That reminds me of this little gem. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014) - IMDb
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lmao this sounds wild as fuck
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Donāt know why this popped into my head, but thought you all might get a kick out of this. I was an extra in the film The Front Runner about Gary Hartās presidential campaign that was brought down by a sex scandal. Hugh Jackman played Gary Hart. Watched the movie, it was fine, nothing special.
Here I am as a DNC staffer, drowning my sorrows in a hotel suite when Hart dropped out of the race in 1984 (the one before the scandal). This isnāt the funny part, just a random shot of me in the background at the alcohol table:
That was a long day. It was enjoyable, but it was long. Got there before the sun came up and were still there when it went downā¦and then they told us we were going to a church to film another scene.
I was tired. It was an easy scene - we just had to sit there in pews while Hugh Jackman gave a speech. But I was tired. And I was sitting in church. I was sitting for a long time. And I was tired.
So, here I am doing a bad job of staying awake on film (See the guy on the aisle in the blue dress shirt and tie? Look two rows behind him.):
Postscript to that day: a couple days later, I couldnāt find my wedding ring. I ended up looking and looking and couldnāt find it. I remembered taking it off for a few seconds while I was sitting in church, but I was 99% certain that I didnāt actually put it down and put it back on before they did the next take. I called the hotel where we filmed the one scene, I called the church, but nobody had found anything. I was without it for a year. Then my wife went on a weekend trip and while she was packing, she found my ring in the suitcase. Turns out, I must have taken it off for a sec and unknowingly dropped it in there while I was changing at the end of filming (we often bring clothes for wardrobe to look at).
I was in a couple other scenes, too - even got to eat in a scene with some of the actors.
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lol - I showed the above to my daughter, realizing she hadnāt seen it. Her response: āOh my god, this is EVERYTHING.ā
Also, the actual clip is funnier because you can see me do the trying to stay awake head nod.
Watched Coming 2 America tonight.
It was great! Was it as good as the original? Obviously not, but it was exactly what it needed to be. It was fun and had lots of great references, call backs to the original, and all the favorite characters were back.
Donāt analyze it for more than it what it is. Just enjoy smiling a lot.
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Hard-boiled (John Woo 92)
Great action movie (I guess this is to shootouts what fury road is to car chases, so you have to be into that). The (45 min long!) climax is completely crazy.
The number of civilians caught in the crossfire is in the hundreds, was Hong Kong really that dangerous in the 90s ? this seems a bit unrealistic (lol).
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It was a great day. This is the scene where heās going through his vocal warmups. Adam McKay was yelling lines for him to try (Judd Apatow was there, too). I was biting my cheeks to keep from laughing.
I was in a different spot in the same scene once the actor who played the stage manager arrived. At one point (I may have told this before), the stage doors opened and some people came walking in. I was the closest to them and as they approached, my jaw dropped. It was Harrison Ford, who brushed right past me. His appearance had been kept a secret. My wife even told me when I got home that she just read he was spotted in the parking lot.
I came REALLY close to being one of the three guys on James Marsdenās news team. I was one of the finalists. I was actually upset for a couple days when I didnāt get it, so I canāt imagine what itās like to try to be an ACTUAL ACTOR. They asked me to be one of the core newsroom people, but that wouldāve required a couple months of availability.
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Hereās one of the pics I submitted to try to get cast as one of the guys on the news team. They encouraged us to grow great 70ās facial hair, but I couldnāt, so I did the Brick Tamland look (thatās one of my dadās old sport coats). Like I said, I made the final round of cuts, but the guy who got the part had the facial hair. At least the extras casting director e-mailed me to tell her she was cracking up at my pic.
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Strides should have been flares, probably brown.
But nice work on the hideous jacket/tie combo.
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Well yeah, I had to work with what I had in the closet. I think I may have quickly run out to a thrift store and found the tie.
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Iād missed these posts until recently. Very entertaining diversion, thanks.
I kinda want to do a power ranking of Hamiltom songs comparing first watch vs current listens.
Burn, Dear Theodosia and especially Itās Quiet Uptown have all rocketed up my list lately. I think on first watch you get so into the revolution storyline that the entire family/marriage plot gets put on the back burner a bit and the second act comes off quite a bit weaker than the first, but Eliza and Burr absolutely kill the second half of the show.
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Dear Theodosia has such a great hook. āYou knock me out, I fall apartā is a killer line. I get chills every time I hear that song.
eta: iām not saying the hook and the line I mentioned are one and the same
Burn I on some level always thought was good, but I didnāt really get punched by it till we saw the local show. Not sure who our Eliza was, but she was great. Since then itās a tip tier track for me.
I guess Iām not a huge lyric person cause this happens frequently. Like in Dear Evan hanson we listened to that soundtrack a TOOOON. our 5 year old loved it too cause she is a broadway weirdo. But till it came here and we saw it I didnāt quite have a gut punch impact. But the scene where the dad breaks down I was destroyed. Now if Iām just singing āyou are not loneā in the car or something itās hard to keep it together.
Iāve found myself getting emotional listening to Hamilton lately, which might be why Iām focusing more on the familial/children drama and less on the historical/battle stuff (except for One Last Time because that song is a banger and a half.)
I think Angelica gets the more powerful songs overall (Including her lines in The Reynolds Pamphlet āGod, I hope youāre satisfiedā) but Eliza has some devastating gut punch moments in the last third or so. Burn, Stay Alive reprise (āAlexander, did you know!ā is a shattering line), Its quiet Uptown, Best of Wives and Best of Women and Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.
Fuck me, this is good shit.
When I saw it live for the first and only time, I said to my wife, āthis was her story the whole time!ā
When I saw the show live I cried during āWho Lives Who Dies,ā when they get to the part about the orphanage.
Yeah Iāve got Alexander as the third main behind Eliza and Burr