Several plastic surgeons told me that actors do privately fret about rendering themselves unemployable by taking cosmetic work too far and limiting their expressive range. “I ask them, what expressions, what emotions, are you concerned about losing?” says Stephen Pincus, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. “They’ll say, ‘I have to be mad, or surprised, or I’m worried about my eyebrows, I don’t want to be a blank stare.’ I say, ‘I can paralyze your forehead from this point up, but you’re not going to be able to wrinkle a good part of the forehead. Is that an issue for you? If it is, we shouldn’t do it.’ ” Some of his patients go ahead with the treatment. “They’re more concerned about wrinkles than about the five seconds of emotion people might not notice anyway.”
Not a great article - How Plastic Surgery Has Caused Acting to Be More Stilted, Stylized, and Masklike in New York Magazinehere - but definitely suggesting direction for something interesting and more radical on the same topic.
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Forced Entertainment's website also went under the knife recently. The much improved, enhanced and nipped/tucked result is on show here with much more in the way of video and images.
Just to say that things are rolling along quite well. I think this run we did the day b4 you left was useful in that it enabled us to think better about the bigger shape of the piece and what it needs.
We worked on a few sections and some new material got made, as well as existing (or previously abandoned) material coming info focus (or out of the cupboard) in new ways.
So
- a reprise of Tom's depression, with Tom stood amongst trees at the front, with advice from Claire seated on the sofa at the back - telling him to make it more moving/cloying/personal.
- this flowing into a section with the women on the sofa at the front, the guys arranged around them and not causing too much trouble - physically a kind of absurd Carpenters cover-photo/sickly Manson family Shang-ri-la intimacy... and in the text the women talking about how to make the world a better place.. (wouldn't it be nice if each morning when you left the house a rainbow was waiting at your door etc)
- some bodgy dances with palm trees - re-running Fire! FIre! with conga-line chase.
- a very nice version of Jerry/Tom 'do something funny' which extends the text part in the beginning to become a whole routine trying to get him to say names of 'funny fruit' - Jerry bullying quite like some kind of Sergeant Major of Comedy.
- reprise small things from Terry (good tone, but maybe not correct to return to this content) leading to strange story from Amit concerning various corrective surgeries she claims to have had (legs straightening, toes grafted for fingers). This feels pretty good actually, and leads to something like the old 'don't touch me' routine from Amit, Jerry and Tom.
- something like a version of the old pushing and shoving line with Terry and then Amit talking about big questions of the world, finally stopped/ interrupted by Cathy.
-probably some other stuff too. it;s a bit of a blur.
yesterday we ran:
1-5
cathy continues
tom depressed
Terry 'questions' with pushing line
Amit joins in text
Cathy comes in across - "I hope that..." (very stroppy version about her dad etc)
Richard - H. Attack
Let's Kiss
Small Things with group 'backing' (Jerry doing you. John interrupts. Claire interrupts. Tom interrupts)
FIRE FIRE (conga line, trees come out in the back end of it)
Sukiyaki - more trees and dancing
ends with Tom at front in trees.
Tom depressed reprise
advice from Claire
Girls on Sofa - "wouldn't it be nice"
interruption from John ("Naieve")
Amit rolls on alone with "wouldn't it be nice"
other people clear away slowly
Noble Watts
Richard H. Attack x 2 - other guys imitate
Whistling Song
Terry Small things reprise
Amit - surgeries etc
Tom & Jerry try to take her away
Tom & Jerry - do something funny - funny fruit & dance
Jerry says Thanks and goodnight.Rich (doing you) "end/lights out/kill it"
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That was one hour 35.We had small audience - Vlatka, Wendy and Sarah. Good responses, useful comments.And it was quite OK... but really very many things blurred, not in right place, just not good etc. But a step on from last week for sure. So today pushy postmortem. We try to reorder, reorganise and run again at 1.45
look fwd to you being back in the fray next week
Then I lost touch with them because I had to go back to the army and I deserted again and I got caught stealing a truck load of metal and I got sent to borstal and from borstal I went back to the army and then I was arrested for stealing a car. I was on a licence from borstal and after I done my prison sentence they revoked my licence from borstal and I done a further eleven months.
From an interview with the Kray's driver Billy Frost, here at the site Spitalfields Life.
This, from another interview at the same site here, this one with Lenny Hamilton, who for reasons that might be evident is rather less-well disposed towards the Krays.
Two geezers grabbed hold of me and then I saw it. I thought they were pokers but there were steels that are used to sharpen knives, Ronnie had them on the gas and they were white-hot. They had wooden handles and the first one Ronnie picked up he dropped because it was so hot, so he went and got an oven glove. Then he picked one up and came over to me, to frighten me, I imagined. He singed my black curly hair. I pissed myself. I was terrified. Next he started setting fire to my suit that I only had made two weeks before.
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