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!
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:::