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| ehle64 |
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| Pfeiffer. I liked the film version of Frankie and Johnny, but it pales in comparison with the play. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:26 am |
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If anyone gets Sundance Channel, they can see me today promoting and intro-ing a really interesting documentary called Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, a road trip through the deep South, equal parts Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Stephen King. Grotesque, creepy, and strangely lyrical. And you get to see me too. Tune in Sundance!
Yeah, I know nobody gets it. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:56 am |
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billyweeds wrote: If anyone gets Sundance Channel, they can see me today promoting and intro-ing a really interesting documentary called Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, a road trip through the deep South, equal parts Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Stephen King. Grotesque, creepy, and strangely lyrical. And you get to see me too. Tune in Sundance!
Yeah, I know nobody gets it.
Maybe you should do it changing your baseball uniform in a locker room?
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:00 pm |
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| Don't understand that at all. Please explain. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:40 pm |
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Tim - That parenthetical remark you ascribed to Scarface...
Mr. Brownstone wrote: Scarface (which borders on insane cat pissing on wall, but what else are you to do with that script but embrace it?),
...could just as easily apply to Dick Tracy. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:41 pm |
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A sly reference to your friend with the nipples, I think. But good on ya for the Sundance gig, bro.
Billy & Gary:
I love Carlito's Way; it's one of the 4-5 films my buddies and I watched in its entirety at least 50 times and can quote on a dime in every situation (we actually got in a major brawl at a football game and one of my friends yelled out, "Here come the pain!").
It's a great story, with great performances from Penn & Leguizamo ("What's the matter with you, pay the fuckin' check, bitch!"), and it's not that Pacino's performance is even bad - the basement shootout especially is really amazing acting.
It's just bizarre. He seems to hold on to his Scent of a Woman accent at least in part, which leads to some of the most bizarre line readings I've ever seen: "Dave... is mah friend... Gayle... I owe him. That's... who I am." All with a slightly Foghorn Leghorn accent.
That's why I place it in the Insane Pissing Cat category - sometimes Pacino as the insane pissing cat is not bad, just... puzzling, and often in a delightful way. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:45 pm |
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| Tim--Are you aware that I am in Carlito's Way, dancing with Penn's mistress at the lawn party? The most front-and-center of my verrrry few extra/background gigs. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:47 pm |
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Mr. Brownstone wrote: A sly reference to your friend with the nipples, I think. But good on ya for the Sundance gig, bro.
Right, right, right. Have you gotten any press on the show? How's the run going?
The Sundance gig has been ongoing for a couple of months now. It's pretty cool. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:41 pm |
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Billy:
I am aware of your Carlito's Way shot. Remember a few years back when I tried to convince everyone, including you, that you were the guy who got shoved in the pool?
You were like, "That's not me, Tim," and I was like, "Yeah, it was, you liar." Good times.
I posted the first review from the Dallas Morning News in the lobby. It's a hit, I guess. The whole run is practically sold out. There's talk of an extension, but I'm pretty sure I can't stay. Gotta get back to NYC. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:09 am |
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Mr. Brownstone wrote: Billy:
It's a hit, I guess. The whole run is practically sold out. There's talk of an extension, but I'm pretty sure I can't stay. Gotta get back to NYC.
For a refill of Viagra? Oh, THAT kind of extension.
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:29 am |
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| I like the new recently randy Mo. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:39 am |
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ehle64 wrote: Pfeiffer. I liked the film version of Frankie and Johnny, but it pales in comparison with the play.
This is probably the best way to put it. Replacing someone like Kathy Bates with Michelle Pfeiffer is frustrating for very apparent reasons, but Pfeiffer still turned in a good performance. I understand that when Bates first heard about the movie's casting, she simply laughed. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:45 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: ehle64 wrote: Pfeiffer. I liked the film version of Frankie and Johnny, but it pales in comparison with the play.
This is probably the best way to put it. Replacing someone like Kathy Bates with Michelle Pfeiffer is frustrating for very apparent reasons, but Pfeiffer still turned in a good performance. I understand that when Bates first heard about the movie's casting she simply laughed.
This of course was before Bates won the Oscar and became a household name. Another example of the cast-a-movie-star game played with Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and Rosalind Russell in Gypsy. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:56 am |
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| Yes. One thing: while I always have/maybe always will begrudge Merman not being given the chance to record her role for posterity, I think Julie Andrews missing out on My Fair Lady was the best thing for her career. I mean this not specifically in terms of the waves of sympathy she received (which carried an Oscar on their crest), but the fact that My Fair Lady is such a somnambulent movie it would have made a dreary debut, and she herself might have come off as unfortunately as Rex Harrison. With Merman, it didn't matter. Her career in movies wasn't going to get jump-started them, but even if it made no difference to the average movie-goer, it would have made a very big difference to us Broadway musical obsessives. On the other hand, Andrews needed the right launch at this crucial point in her career. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:34 am |
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Joe--Of course you're one hundred percent correct about everything you say, but it still bugs the shit out of me that they didn't take a chance on Andrews. And of course My Fair Lady may be the cinematic stiff you and I agree it is, but it still won the Oscar as Best Picture.
The saddest part of it all is that when I saw MFL on Broadway with Harrison and Andrews, it was and remains one of my top memories of The Great White Way. But as a night at the movies it was a snoozer, and Harrison had gone one or two performances past the expiration date. |
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