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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
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posted 10-30-2005 05:04 PM
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For one scene in Gangs of New York (2002), Cameron Diaz was directed to slap Leonardo Dicaprio in the face over and over and over again.
"When Robert De Niro and I used to do a scene like this," Director Martin Scorsese told Leonardo Dicaprio, "Mr. De Niro would take real slaps in the face – real slaps."
"Anything you and Mr. De Niro used to do I totally respect," Leonardo Decaprio said. "I’m absolutely game."
Thirty-five or forty takes later, Leonardo Dicaprio was passed out on the floor, his head, he recalled, "Felt like a cantaloupe."
Though unable to see straight, he looked up at Mr. Scorsese.
"Did we get it, sir? Did we get it?" he asked.
"That was perfect, kid, that was perfect," Mr. Scorsese replied. "Now we just have six more angles on this shot...." ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Bob Maar
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posted 01-08-2006 07:10 AM
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A famous Hollywood director dies and reaches Heaven. At the proverbial gate, St. Peter meets him and explains that God would like the director to make one more movie.
The director grimaces, "But I retired years before I died. I'm tired of all the hassles involved in making movies."
"Listen," St. Peter explains, "we got Ludwig von Beethoven to write a new score for the movie..."
"You're not listening to me," the director protested. "I don't want to make any more movies."
"But we’ve got Leonardo de Vinci to do the set design for you," St. Peter exclaimed.
"I don't want to make any more movies!" the director insisted.
"Just look at this script," St. Peter said. "We got William Shakespeare to write it for you!"
"Well," said the director, "a score by Beethoven, set design by de Vinci, a script by Shakespeare...How can I go wrong? I'll do it!"
"Great!" exclaimed St. Peter. "There's only one small hitch... I’ve got a girlfriend who sings..."
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
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From: New York City & Newport, RI
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posted 03-08-2006 01:38 PM
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Late one night on the set of Francis Martin's "Tillie and Gus", W. C. Fields found himself shooting a scene in a diver's costume. According to the script something had gone wrong and Fields was to be hauled up in a diver's bell, half dead, and then gasp, "is there a doctor in the house?"
Instead of uttering the scripted line, however, Fields pointed at his gigantic diving footwear and exclaimed: "[Boxer] Primo Carnera's carpet slippers!"
Fields was promptly reprimanded for changing the line. "Why? That's funny," he replied. "Everybody knows about Carnera's big feet."
Nonetheless, with the hour approaching midnight, it was agreed that the scene should be reshot. Coming up a second time, Fields pointed to his feet again and quipped: "Charlie Frobisher's bedroom slippers!"
Again, he was scolded for changing the line. "What's the matter with you?" Fields cried. "Don't you know the name 'Charlie Frobisher' always gets a laugh? People will howl at it!"
The director, astonished by Fields's terrible judgement, began to wonder whether he was losing his mind.
As the clock struck midnight, Fields was sent into the tank again. Upon rising this time, he promptly spoke the proper line and went home.
The explanation soon became apparent: Fields's contract stipulated that he be paid an $800 bonus every time he worked past midnight!
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Bob Maar
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posted 03-08-2006 02:18 PM
Rated G Lorraine
When Gene Hackman was cast to play Lex Luthor in Superman (in 1978), he agreed to wear a fake bald headcap, but refused to get rid of his bushy moustache.
Dick Donner, the film's director, was not amused. Luthor, he complained, was supposed to be clean- shaven.
"That," Hackman retorted, "is your problem!"
In a desperate bid to persuade him to shave, Donner visited Hackman in makeup one day and offered him a modest proposal: If he would get rid of his treasured moustache, Donner himself would follow suit - right then and there.
Eventually, Hackman agreed and was soon clean-shaven - whereupon Donner plucked from his face... a fake moustache!
After a moment of incredulous anger, Hackman joined Donner in a round of laughter.
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