BS: Have you been in a Movie?

Subject: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: harpgirl
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:54 AM

I was home sick yesterday watching "Gettysburg" (to see Sam Elliott, of course) and I noticed all those grizzled extras. Have you been in a movie and what did you have to do? Speaking get you SAG membership? Of course, Bob Dylan and a few others of our famouse lurkers should post!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:13 AM

My one and only screen appearance was a little more unusual than an extra. In the early 70's I was a marshall at drag racing events in the UK, at a meeting we held at Silverstone Chrysler Motor Corp. were making a promotional film called "Drag on a Hot Summer's Day". I had been walking through the pits and been given a tee shirt, the front of which was emblazoned with a picture of a pair of naked breasts and the words "We have the nicest bodies", the back bore the name of Kirby Buttera who were a Californian maker of fiberglass racing bodies. Proudly sporting this creation I walked back to my position on the start line and was spotted by the film director who asked me to turn round and walk back again so that I could be filmed. I thought that the scene would end up on the editing room floor, so imagine my surprise when I found the Chrysler stand at the following Motor Show showing the film complete with the tee shirt.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:24 AM

I was in a little independent Canadian film at the end of the 70's: I think it was issued under the title, "Dr Woman". I played a nurse who was being tried for distribution of condoms somewhere around Ottawa (Roman Catholic Church bringing the case against her). It was only a quick scene, no lines, but took all day in an abandoned court house in London, Ont to film. To make matters worse, my sister (who I swear hates me, Ma; honest she does!) was the wardrobe supervisor and she dressed me in this thin little black crepe number and I nearly froze m' tits off! Never did see it ...

More recently, I was production co-ordinator on a film nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar in ... 1994? But I wasn't 'in' it.

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:08 AM

Naw...I don't think so...just some TV here and there. I do know a woman who got to be an extra in Dylan's dreadfully bad movie, "Hearts of Fire", though. Not Bob's fault, really, but it was a terrible movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:12 AM

Several. I buy a ticket, some popcorn, a drink, and take a seat.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:45 AM

Not me, but a boy I know was in a movie starring Yahoo Serious, called "Mr Accident". Yahoo Serious played a character called Roger Crumpkin, and Branden played him as a child here. Scroll down to the bottom, where there is a picture of him, and this description:

Roger Crumpkin's father (David Hoey) ejects him from the family "Us Crumpkins are parts people! We don't make things up we take things to pieces, always have, always will. No dinner and you can stay out here until all this imagination nonsense is washed out of your silly little head!"

Heartbroken Little Roger (Branden Zandstra) "I never used my imagination again."

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:53 AM

Contrary to scurrilous rumour, I was NOT John Hurt's body double in The Elephant Man. Sadly my finely chiselled good looks and natural charm have eluded casting directors the world over. Must go, time for my dose of reality.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Gervase
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:04 AM

Was in a dire TV series once, in which the lead was Tim 'David Archer' Bentinck prancing around on a horse.
As a mere specialist extra I didn't have any lines and just had to make lots of bangs and smoke and sometimes appear dead. None of which was a problem. The food - both in qauality and quantity - was superb, and the pay wasn't bad either.
As a specialist I didn't need an Equity card (the UK equivalent to SAG), so no major career doors opened (thank gawd - because, food and tea aside, film-making is the most balls-achingly dull procedure, and those involved seem largely to be twats).

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 10:55 AM

About 20 years ago I was the narrator in the worst movie ever made. It was titled LOBSTEROIDS, a tale about a mad scientist and a vandal who fed steroids to a tank of lobsters and they went nuts and killed people who listened to rock music. The pay sucked, but I liked the thought behind the story. Fortunately, it was never released.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: MMario
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:10 AM

I was in an independent comedy short a few years ago titled "The Spectator" - I got to play "1st man in line' - waiting to get into a sports bar; got to toss the main charactor to the back of the line when he tried to cut in front, growl at the camara; and had one of only lines in the whole 10 minute production - "I'm IN!" when the bouncer lets me into the bar.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:14 AM

I played a detective in The Glory Boys - a Rod Steiger made for TV sort of thing.. Steiger was a professor, he had been delivering a speech on the environment that could save humanity, and somebody shot him. Steiger had been shot and was staggering down the front of a building and I had to look like a security heavy. It was in Leeds two weeks before Christmas. Everybody was freezing their knackers off apart from Steiger who was in his caravan as much as possible. I brought my gloves I was so cold.

they handed me a revolver, and Steiger wisely noted, you can't wear your gloves now. I remember I was working with another extra who was the one who came into a room, switched the light on and smiled - because it was Dulux paint. There were two other nutters both ex army, one who reckoned he was ex SAS, another who wanted to deck him cos he thought he was bullshitting.

