TS: SHOWGIRLS vs. ROAD HOUSE

Gershon doesn’t talk much about her film career in her book, but in person, she dished about all her movies. She said she auditioned for Showgirls—which she thought would be more serious, like director Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch films, a modern-day retelling of All About Eve set in Las Vegas—for three months straight. She wore extra makeup in all of her meetings and lied that she was older to convince the studio she could handle the part of a weathered, diva bitch. When she got to the set, she realized she was making a different movie from the serious drama she had imagined. “I was hanging up by a rope looking down, going, Oh, my God, I’ve studied the classics. I want to do Greek theater. I want to do Chekov. What the fuck am I doing here?!”

She loves merkins so much that she even wrote a song about them that she hopes to one day perform for a Funny or Die music video.

This is an exceptionally sad sentence.

I think the more telling quote about Showgirls is: “I just thought, I’m going to camp it up and have a good time and still be good.”

I've given up on trying to convince people that Showgirls is awesome. They can keep Magic Mike.

I'll take both. The rest of the world can have Boogie Nights.

It'd be disingenuous to say Showgirls isn't "entertaining," but it's all downhill after "It must be weird not having anybody come on you." Also the Nicest Girl Gets Raped axiom is nauseating.

They really needed a George Sanders character too.

That would have been pretty cool, I agree. (And agreed on said axiom.)

but it's NOT a rich dissection of the Dream Factory; fuck, writers really push it sometimes.

I mostly felt sorry for Berkley and her, uh, naked performance, but Gina Gershon did a smooth Raquel Welch channelling Anne Baxter thing.

Damn if you're not right about Raquel, how did I miss that!

she looks v much like her.

I only felt my jaw drop once: the pool sex scene.

I honestly think that scene serves no other function.

I mostly felt sorry for Berkley and her, uh, naked performance, but Gina Gershon did a smooth Raquel Welch channelling Anne Baxter thing.

i feel very sorry for berkely, to the point where it interferes w/ my enjoyment of the film. suspect that her naivete was exploited by the filmmakers, but of course i don't really know. maybe she understood exactly how awful and idiotic she was being made to look.

I think I read an interview where she said she only realized it when she saw the film?

Keeping the sound on interfered with my enjoyment of the film.

Pervert.

hah, I read your dvd review, and I'm the pervert!?

What kind of career did the Mama Bear whose tits popped go on to have?

Career?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875696/

http://i.imgur.com/h3TON.gif

Wanted to post the flailing pool sex gif, but thought that went a bit too far. But it is this:

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Looking lik Sheryl Crow these days:

http://pics.livejournal.com/closet_monster9/pic/0006324h/s640x480

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/59908/bill-murray-likes-to-call-kelly-lynchs-husband-every-time-he-sees-patrick-swayze-having-sex-with-her-in-road-house

Mitch was just walking out the door to the set, and he said that Bill once called him from Russia.

hahahahahahahahaha

Overdubbed with Russian grunts.

The actual full section on Road House from the AV Club interview is great:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/kelly-lynch-on-magic-city-john-hughes-and-playing,86567/

I love Bill Murray.

Well, there you go. I mean, what can you say? I got a call from my agent, and I had just done Drugstore Cowboy, which was a little different, but he said, “There’s this other movie.”

The actress who’d been cast first to play against Patrick Swayze was Annette Bening, but she was fired.

The might-have-beens!

And more on Bill Murray:

AVC: Sorry, not to dwell on this, but you said that Bill Murray “or one of his idiot brothers” will call. Which brothers are we talking about?

KL: All of them! Joel has called; Brian Doyle has called. They will all call! Any and all of them!

AVC: This was already an awesome story, but now it’s even better.

KL: I know, right? I dread it. If I know it’s coming on—and I can tell when it’s coming on, because it blows up on Twitter when it is—I’m just like, “Oh, my God…” And God help me when AMC’s doing their Road House marathon, because I know the phone is just going to keep ringing. It doesn’t matter if it’s 2 or 3 in morning. “Hi, Kelly’s having sex with Patrick Swayze right now…”

okay so Murray brothers > Baldwin brothers

Without doubt.

Her description of Roadhouse is A+

“Okay, I don’t understand what this is. There’s a big-wheel truck, there’s a bad guy, there’s a doctor in a mini-dress, and there are bouncers.”

and this

It’s pretty girls, guys fighting, good guys and bad guys… and mullets! We all had a mullet, for God’s sake! [Laughs.] I remember saying, “How are you getting my hair to do that?” Because my hair’s really straight. But they put stuff in it and made it happen. It was amazing.

love her

dying @ the repeated "Pain don't hurt" invocations itt

not to harp on about her but damn she's a great interview, huh? the virtuosity behind the scenes stuff was p interesting!

