Chapter 742 Temporary corner change

  Patrick Switz is an actor, dancer, and roller skating performer, but what he wants to be the most is a singer.

  He wrote the song "She's like the Wind" in 1984. I was going to contribute to another film I starred in, "Grandview, U.S.A.", but it was not accepted.

  After that, he voted for other movies several times, hoping to make this song come out, but he was not selected.

  Switz's singing talent is really limited. This song has exhausted all his talents in writing and composing. So the demo tape of this song was left at home on the ranch to eat ashes, and he also gave up his dream of becoming a singer.

  But this time Ronald still lacked a few episodes, and the boy's dream came to mind again. Switz hurriedly asked his wife to come to the set with the demo and sheet music, and also wanted to recommend herself.

   Musical theater actors, especially actors who have rolled on Broadway like Switz and have acted in the "Grease" musical, basically have their own dreams of becoming singers. When the right time came, that dream began to germinate just around the corner again.

  Switz's wife, Lisa, rushed to the mountain lake villa where the play was located as quickly as possible.

  After finishing the day's filming, Switz and his wife came to see Ronald and screenwriter Eleanor with the tape.

   "This is a song I wrote and sang myself. I know the crew is soliciting for an episode. I hope you can listen to it."

   "Is this your wife Lisa? Hello?" Eleanor took the tape and started playing. She asked Lisa, who was standing next to Switz.

"Yes", Switz hugged Lisa tightly and was intimate with her. "We met in the dance class opened by my mother and we have been married for 11 years." After finishing, he was still on his wife's face kissed.

   "She's like the wind blowing through my tree

  She walks by my side through the night

   She leads me through the moonlight

  Just to burn me with the sun

   She took my heart

   But she doesn't know what she did"

   A burst of Switz's singing came. The singing is average, but it is better than the true emotion.

   Ronald doesn’t actually dislike the song, but…

  This is a bitter love song. The episodes in "Dirty Dancing" are all for dancing. It must be the swing dance music in the style of the 1950s and 1960s.

"I like this song very much. Did you write it for your wife?" The screenwriter Eleanor was obviously very moved. She began to imagine how Switz fell in love with Lisa, his middle school sweetheart, and how he was loved by his parents. Fighting mandarin ducks, and then how to break through obstacles and come together.

"I think this song is very good and should be used in the movie. Anyway, at the beginning of the third act before the end, Johnny was misunderstood by Baby's father, Dr. Housman, and was the culprit who caused the dance partner Penny to become pregnant. leave him.

  When he parted with Baby, he was very sad, isn’t it suitable for this song? "

  Eleanor likes this actor who looks like her first love partner when she was young, and always speaks well of him.

   "What you said is also reasonable, I can buy it as an episode. But... the payment may be delayed for a while, after the movie is released..."

   "It's okay, it's okay, my own song can appear in the movie, that's the best reward. Can I sing it myself?"

  Patrick Switz was overjoyed that his dream of being a singer might come true.

   "Of course, we will find you a female singer to sing as a chorus." Ronald felt that adding a little background interlude would not hurt too much. In this way, the hero's mood will be much better, and he will be more devoted and hardworking than the others.

   "Yeah, I'm so happy."

  Patrick Switz walked out the door with his wife, couldn't help but hugged his wife, and started circling.

   "Who is that woman?"

  In the dark, the heroine Jennifer Gray, who has always been in love with Switz, brought a bowl of grapes to reward Switz. Unexpectedly, she saw this scene, and the jealousy and anger in her heart were extremely real.

   "It's his wife, I heard they are middle school sweethearts..." Jane Brooke, who plays Gray's sister, adds fuel to the scene.

"snort…"

  Grey was so angry that he sent the grapes to Jane's arms, then turned around and left.

"Well, it's quite delicious." Jane Brooke picked up a grape and put it in her mouth, "It's cheaper for me." This kind of "cotton candy" grape produced in California has yellow-green skin. Very tasty and not cheap to get in Virginia.

   "Action!"

  The next morning, Ronald continued filming the Dr. Housman family scene.

   At the resort, Baby and Johnny have already met, but Dr. Housman and his wife don't know that their daughter has fallen in love with the poor dancer who is the backup dancer.

   Today is a scene where Baby and Johnny are chatting privately.

   "Cut!"

  Ronald felt that Jennifer Gray, unlike in the previous two days of scenes, looked at Switz with honey dripping eyes, but regained some sense of calm.

   "Not bad, not bad, Jennifer, you played very well."

Ronald immediately praised that in this scene Baby communicated with Johnny in front of his parents, of course he had to disguise his affection, unexpectedly Gray acted very well, under the superficial calm, to control the passion of love Emotions are very layered.

   "Thank you," Gray thanked Ronald, "huh..." Then she turned her head and went back to the lounge without saying a word or looking at Thwitz.

   "Immersed in the role?" Ronald didn't expect Gray to be so involved in the play. This kind of method performance may have a bad influence on the actor after a long time. Ronald was about to go over and have a chat with her, when he heard a thumping sound from behind...

  Actor Lynn Lipton, who played Baby's mother, Mrs. Hausman, fell to the floor.

  Her eyes were closed tightly, and she just fell straight down, with some white foam at the corner of her mouth.

   "Lynne, what's wrong with you?" Jerry Orbach, who played Dr. Hausmann, was startled, and immediately squatted down to shake her.

