Day 5 -- Monday, April 22
If you have just started reading these entries with this one, you are
in luck. There is no need to read the earlier ones. I'll just re-cap
quickly: Funny actors, funny characters, Paul is crazy. Also, no
ending yet. Or wait, I shouldn't say that because it has an ending
every day, it just never remains the same. I guess I am most
disappointed about that today because I thought Friday's ending
(Ending Number Three for those scoring at home) gave my character the
most interesting role in the whole scam, and showed that there was a
balance of power in the office. But now that ending is gone too.
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Ending Number Four. Marv gets fired. He emerges from the office and
it becomes clear that I turned him in for misbehaving, thus getting
him fired. After a few words between Jerry and me, Jerry pulls out a
gun and shoots me dead. Marv falls for it and so we have tricked him, too.
I hope this is the ending that makes the show finally come together.
I would love to keep working with these guys, with the writers, the
actors, the director. This could be such a fun show to be a part of,
if we can just get on the air.
In other news, today marked the arrival of the actress playing the
waitress at The Pickler. There were two ways to go with this role.
One was to make her a big, burly German woman, late 50s, slinging
beers with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. I'm glad they went
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It's hard to do justice to this exchange here in print, but if you
act out the two parts, you'll hear how funny it sounded on the set.
Paul is the usual Paul, and Susie is the Script Supervisor, the one
in charge of helping us with our lines. Paul reaches a point in the
script and can't think of the next line. This conversation ensues:
Paul: "What's the line?"
Susie: "Boys, this is your lucky day."
Paul (in character): "Marv, what did you think of Cooper?"
Susie: "Boys, this is your lucky day."
Paul (never stopping): "Boys, this is your lucky day."
And today was the day that Paul's "defending the writers all the
way" came to a screeching halt. I only heard the tail end of
this discussion because it began as a private conversation between
Paul and one of the writers, and I could only hear them once Paul
started yelling. What we are walking in on appears to be the writer
telling Paul to say the lines as he has written them. Paul responds
with this...
Paul: "It's not about the words, it's about the behavior, and I
use the words to trigger the behavior. Every time I find something
organic, you guys change the scene."
Writer: "We're just trying to make the scene work."
Paul: "I'm just trying to make the scene work, too. I've got to
say my words. You're trying to stick your words into my
mouth. You can't do that."
Apparently Paul hasn't read his contract closely enough.
Still, any day that Paul doesn't elbow me in the crotch is a good day.
Go on to Day 6.
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