Somehow I picture Eve more along the line of Rosalind Russell in “His Girl Friday”. And the resilient, fast-mouthed dame would fare much in a comet-intensive emergency.
The role for Veb? (Man, that screen persona is coming back to haunt me.) How about the tattered, slightly ominous street person who watches from the shadows, uttering cryptic blather. Possibly played by Anthony Hopkins as an Obi Wan type who keep a mean-on edge.
Trips Alphagene with a deftly thrown banana peel, sending him ass over teakettle during an over-the-top superhero hotdog moment. The fall saves his life from the attack of an unseen assassin.
Then Holley held Miss Spider’s hand…
I’ll say no more, you understand.
For private moments between spiders
Should not be witnessed by outsiders.
-David Kirk- Miss Spider’s Wedding
I want my character to be played by Allison Hannigan (Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who looks nothing like me but captures that certain daffy quality about me that never makes it into my posts.
Mostly, my few on screen moments asking questions that provide essential plot pivots but don’t really extend my character.
“Did anyone remember to bring the complete works of Bulwer-Lytton?”
And thus starting the second half of the movie, where the Teeming Millions quest across the shambling remains of civilization in search of their literary grail.
Eve Arden? Wasn’t she the ingenue who got crucified in THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE?
No, wait…[flip, flip, flip]…I’m thinking of Arlene Francis.
If Alpha gets to be a Mad Scientist, I wanna play one, too…we could do the Colin Clive/Ernest Thesiger thing! I can do a MEAN fey glint of madness!
“Don’t touch that leeevuh! Y’ell blow ess all to EH-toms!”
Eve, you up for an Isro with electric-white streaking? I’ll call the hairdresser. And manhattan would be great as the one-armed police inspector with the monocle. Melanie, how are you at fainting and getting carried around?
Ros Russell in His Gal Friday? Veb, I owe you a big buncha roses for that one! You, I picture a little more glam; in the Carole Lombard or Claudette Colbert line.
Auntie Pam and Old Broad, a more middle-aged glam, like Ina Claire or mid-career Connie Bennett. Billie Burke, maybe.
OK, Ike, we’re going for Universal horror? Can I be Una Merkel, so I can hide my face in my apron and scream, “THE MON-STAH! THE MON-STAH!”
Oh, and take it from one who knows—Ike can indeed do “a MEAN fey glint of madness.”
Jiminy. I am already getting floods of hate mail and death threats from the Una O’Connor AND Una Merkel fan clubs. I can see my book and magazine contracts being canceled left and right over this . . . I will have to change my name and move to another country . . .
Lessee, Janeane’s been called, Drew Barrymore’s been called, who else have people voted on to play me…Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Eh.
I’ll consider Karen Kopins (based on one line from one movie ;)), but throw the floor open for suggestions.
Don’t know what I would do in the movie…perhaps just pop into crucial scenes and attempt to distract and confuse viewers, which could be a bit of something fun. Or, in my role as the Cat Goddess, pursue a quest to unite the SDMB cat ladies?
Eve, you just delivered something better than roses. Carole Lombard. Claudette Colbert. (estatic sigh) You must admit that my somewhat conflicted online persona just got an exhilarting kick in the pants. From Anthony Hopkins as a scruffy urban warlock to Carole Lombard…
::Veb whirls in blissful abandon; an arm catches Alphagene right in the chops; he bends over in pain, thus avoiding an arrow zinging from the balconey::