August 29, 2007
Daily Dean Stockwell Fix: Quantum Leap: Get ready!!
My life right now is really busy - there's much writing, and television, and kickboxing, and dudes from Trinidad, and keeping my plants alive, and planning a trip, and writing more, and procrastinating about the writing, and talking with friends and family, and cooking, and taking pictures, and also exchanging casual banter with television stars in random elevators. You know, my plate is full.
But I am (eventually - once all THAT is done) going to start a Quantum Leap ongoing thing - which is going to be a lot of fun (for me, and ... er... others). I want to treat the show as if it's on NOW - and do an episode by episode breakdown (Sheila-fashion) - what I notice, what I like, what makes me roll my eyes, blah-dee-blah. I won't skip an episode. I haven't re-watched all of them yet - I'm only thru season 3 now so I have two more to go ... and I don't want to start this project until I've seen the whole thing (I mean: seen it again, since I used to watch the show religiously.) I want each piece I write to be detailed - almost to an obsessive level. Actors who show up on the show, people who do good jobs - people who are too corny - music choices I like (and this is already controversial since they released the DVD without a lot of the music) - what happens in each episode, and also - the execution thereof. You know, like a movie review. That's my plan anyway. Ambitious, yes - but I need a writing project that's ongoing, not TOO hard and that I can do in my voluminous spare time.
Anyhoo. That's my plan. To become as big a fangirl as I possibly can.
But for now. I'm focused on keeping my plants alive. And keeping in touch with friends. And my parents. And handling my aching muscles. And writing every day. Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Oh - and my story of the eclipse the other night is a funny one - almost too perfect, especially since I had just seen that Werewolf movie ... but I'll save it for another time.
Daily Dean Stockwell fix below: (to prime the pump for all the Quantum Leap fans out there):
hahahahahaha
This is gonna be fun!
Posted by sheila | TrackBackUm... "exchanging casual banter with television stars in random elevators"... did I miss something?
Posted by: melissa at August 29, 2007 1:51 PMI share 5% of my real life on this blog. :) No, you didn't miss anything.
It just keeps happening that I am in elevators with big stars and casual banter occurs. It's hysterical - I'm getting quite good at it.
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 2:01 PMIt was just tossed off in such a random way... I htought I might have missed a story here! (While I've managed small talk to television stars, it was after they were big stars, and in my home town for acting gigs.)
Posted by: melissa at August 29, 2007 2:07 PMThat is quite a task you've set for yourself; several years worth of shows, yes?
And "blah-dee-blah" made me smile; it is now in my vocabulary.
Posted by: Eric the...bald at August 29, 2007 2:44 PMEric - yes, 5 years. So I'll obviously stretch it out - do it kinda like my daily book excerpt thing.
Insane? yes. But judging from the still-active Quantum Leap message boards and fan sites ...
If I build it, they will come!!
and blah dee blah dee blah
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 2:46 PMMelissa - nope! No missed tales. :) Now if I had met Dean Stockwell in an elevator, you can bet I'd be blabbing my head off.
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 2:50 PMI can imagine! OH, I thought of you the other day... saw 1776 at the Guthrie Theater, and knew you would have liked it.
Posted by: melissa at August 29, 2007 3:16 PMsigh. I'm jealous! One of my favorite musicals.
"SIT DOWN JOHN
SIT DOWN JOHN
FOR GOD'S SAKE JOHN!
SIT DOWN!"
Or "Cool Cool Considerate Men" - I think that's my favorite song in the musical.
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 3:18 PMIt was a wonderful production. The Tom Jefferson was great, as was Franklin. Cool, Considerate Men was very good, and the actor who sang Molasses to Rum was amazing. The actress who played Abigal Adams is one of my favorite local actresses as well.
Posted by: melissa at August 29, 2007 3:30 PMThat part kills me.
"Pins ...
Abigail ..."
And that final "yours yours yours" chokes me up even now as I type these words.