I took a phil course at NYU and ya learn that the first day

xp

this too! god she's a goldmine

If you look at Michael’s movies, especially with Mickey Rourke, there’s always a girl who is the designated… what I call the drag queen, someone who has too much makeup and hair, who’s usually a reporter or, as in my case, a lawyer. But it’s always, like, “slash supermodel.” And I didn’t know at the time that Michael was kind of… interested in dressing like a woman. That’s the Michael Cimino we know today, but at the time I didn’t know what his issues were with femininity and all those things. And during Desperate Hours, we started to see him wearing higher heels and fixing his hair like a woman and doing different things, and I said, “Michael, I don’t really want to wear this makeup, I don’t want this hairdo, and I know you’re having me thrust my leg out in this scene like I’m doing a pantyhose commercial, but I’m just a lawyer!” And he would get angry and say, “I don’t want to look at you until you get your hair and makeup on in that trailer. You look like a 12-year-old boy!” And me, in my mid-20s… I did not look like a 12-year-old boy. I thought I looked pretty good! [Laughs.] But I was like, “Okay…”

And then I came to the scene with Mickey in the hallway, where I’m springing him and we’re running out of the courthouse, and there was an exchange between the two of us. We asked each other if we loved each other and need each other and that sort of thing, and we kind of nod and get out of there, a one last look because we could be shot, we don’t know what we’re doing. And Michael came in and took the “love” part out of it. He said, “It’s not about love.” And I looked at him and I said, “A woman in my position would not gamble on losing everything for any other reason. She loves this guy.” And he says, “No, you just want to get laid.” I said, “Well, how long do you think it would take a girl like me, who looks like I do here, to have sex with a guy like this?” I mean, it was Mickey. I’m like, “How long do you think it would take, Michael? A second…?” Probably you’re right. Probably it’s a lustful kind of thing that she’s mistaking for love, but that’s something I don’t want to even be conscious of. I want to feel like I’m in love with this man.” And he looked at me and shook his head and said, “No.” And I said, “Okay, here’s the thing: This will be your performance. Because I disagree with you on everything about who this person is. She’s an intellectual. She’s a very wealthy, very successful attorney, and she knows she can get laid. She’s in love with this man. Or she’s confused and she thinks she’s in love with this man, but she’s in a crisis.” And he said, “Actually, the real truth of the story is that you’re really hot, and you just really want to get laid.” [Laughs.] So I said, “Well, then this will be your performance. I will leave my name on the movie, but I can’t take credit. I’ll even ask for line readings.”

And, basically, that’s how I did the rest of the film. I can’t really take credit for any of it. I thought it was beautiful, as far as the scenery, and there were pieces of it that I believed in and thought were amazing. But it’s all the director’s movie, not mine. A lot of it didn’t make any sense to me. But I loved working with Sir Anthony Hopkins. We’d sit together at lunch and talk about things. And Mickey and I became great friends. We’ve worked together many times, and I’m one of his favorite actors, oddly enough. He wanted me to do The Wrestler with him, which I couldn’t, because I was working on something else, but he’s one of those actors I adore. But, yeah, it was a very weird experience working on Desperate Hours. But I’d just started dating Mitch at the time, too, so I’ve got those memories in there. He kind of rescued me. [Laughs.]

okay I'll stop now

Our own Alfred has seen and believed:

http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/i-thought-youd-be-bigger/

i wish either of these was on right now

though particularly showgirls

I wish Morbs could explain where he saw the edition with the Lynch-Swayze commentary track

you know joe eszterhas looks more and more like anne ramsey with a beard every year

hahahah

http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Joe-Eszterhas.jpg

OWEN! GET ME A SODA WITH SOME ICE IN IT!

You mean Sam Elliott looks more and more like Anne Ramsey.

http://techcentral.my/archives/2012/6/4/it_news/Joe%20Eszterhas%202.jpg

You don't HAVE a Cousin Paddy!

god it's uncanny

really hate it when people say that showgirls is one of their favorite movies and I go "me too!" and try to talk to them all enthusiastically about it like that scene where nomi just eats a cheeseburger but then it turns out they only like it 'ironically'

CANT YOU PEOPLE LIVE WITHOUT IRONY FOR ONCE