Re: Weird
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:39:08 +1100
> Everyone--Look forward to a Camille Scaysbrook School of Fine Arts
> sometime in the future, shortly followed by a Scaysbrook Clinic for
> Overworked Artists :)
Next I'm looking at developing a Viagara-like drug that makes one want to
push on and write radio plays and revise screenplays rather than just lay
in bed all day in the 35 degree heat ... (:
> And lemme bring up Romeo+Juliet again.
I for one am always willing to talk about this subject. I was just
discussing the movie with some friends last night. The impact it had on all
of us - all of whom admittedly had appeared together in a production of R+J
in 1993 which was a life-defining event - has not dissipated, we're just as
passionate about it over two years on. I too think Danes and DiCaprio did a
better-than-average job (his pronunciation of `Mercutio' worried me a bit
though) - it's hard to remember back but the movie did come out pre Leo
Hysteria - although I must admit I have a very soft spot for Danes' `My So
Called Life' which despite straying in to schmaltz occasionally was very
good (and far far better than goddamn `I like y'know talk like this so
y'know it's like real LIFE, rilly!' Party of Five) - it might interest you
to know that all the workshopping was done in Australia, and a friend of
mine knows the guy who played Benvolio in the workshop video and he was
originally conceived as a pot-smoking pizza delivery boy.
I was five metres away from Baz Luhrmann at a film festival last year - but
I didn't trust myself not to throw my arms around his legs and kiss his
feet. So I decided to meet him in a professional capacity one day instead
(:
Camille
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