Clark
You write the best stories! I still expect to see you up on stage at the
Oscars one of these days.
Paz
NP-Supernatural-Robben Ford
on 12/28/00 5:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Wow -- this year we found out the diamond dog of "Hissing of Summer Lawns" is
> Jose Feliciano, and now we learn that Ronee Blakely inspired "Shades of
> Scarlet Conquering."
>
> Nearly 20 years ago, I met Ronee Blakely at a wrap party at the modest Venice
> Beach home of a then unknown film director names Wes Craven. For about one
> million dollars he had made a new and experimental horror film and Ronee was
> one of the "stars" he could grab to fit that budget. She played the mother
> of a teenager and was fine in the film, but the stories about her behavior on
> the set were the typical recountings of a needy, temperamental actress/diva
> who thinks she is far more important and unique than she really is.
> Reportedly, she wasn't too happy about playing the mother of a teenager as
> she thought she was too young, but it was her first offer in a long time. It
> was something of a big drop from the heights of starring in Nashville.
>
> To this day I still laugh when I think about her, entering my circle of
> friends and coming down hard on us because we were all gay. "I mean, look at
> you! You're the handsomest men at this party -- at all the parties -- and
> none of you are interested in me!" We laughed, and I did my best to, well,
> straighten her out, explaining that none of us had made the choice to be gay,
> and she shouldn't take it personally. It got somewhat heated between the
> two of us, one of those moments in which you realize the attention of the
> whole party has shifted to some conflict. To patch it up, Ronee explained
> that she had nothing against gay people, and her own brother was gay, but it
> was frustrating to be around us all the same and we should reconsider our
> decision (some people just don't get it). I told her how great she was in
> Nashville, and she licked that up like melting ice cream.
>
> Later, there was dancing. People formed a circle and entered it to dance
> with a battery operated wand with those hairy, fiber optic things on it that
> light up in different colors. I remember when Ronee entered the circle, she
> suggestively ran the wand over her boobs and her hips, shaking it low and
> skanky to the ground. She spent much more time in the circle than anyone
> else, hamming it up. To her credit, she also did the best dance.
>
> Months later, the film came out. It was "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET" and went
> on to become one of the most successful horror movies of all time. I don't
> believe she's had much of a career since then.
>
> - Clark
>
> NP: garbage trucks
