My alma mater produced How I Learned To Drive last year, and the actress who played Li'l Bit was particularly awful. The director was forced to make numerous concessions in regards to the sexuality because she was uneasy about it. It was awkward to watch, and not in the way it is supposed to be. Plus, she couldn't act to save her life. I'm not sure why the director didn't go with a more experienced actress. No one in that department has the balls to dismiss anyone, though.
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I had opening night of my one-act Friday night. It went really well. My actress is wonderful. She get a seventeen page monologue down cold in four days and brought so much to the table that over tech week we crafted a really top-notch show. She plays a cross-dressing...
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Nice hawk.
I was really worried...
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this one is for bessie.
I ask Agent the name of the project, what it's about, etc. He says: Snakes on a Plane. Holy shit, I'm thinking. It's a title. It's a concept. It's a poster and a logline and whatever else you need it to be. It's perfect. Perfect. It's the Everlasting Gobstopper of movie titles.
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In fact, during the two or three days that precedes my phone call with the studio, I become obsessed with the concept. Not as a movie. But as a sort of philosophy. Somnewhere in between "Cest la vie", "Whattya gonna do?" and "Shit happens" falls my new zen koan "Snakes on a Plane".
whatchu gwan do.
cest la vie motherfucker.
However, I like to think I was a birthday present to my mother. I'm the gift that keeps on giving!
[Edited on Apr 19, 2006 11:34PM]
Oh, and Dangerous. Mustn't forget that one. The Dangerous Outrageous Controversial SYH--Doc SYH for short.
(Although it took me significantly longer than you.)
[Edited on May 10, 2006 5:51PM]