Woohoo! It IS him!

Mr. Rilch started telling me last week that David Patrick Kelly, my very favorite actor in the whole wide world, more beloved even than Hugh Jackman or Haley Osment, is in K-PAX, the new movie with Kevin Spacey about remote viewers or some darn thing. He kept telling me he’d seen DPK, and heard his distinctive drill-buzz voice, in the TV ad for the movie. I checked IMDB, and his page didn’t list the movie, and the movie didn’t name him, so I said, “I hope you’re right, but I’ll have to see it before I believe it.”

So the commercial came on just now, and it is him! He’s apparently playing a nut, like he always does, and he looks so good gray, and with a beard! God, I love this guy to pieces! I just wish other people did too, so he could get more work and I could see him for more than ten minutes onscreen every other year!

Probably an unbilled cameo. Still, I’ve seen the ad, too, and it IS him. Strange that IMDB doesn’t list him.

By the way, could this syrupy thing look any MORE like FORREST GUMP FROM MARS?

Dunno, Bossk, but I’m sure Spacey will keep it grounded as much as he can.

:doubletake: You mean you recognize DPK? I thought I was the only person who knew him from a hole in the wall!

You like David Patrick Kelly, eh?

Did you know he sings too? Get your hands on two semi-obscure original cast recordings, Working and Is There Life After High School? and you can hear him. (As a bonus, listen carefully during Working and you’ll hear Joe Mantegna too!)

I have ITLAHS! Never been able to find Working though! Joe Mantegna, eh? Amazing the paths that cross in the business of show. What I’d also like, that I also can’t get, or afford, is the soundtrack of the production of Twelfth Night where he played Feste. I heard wav.s of his songs and they are/he is awesome!

:::Rilchiam trots downstairs to pop in her Twin Peaks videos and watch the scene where Jerry stage-dives off the stairs in Ben’s office:::

After years of legal entanglements, Working was finally released about two or three months ago. Should be no problem to find these days.

Woohoo! Thanx for the heads-up!