Anyway a man with a clipboard came up and said - okay we've got the fire engines ready to make it look as if its raining. but we won't switch the water on til we shoot it, we'll just walk through our positions.
Steiger said, you walk through the positions. I'm just walking down the stair, I will hold the spectacles like this, so get the shot, and when you're ready to shoot, come and get me.....

Silence, then okay okay we go for the shot....

After that film I always took reports of Joanna Lumley's great intellectual powers with a pinch of salt. She had to run down the steps and shout Its a grey cortina! pointing after the escaping villains. Like I say there were fire hoses going and it was freezing, she runs the steps and shouts its a red cortina!
Then she did it again.
and again. got the colour wrong three times.

Anthony Perkin of Psycho fame was there . My chief memory of him was that he was very short sighted, almost to the poiint of bumping into things.

However I didn't do much of this sort of stuff, Bernard Wrigley would be the man to ask, and Jack Hudson of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Wesley S
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:18 AM

I was on "60 Minutes" once. They did a story on a church in Casa Dega Florida where they talked to spirits from "the beyond". We went to check it out. I hope we didn't giggle too much.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Schantieman
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 11:27 AM

My dad nearly played a corpse in Eyes Wide Shut.

They made him up to look dead, gave him a plastic breastplate so he couldn't be seen breathing and he had to spend the whole time they were shooting his scenes lying motionless in bed. They put him up in a posh hotel in London AND paid him. What's more, they didn't use the shots!

BUT,

My mother invented CRACKERJACK! pencils. (I realise that that this will mean nothing to our transatlantic brethren...)

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 01:28 PM

I was in Russian Roullette. Not the pathetic and forgotten two star one from 1992 -- the forgotten two and a half star one from 1975. You can see me playing the saxophone in the turnaround at the end of Lion's Gate Bridge.

I was also in Rocky IV as the body double/stunt man for the Russian fighter in the boxing scenes.   

Oh, wait. No, that wasn't me.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 01:45 PM

No.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:03 PM

Do educational documentaries count? I was in an NFB film for once. I wasn't allowed to appear in the laboratory footage, as they selected me as the person who was illegally removing plant material from an Agriculture Canada quarantine area.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:12 PM

I was almost in Tootsie. (No, not wearing a dress!)   I worked for the production house where most of the film was shot. They had extras, including some of the people that worked in the facility, in the background of some of the shots.   There was one street scene where I was in the area, but I didn't make the final cut!   

Having worked in "behind the scenes" part of the television industry for the past 25 year, I can attest to the fact that is is dreadfully dull and routine.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:31 PM

Some of it isn't Ron.

I have a very good friend who accompanied and baby sat for her friend who was once Liza Minnelli's makeup artist in Mexico for the filming of Lucky Lady.

My friend assured me it was a real eye-opener. Howwever, she also assured me that Gene Hackman was ever a consumate gentleman and very professional, quite apart from the rest of the crowd, something I would have expected.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:43 PM

No but my aunts son has been in over a hundred films. His name is Gene Hackman.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:48 PM

I wasn't in a film myself, but I was caricatured in one.

Back in the late 1970's I worked as a National Park Ranger at Ellis Island. It hadn't been restored yet, it hadn't been much of anything yet except they shoveled the worst of the debris from the collapsing buildings out of the way and constructed barriers and covered walkways to keep people along specific corridors that we were to lead tours through. Lots of stairs, uneven pavement, cracks, and slick spots, but it was facinating in its decrepitude. Keeping visitors safe in there was a challenge.

