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verena · Post by **verena** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:23 pm

Thanks Otis. That shouldn't be too difficult, I'll take the part.

You're not taking great risks on me, are you ? If I wanted Gilda's you wouldn't give it to me, but then you would be right.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:55 pm

Gilda's?

I think Bleak House is a Boston co-production, sure to air there soon. Love the 30 minute format. Kept it all so zippy. Great direction, great acting, great story, couldn't ask for more. Nice that it was stuffed with big names, but the main parts often unknowns.

SLL: indeed, you would make a great Smallweed. What about BWAP as Skimpole? Bit cruel of me, no?

Tim(e): knew you'd enjoy that pairing.

I realised that due to the BBC's odd positioning of additional characters' names top right, I'd overlooked a crucial character. I included Mrs Guppy (the wonderful Sheila Hancock) as it linked with the son, but how could I forget:

Hortense - this goes to Extreme Honey, even though it requires some cross-dressing. At least I avoided the stereotypical choice of Verena!

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:08 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Hortense - this goes to Extreme Honey, even though it requires some cross-dressing.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:09 pm

Knew you'd enjoy the challenge.

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:15 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Knew you'd enjoy the challenge.

At this point in my life, there is nothing I'd like more than money. I know it sounds like a greedy thing to say but it seems like I've been in university for decades and I don't know how on earth I'm going to pay off all my debts.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:23 pm

I suggest you go and visit that nasty Mr Tulkinghorn and sort him out once and for all.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:51 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Bleak House, as done, quite superbly, by the BBC:

Miss Flite - Goody2Shoes

Thank you for that, Otis! Finally, I get an old biddy. I had been getting a few smart/hot girl parts, which, while very welcome, are so very laughably against type. Miss Flite is much less of a stretch.

verena · Post by **verena** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:22 pm

Extreme Honey, I guess it depends to whom you are indebeted. What are you studying, may I ask ?

Ot., I was joking about the movie Gilda, an old black & white starring Rita Hayworth. And your casting for me in Bleak House isn't so stereotypical. It would take real acting for me to mistreat a maid, or anyone for that matter (well, knowingly).

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:52 pm

Ed Gentry/Jon Voight - Verbal Gymnastics
Lewis Medlock/Burt Reynolds - Alexv
Bobby Tripp/Ned Beatty - Doc Spooky
Drew Ballinger/Ronny Cox - Who Shot Sam
Mountain Man/Bill McKinney - Bobster
Toothless Man/Herbert "Cowboy" Coward - Noiseradio

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:09 pm

If anyone is casting King Kong right now, I'd like to audition for the part of the Captain. He was so badass.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:14 pm

Really? I see you more as Lumpy The Cook.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:23 pm

You know, that was actually the first one I was going to say, but I don't see anyone buying me serving up gruel.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:33 pm

Well, I haven't eaten any of your cooking but Pip told me some stories that would seem to confirm your gruel proclivities.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:43 pm

Pip ate macaroni and cheese every day for a year!

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:46 pm

Right and my point was that she *still* dissed your clambake!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:53 pm

Damn, Pip, that's cold. You said you liked my gruel!

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:56 pm

No, she just looked at you inscrutably and, like a rorshach test, you interpreted it as approval.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:01 pm

verena wrote:And your casting for me in Bleak House isn't so stereotypical.

I meant avoiding the obvious and casting you as Hortense, 'oo isss so verry Frrench zat she says 'Missta Tulkin'orn' in her fierce little voice. She's brilliant!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:01 pm

Well, I tend to interpret everything as approval, but Pip actually wrote a poem and showed it to me. I still remember it:

Miss B, I love your cooking
And you are so good-looking
You cured me from pneumonia
With your gruel and your ammonia
Your cooking is divine
With a bottle of red wine
More gruel if you please
And I'll ditch that mac and cheese

So you see, it wasn't that inscrutable...

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:03 pm

Yeah, well she also wrote her Mea Culpa shortly after that which was her apologizing to her own soul for such a bald-faced lie.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:11 pm

She showed me that one too:

O Soul, did I tell a lie? Or not?
I really can't decide what was in the pot
But Miss B is such an excellent person
Who always matches her purse and
Her shoes. The truth was, I had a cold
The food looked good, and I've a heart of gold.
So, sorry if we're both going to Hell
Because I temporarily lost my sense of smell.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:13 pm

I'm just glad that I'm the only one who has her yahtzee poem. Man, that's the deep dark stuff there.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:24 pm

Now let's all think of the first word that comes to mind that rhymes with "Yahtzee." Oh. That is dark.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:29 pm

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:53 pm

Oh my. I walk away for 10 ... er, minutes and youre analyzing my poetry!

For the record I just want to say that Miss BA did, in fact, cure me from pneumonia and just for that alone, I would have to say that everything she touches is golden! Even the gruel! That wonderful, wonderful gruel. I mean, what else could convince me to give up my steady diet of mac and cheese?