I'm a bit worried for John Goodman's character both based on who he's inspired by (don't remember the name, but I saw it mentioned in a writeup on Treme/Simon) and the fact that he's not in the main credits, only the end ones.
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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Frankenbuddha - Apr 27, 2010 9:34:21 am PDT #2701 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
erikaj - Apr 27, 2010 9:57:08 am PDT #2702 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm so stoked that ML is in this...I know that Simon said(anyone else picturing a really fucked-up kids game, here..."reach for the sky, motherfucker...you didn't say "Simon said,") he enjoyed working with her very much and did not find her difficult, but at the time I thought maybe his standards for difficult weren't like others') It must be true, though. he asked her back.
Hayden - Apr 27, 2010 11:31:13 am PDT #2703 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
don't remember the name, but I saw it mentioned in a writeup on Treme/Simon
Ashley Morris
Don't know anything about Melissa Leo personally vis-a-vis difficulty.
erikaj - Apr 27, 2010 11:33:33 am PDT #2704 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't either. I just like her work a lot.
beekaytee - Apr 27, 2010 12:02:52 pm PDT #2705 of 7329
Compassionately intolerant
I do recall hearing some stuff about her being difficult...where all values of difficult equal, serious about her craft. But these stories also came out at the same time she was in ugly, ugly battle with John Heard over their child. So, yeah. Take that for what it is worth.
erikaj - Apr 27, 2010 12:09:52 pm PDT #2706 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I read somewhere that Heard called her on the set of Homicide like fifty times a day. That'd make me...difficult, too.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2010 12:38:38 pm PDT #2707 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think in that situation I'd have given them fodder for a "ripped from the headlines" casefile.
erikaj - Apr 27, 2010 1:57:15 pm PDT #2708 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
beekaytee - Apr 27, 2010 6:05:04 pm PDT #2709 of 7329
Compassionately intolerant
Seriously. He was one of the first people to be labeled a 'stalker'...looking in her windows at all hours, going through her trash, public screaming fits, making stuff up to try and wrench their child from her and telling someone, who ratted to the Enquirer (so take THAT for what it's worth) that he didn't really want custody, since he was so famous and busy, but wouldn't let her have it...really crazy stuff.
All this came on the heels of Altered States, a set, on which. he was so horrible to his co-stars that the film nearly didn't get made.
It bothers me that I like his performance in the mini-series of Dune (which was on cable, so...TOPIC!) because I would happily just ignore him otherwise.
t /shameless gossip, who really should think less about such things.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 28, 2010 3:17:45 am PDT #2710 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wait, John Heard or William Hurt? The latter was in Altered States. The former was...not.