"Tales of the City" Movies - why did they stop?- Page 2

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 11:01am

Barbara Garrick was wonderful in TALES OF THE CITY. She had previously played the waitress in Richard Greenberg's EASTERN STANDARD on Broadway where she had one of the best lines in the play. She went on to play a deranged psychopath on ONE LIFE TO LIVE on and off for several years.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 11:15am

She was marvelous! I loved her as DeDe so much!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 11:34am

She pulled off a moment that could have been so offensive, but she found the desperate truth of it and made it hysterically funny and real.

SPOILER ALERT, BITCHES

When she was asked what color her baby was going to be and she pointed at the yellow painting. I should never have found that funny, but bitch made it work.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 11:58am

"Why don't you call them Yin and Yang?"

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 12:38pm

"When she was asked what color her baby was going to be and she pointed at the yellow painting."

Which I think was an interesting change from the book. I think in the book she points to her dress (or maybe the dress of the woman she's talking with).

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 12:43pm

"Barbara Garrick was wonderful in TALES OF THE CITY. She had previously played the waitress in Richard Greenberg's EASTERN STANDARD on Broadway where she had one of the best lines in the play. She went on to play a deranged psychopath on ONE LIFE TO LIVE on and off for several years."

I love her, and apparently an extremely nice woman. She also teaches and coaches acting off and on in NYC. I believe One Life was actually her first major tv role--she originated the role 7 or so years before Tales, but yeah, came back to it whenever they needed a psycho until the final episode.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 12:44pm

"For example, when Mouse and his boyfriend sleep together, the next morning, Mona knocks on the door with breakfast and says something like "You're the Hardy Boys and I'm Nancy Drew." Chloe Webb made it work in her offbeat way, but that is one big WTF moment. "

That line's verbatim from the books--and was also used in the musical where, when I saw it, it got an enormous laugh (maybe just because so many in the audience recognized it.) I admit I never got it, but of course the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew show with one of the myriad of Cassidy bros WAS on TV back when the original serial came out.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 1:27pm

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew line is weird enough, but would you want your roommate to just walk in while you're asleep, with someone in your bed, and try to shove breakfast at you?

Did Mouse leave her a note that said "Mona, this trick may not turn out well so I want you to walk in at 7:30 am and check to see if I'm dead or alive."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 1:40pm

If I remember correctly, Mouse and Jon both appreciated the breakfast.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 1:47pm

Gotham, for once we'll disagree. Wasn't that the very point?? To show Mona and Mouse's relationship, how both of them are maybe a bit too co-dependant, and Mona is worried she'll lose him if he finds a guy, and vice versa--her interrupting seems to be keeping exactly in character. (I actually *briefly* lived with a friend as a roommate who would do exactly that.)

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 1:50pm

^ Same. In fact, my roommate DID do that to me. More than once. Except he didn't bring breakfast...just barged in and started chatting. I miss my 20's when I was SURE I was Michael Mouse. These days, I'm just lucky I'm not turning into Norman Neal Williams.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 1:52pm

Awww... Just stay away from the kiddie porn and clip on ties, and I'm sure you'll end up alright.

And yes, that was the situation with my roommate too. She would actually walk in to have a conversation when I would shower as well (the dump we lived in had no working locks) something I could picture Mona doing.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 1:57pm

I've accepted the fact that, were I ever to be lucky enough to be cast in the musical, the only track for me would be Norman Neal Williams. I do creepy well.

I know others prefer Mouse 2.0, but I don't know of another actor that could pull off the underwear dance as well as D'Amico. For as limited as I think he might be as an actor, he played that perfectly.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 2:32pm

And the guy who played Burke in 2.0 is now the Maytag guy!

Updated On: 3/21/14 at 02:32 PM

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 2:47pm

^ Oh. My. God.

I KNEW I knew who that actor was. It was killing me last night!!!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 2:54pm

umhmmm...me too! I googled "maytag guy" a few weeks ago and discovered he was Burke.

I remember loving that storyline in the book, and finding it just creepy on the screen.

There should be an IMDB for commercials!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 3:05pm

“Go ahead, Burke, it's organic."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 3:55pm

Okay, how is it that Brian is the gayest-looking character in this photo?

Chloe Webb will always be Mona. Marcus D'Amico will always be Mouse.

This. I watched the second and third in the trilogy only once because I just couldn't stomach the replacements. Mouse 2.0 wasn't awful. He just wasn't Mouse to me. I could probably watch them again if only for Dukakis, Linney and Garrick.

For as limited as I think he might be as an actor, he played that perfectly.

Did you see him in An Inspector Calls? He and Jane Adams were INCREDIBLE. When Marcus was dejectedly standing in the rain and falling apart, it was all I could due not to run up onstage and...console him.

blurg

Is Norman the one who took Maryann to the dive Chinese restaurant just so everyone could laugh at her for not washing her hands after using the bathroom? Cause I could totally see you doing that.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 5:59pm

"Gotham, for once we'll disagree. Wasn't that the very point?? To show Mona and Mouse's relationship, how both of them are maybe a bit too co-dependant, and Mona is worried she'll lose him if he finds a guy, and vice versa"

I guess you're right. That does make sense.

When I lived with roommates, my bedroom was private. They didn't just walk right in.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 10:20pm

"I've accepted the fact that, were I ever to be lucky enough to be cast in the musical, the only track for me would be Norman Neal Williams. I do creepy well. "

Unless you are into kiddie porn, and have a snap-tie, I highly doubt that.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/21/14 at 10:24pm

And apparently I'm not repeating myself.

Gotham--I gather that you're straight from your various posts. The roommate experience might be different with a gay guy living with a girl, or in my situation a gay guy living with a needy gay guy and a girl.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/22/14 at 12:06am

Or people living in 1970s San Francisco. In a book.