John Lithgow's almost lurid past

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John 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

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 8:59am

Who 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

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 9:40am

CH,

No one knows...yet

John 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?

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:55pm

Bo Derek, perhaps?

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:04pm

My guess is Jessica Lange.

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:09pm

Funny, I was thinking Jessica Lange too... Maybe Marsha Mason.... Oh gosh why am I even doing this...

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 1:15pm

Jessica 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

John 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.

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John 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

#11

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:03pm

Genevieve 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?

#12

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:04pm

Well, Joe,

Genevieve Bujold seems right...great guess... we'll see!

#13

John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:17pm

She 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.

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John 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

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John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 3:40pm

Only the first 30 minutes for me as well...but that was because I thought it sucked.

#16

John 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.

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John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 6:52pm

Raquel Welch, Sylvia Miles or it didn't happen.

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

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John 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.

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John Lithgow's almost lurid past

Posted: 1/27/10 at 9:23pm

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.

#20

John 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.

#21

John 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

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John 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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