Meredith Monk conceived and directed a film called Ellis Island in which actors were dressed in period costumes, placed in a tableau and filmed, and then they began to move. I think it would go from sepia tone to color when they began to move. Anyway, it was an interesting project, and they got permission to film at locations around the island, but tours went on as normal. Monk was to accomodate our tours, but he kept running heavy camera and electrical cables through the tour area, moving barriers, and making a lot of noise. I was the supervisor of the interpretive staff, so I was the unlucky individual to ride herd on his group. After a while we were not hitting it off well at all. I finally called my boss (located in an office on nearby Liberty Island, inside the statue) to come talk to him, and the stinker quick had all of his stuff up and out of the way by the time Mike got there. My boss could see what was happening, though, and was pretty good about it. I think in the end he had some of the maintenance or protection guys hang out more with them and keep the tour route clear. But Monk decided to add me into his movie. There were "modern" sequences edited into the story line, and he introduced a woman character, not exactly in uniform, but with a distinctive almost-stetson hat who grimmaced through her scenes, always leading a handful of people around. It really was very funny, it certainly cracked me up, anyway, but I'm probably one of very few who got that joke.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 02:55 PM

Well if you ever see him Donuel, you can assure him that there are at least two women in Canada who think he is a phenomenal actor and regard him highly as a person as well FWIW. Although, the movie Lucky Lady was a bit of a throw away.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:03 PM

Yes, I was in a movie!!
It was Peter Sellars "Only Two Can Play" I was actually sitting behind some of the stars in the Public Hall in Briton Ferry, in Wales, UK. The building was disguised for the part!!   It was the concert scene in the film. I didn't have to say anything, just sit there as a member of the so-called audience right behind the man himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 03:31 PM

Now, if you include television...yes, several times. Starting when I was in second grade (about 7 years old) when I was part of performing duo -- we did something with brooms while we recited a poem or something.

And I've had a radio show off and on, mostly off.

My friend, the late Roy Brocksmith, was in many films, plays, and TV series. He played the drama critic in War of the Roses, he was in the TV series Picket Fences, and others. His son continues to act.

I, both brothers, my sister, and my father all acted in Little Theatre. Some years ago my hometown group presented Bleacher Bums, in which both my brother and his son appeared -- making three generations who trod the boards with that group. My brother told them, but the group didn't do anything with what could have been a nice publicity hook.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: open mike
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:27 PM

i mayhave appeared in a t.v. news cast as a fire fighter
(not acting--just doing my "part") when they filmed an
accidcent scene or fore i was responding to.

i did not see the news cast because i wqs out in thter field
dealing with the situation.

several friends and neighbors have been extras in Clint Eastwood
films...he has done a couple in this area. the Klansman and Hang
"em high.

our fire engine was on stand by in a scene that was shot for a t.v.
movie about Ruby Ridge, Every Bended Knee or some thing like that.
We were there for the scene with the burning crosses...spooky! i
forget if it ws randy quaid or dennis quaid who played on of the
parts. They built a cabin for a prop and we were able to salvage the
lumber to use for "cribbing" for our reescue squad...wooden blocks
which are used to stabilize a vehicle during rescue operations.

i also have been on t.v. playing guitar with a hammer dulcimer player who was the subject of a special documentary.

also been on the radio several times...as well as my monthly show,
Crossroads, which i have been doing for a couple of years now!!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:29 PM

Yes.

I played the monolith in "2001".

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 04:41 PM

If we're going to seque to friends, then I have at least one of those. My late friend Dorothy Pope was the niece of the character actor Jacques Aubuchon. He was in a lot of televison and film over the years. I think he was the gruff man in the Sunsweet Prune commercials--"I warn you in advance, I'm not going to like your prunes" (it was written by Stan Freburg).

SUNSWEET This Stan Freberg spot opens with an arrogant man saying, "I warn you in advance, I'm not going to like your prunes." He says prunes are both pitted and wrinkled. A hand holds out a box of Sunsweet prunes and the man discovers they don't have pits. He finds them sweet and moist, but still complains about the wrinkles. Closing stentorian VO: "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles."

Unfortunately, they don't document old commercials the way they do film, so I can't swear to it that this is Jacques because I can't find any images from the commercials.

I have been interviewed (tv, radio, newspaper) for news stories a number of times over the years. It usually had to do with parks where I was working.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:01 PM

No but my sister has been in a dreadful New Zealand soap called 'Shortland Street'... and she was the model for the orc makeup in Lord of the Rings

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: pdq
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:27 PM

While visting southern Arizona in the early 1970s, I ran into the film crew for "The Hellstrom Cronicles". One gent asked if I could help find some impressive species of insects to film. Three of the specimens I collected made it into the movie's final version, including a rinocerus beetle which dug it's claws painfully into my hand during filming.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 06:45 PM

segue. Gotta remember to proofread. arrrgghhhh.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:18 PM

No although I've been on TV. But I have a peripheral brush with the LOTR movies - the Hobbiton village is on the sheep farm owned by my third cousin's cousin.
I haven't met my third cousin's cousin.
I haven't met my third cousin (our great-grandmothers were sisters)
but I have met my third cousin's wife!

