I was reluctant to do an online version of GLTS but @GriffLightning & @patrickcotnoir convinced me that doing a #StarWarsDay show would cheer some ppl up during covid-19, and once we realized we could raise some money to help ppl, that made me feel like it was worth doing...
The watchathons have sort of helped us figure out what an online version of GLTS can be, hopefully. They will serve as a very strange bridge from the old ways (on stage at UCB) to the new (isolated in different cities via PlanetScum.live)....
I think having @patrickcotnoir on screen is one happy development that would not have happened if the show had just carried on as a stage show; he would have never let us put the spotlight on him, but now I think not including him would be unthinkable. Here is a photo of him:
Sorry, here is a more recent photo, that was an old one. Now that he is on-camera, he looks like this:
Anyway, from 2014 to this past March, I have generally favored keeping GLTS as an in the room, "you had to be there"-type experience, which is why I resisted making it into a podcast or anything that would be archived online. But circumstances have changed, so we gotta adapt.
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Given where we are now-- Day 3 of @realDonaldTrump in the hospital, infected with COVID-19-- it's worth a look back at the timeline of what happened with Herman Cain.
June 20th: attends Trump rally in Tulsa. No mask.
June 25th: no more lockdowns
June 26th: Biden wants a mask mandate. Cain disagrees.
It is a symptom of how insane @realDonaldTrump has made things that ppl are confidently speculating on the possibility that this is a last minute piece of political theatre in which they are faking a full outbreak & quick recovery in order to change the subject yet again
I'm sure someone will write a clear-eyed breakdown of exactly how complicated it would be to stage something like this, and what is the minimum number of ppl who would have to actively/knowingly participate in the lie in order to pull it off.
It strikes me as far beyond his capabilities-- not that he wouldn't have the WILL to do it, or that he couldn't find ppl to go along with it-- but this would require a certain amount of discipline & self-control. An impressive amount.
I never liked church as a kid, but when they passed around a petition asking everyone to boycott our local movie theaters if they showed Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation Of Christ, I was **done** with The Catholic Church and organized religion forever. (I was 12.)
I didn't know anything about TLTOC and had yet to see a Scorsese film, but I remember the priest describing the film as "pornographic" and it sounded like bullshit to me. I had no interest in seeing the movie but there was no way in hell I was going to stop going to the movies.
Eventually, when I saw the film a few years later on VHS, it confirmed that they had been lying about the movie, which was better than any sermon I had ever heard. It's basically It's A Wonderful Life but with Jesus seeing what it would be like if he wasn't the son of God.
I was supposed to be in the same BoB episode YOU were in, @jimmyfallon!
Even if you only have 5 minutes to talk to me about your experience, it would mean so much.
[Previous guests include Seth Rogen, Jon Hamm, Aimee Mann, etc]
Oh yeah, the podcast is about how I was fired by Tom Hanks the day before I was supposed to film my scene; I was told the reason was that he saw my audition tape & thought I had "dead eyes"!
Beginning my personal re-watch of #Studio60ontheSunsetStrip in prep for the 9/20 @GLucasTalkShow 17-hour watchathon to raise money for @BCEFA bc I haven't seen it since it first aired & I wanna see it again as myself b4 watching it in character as "retired filmmaker George Lucas"
Also: @patrickcotnoir is working so hard in preparation for this one that the least I could do is watch all 22 episodes again before watching them a 3rd time for our show.
I think this is the watchathon Patrick was put on earth to produce.
Taking stock during my Studio 60 re-watch:
I have performed improv in front of 2 actors who were on Studio 60, and I was in a movie with 2 others.