happened to me with a certain group of people I won\u2019t mention. I was shocked they would betray me that way. Then I thought, \u201cHow long are you going to sit around feeling badly about this?\u201d So I picked up the guitar and wrote a song called \u201cHeartbreak Waites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4940\" data-end=\"5200\">That triggered years of writing I compiled during the pandemic because there was nothing to fucking do. I got really, really sick. They wanted to put me on a ventilator and I said, \u201cNo, man. If I\u2019m going to cack, I\u2019m going to do it right here in my apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5202\" data-end=\"5447\">I ate a chunk of raw garlic and sweated it out one night. The sheets were soaking wet. But when I came through that, I said, \u201cI want to do two things before I die. I want to write and direct my own movie, and I want to be a successful musician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5449\" data-end=\"5591\">I did achieve making the movie, and it\u2019s really good. But distribution now is like the Wild West. You\u2019re lucky if your film gets shown at all.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5593\" data-end=\"5677\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>And then they publicize it. You\u2019re always having so much competition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5679\" data-end=\"5898\"><strong data-start=\"5679\" data-end=\"5700\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Yeah. Every kid with an iPhone can make a movie now. I made mine for $150,000 and people are like, \u201cAre you fucking kidding me?\u201d But I did it. According to union rules too. Somehow, I pulled it off.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5900\" data-end=\"5971\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>What drew you toward Americana and folk rock as a style?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5973\" data-end=\"6171\"><strong data-start=\"5973\" data-end=\"5994\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Honestly, that\u2019s just what came out naturally. A booking agent once told me, \u201cWhat you\u2019re playing is Americana.\u201d I said, \u201cOh.\u201d I was just writing songs about what was going on.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"6173\" data-end=\"6359\">I also wrote a musical based on plays by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Robert Louis Stevenson<\/span><\/span>. I wanted it to be rock and roll music set in 1820s France. Eventually I ended up writing the music myself.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"6361\" data-end=\"6593\">We did a reading in London\u2019s West End with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kelsey Grammer<\/span><\/span> as the lead. The singers there were unbelievable. You can\u2019t even imagine how talented these people picked up songs like you pick up a piece of paper. I would play it for them once, they\u2019d be like, okay, no problem\u2026it was quite a highlight in my life as a musician.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"6595\" data-end=\"6598\"\/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-section-id=\"h9tj4h\" data-start=\"6600\" data-end=\"6644\">Music, The Times, and Personal Convictions<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"6646\" data-end=\"6754\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>That\u2019s also part of your musical message. You\u2019ve got songs dealing with political topics too.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"6756\" data-end=\"6967\"><strong data-start=\"6756\" data-end=\"6777\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Yeah, though I\u2019ve got to be careful with the band. When I play solo, I let it all out. But I don\u2019t want to jeopardize anyone else with my observations about what\u2019s happening in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"6969\" data-end=\"7183\">I grew up seeing the civil rights riots outside my window as a five-year-old boy. A lot of Black people looked out for me in New York. A lot of Black guys stood by me in my time of need more times than I can count.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"7185\" data-end=\"7413\">I\u2019ll give you a recent example. In 2021 I slipped on ice jogging home from Central Park and tore my hamstring. I\u2019m lying there screaming while everyone walks by me. A young Black couple came out of church and helped me get home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"7415\" data-end=\"7485\">So I\u2019m not going to stand by without speaking up when I see injustice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152665\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-152665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/windowsthing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/windowsthing.jpg 440w, https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/windowsthing-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/windowsthing-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas G. Waites as \u2018Windows\u2019 in John Carpenter\u2019s THE THING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr data-start=\"7993\" data-end=\"7996\"\/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-section-id=\"17sdhkd\" data-start=\"7998\" data-end=\"8028\"><span role=\"text\">Looking Back on <em data-start=\"8017\" data-end=\"8028\">The Thing<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"8030\" data-end=\"8166\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>Going back to <strong><em data-start=\"8059\" data-end=\"8070\">The Thing<\/em><\/strong>, what was it like seeing the special effects being put into place and coming to life on screen?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"8168\" data-end=\"8349\"><strong data-start=\"8168\" data-end=\"8189\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> You know, when I first watched it back in 1982, I didn\u2019t pay attention to the effects at all. I just thought, \u201cI\u2019m terrible. I\u2019m the worst actor in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"8351\" data-end=\"8548\">Actors are very self-critical. But later, when I watched it again, I realized what a fine film it was. John had this vision. The photography, the music, the story. It predicted the future in a way.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"8550\" data-end=\"8689\">Are you talking to a real person or an artificial representation? A hologram? John nailed that 45 years ago. That\u2019s called being prescient.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"8691\" data-end=\"8787\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>It\u2019s brilliant. It\u2019s paranoia, isolation, and lack of trust all wrapped together.