Cheers
JennieG who once went to NZ

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:37 PM

A couple movies - but several (two award-winning) plays.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Emma B
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:42 PM

Many many moons ago, in the days of Swingin' London. I was filmed shopping in Carnaby Street for a short "Look at Life" but as it was shown with "Emmanuelle" I was too embarressed to go and watch it!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 07:56 PM

I don't know if this counts. I was once in a police training film. About 20 or 25 years ago I had been an actor in several local community theatre productions, all strictly amateur stuff. The film was my only paying gig. I got $25 for an afternoon's work. I can't remember how I got the job. Somebody who knew me must have recommended me. I know I didn't audition. I wasn't even looking for work. I had to take a day off from my regular job to do it, so it was a net loss. It was worth it for the experience.

I appeared in only one scene, but I actually had some speaking lines. I played a "witness" being questioned by a police officer. I hadn't witnessed an actual crime, but had seen a "suspicious" person leaving my apartment building after a rape had been committed there. When I saw the final edited version of the film, it turned out that only a couple of my lines were audible at the beginning of the scene. After that, my dialogue was just background while a "voice-over" explained proper police procedure.

They used real police officers to play the roles of policemen. Everyone else was an actor—but, like me, an amateur or nearly so, with no particular knowledge of police procedure or crime. I'm rather sure, though, that the script was written by someone who had done considerable research. I think the film (which was one of a series) was an early attempt to raise the consciousness of police officers (who were almost always male in those days) about rape, to dispel some of the sexist myths and prejudices that were then common, and to get policemen to treat rape victims with some sensitivity and respect. But I'm also rather sure that whatever procedure was considered advanced in those days has now been superseded, so my film has probably gone to landfills by now.

I don't even remember the name of the film, or the name of the production company.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:01 PM

If you recall seeing the James Bond movie, "Goldfinger", and you remember the scuba diver who got shot with that speargun--that wasn't me. I have never been in a movie unless you count the footage filmed by a certain federal agency in the US at a WEB Dubois Club convention in early 1966 or 1967. I had my middle finger in the air while looking at the camera.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: The Walrus
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:05 PM

I've been an extra in a couple of TV series: a somewhat unconvincing gunner & musketier in 'By The Sword Divided' (and English Civil War series) for the BBC and a Recruiting Serjeant / Platoon Serjeant / Drinker in an estaminet in an episode of 'In Suspicious Circumstances' for Grenada TV.

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:26 PM

Two stories, one personal, one second-hand:

About 15 years ago, when I was unemployed for an entire summer, I took my then-ten-year-old son Cassidy to an open audition for extras in a Hollywood movie about to be shot on location in New Orleans. The working title was "Baby Blues" -- when the film (a real stinker) came out, they had changed the name, and I can't remember that name at the moment. (It was so bad, it never appeared in a threater in the city where it was shot -- went straight to video.)

Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner played former CIA agents who retired when they had a baby. They're on vacation in N.O. when some kind of incident happens leading to a very weak, stupid plot.

Cass was hired and (at first) I wasn't -- but rules required that underage extras be accompanied by an adult guardian at all times. So I went along, having nothing better to do and needing any possible income for the household. We went every day for about a week.

Cass had a pretty big scene walking down the central isle of the French Market (local farmer's market) when he gets pushed out of the way by a charactrer played by comedian Larry Miller. Cass was and is a big fan of comedy/comedians -- he's in New York right now, trying to make it as a standup -- and he knew and admired Larry Miller's work -- until he saw him in action as an actor, putting on a terribly bogus New Orleans accent and generally putting on a weak performance.

This went on for a couple of days, and I got to know some of the young ADs (assistant directors), and kept asking to be given an extra role, since I was hanging around anyway. I did finally get hired, and appeared *way* in the background, walking on the opposite side of the street, during the sequence shot at the French Market, which made it into the final cut. Cassidy is right in the middle of the screen and of the action for a good 4-5 seconds, but I'm in the background of the next scene only very briefly, identifiable only because I remembered what color clothes I had been wearing.

I got a call on the third or fourth day, inviting me to an overnight shoot on Bourbon Street. At the audition, I had filled out a questionnaire wherein I was able to mention that I played guitar, and I was "cast" as a street musician. No higher pay than any other extra, but plenty of hours (overnight), and maybe a better chance of showing up recognizably on screen.