   "Don't shake!" Ronald rushed over, let Lynn put her head on the ground, and then looked at her face, as if there was no sign of stiffness. The breathing is also relatively stable, that is, the person is in a coma.

   "Ask if there is a doctor in the villa, if not, call 911", Ronald quickly ordered Eddie.

   For a while, everyone was in a hurry.

  …

   "Woooooooooooooo..."

   Half an hour later, an ambulance arrived late, carried Lynn Lipton into the car, and then sounded the alarm, and took the actor to a nearby hospital. "

   "Fortunately, all the cast and crew are insured."

   Ronald wiped the sweat from his forehead.

   At noon, Ronald did not have dinner with everyone, but called the scene manager Eddie, assistant director Emil, and screenwriter Eleanor to his room for a meeting.

"The doctor said that Lynn has a serious underlying disease, and she may need to be hospitalized for a month and treated slowly. We can't wait for her to recover before re-shooting her scenes, because Mrs. Hausmann has a lot of scenes to be in the mountains. Lake House shooting, we only rented here for two weeks.

  So, everyone, think about it, what should we do? "

   "Changing roles temporarily? Let the casting director come?"

  Eleanor has no crew experience, so she said a way first.

   "The expenditure of every day of shooting is astronomical. We can't stop the crew and wait for new actors to be in place." Eddie is in charge of the books, knowing that it is impossible to stop and recast the cast.

  Ronald nodded, that is indeed the case. "Fortunately, Mrs. Housman has not filmed many scenes. We reshot the scene of the Huisman family in the car on the first day. The problem now is that we obviously have to find an actor from the crew to replace Lynn. , who do you think can do it?"

   "How about Kelly Bishop?" Assistant Director Emile advises.

   Bishop plays Vivian Pressman, a middle-aged woman who takes a year-round vacation in a hotel. Her husband has another new love, so she can only find her own happiness in the resort hotel.

  At the resort, she hooked up with Johnny, the backup dancer, and spent several nights with him.

  Jewish noble ladies hook up with young gigolos in resorts, which was also a drama that was often staged in Catskills back then.

   "Ask her to talk." Ronald pinched his lit cigarette, and then opened the window facing the lake to let the wind blow away the smell of smoke.

   "Let me take the role of Mrs. Housman?" Kelly Bishop has red hair, which is different from the original actress Lynn's blond hair. On the contrary, it is more in tune with the brown-haired husband and the two look-haired daughters.

   "Yes, would you like to?" Ronald knew that Bishop was also a frequent visitor to Broadway. She once played the **** dancer Silla in the legendary musical "Chorus Line" and won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress.

   "Of course, after all, this role is much bigger. I also like Baby very much, she is with me."

  Kelly Bishop dropped an impromptu line, then brushed her hair up, switching from big waves to a housewife hairstyle.

   "Very well, it's you. I'll ask my assistant to give you Mrs. Hausmann's script later." Ronald was very satisfied with her performance, and the image of a middle-aged housewife came to life on the paper.

  America's showbiz is full of middle-aged men and women with great acting skills.

  Think about it, it turns out that a Tony Award winner can only play a small role with only two or three scenes. What a waste of their acting skills and experience.

  But who makes middle-aged actresses not have many plays?

   "Who will play that **** Vivian?" Screenwriter Eleanor asked another question.

  Ronald also scratched his head, she had better be a member of the crew, so as not to waste too much time on casting.

   Every day I waste here, Ronald's wealth evaporates like paper money I throw in the fireplace.

   "What do you think of our assistant choreographer?" Eleanor suggested again.

   "Who? Miranda?" Ronald shook his head. He had seen the assistant choreographer before. She was a very good choreographer and very understanding, but you said she could play a middle-aged **** who still has charm...

   "She's really good, but she doesn't have makeup now, and she will fascinate many people after she puts on makeup."

  Assistant director Emile also echoed.

   Ronald looked at him, as if asking, what kind of woman do you know?

   "Really, she's pretty good, trust me. We're pretty good at seeing women." Emil insisted.

   Ronald thinks about it, there is really no other suitable person in the crew.

   "Then ask the makeup artist to come and give Miranda a try on makeup."

   "Director, are you looking for me?" Assistant choreographer Miranda Garrison came to Ronald's room. Seeing everyone was there, she thought there was something about dance.

   "Have you ever been an actor?" Ronald asked pleasantly.

   "Me? I only showed up as an extra dancer in Coppola's 'Old Love, New Love,' with Olivia Newton-John, and Gene Kelly's 'Xanadu.'"

   "Oh", upon hearing this, Ronald knew that Miranda also had ambitions.

   "It turned out that Kelly, who played Vivian, took over the role of Mrs. Hausman, so we want you to try the role of Vivian. I'll let the makeup do it for you."

   Soon, the makeup artist painted Miranda Garrison with heavy makeup, an expensive dress and a tiara.

   "Hmm..." Ronald seemed to have changed when he saw Miranda, her temperament changed from elegant to **** and mature.

  Eddie whistled beside him, expressing his satisfaction.

   "Okay, then you come to Vivian."

  Ronald thought to himself, anyway, it was only a small role in a few scenes, and he must have been on Broadway, and there is no one who can't act.

  (end of this chapter)