You know, I haven't seen that show live since 1976 - I remember it cause it was the bicentennial year that would never end! We saw it at a summer stock theatre in New Hampshire -I was just a kid - and it was starring a not-famous-yet Gerry Alessandrini - who is an old O'Malley family friend (we share the same birthday!) - and I remember just being blown away by it, even though I was SO OVER the bicentennial by that point.
But I'm pretty sure that's the last time I saw it live.
And the delivery of the saltpeter at the end, just when Adams had come to doubt....
I had never seen it before (which is quite a shock for a musical addict like me. Even more of a shock is how much I liked it. I had expected to have an enjoyable evening, but came out loving the show. Never woulda thunk it.
The cast included some rather well known actors (listing here: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/109051.html), along with some well-known to the locals actors.
Posted by: melissa at August 29, 2007 3:42 PMI love how you've made it your mission to be the biggest Dean Stockwell fangirl ever. It's good to be a goal-orientated person.
Posted by: Emily at August 29, 2007 3:44 PMEmily - hahahaha I know. I'm quite serious about it. Little did I know, a month and a half ago - when I randomly popped in Long Day's Journey Into Night - that I would be beginning such a long day's journey of my own!
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 3:58 PMIn my head I'm seeing a movie poster:
lexander Hamilton - the Movie
a film by Richard Altman
starring young Dean Stockwell as Alexander Hamilton
and
Robert Mitchum as Aaron Burr
with Cary Grant, Dean Martin, Sylvester Stallone, and a sane Lindsay Lohan
written by James Joyce, based on his novel "Protrait of the Economist on a Ten-Spot"
Rather wish that I had the Photoshop skills to make your day, Sheila...
As for 1776, I got to see most of the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great cast there, too. I'll have to rent that sometime and watch it with my best girl.
Posted by: nightfly at August 29, 2007 4:24 PMOh my God, who would Sylvester Stallone play in such a movie? Maybe a fictional corner grocer who tries to stop Hamilton from rowing to Weehawken that day?
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 4:34 PMNightfly - and yes, I love the movie of 1776, too! I love the topic, obviously - but what a pleasure to have such good music and performances too!
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 4:34 PMNo! Stallone would play the representive from ... crap, forgot. The one who is always asking for the rum. I can see him doing this role - the guy is obvioulsy smart, well-liked, but is a sailor, more of the "common man" in the group.
Posted by: melissa at August 29, 2007 4:44 PMI was thinking Sly would play Governeur Morris.
Posted by: nightfly at August 29, 2007 4:58 PMI think Dino should play Ye olde Gouverneur. Now I'm making myself laugh thinking of that.
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 8:00 PMSpeaking of Gouverneur Morris - I have a biography of his that I eventually need to read. It's on my list. What a character!!
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 9:03 PMAnd who would Ms. Lohan play?
Maybe the ghost of Hamilton's tragic and mildly promiscuous mother?
Or maybe Maria Reynolds could somehow be worked into the plot.
Look at what you have started, Nightfly!!
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 9:12 PMBetsy Ross?
Posted by: Melissa at August 29, 2007 10:32 PMMelissa - I love that. I love you. hahahahahaha Can you imagine Lindsay Lohan as Betsy Ross, struggling over her creation, with calloused fingers?
I love it!
Posted by: red at August 29, 2007 10:34 PM"casual banter" heh heh heh
Posted by: mere at August 30, 2007 7:35 AMHahahaha! I love Lindsay as Betsy Ross. The brilliant seamstress who secretly tipples port and has one last shot at reaching her true potential...
You're right - Dean's a better Governeur. Is the book "The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution"? I've heard good things! (Too busy with TR right now - just heard that McCullough also has one, so after I plow through Edmund Morris' eleventy thousand pages, I have to hit ye olde book shoppe. Bully!)
Posted by: nightfly at August 30, 2007 9:50 AMHAHAHAHA - I just saw your comment in the other thread - I'm on an "eleventy" kick right now, aren't I? Help!
Posted by: nightfly at August 30, 2007 9:53 AMOh, I am so excited about this new endeavor!
Posted by: Jen W. at August 30, 2007 12:33 PM