Re: Now cast. Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no Verlaine

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

That is uncanny. The real question: Will he have any lines? 

Has Verlaine
ever been portrayed on film before? I don't think so.

--Phil
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 From: postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Now cast.
Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no   Verlaine
 
And here's a pic of
the dude who's playing Tom.
http://claybarron.photoshelter.com/image/I0000M.jQOKpG5dE



--- On Fri,
6/15/12, Claudia <razoomyyy@yahoo.de> wrote:

> From: Claudia
<razoomyyy@yahoo.de>
> Subject: Now cast. Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted;
still no  Verlaine
> To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
> Date: Friday, June
15, 2012, 12:14 PM
>
http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2012-06-15/scad-students-land-rock-star-ro
lls-movie-cbgb#.T9uJOI5oXzI
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
From: leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
> To: tv@obbard.com 
> Sent: Friday,
June 15, 2012 3:09 PM
> Subject: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no
Verlaine
>  
> The most recent additions to the "CBGB" film: Justin Bartha
>
as Stiv Bators and
> and Ashley Greene as Lisa Kristal. No household names,
but
> perhaps
> recognisable to some cinema goers since they've been in hit
>
films like "The
> Hangover" and "Twilight", respectively. Most of the others
>
seems to be people
> from American TV shows.
> 
> So -- with ten days to go
before the cameras start to roll
> in Georgia, there's
> still no actors
picked as Verlaine, Ficca or Lloyd; then we
> mus ask us: How
> much
revisionist will this film be about the founding of
> CBGB's as we know
> it?
> 
> Someone on the list put forward the idea that some amalgated
> art/punk
rock
> group would be seen talking Hilly Kristal into opening the
> doors for
> underground NYC rock bands. My belief is that since we have
> an actor (Eva
Alex
> Cole) portraying Richard Hell, and we have another one
> (Johnny
Galecki)
> playing Terry Ork, Television *will* be in the film -- alas
> with
Hell as a
> motormouthed frontman speaking with Kristal outside the
> club,
either alone or
> with Verlaine, Ficca & Lloyd in the background,
> performed
by extras. That
> might not be exactly the truth, but perhaps not *so* far
>
away from the truth
> either. And since there's so many other musical acts
that
> will in the movie --
> at least Patti Smith, Ramones, Dead Boys, Iggy
Pop, Blondie
> -- and these
> easily could be considered as much more
colourful than
> Television, we should
> not expect Television to be much more
than a brief part of
> the film.
> 
> Also, from what I have gathered about
the synopsis, "CBGB"
> will not only
> chronicle the club -- it seems to be as
much a biopic about
> Hilly Kristal as a
> man who sets out to do one thing
(opening a club for country
> and bluegrass)
> and end up doing an entirely
another thing, something that
> would turn out to
> be culturally
ground-breaking. Note that there are actors
> performing as both
> Hilly's
daugther and mother. Perhaps we are in for a psychic
> drama here? The
> war
between his children are pretty well-covered. But what
> about old mama? Why
>
drag her into the script? She had some special impact on him
> and/or the
club's
> course we do not know about? Could we hope for some
> explosive Bates
family
> kind of thing? Or even of Shakespearean magnitude?
> 
> Finally -- I
haven't seen any info about whether this is
> considered to be a
> low- or
high-budget production; it's an indie production,
> but it may be with
>
enough attractive traits to make it a bit high-profile among
> other
independent
> productions. Which may make this a film not only for the
> film
festival circuit
> or straight-to-DVD market, but with good chances to have
>
real distribution
> both in the U.S. and abroad.
> 
> Leif J, Sweden
>
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