1590: The One That I Want

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by operababe

I don't understand why John Travolta is always PERFORMING sexual acts on unwilling people.

He's a fucking freak?

[lizzy1e]

Originally Posted by operababe

I don't understand why John Travolta is always PERFORMING sexual acts on unwilling people.... isn't harrassment normally the other way around?

"No seriously, you'll like it...."

He's a giver.

[Lanfear]

Originally Posted by operababe

I don't understand why John Travolta is always PERFORMING sexual acts on unwilling people.... isn't harrassment normally the other way around?

"No seriously, you'll like it...."

I'm confused - isn't harassment pretty much always performing acts on people? Touching them in ways they didn't ask for, putting your body into/on them?

Unless you do it with a gun or other threats I don't quite see how he would make them blow him if he is they are unwilling it and wouldn't really be harassment if they offered, right?

[lizsquiz]

I'm usually with Keith on the movies he likes (he hates more movies than I do) but I just saw The Dictator and couldn't give it more than a 5.5/10.

I think Sacha Baron Cohen is great and have loved all his characters but this movie just wasn't that funny. The character is great and I loved his performance on breakfast TV here and in interviews but with it felt like The Dictator starring in an episode of Seinfeld with all the Seinfeld writers and directors.

His movies have been on a downhill slide. The problem is his stuff works best on an unscripted audience not in the confines of a movie. That's why Ali G, Borat were so great. He's too famous to trick people now but he can still use his smart comedy and good characterisation to offend and surprise people live in the interviews.

Here's him on the Today show. As he himself says, "Breakfast TV...why do you have me on?"

Admiral General Aladeen- Interview on The Today Show Austra - YouTube

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

I don't know that it was a complete mystery.

I've seen that picture before. I'm talking years ago.

ok, just wondering if the guy couldve been found sooner.

[dEadERest]

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Originally Posted by lizzy1e

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[awkward sean]

i lived in vegas from 96 to02 working at a crappy lil strip club/video store about 1/2 mile north of the 'strat'. (store manager. asst. club manager, part time announcer for the girls) and keiths story of losing his wallet got me thinking of those days...

as i was store manager, i set the sched. the best to have was the graveyard shift. the club closed at 4am, the store was 24/7 and as soon as the club emptied out for the nite. i would lock up the store for a few minutes and go back and check the floor and couches for dropped cash and wallets. this was also done in the 'video arcade' preview booths on a regular basis. and was always good for a hundred or so bucks a week.

folks would always get their wallets back when they came to ask for them. but any cash that might have been in them had 'mysteriously vanished' by then.

one regular guy in the arcade was a guaranteed bonus. he came in on monday and thursday nites around 3am, always drunk off his ass and headed into the booth and started feeding bills into the machine. then he would pass out and we would have to wake him up and get him out. and nine times out of ten, there would be at least $20 or $40 in the chair cushion.

so. sad to say. but keiths wallet was probably found by another movie goer, emptied of cash and tossed. if an employee had found it, im sure he would have gotten it back (maybe without the cash).

now for life on the set...a little behind the scenes of 'arrow productions'.

and all the good times i had as production assistant when we were shooting vids. long hours, hard work (no pun) but i had a blast. the only thing i didnt like was when i got tapped for 'overnite guard' duty. the boss gave me one of his colts and locked me in for the nite. 'if anyone comes in except for me, shoot them' we filmed in an old abandoned furniture store that was pretty creepy at nite. but we had almost $200,000 worth of equipment on site and someone had to watch over it. sometimes it was me. never had to shoot anyone (at least not there)

picking up the talent when things got underway was fun. i would go and pick them up at the airport in my beat up ol festiva. i made signs for it 'arrow prod. limo service' and slapped them on the doors and that always got a chuckle or two. it got to the point where the performers would look for my car on each shoot. pretty funny. (and the girls always tipped me really good, despite the fact that i had no AC or radio...and it was a fucking FESTIVA fer chrissakes!)

pre production was fun. designing sets and fitting them out, getting props and stuff from the lil costume shop down the street that looked funny, helping to rig the lights and stuff making a big set of lips out of cardboard to put on the boss' cadi that was featured in various scenes, wired to the grill with twist ties. (our production values were second to none) making sure our stock of necessities was ready. stuff like that.

the thing im most proud of was a bit of set decorating i did for the flick 'jailbreak'. the furniture store had a loading dock in back and that was to double as a prison wall. they rolled up the steel door and replaced it with a wood facade. and using a stencil i made from foam core, my airbrush and a tooth brush i painted a very convincing brick wall...got lots of compliments on it from everyone. they stuck a paper sign on it with tape 'nevada state prison' (as i said, our prod. values were pretty awesome) tho it was pretty funny in the end, a prison so cheap they had wood walls disguised as brick...and it was ready for the shoot. my buddy doug was goin to drive the boss' old ford pickup thru it for the jailbreak, and we all gathered to watch. the cameras were set inside and out, and doug came racing around the corner and smashed that sucker really good. tho in the crash, you can clearly see it was wood and NOT brick. he even ad libbed a line, 'ill be damned, this place is made of wood!' and then jumped out and ran thru the side door into the 'prison' (which was never seen) to free the girls. it was a funny line, and everyone loved it, but it got edited out in the end. too bad.

the rest of the time i was kept busy by lots of stuff. making sure lube and towels were always handy, running dialog with the performers, holding boom mikes, running cables tween scenes, holding fill lights on the action where bud (the director) needed it, picking up and dropping off our perfomers, running to get lunch for everybody (usually a subway party platter or two) making reservations for dinner, making sure no brand names were seen on film (hold the coke can so it dont show and stuff like that) helping the girls prep for certain scenes (enema assistant) talking to them and revving them up, or cheering them up after a scene if they thought it didnt go so well or they thought they werent hot enough. i even got to be the 'b' camera operator on a couple of scenes (for 'deep throat, the quest begins') and bud seemed happy with my work there. decent coverage and i managed to keep 'predator' (our usual 'a' cam operator) out of shot as he did his thing...but those cams get heavy quick!

my best score 'prop wise' was a toy camel. tommy and sid were playing the owners/scam artists of 'slutty productions' and were to pose as arabs in an effort to infiltrate 'arrow prod'. the costumes had been gotten earlier from the shop down the street, then bud said it would be funny if they had a camel and sent me off to toys r us on the great camel quest. i lucked out, not at TRU but at the 'nature store' in the mall nearby and it happened to be a puppet, bonus! bud loved it and it was put to good and very funny use by tommy. the scenes with these two in their awful disguises and tommy with the camel puppet on his hand are priceless! one of the girls swiped it and took it home when we wrapped.

oh well. great times!

sean