They carefully posed and lit me under a streetlight with my guitar, directly across Bourbon Street from a bar. The camera was inside the bar, pointing directly through the door towards me. Of course, the scene being filmed involved characters inside the bar, with the shot set up so that the street, as seen through the wide double doorway, would serve as backdrop. When the clapper came down and the guy shouted "Action," crowds of people started walking in the street in both directions, and I couldn't even see the camera. I'll never know whether I was visible at all in the scene, since it didn't make it into the movie anyway.

Next, that same evening, they had a shot where Dennis and Kathleen are walking down Bourbon Street in the midst of a crowd, trading three of four lines of dialog. As always, there were multiple takes with interminable waits between them, and Ms. Turner complained that some extras she bumped into in the crowded street were runbbng up against her or feeling her up or somthing. Since I was carrying a big dreadnaught-size hard case, I was recruited to walk next to her and block off anyone else who might make contact. So for an hour or so, I functioned as Kathleen Tuner's lacky/bodyguard, and exchanged a little small talk -- and got paid for it. Big whoop. Of course, this scene didn't make in ino the final film, either.

One morning Cass and I showed up and it was raining. We were told that the scheduled scene requiring crowds of extras was cancelled for the day, and that they would shoot an indoor scene instead, which would require one adult male "stunt extra" who would be paid at a higher rate, not for speaking a line, but for getting hit over thehead with a breakaway bottle.

I was one of several volunteers, but didn't get the part. I talked with the lucky winner the next day, and he said he had a headache from getting hit so many times for so many "takes." The fight was staged in the very picturesque Saturn Bar on St. Claude Avenue, for those few of you who know the place, and the extra got knocked upside the head by actor Stanley Tucci.

Oh yeah -- I also made a few extra bucks allowing my car to appear (as a parked car, in the background -- an automotive extra) during two days of shooting.

My final day working as an extra was strictly audio -- they were filming the opening scene, a party at a Garden District mansion, featuring a good solid New Orleans brass band as live entertainment. Forty or fifty of us extras were there to be party guests. I never got into a shot, but the entire group was assembled around a microphone to clap and sing along with the band. That bit *did* make it into the final cut, playing with the closing credits.

I can tell you from experience that the moviemaking process is *excruciatingly* slow; they spend an hour or more setting up for a shot that might last for a minute or two on screen, and then proceed to film it a dozen or more times. Another bit of inside dope that I learned: "craft services," which means catering (food and drink) is available to everyone on the set at any time. If you have a legitimate reason to be there, whether you're the star or the director or a lowly extra or a guy making a delivery, you can get anything you want, at any time, cooked to order,for the asking.

Other story:

The Ray Charles biopic "Ray" was shot almost entirely in New Orleans last summer. It was a significant event for the local economy, because the film is not set in New Orleans, and they didn't use any of the obvious cliche only-in-New-Orleans settings. Instead, different neightborhoods and buildings were used to represent locations in Seattle, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York, Chicago, etc. etc.

Music writer Jeff Hannusch, aka Almost Slim, was asked to allow his *house* to be used as a location, and agreed. It appears in the film as the Seattle home of a woman club-owner who sort of nurtures and also exploits the young Ray Charles. Quite a few scenes were filmed inside and outside his house. Jeff devoted two or maybe even three of his monthly columns in the local Offbeat magazine to his account of the experience. He'd never do it again; the invasion of the film crew alientated all his neighbors, and the money wasn't worth the aggravation.

If you take the time to Google Jeff's name, you'll find the titles of his two or three authoritative books on New Orleans R&B music. You *might* even find back issues of Offbeat with his tales of turing his house over to Hollywood, but maybe not.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 09:36 PM

Nope.

But our house was in a movie. They filmed some 'B' movie (what else do they film in T.O.) on our street when we lived in Toronto.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: coldjam
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:05 AM

Aw PappaGator, I thought that movie was cute! One of my favorite lines comes from it, "Bad idea Morty."

