John Lithgow's almost lurid past
John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#1John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 8:31am
Nothing like a perfect little teaser to generate some hype for your upcoming Broadway show.
Strangely though, I don't think I really care.
John Lithgow's Almost Lurid Past
#2John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 8:59amWho was the lady???
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#3John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 10:15am
That last "zinger" from the play is the best line of the article! Can't wait to see the show this Sunday night.
Which most beautiful woman? Who cares?
#4John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:55pmBo Derek, perhaps?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#6John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:09pmFunny, I was thinking Jessica Lange too... Maybe Marsha Mason.... Oh gosh why am I even doing this...
#7John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:15pmJessica Lange makes sense, but I couldn't imagine her topping Most Beautiful lists around that time, but I could be completely off.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:22pm
He made a movie in 1976 with Genevieve Bujold. Beautiful? You tell me.
#9John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:30pm
Jessica Lange makes sense, but I couldn't imagine her topping Most Beautiful lists around that time, but I could be completely off.
Have you ever seen I ♥ Huckabees?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#10John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:03pmGenevieve Bujold is beautiful, oh yes! I certainly would have gone for her, but I don't think she's the one. Curious though, who is?
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#11John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:04pm
Well, Joe,
Genevieve Bujold seems right...great guess... we'll see!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:17pmShe was world-famous for her beauty in a way some of the other suspects were not and she did have reputation for being eccentric- which seems to fit his description.
#13John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:36pm
Have you ever seen I ? Huckabees?
Only the first 30 minutes. Then the DVD got stuck and I just never got back around to it.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#14John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:40pmOnly the first 30 minutes for me as well...but that was because I thought it sucked.
#15John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:50pm
In one of the scenes Jason Schwartman's character is looking at vintage bathing suit shots of Jessica Lange. When Dustin Hoffman mentions it, he reacts by yelling "Is it a crime? Is it a crime to look at Lange?!"
It always makes me laugh, but no one ever knows what I'm talking about when I say it.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#16John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 6:52pmRaquel Welch, Sylvia Miles or it didn't happen.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#17John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 8:55pm
Joe K: I think you're the winner.
Lithgow is one of my all time favorites and like any other actor, I really don't care what they do in their personal lives. It's the performance that counts to me.
The only review of a show that matters is your own.
#18John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 9:23pmThis is old, old, old news. If the (terrible) author of the original article had done her research and read DEPALMA ON DEPALMA, particularly the chapter on the filming of OBSESSION, she would know it was Bujold. Zzzzz.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#19John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 10:28pm
Excentric doesn't begin to cover it! Wacky, loco, kook and sproiiing!
She prob played her vunerable bit and he bought it. Meh.
Some guys can be played so easily.
#20John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/27/10 at 10:57pm
@John_Lithgow
"Current NY Mag exposes my only scandal, 32 yrs. ago. Rather comforting in my old age. And I'm playing a gossipmonger onstage! Very apt."
3:56 PM Jan 25th
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#21John Lithgow's almost lurid past
Posted: 1/28/10 at 8:13am
"This is old, old, old news. If the (terrible) author of the original article had done her research and read DEPALMA ON DEPALMA, particularly the chapter on the filming of OBSESSION, she would know it was Bujold. Zzzzz."
I don't think this article was terrible per se, nor would I expect a journalist to have necessarily read DePalma on DePalma for a John Lithgow interview unless you weren't up on Lithgow's DePalma films.
One of the points Lithgow makes in the article is that his affair was known and was publicized by Liz Smith, yet it got no media attention. Whereas today something like that would have been treated quite differently.
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