Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:26:10 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:36:41 GMT, throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Wayne Throop)
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Terry Austin <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>> Indeed. Just finished a movie that did that to me. It was better 
>>>> for
>>>> having will Ferrel in it. Who would ever have dreamed?
>>>
>>> What?  Something good and interesting, with Will Ferrel in it?
>>> That's... improbable.  But...
>>
>> Gotta be "Stranger Than Fiction."
>
>Gotta be.
>
>> Which was an amazingly fine
>> picture, and demonstrated that it's possible for Will Ferrel to star
>> in a good movie, something I would not have believed prior to that.
>
>And Queen Latifah was excellent; not a hint of her usual 
>over-the-topness. 

She's usually cast in roles where she's _supposed_ to be a little
over-the-top, e.g., "Chicago."  I think she generally delivers the
performance the director asks for.  I have a lot of respect for her,
actually.

> (Emma Thompson was brilliant too, but, hell, I 
>could direct a movie and she'd be brilliant so long as she had the 
>sense to ignore everything I suggested.)

Hey, you might actually hit on something she shouldn't ignore; even a
stopped clock is right twice a say, out of the mouths of babes, etc.

> I wonder what would happen if 
>Marc Forster directed a film with Robin Williams? 

Be interesting to try, certainly.




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