I was/am? in an educational film that everyone who gets arrested, and is waitng for arraignment (in a certain city), is forced to see. So if someone recognizes me,I know they been up to somethin'!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:18 AM

THAT'S where I saw you.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: LadyJean
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 12:35 AM

I was in a short, independent film called "Boot Cut Slacks". I've never seen it. I'm not sure I want to. It's about infertility, and, while I keep my clothes on through the entire picture. (That was one of the few things I asked the director before I was cast.) I spend much too much time talking about sperm. Then there's the dream sequence, which involves plumbing fixtures. There's also the scene where the director plays my brother Weasel, which we shot several times because the old egotist liked playing the role so much. I'm easy to spot. I'm the only woman in the picture. But I don't think a lot of people have seen it. I hope a lot of people haven't seen it. I got into it because I was in a rut. Ruts are dangerous places to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Jim McLean
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 02:17 PM

I was in 'The Wonderful World of the Brother Grimm' shot in Germany, 1960/1. I was playing the pipes around Europe at the time, with a Danish friend who played the drums, and met Lawrence Harvey who asked us to play at his birthday party. We managed to get bit parts for a few weeks and often went out with Harvey and his then wife/woman Joan Cohen who was head of Columbia Pictures but we didn't know that at the time. I didn't even know who he was when we first met and only did the 'gig' for the free booze and food. Glorious days!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 02:25 PM

Do security camera videotapes count?

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 05:34 PM

coldjam -- do you remember the name of that movie? Please let us know so anyone interested (i.e., myself) can look it up and rent a copy.

*Maybe* it was released as "Baby Blues," but I think that that title (the one I remember) was the temporary "working title" and was changed by the time it was released.

I'm amazed that *anyone* saw that stinker, let alone still remembers it. But you're right -- the line about "Morty" (a hapless bad guy who called himself "Muerte") was definitely in there.

Bad as the movie may have been, the experience of participating in its creation was great -- especially sharing it with my boy.

If you'd like to see Cassidy at age 10, the French Market scene is fairly early in the film; he's wearing a yellow T-shirt and a blue Mets cap and is highly (though briefly) visible as he gets brushed aside by Larry Miller's character. If you'd like to see him at age 25, he's headlining the comedy show at the Telephone Bar in the East Village in Manhattan, every Thursday night until further notice except Feb 4, when he'll be visiting home for Mardi Gras week.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 06:56 PM

We're all in a movie baby, right here and now and tomorrow? well that's another day.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 06 Jan 05 - 07:50 PM

When I was a kid someone wanted to do a film about a friend of ours who did this great circus for kids out of wire and home made toys ,Sandy Calder was his name.I remember how bright the lights were and some kids playing mumbly peg out on the porch afterwards but I dont know if its the movie they use at the Whitney of Calder's Circus .
                     I did help with the sound track of a Danish Cartoon movie called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves " in the spring of 1971. Something Im quite proud of . I played congo drum in some of the more energitic parts of the film ! Ive never seen it in America but them I wouldnt go into the sort of stores that might have it for sale ..With that band I also did a gig on a Danish TV show called " Milk and Honey" . Sillyness and Youth !! ..
                      Someone did a documentary movie on Lui Collins and me in the first half of the 1970's . I heard it won some library awards here in Connecticut ..
                     I have done some sound work for TV . My favorite was a pirate segment for Martha that I offered them some concertina with bass drum . I used "A Chanters Tune"with lots of cuts and dotts (syncapated)..
                     I would love to hear about Mudcatters (musicians) who have done sound track work as well ..
                     Bill Sables must have been on the front side of a movei camera at some point ..
                     My eldest son was a Amish Farmer beaten up by some "Small People on a World Wrestleing tv Add Last year .He also did one that was a take off of the moveu Fight Club for the same group .Funny stuff !

                         All the best , Guy

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: coldjam
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 12:00 AM

I am pretty sure the movie was titled "Baby Blues".I will now have to re-rent it to look for your kid!

And something jogged in my memory and I remembered I was in an independent film in the '70's about Mormon persecution. Never saw it, but I remember I didn't have shoes and as I was running away from the bad guys I stepped in some cactus and said some very un-Mormon like things!Fortunately sound wasn't a part of that scene.Hmmm, and I don't remember being asked back?!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 12:31 AM

My Fiddle players brother is Andrew Davoli, he was Knock Around Boys and The Sopranos (He got killed, no surprise there.) He always comes to hear the band when he is in Syracuse. That is my close brush with celluloid greatness.

My daughter will graduate with her MFA in theater/scenic and technical design (theatre for the Brits) and she said she'd introduce me to Sigourney Weaver. As soon as she meets her herself.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 12:30 PM

Manitas dances to the fiddle playing of the cute young fiddler from 'The Wicker Man'... how cool is that?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 01:03 PM

Coldjam, that movie was called Undercover Blues.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you been in a Movie?
From: coldjam
Date: 07 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM

Ahhh, right. So much for my memory.