| She Never Read the Books and Dozed Through the Movie
"Now Mr. Cheney is Lord of the Rings, ruling over his very own Moria, an underground kingdom of bureaucratic hobbits and orcs." --Maureen Dowd, March 3 NYT editorial
I see Dick more as the Wormtounge type.
Nice call on the Wormtounge, although personally I'm still trying to support the Cheney/George W. as Skipper/Gilligan meme. I can't believe SNL hasn't done this (is that still on the air?)
Scene: Junior visits planning session in bunker.
Cheney: We've got a lot of options here, gentlemen. We've got AIM-54s, FIM-92As, HUMRAAMs, MIM-104s, and AGM-84s for starters...
Junior: Yeah, and we've got missiles, too!
[Cheney beats Junior with cap]
sounds like youre in for a short stay, well off-broadway, at the White House Players Theatre of the Absurd.
That's a three hour cruise missile.
Do you think we could get the talent's union to negotiate a reasonable rate if the production were to be staged in the South Pacific? Authenticity would be crucial to the integrity of such a work but the radiation levels are still quite high there.
Harold Hecuba will come out of retirement to direct...
It's a gamble but not unfeasable. He's notorious for those lavish musical numbers but a properly marketed soundtrack could easilly recoup the loss and possibly bring a substancial return.
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GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
October 3, 1966
In "The Producer," Hollywood deal-maker Harold Hecuba (Phil Silvers) is looking for talent in "out-of-the-way places" when his plane crashes on our favorite tropical isle. To impress the impresario, the castaways mount a musical version of "Hamlet" with Gilligan (Bob Denver) in the title roll. It ain't Shakespeare, but it does get the producer's attention.
He quickly rechristens it "Harold Hecuba's Hamlet" and swipes all the singing parts for himself (a quicksilver bit of shtick for Silvers, above, with cast). At the end of this inventive episode, Hecuba steals away -- and steals the idea -- leaving a sadder but wiser Gilligan to pronounce the moral: "Well, that's showbiz."
i think youre missing out on a unique opportunity in our hemisphere -- CUBA!! plenty of cheap ethnic labor (theyre not prisoners of war, theyre SAG members), tropical lagoons, an american military base and even an indigenous authoritarian regime. you cant beat that kind of authenticity. what more do you want, blood?
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"Now Mr. Cheney is Lord of the Rings, ruling over his very own Moria, an underground kingdom of bureaucratic hobbits and orcs." --Maureen Dowd, March 3 NYT editorial
- tom moody 3-03-2002 4:53 am
I see Dick more as the Wormtounge type.
- alex 3-06-2002 3:06 pm [add a comment]
Nice call on the Wormtounge, although personally I'm still trying to support the Cheney/George W. as Skipper/Gilligan meme. I can't believe SNL hasn't done this (is that still on the air?)
- jim 3-06-2002 3:18 pm [add a comment]
Scene: Junior visits planning session in bunker.
Cheney: We've got a lot of options here, gentlemen. We've got AIM-54s, FIM-92As, HUMRAAMs, MIM-104s, and AGM-84s for starters...
Junior: Yeah, and we've got missiles, too!
[Cheney beats Junior with cap]
- tom moody 3-06-2002 7:48 pm [add a comment]
sounds like youre in for a short stay, well off-broadway, at the White House Players Theatre of the Absurd.
- dave 3-07-2002 2:57 am [add a comment]
That's a three hour cruise missile.
- alex 3-07-2002 3:29 am [add a comment]
Do you think we could get the talent's union to negotiate a reasonable rate if the production were to be staged in the South Pacific? Authenticity would be crucial to the integrity of such a work but the radiation levels are still quite high there.
- steve 3-07-2002 1:01 am [add a comment]
Harold Hecuba will come out of retirement to direct...
- tom moody 3-07-2002 1:06 am [add a comment]
It's a gamble but not unfeasable. He's notorious for those lavish musical numbers but a properly marketed soundtrack could easilly recoup the loss and possibly bring a substancial return.
- steve 3-07-2002 4:10 am [add a comment]
52
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
October 3, 1966
In "The Producer," Hollywood deal-maker Harold Hecuba (Phil Silvers) is looking for talent in "out-of-the-way places" when his plane crashes on our favorite tropical isle. To impress the impresario, the castaways mount a musical version of "Hamlet" with Gilligan (Bob Denver) in the title roll. It ain't Shakespeare, but it does get the producer's attention.
He quickly rechristens it "Harold Hecuba's Hamlet" and swipes all the singing parts for himself (a quicksilver bit of shtick for Silvers, above, with cast). At the end of this inventive episode, Hecuba steals away -- and steals the idea -- leaving a sadder but wiser Gilligan to pronounce the moral: "Well, that's showbiz."
- dave 3-07-2002 4:21 am [add a comment]
i think youre missing out on a unique opportunity in our hemisphere -- CUBA!! plenty of cheap ethnic labor (theyre not prisoners of war, theyre SAG members), tropical lagoons, an american military base and even an indigenous authoritarian regime. you cant beat that kind of authenticity. what more do you want, blood?
- dave 3-07-2002 1:08 am [add a comment]
The indigenous peoples of Cuba could never pass as headhunters. Yes blood, it's for art dammit! I've spoken to Geroge W. He's told me to pass along word that he's in so long as it's in the South Pacific. Your argument only strengthens his resolve.
- steve 3-07-2002 4:18 am [add a comment]
we seem to have a glut of headhunters in nyc since the dotcom bomb. im sure we could spare a few. but really, i dont think youre giving the cubans enough credit. they have a very diverse gene pool...i mean...talent pool.
- dave 3-07-2002 4:27 am [add a comment]
Glut.
I suspect that Digitalmediatree is neck and neck with Gilligan's Island when it comes to time spent in front of the tube for some of this generation.
- steve 3-07-2002 4:30 am [add a comment]