--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > "Alice" is a "re-imagining of" Alice in Wonderland. It's a > two night TV mini-series that will show in December on Syfy. > Not to be confused with the Tim Burton movie with Johnnie > Depp releasing next year. And look who's playing the Queen > of Hearts! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbvt1_ug0iQ
Inspired. Kathy Bates has played some of the most chilling characters in cinema. The standout, of course, has to be the cock-a-doodie madwoman in Stephen King's "Misery." I always wanted to do a rewrite of that plot (the obsessed fan who manages to get the author of her favorite romance books trapped in her house as her prisoner) in an ashram. Imagine what would happen if a similarly-deranged spiritual seeker had managed to get a spiritual teacher in their power, and wouldn't rest until he "lived up to" all of her fantasies about him, in- cluding her being the most important thing in his life. Then I'd have the spiritual teacher "wise up" and cut her off from his shakti and his attention. Murder, madness, and mayhem would follow. Sadly, I have seen this happen (without the murder part). It's not a pretty sight. That's what would make it such a good story. There is little on earth more dangerous than someone totally obsessed with another human being. Their whole *life* revolves around the other person; they can spend decades stalking the other person, and trying to suck his attention (and, occasionally, other parts). And then, when that person dumps them (for their own good) and withdraws his attention, all hell breaks loose. I'd make the story about a woman because I've seen this phenomenon more in women seekers than men seekers, but in the TM movement you could just as easily imagine some closeted toady like Bevan doing the same thing. Hell...if she put on a few pounds, Kathy Bates could even play Bevan. :-)
