A Cast of Thousands

Daniel Day-Lewis is at his very best in "My Left Foot".

Please say you've seen that!

Pete, I did see that movie, "My Left Foot". It was the very first movie in which I saw Daniel Day-Lewis. He is very versatile, that man.

Saeed Jaffrey who played Daniel Day Lewis' lover in "My Beautiful Launderette" should be someone Gautam knows from Bollywood movies.
G needs to find a Gay Film Festival in Londontown to catch up! Tell me you also haven't seen "The Sum of Us" either, with Russell Crowe who delivers a very convincing performance of a gay man.

I'd prefer to think we are making a Fellini film that that awful "Caligula."

Yep, Saeed Jaffrey is a well known actor/theatre personality in India, and I am quite a big fan - though I never came across this particular movie...

The last gay themed movie which I saw was a couple of years back and it was called "The Boner" or something....but that was a highly "specialized" production

Must have been about a terrible mistake?

Another recent film that received kudos at the Sundance Film Festival is "The Fluffer" which happens to be about the gay porn industry. However, it's a very personal story about obssessive love.

I spent more time laughing than anything else - I generally find porn movies to be a laugh riot !!

But I digress, so WHERE IS MY SCRIPT ???

We could recast my epic from "Abuzzaholics Anonymous," "Gone With the Schwin." It's "Gone With the Wind" only with bicycles instead of horses. Can anyone imagine the Union or Confederate calvary on bicycles?

LW. I think you have the beginning of a great musical. And Rhett and Scarlet could speed by on a bicylce built for two with Melanie and Ashley trailing behind on scooters.

Letty: Where are you?

Hey, Raggedy. I be here. I'm mulling over which part I would like to play in Gone with the Wind. Vashti (sp) I think. Certainly not little goodie Miss Melanie....

I'll be Scarlet's whiny sister Suellen!

Jespah did suggest it as a musical -- it would work for the other thread going about "Worst Musicals."

We had sufficiently mangled the lines for "Gone With the Schwinn," like making it more modern and more risque:

Butterfly, "The Yankees is comin' The Yankees is comin'"

Scarlett, "That's funny. Can't they hold onto it?"

Lightwizard, Love it!

Song for Butterfly:

Oh, Miss Scarlett, birthin' babies ain't my thing.
What I'm good at, lady, is doin the Atlanta swing.

First I remove my turban,
Undo my apron strings,
Then I kick off both my shoes,
And really start to sing.

Georgia, Georgia,
No peace I find,
Watchin' Three Oaks burn
And Tara on my mind.

Georgia, Georgia,
The whole day through,
Scarlett, you get Rhett
You'll be all set, it's true.

So anyway... can I do the Busby Berkely water ballet bit?

I still havent seen the script

(abt to throw a star tantrum)

Have your people call Letty's people . . .

Do lunch, have your girl work up a memorandum . . .

Call Letty, apologize for the direct contact, tell her your people have been screwing up lately . . .

Do lunch, but make your people crawl into the restaurant whining and begging forgiveness . . .

Make up a short list of screen writers, vet them, reject them all out of hand . . .

Do lunch . . .

Have your people call Letty's people to arrange for a working lunch, cancel at the last minute . . .

Wait a week, pretend to pout, do lunch again . . .

When it reaches the "What was the question?" stage, do lunch again, the ask about a script . . .

Fire all of your people, get new people, arrange to do lunch . . . soon, no really, soon . . . it's just that i've been so damned busy . . .

Seal, Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Busby.

But, Seal. who you gonna be?

Thank God. The director is finally here! ( ..hilarious, Setanta)
Gautam, Just ad lib until we work out this behind the scenes thing.

This should have been featured several days back -- I've been remiss and there are a lot of featured topics.

Charles Pierce, the extremely funny drag performer used to love to mangle this line from Butterfly (didn't miss going once a month to the old Redwood Room in L.A. where he performed):

Charles as Vivien Liegh as Scarlett O'Hara (high drag):

"Miss Scarlett, Miss Scarlett -- they's gonna rob all the women and rape all the men."

"Quick, where are they?"

..

Me...? I got the part from The Secret of Roan Inish...