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"8789\" data-end=\"8860\"><strong data-start=\"8789\" data-end=\"8810\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Exactly. And you\u2019re isolated. I think it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"8862\" data-end=\"9130\">Since the pandemic, isolation has become even more intense. I\u2019m an acting teacher, and I see younger people struggling with interpersonal skills because they were conditioned by screens during that time. I feel badly for them. They were robbed of social opportunities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"9132\" data-end=\"9333\">Then a few years ago, I watched <strong><em data-start=\"9164\" data-end=\"9175\">The Thing<\/em><\/strong> again during a screening in Manchester. This time I focused on the effects, and they were astonishing. Primordial, grotesque, and beautiful at the same time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"9335\" data-end=\"9425\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>Did you have any idea the movie would become such a beloved horror classic?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"9427\" data-end=\"9558\"><strong data-start=\"9427\" data-end=\"9448\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Not at all. It got panned when it came out. My agent told me, \u201cForget about <strong><em data-start=\"9525\" data-end=\"9536\">The Thing<\/em><\/strong>. It\u2019s going nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"9560\" data-end=\"9614\">Then VHS happened. Then the internet. And it exploded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"9616\" data-end=\"9783\">And it couldn\u2019t have happened to a nicer guy because John paid a price for that movie. He lost projects after it bombed. But he believed in his vision and stuck to it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"9785\" data-end=\"9880\">He always said, \u201cIf you make something beautiful artistically, eventually people will find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"9882\" data-end=\"9885\"\/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-section-id=\"1hj1iay\" data-start=\"9887\" data-end=\"9928\">John Carpenter\u2019s Personality and Lasting Connections<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"9930\" data-end=\"10042\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>Some people say <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">John Carpenter<\/span><\/span> has an attitude. What do you say to that?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"10044\" data-end=\"10170\"><strong data-start=\"10044\" data-end=\"10065\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Everybody has bad days. John\u2019s not really a people person. He\u2019s happiest making movies or playing music.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"10172\" data-end=\"10270\">He once came and spoke to my acting class when he absolutely didn\u2019t have to. Very generous of him.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an actor. I deal with situations all the time. Spontaneously, I can improvise on, you know, on a dime. You can put me in front of 50,000 people with no script, and I\u2019d still figure something out on the spot, right? Because I\u2019m an extrovert by nature. John is the opposite. He is way deep inside. Like a writer.<\/p>\n<p>And so people [should] expect that.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re like, \u201cWho\u2019s the real thing? He\u2019s like, \u201cGo fuck yourself,\u201d you know?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Yeah, like that\u2019s something that\u2019s even easy to figure out or something, you know? You wouldn\u2019t want to spoil it anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"10720\" data-end=\"10741\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> He wouldn\u2019t want to tell you anyway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span> It\u2019s kind of like revealing the KFC secret recipe or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"10720\" data-end=\"10741\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Right, right. I mean, come on.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span> You could bash KFC all day long, but you got to respect their recipe secret, you know?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-121444 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/thethingposter1982-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Thing (1982)\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/thethingposter1982-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/pophorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/thethingposter1982.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-section-id=\"1bqemh1\" data-start=\"10842\" data-end=\"10876\">\u201cI Want to Connect With People\u201d<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"10878\" data-end=\"11025\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>When audiences leave a Heartbreak Waites performance, what do you hope stays with them most? The stories, the emotions, the healing?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11027\" data-end=\"11064\"><strong data-start=\"11027\" data-end=\"11048\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> The connection.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11066\" data-end=\"11176\">I want to connect with people. I want to move people to feel. I want to make them laugh. Inspire them to feel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11178\" data-end=\"11270\">That\u2019s my objective. To break through the mask we all wear and let people\u2019s hearts come out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11272\" data-end=\"11354\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span> Kind of like the Grinch. His heart grows multiple sizes by the end.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11356\" data-end=\"11407\"><strong data-start=\"11356\" data-end=\"11377\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11409\" data-end=\"11474\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror: <\/strong><\/span>Well, it\u2019s actually been 29 minutes. That flew by.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11476\" data-end=\"11508\"><strong data-start=\"11476\" data-end=\"11497\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Fantastic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11510\" data-end=\"11566\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PopHorror:<\/strong><\/span>Is there anything else you\u2019d like to add?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11568\" data-end=\"11811\"><strong data-start=\"11568\" data-end=\"11589\">Thomas G. Waites:<\/strong> Well, please purchase my album on Apple Music. It\u2019s not on Spotify because they advertise for ice, but it is on Apple Music. You can download it\u2026it\u2019s a really good album.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11568\" data-end=\"11811\">We took a long time to make it. It\u2019s perfectly produced. Tony Daniels, my guitar player, recorded, engineered, and produced it. So, from a technical standpoint, it\u2019s as near perfect as you can get And I think some of the songs are really great. There are a lot of love songs on there. A lot of love songs. To my ex-wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pophorror.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respected actor, writer, director, and musician Thomas G. Waites has spent decades building a career that spans film, theater, television, and now music. Best known to horror fans for playing Windows in The Thing, Waites recently released Heartbreak Waites, a raw and soulful album blending rock, blues, Americana, and deeply personal storytelling. 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